ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES TECH -

UNM Hospital is hiring an Environmental Services Technician in Albuquerque, NM. This full-time role involves maintaining a safe and hygienic environment by performing cleaning and disinfection tasks, ensuring patient and staff safety, and adhering to hospital policies. The technician will interact with patients and staff while supporting infection prevention initiatives. Responsibilities include handling cleaning supplies, waste disposal, and participating in departmental improvement initiatives.
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Department: Environmental Services - UH

FTE: 1.00

Full Time

Shift: Days

Position Summary:

The environmental services tech is responsible for executing daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. While executing the assigned tasks, the 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 special demographics of patient served in the assigned areas. Responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The environmental services technician in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention and patient experience. Ensures adherence to Hospital and Departmental Policies and Procedures. No patient care assignment.

Detailed Responsibilities:



RELATED WORK - May be called upon at times to perform other similar or related duties not included in this job description PEOPLE - May be asked to assist with on-boarding of new Environmental Services Technicians QUALITY AND SAFETY - Performs duties while demonstrating 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 healthcare environment for which tasked with servicing SERVICE - Adheres to all organization safety, risk management and infection control guidelines and standards while promoting a culture of safety PEOPLE - Actively participates in departmental performance improvement initiatives, including but not limited to initiatives to improve patient experience and cleanliness metrics FINANCE - Maintains cleaning cart(s), supplies and equipment evidence by properly stocking and restocking environmental services cart in a neat and orderly fashion SERVICE - Removes waste and transports to the appropriate disposal area while identifying proper waste streams handling (i.e. regulated medical, recycle, solid, and hazardous) QUALITY AND SAFETY - Follows all 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) QUALITY AND SAFETY - Recognizes and adheres to patient privacy requirements (HIPPA) PEOPLE - Practices critical thinking skills SERVICE - Demonstrates personal accountability QUALITY AND SAFETY - Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved QUALITY AND SAFETY - Demonstrates knowledge of facility safety requirements SERVICE - Demonstrates the ability to operate and properly maintain all EVS tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the environment SERVICE - May be asked to perform specialty tasks according to facility needs including tasks such as conference room set up/dismantle according to the function sheets and schedules, cleaning of stairwells and elevators, and hanging of cubicle curtains GROWTH - Responsible for daily occupied and discharge/transfer cleaning and disinfection of patient care areas, equipment as assigned and other common areas of assignment

Qualifications

Education:

Essential:

Not Required

Experience:

Essential:

1/2 year (6 months) directly related experience

Nonessential:

Bilingual English/Spanish

Credentials:

Essential:

Not Applicable/Not Required

Physical Conditions:

Medium Work: Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Essential:

Working conditions:

Med Haz: Mod exposure to chemicals/dangerous equip/materials Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required