The environmental service worker maintains environmental and infection control standards within established policies and procedures of the health care center. The position performs a variety of general cleaning tasks to maintain patient rooms, offices, hallways, and other assigned areas of the facility. The position distributes and tracks clean linens to user departments and maintains stock levels on nursing floors. The position follows standard practices and procedures and complies with regulatory requirements.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Dusts furniture, woodwork, equipment, and dust-mops floors.
2. Polishes and cleans fixtures in rooms and bathrooms.
3. Operates mechanical floor cleaners, buffers, vacuums, snow blowers, shampooers, and related environmental service equipment.
4. Wet-mops rooms, halls, and other areas; shampoos rugs and furniture.
5. Cleans vents, fan fixtures, top of windows, doorframes, and other high areas using a ladder.
6. Gathers and disposes of trash and waste materials using specified bags or containers.
7. Buffs, strips, waxes, and polishes floors.
8. Moves furniture and other heavy objects as required.
9. Performs terminal cleaning procedures of patient rooms and prepares rooms for new occupants; follows isolation procedures in isolation rooms.
10. Cleans and disinfects all fixtures, floors, mirrors, windows, doors, and walls of bathrooms. Makes supply packs for departments and puts linen stacks in carts for distribution. Takes supply requests and delivers them.
11. Delivers linens to departments according to pre-established par levels and schedules. Distributes emergency supplies as needed.
12. Keeps records of linen distribution by department; checks floor linens supplies and lists linen use by department.
13. Keeps work areas neat and orderly, cleans equipment, and assists with other cleaning duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
N/A
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Please note that this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES, QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Customer/Client Focus
2. Ethical Conduct
3. Teamwork Orientation
4. Thoroughness
5. Time Management
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
1. Will frequently be required to lift objects that weigh more than 50 pounds.
2. Very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day.
3. Dexterity: Frequent repetitive motion of hands/wrist involved.
4. Will be working in a clean, well-lighted area.
5. May be required to deal with unpleasant environmental situations resulting from patient care or patient activity.
6. Hazards & Risks: Contact with trash bags and other medical waste could include exposure to communicable disease. Will have exposure to odors, dust, and cleaning chemicals.
USPI’S EDGE™ (Every Day Giving Excellence)
USPI’S EDGE™ is the key to the differentiation of USPI as a customer-focused company. The process of completing EDGE™ requirements establishes processes and measurements that are collected, assimilated, and shared throughout USPI. All employees are involved with EDGE™. The involvement can range from doing their jobs to taking on the role of gathering and/or entering data into the computer. All employees shall at some time during their employment be required to participate in the EDGE™ program.
HEALTH INSURANCE PORTABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1996
Responsible for knowing the processes involved assuring the standards established by HIPAA, and ensuring they are followed including the practices and records relating to the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information.
WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE
Must be authorized to work in the United States.
AAP/EEO STATEMENT
Dunes Surgical Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Strength in Numbers
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Tenet have combined forces to create the nation’s largest ambulatory surgery provider. Our combined network of exceptional surgical and imaging facilities includes approximately 20 imaging centers, and over 265 short-stay surgical facilities. Together, our partnerships include 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians.
Nationwide Experience
Our partners deliver high quality ambulatory solutions in safe, efficient and caring USPI facilities in communities of every size across 29 states. Our physician partners are focused on providing quality patient care, in part because they are invested in their USPI facility. We provide the infrastructure and support they need to perform their best. This is one of the advantages of partnering with USPI.
Quality Patient Services
We share a vision with our physician and health system partners. Our goal is to provide the quality of healthcare services we would insist upon for our own families. Since our founding in 1998, this goal has helped us grow exponentially. Today, our strategic joint venture with Tenet establishes USPI as one of the nation's leading providers of ambulatory solutions.
Operating Excellence
Our size and experience in developing and operating ambulatory facilities and strategic vision allow our facilities to achieve both high patient satisfaction and solid financial results. Moreover, because we engage physicians in the governance and growth of the facility, we also achieve excellent clinical outcomes.