Environmental Services Floor Specialist

Are you passionate about the patient experience? At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to caring for patients with purpose and integrity. We care like family! Jump-start your career as a Environmental Services Floor Specialist today with HCA Florida Putnam Hospital.

The EVS Floor Care Technician works under the direction of EVS Management and performs the following general duties:

• Provides cleaning services and tile/carpet floor maintenance with consideration of patients, their family and friends, with regard to their personal dignity and respect for their values.
• Performs environmental tasks dealing with adherence to infection control policies and procedures to maintain a clean and safe patient environment.
• Responsible for daily cleaning of patient’s room as well as cleaning discharged rooms in a timely manner for incoming admissions.
• Responsible for cleaning and maintaining non-patient areas, offices, common areas, hallways, and common area rest rooms.
• Responsible for proper handling of all chemicals as well as following proper infection control policies and proper PPE use.
• Ensures patient rooms and physical hospital flooring is cleaned and maintained in an efficient, safe, and timely manner, Ensures equipment is in working order, ensures preventive maintenance is completed on equipment.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of occurrence reporting system. Uses system to report potential patient and environmental safety issues.
• Ensures proper signage is placed at the appropriate locations when hazards (i.e. wet floor warnings) are plausible.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of equipment used to clean floors and can identify mechanical issues with the equipment to be reported timely and appropriately.
• Dust mops and wet mops all tile floors nightly using an approved germicidal detergent at the proper dilution ratio, or other designated agent.
• Empties mop bucket frequently and mixes new batch of cleaning solution.
• Vacuums and pre-spots all carpeted areas nightly paying particular attention to corners, edges, and under furniture.
• Damp dusts all surfaces using an approved germicidal detergent mixed in 5 qt. bucket.
• When cleaning areas or departments with highly-technical equipment, takes care not to damage equipment by over-wetting when damp dusting.
• Cleans all rest rooms in assigned areas as outlined in the training manual.
• Cleans offices and ancillary areas according to procedures outlined in the training manual.
• Repositions furniture and equipment after room cleaning, turns off lights and closes and locks doors.
• Cleans corridors following departmental procedures and takes extra care to prevent safety hazards to persons using corridor.
• Maintains supply cart with necessary equipment and supplies to avoid need to restock during mid-shift.
• Stores equipment properly when on break, at meal or in meeting.
• Reports any damage to cleaning equipment to supervisor or department head immediately and takes equipment out of service by placing an out of order tag on it.
• Correctly cleans all equipment at start and end of each shift.
• Stores and organizes equipment at end of shift in designated hospital areas.
• Other duties as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

• Two years’ experience providing environmental services in a healthcare environment preferred.
• Ability to read, write and converse in English required.
• High School Diploma or GED

HCA Florida Putnam Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work…