Environmental Services Specialist

For more than 135 years St. Mary-Corwin has cared for the people of Pueblo and the surrounding southern Colorado communities. Driven by a commitment to Pueblo and our healing ministry St. Mary- Corwin is focused on its core areas of clinical strength: cancer care and orthopedic services. This concentration enables St. Mary-Corwin to serve the southern Colorado region with high quality high value care for generations to come. Residents of Pueblo enjoy a moderate cost of living within this modern mid-sized community while experiencing everything great about life in Colorado including world- class nearby outdoor recreation thriving local arts and culture numerous parks festivals and much more.

You have a purpose unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

As an Environmental Service Specialist with us you are essential to ensuring every patient associate and visitor has an exceptional experience. We hire for a variety of roles that function to provide clean surroundings beautiful indoor/outdoor spaces and create delicious meals to nurture every life we touch - body mind and spirit.

This Senior level role will be responsible for maintaining a safe and clean environment for patients staff and visitors by primarily cleaning procedural areas including the Operating Room GI Cath Lab IR Pharmacy Clean Rooms Sterile Processing and terminal cleans following procedures and standards established by the department. We ask that you provide excellent customer services when working with patients visitors and other staff members and that as a Environmental professionalyou will have industry knowledge in the cleaning of specific departments such as the Emergency Department Operating Rooms and other unique procedural areas.

In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day qualified candidates will need the following:

• Strong communication skills; ability to read write and speak English. Must possess basic computer skills.
• Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate level disinfection.
• Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate level disinfection in areas where required.
• Knowledge and skills in the use of power equipment conventional and high-speed floor machines carpet cleaning equipment wet dry and power vacuum equipment and push sweeper.
• Ability to operate necessary equipment/machines.
• Effectively uses computers and mobile devices.
• Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
• Communicates orally or in writing openly and candidly creates an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate in kind.
  Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.
• Ability to work without close supervision.

Physical Requirements -Medium Work - (Exert up to 50lbs force occasionally and/or up to 20lbs frequently and/or up to 10lbs constantly)