Environmental Services Technician - FT1st Shift

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Full Time Wooster Community Hospital, Wooster, OH, US

26 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $14.44 To $18.62 Hourly

Performs multiple cleaning tasks in accordance with Environmental Services procedures and Hospital policies and procedures. Collects non-medical and medical waste, operates waste autoclave, labels medical waste containers for collection. Collects corrugated boxes. May include floor care maintenance and required equipment to maintain floors and carpeting. Responsible for linen distribution: stocking carts, delivery of clean linen and collection of soiled linen, putting clean linen away on shelves.

Responds to house pages when assigned.

• Able to occasionally lift up to and sometimes exceeding 50 pounds.
• Able to stand for prolonged periods of time.
• Hours may flex due to needs of the department.
• Job requires continuous walking, grasping, frequent reaching and occasional bending, kneeling and squatting.
• No written disciplinary action in the last 12 months.
• Role eligible for applicants age 17 and older.

• Job is aerobically challenging and requires a high degree of physical activity.
• Lifting/carrying laundry bags weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Repetitive lifting laundry bags and hoisting overhead onto soiled laundry carts.
• Pushing/pulling laundry carts weighing up to 850 pounds.
• Required to reach down 38 inches into laundry tubs and carts to lift and transfer stacks of clean linen onto supply carts.

• High School Diploma or GED
• Institutional cleaning experience.
• Floor care maintenance experience.

• Employees in this position:
• 1) Scheduled weekends and holidays - every other weekend and every other holiday
• 2) May be exposed to blood/body fluids or airborne pathogens. Wears appropriate barriers.
• Follows Appropriate Service Standards

• Maintains a safe working environment; reports unsafe working conditions and/or maintenance concerns to Environmental Services Supervisor.

propriate cleaning products and techniques for the work being done.

• Completes area assignments in a timely manner.
• Cleans units, discharge and occupied, according to procedure.
• Makes unoccupied beds according to procedure.
• Spot washes walls, spot cleans carpet, high dusts areas according to policy/procedure.
• Stocks toilet tissue, towels, and hand soap where needed in areas of assignment.
• Performs wet mopping techniques, according to established procedures.
• Uses wet floor signs appropriately and removes them in a timely manner.
• Correctly operates and maintains vacuum cleaners.
• Handles trash according to departmental/hospital procedures and places it in proper containers.
• Keeps cleaning carts clean, stocked, and ready to use.
• Keeps tools/equipment ready for use. Returns them to their proper location after use.
• Performs floor care duties as assigned:
  • a. Operates floor scrubber and floor burnisher appropriately.
  • b. Strips, waxes and burnishes floors.
• Performs trash disposal duties as assigned:
  • a. Collects and transports solid waste to designated dumpsters.
  • b. Collects and transports bio-hazardous waste to autoclave holding area and processes it according to procedure.
  • c. Notifies appropriate waste hauler for collection and pick-up as needed.
  • d. Operates autoclave sterilizer correctly.
• Performs additional area assignments and/or assists co-workers as needed.
• Reports work activity on Weekly Reports.

• Directs department personnel in the absence of the Environmental Services Supervisor and the Environmental Services Charge Technician.
  • b. Obtains coverage for call-offs or…