Environmental Services Team Leader

LOCATION:

Wilkesboro

JOB SUMMARY: 

Promotes environmental protection by maintaining healthy and safe medical facilities for employees and visitors. 

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: 

High School diploma or GED equivalent. 

Minimum two years' in-house experience and 120 hours of hard surface experience and 60 hours carpet care experience. 

No current CAFs. 

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: 

Completion of the competency for the Emergency Department. 

Certifications in EVS Customer Service Care, operating room cleaning, and in all floor care. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Performs complete cleaning of assigned areas including dusting and sanitizing furniture, equipment, mirrors and fixtures; washing windows, walls, ceilings, vents and light fixtures; sweeping, scrubbing and refinishing floors; vacuuming and shampooing carpet; re-stocking restrooms; replacing light bulbs; and reporting repairs. 

2. Heavy contact with cleaning chemicals, disinfecting agents, floor strippers and finishes. Majority of work is indoors but may assist with outdoor cleaning including parking lot, windows and roof. Various cleaning activities may include the use of a ladder. 

3. Removes waste by collecting and transporting soiled linen, emptying trash containers, changing sharps containers, transporting solid and hazardous waste to compactors, recycling material, and emptying cigarette receptacles in smoking areas. 

4. Keeps equipment associated with the job, clean and orderly, and reports equipment failures or other mechanical issues to maintenance staff. 

5. Assures daily patient areas, clinics, offices and labs are cleaned with proper use of chemicals for cleaning and disinfecting. Documents cleaning actions noting areas requiring additional monitoring or care. Informs Supervisor of incomplete work and communicates between shifts. Meets Departmental Quality Standards. 

6. Attends training as scheduled. Complies with procedures, rules and regulations relating to the use of chemicals and supplies. Remains current on technical updates, reading labels, and on the mixing and dilution of chemicals. 

7. Inspects and releases cleaned rooms to Admissions. Stocks and distributes cleaning supplies. Completes project work as assigned. Conducts routine follow-up custodial training. 

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 

Ability to operate all cleaning equipment Implements proper use of chemicals to reduce bloodborne protocol Proficient in chemical usage Quality scores 90% or higher Mentors EVS Technicians I & II Wake One knowledge 

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

Collects and transports bio-hazardous waste Exposure to people with various degrees of mental and physical conditions and illnesses Stressful, fast-paced environment Occasionally works in contaminated, isolation, construction and renovation areas Works around foul odors and temperature extremes

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.