EVS Technician Housekeeping
Richmond, VA - USA
Job Summary
Summary
Job Description:
Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)
Full Time - Days
The primary goal of Environmental Services is to provide a clean and safe environment for our
patients visitors and staff.
Job Description:
The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe hygienic and aesthetically pleasing care environment. EVS Tech will have contact with patients visitors and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical psychological educational and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas.
Requirements:
- Ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
- Empties trash cleans trash can as needed relines can with clean liner.
- Removes infectious waste and fills sharps containers as needed.
- Damp dusts furniture ledges and fixtures with a germicidal agent.
- Dry mops wet mops floors and vacuums carpeting.
- High dust vents over bed lights and other items over shoulder height.
- Operates several types of vacuum cleaners and other miscellaneous cleaning tools.
- Expected at times to wear personal protection equipment to include rubber gloves eye protection gowns booties masks and hair covers.
- Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities as needed.
Essential Qualifications:
- Prefer completion of High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Safely and properly lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Safely and properly pull push bend stoop kneel crouch and stretch.
Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
- Health Vision Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund for employees in need of emergency financial support
- Retirement with Company Match
Work Experience
Relevant Work ExperienceEducation
High School or Equivalent RequiredRequired Experience:
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About Company
Baptist Health, Kentucky and Southern Indiana's preferred healthcare provider, is improving access to healthcare and enhancing the health of the region.