Job Description

Environmental Services Worker

Position Summary: The Environmental Services Worker will clean, sanitize, and maintain facility or patient area(s) as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications: Required + Preferred + High School Diploma or Equivalent + 1 year of experience as an Environmental Services Worker

Essential Job Functions:

• Performs general cleaning and sanitizing tasks and services throughout assigned area.
• Uses cleaning cart to transport cleaning supplies.
• Cleans and disinfects bathrooms and showers as assigned.
• Restocks products as needed.
• Vacuums and cleans floors, rugs, furniture, and drapes.
• Removes and delivers linens as needed. Loads washers and dryers and folds linen as needed. Cleans linen room as need.
• Places and neatly tucks clean sheets and blankets on beds and replaces pillowcases as assigned.
• Picks up and empties trash containers.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrates sound judgement, patience, and maintains a professional demeanor at all times.
• Ability to work in a busy and stressful environment.
• Ability to work varied shifts.
• Detail oriented, organizational skills and the ability to prioritize.

Schedule Requirements:

• This role requires regular and sustained attendance.
• The position may necessitate working beyond a standard 40-hour workweek, including weekends and after-hours shifts.
• On-call work may be required to respond promptly to organizational, patient, or employee needs.

Physical Requirements:

• Lifting (Repeatedly 50 pounds): Exerting force occasionally and/or using a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects or people.
• Sit (Occasionally): Maintaining a sitting posture for extended periods may include adjusting body position to prevent discomfort or strain.
• Stand (Continuously): Maintaining a standing posture for extended periods may include adjusting body position to prevent discomfort or strain.
• Walk (Continuously): Walking and moving around within the work area requires good balance and coordination.
• Climb (Repeatedly): Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like using feet and legs; may also use hands and arms.
• Twist/Bend/Stoop/Kneel (Continuously): Twisting, bending, stooping, and kneeling require flexibility and a wide range of motion in the spine and joints.
• Reach Above Shoulder Level (Repeatedly): Lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling objects as necessary above the shoulder, requiring strength and stability.
• Push/Pull (Continuously): Using the upper extremities to press or exert force against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
• Fine-Finger Movements (Continuously): Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than using the whole hand as in handling.
• Vision (Occasionally): Close visual acuity to prepare and analyze data and figures and to read computer screens, printed materials, and handwritten materials.
• Cognitive Skills (Continuously): Learn new tasks, remember processes, maintain focus, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
• Exposures (Repeatedly): Bloodborne pathogens, such as blood, bodily fluids, or tissues. Radiation in settings where medical imaging procedures are performed. Various chemicals and medications are used in healthcare settings. Job tasks may involve handling cleaning products, disinfectants, and other substances. Infectious diseases due to contact with patients in areas that may have contagious illnesses.

*Frequency Key: Continuously (100% - 67% of the time), Repeatedly (66% - 33% of the time), Occasionally (32% - 4% of the time), Rarely (3% - 1% of the time), Never (0%). The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to the job classification. They are not to be construed as a contract of any type nor an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by individuals so classified. 77312320 Environmental Services (BHDH)

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