Janitor
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Job Description
Overview
St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center is a 576 bed non-profit facility providing quality health care to patients and communities in and around Phoenix Arizona. We are part of CommonSpirit Health which operates 139 hospitals and more than 1000 care sites across 21 states making our services accessible to nearly 1 in 4 U.S. residents.
If you are committed to social justice health equity and prepared to deliver care in new innovative ways you belong with us.
For the health of our community ... we are proud to be a tobacco-free campus.
Responsibilities
As a Janitor your role will be to provide basic and specialized cleaning services throughout the hospital. Your primary focus will be on the maintenance and cleaning of hard and soft flooring surfaces including stairwells hallways and public spaces using heavy mechanical equipment such as scrubbers buffers polishers extractors and wet vacuuming equipment. Moreover you will play a crucial role in ensuring a safe environment for patients visitors and staff members by keeping specialty areas such as surgical services/perioperative suite cath lab endoscopy etc. clean and sanitized. This will help protect everyone from potential illness or injury due to infectious diseases or other hazards.
Youll succeed in this job if you are thorough and committed to safety. Not only will you perform routine cleaning tasks such as sweeping mopping or dusting you will also use specialized equipment and techniques to further sanitize this facility.
You must learn and adhere to proper disposal techniques for biohazard materials including bodily fluids or sharp objects. You will learn about and safely use disinfecting chemicals and learn techniques and procedures for cleaning certain specialized rooms or pieces of equipment. You may also refill soap dispensers paper towel dispensers tissue holders and other supplies as well as deliver clean linens to patient rooms.
You will truly excel in this role if you are friendly and enthusiastic about helping others. You are truly the most important component of safety and comfort for our patients visitors and staff. A clean facility with kind staff provides so much comfort and peace of mind to patients their loved ones and everyone working here.
- Performs all types of floor care and maintenance throughout the facility including hard surfaces and carpeting.
- Cleans and performs routine maintenance on floor equipment; requesting assistance from plant operations and maintenance as needed.
- Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of specialty units & equipment. Areas include but are not limited to Surgical Services Labor Delivery Critical Care Endoscopy MRI Trauma Cath Lab NICU Mental Health and Burn Unit.
- Performs duties while demonstrating working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements proper and safe chemical use equipment handling and labor saving products for all items within the specialty environment tasked with servicing.
- Assist in onboarding new Environment Services Technicians and serve as a mentor.
- Remain patient kind and personable in all interactions with patients visitors and staff.
Dignity Health now offers an Education Benefit program for benefit-eligible employees after 180 days. This program provides debt relief and student loan assistance to help you achieve your goals. Full-time employees can receive up to $18000 over five years while part-time employees can receive up to $9000.
Qualifications
Preferred:
- Previous healthcare experience
- Specialist OR Terminal Cleaning experience
- HS Diploma or GED
Employment Type
Unclear
