EVS Housekeeping Technician, Healthcare - Medical Facility

Pinnacle HealthCare Environmental Services

Schedule: Monday - Friday 6:00pm - 10:00pm (20 hours a week)

Location: Somerset, NJ

Pay: $17.00/hour

Job Summary

The EVS Housekeeper, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and patient experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of specialty units & equipment. Areas include but are not limited to Surgical Services, Endoscopy, Pac U
• Performs duties while demonstrating a working knowledge of the health care cleaning and disinfecting principles and requirements, proper and safe chemical use, equipment handling, and labor-saving products for all items within the specialty environment tasked with servicing.
• Adheres to all organization safety, risk management, and infection control standards while promoting a safety culture. 
• Accountable for accurately maintaining all appropriate logs and checklists/sheets current.
• Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of equipment and assignment areas according to procedures, policies, and manufacturer recommendations. 
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the cleaning and disinfecting requirements for highly sensitive environments. 
• Demonstrates understanding of the training and education related to evidence-based recommendations in accordance with the Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE), Association for Professional in Infection Control (APIC), and Association for Peri-operative Nurses (AORN), CDC, The Joint Commission, and other regulatory bodies. 
• Maintains supplies and equipment by properly stocking and restocking the environmental services cart neat and organized.
• Removes waste and transports it to appropriate disposal areas while identifying proper waste streams (i.e., regulated medical, recycle, solid, and hazardous). 
• Follows all environmental and infection prevention practices (i.e., proper cleaning and disinfection protocols and process, hand hygiene, standard & isolation precautions, as well as proper donning and doffing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Recognizes and adheres to patient privacy requirements (HIPAA)

Other Responsibilities

• Demonstrates personal accountability.
• Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved.
• Demonstrate knowledge of facility safety requirements. 
• Demonstrates the ability to operate and properly maintain all EVS tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the environment.
• Assists in onboarding new Environmental Services Technicians as requested.

Education/Certifications/Licenses

Experience

Special Skills/ Equipment

• Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate-level disinfection.  
• Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate-level disinfection in areas where required.  
• Ability to read/write English at 6th-9th grade level preferred.
• Respectfully listens to the viewpoints and ideas of others. 
• Ability to communicate orally, openly, candidly, or in writing, creating an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate.
• Respectfully listens to and respects the viewpoints and ideas of others.

The following are required upon being hired:   

• Physical
• PPD (TB test)
• Blood draw to check for antibodies of the following:

Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chickenpox, Hepatitis B 

• COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED