EVS Tech I

Summary

Job Description:

Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)

Full Time - 1st Shift

The primary goal of Environmental Services is to provide a clean and safe environment for our
patients, visitors, and staff.

Job Description:

The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. 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 specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas.

Requirements:

• Ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
• Empties trash, cleans trash can as needed, relines can with clean liner.
• Removes infectious waste and fills sharps containers as needed.
• Damp dusts furniture, ledges, and fixtures with a germicidal agent.
• Dry mops, wet mops floors and vacuums carpeting.
• High dust vents, over bed lights and other items over shoulder height.
• Operates several types of vacuum cleaners and other miscellaneous cleaning tools.
• Expected at times to wear personal protection equipment to include rubber gloves, eye protection, gowns, booties, masks, and hair covers.
• Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities as needed.

Essential Qualifications:

• Prefer completion of High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Safely and properly lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs.
• Safely and properly pull, push, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch and stretch.

Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)

• Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance

• Life Insurance

• Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance

• Identity Theft Protection

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 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

Work Experience

Education