Department/Unit/Area: Facility-Wide
Lines of Responsibility: Facilities Manager, Executive Director, Medical Director
Salary Range: Commensurate with experience, included with primary job responsibilities
Part Time: 10-20 hours per week
Job Summary: Under the supervision of Facility Manager and clinical personnel, perform a variety of cleaning duties in all areas of the perioperative, Perianesthesia, and business environment, including sterile processing areas to provide a clean, safe environment for patients, visitors, and personnel. Performs other duties as described.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Support the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Follow established protocols to maintain a clean, safe environment for patients, personnel, and visitors.
• Follow established protocols for cleaning and disinfecting all areas of perioperative, Perianesthesia, and business services (eg, patient and visitor waiting areas, patient rooms, ORs, storage areas, utility rooms, hallways, bathrooms, locker rooms, lounges, meeting rooms).
• Follow established protocols for cleaning and disinfecting all sterile processing areas (eg, decontamination rooms, clean workrooms, clean/sterile storage rooms, hallways, utility rooms).
• Follow established protocols for routine, between-case, enhanced environmental cleaning, and terminal cleaning of the ORs and procedure rooms.
• Follow established protocols for preparing, using, and disposing of cleaning chemicals.
• Follow established protocols for routine, enhanced environmental cleaning, and terminal cleaning of the sterile processing areas.
• Clean and disinfect assigned areas including furnishings and equipment.
• Clean, disinfect and stock bathrooms in patient and public areas as assigned.
• Discard trash following facility specific protocols
Education/Licensure/Certification — Mandatory:
• High school graduate or equivalent
Qualifications
Required:
• Ability to read, write, and verbally communicate in English
Preferred:
• Recent environmental services experience in a perioperative setting, or recent equivalent experience.
• Recent environmental services experience in an acute care setting, or recent equivalent experience.
• Basic computer skills
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements:
• Physically demanding, high-stress environment
• Exposure to blood and body fluids, communicable diseases, chemicals, and repetitive motions
• Full range of body motion including equipment moving
• Manual and finger dexterity
• Hand and eye coordination
• Sitting, standing, and walking for extensive periods of time
• Lifting, carrying, and transporting heavy items up to 50 lbs
• Corrected vision and hearing to within normal range
All qualified applicants shall have the opportunity to be considered for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal or state laws. The company will consider reasonable accommodations to the known impairments of otherwise qualified applicants to enable them to participate in our applicant screening process and to effectively perform the essential functions of their jobs, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the company.