Summary
Job Description:
Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)
Full Time - 1st Shift
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 $6,000 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 | RequiredIf you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.Skills Required
- Completion of High School Diploma or equivalent
- Ability to lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs
- Ability to safely pull, push, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, and stretch
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
