Summary
Job Description:
The Environmental Services Department plays a vital role in ensuring that the hospital remains clean and safe for patients, staff, and visitors. As a member of this team, the main duties will be to clean and sanitize all areas of the hospital including patient rooms, offices, waiting areas, and meeting rooms.
EVS Tech II, Housekeeper
Full-Time
Job Description:
- The Housekeeper II is responsible for providing a safe care environment for patients and staff (visitors as appropriate to the setting) that require additional education and/or training. This is achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning, disinfection, handling large amounts of infectious and solid waste, and maintaining hard surfaces with specialized equipment.
- The role also includes quality assurance towards the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients, visitors, and staff. While executing the assigned tasks, the EVS Technician II will have contact with patients, visitors, and perhaps family members.
- The EVS Tech II is responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
- The Environmental Services Technician II, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and following all AORN Guidelines.
- This role has expanded responsibilities including maintaining hard floors, carpet, and specialty projects when needed.
Preferred Requirements:
- 1-2 years of Customer Service, 1-2 years of Environmental Services, 1-2 years of Sterile Field Training and/or 2+ years of Environmental Services experience preferred.
Benefits:
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000.00 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
- Identity Theft Protection
Work Experience
Education
If 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
- 1-2 years of Customer Service experience
- 1-2 years of Environmental Services experience
- 1-2 years of Sterile Field Training
- 2+ years of Environmental Services experience
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.
