Environmental Aide NMC

Job Description

Responsible for performing general and aseptic cleaning and sanitizing of areas such as patient rooms, auxiliary rooms and other specified areas throughout the hospital under the supervision of the environmental aide supervisor. Performs duties in accordance with established schedules, technical and administrative policies/procedures.

Atlantic Health System is seeking a Full-Time Environmental Aide I (Housekeeping) at Newton Medical Center to work 3:00PM-11:00PM, including rotating weekends. Starting rate $18.50/hr.

• Checks EVS cart, ensuring proper chemical supplies are stocked with all bottles properly labeled and dated.
• Cleans and sanitizes floor, walls, patient rooms (including bathrooms), public bathrooms and offices.
• Position includes the cleaning of bodily fluids.
• Makes sure that paper supplies are stocked sufficiently in all bathrooms.
• Removes trash, brings soiled linens to soiled linen room, disperses clean linens to patient areas, cleans linen storage rooms and areas.
• Demonstrates proficiency in personal, patient and team member safety regarding blood borne pathogens, needle stick prevention, fire safety, bed tracking and discharge communication, hospital codes, lock out-tag out procedures, hand washing, patient satisfaction, OSHA regulations, maintaining records and reports necessary for regulatory compliance.
• Must be on feet for most of the shift.
• Maintains a positive attitude, strong work ethic, willingness and capability to learn new tasks regularly, gets along with co-workers, and represents the organization in a positive light.
• Basic computer and electronic technology usage for email and application navigation.

• HS diploma or GED equivalent required or will obtain within 1 year of employment.
• To provide a safe environment to our patients, all candidates must be able to read, write and speak English.
• Ability to apply elementary math functions and to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to work well under time constraints.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to extreme cold and extreme heat and stands for long periods of time, bends, lifts, pushes and pulls up to 50 lbs.

• Previous housekeeping experience in a hospital/healthcare environment preferred.
• Previous floor-care experience preferred.

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is:
Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 20,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation.

Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
• Centra State Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice
• Atlantic Mobile Health
• Atlantic Rehabilitation

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. Atlantic Accountable Care Organization is one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and we are a member of All Spire Health Partners.

We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• 100 Best Companies to Work For (r) and FORTUNE(r) magazine for 15 years
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
• Gold-Level Well Workplace:
  Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennia ls - Great Place to Work and FORTUNE
• One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care:
  Great Place to Work and FORTUNE
• Official Health Care Partner of the New York Jets
• NJ Sustainable Business

Since 1932, Newton Medical Center has been providing care to the people of Sussex and Warren counties in New Jersey, Pike County in Pennsylvania and southern Orange County in New York. We are home to the Center for Breast Health, the only one of its kind in Sussex County, addressing all of a womans breast health needs with state-of-the-art technology, resources, education, support and follow-up care.

Newton Medical Center recently achieved the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Pathway to Excellence designation and is one of a select few health care facilities in New Jersey accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in all three echocardiography procedures: adult transthoracic, adult transesophogeal and adult stress.
Atlantic Health System offers a…