Housekeeper - EVS Tech - Full Time - Evening
Wellstar Health System
Summary
This critical role provides the full range of support necessary for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning. A key part of this role's accountability is to ensure compliance standards are maintained during the cleaning of hospital specialty areas (i.e. Operating Room Suites, CATH Labs, GI Labs, VARU, Pharmacy Compounding Lab, Vascular, Labor and Delivery Suites, etc.).
Job description
Role Overview
This critical role provides the full range of support necessary for regular, terminal, and isolation cleaning. A key part of this role's accountability is to ensure compliance standards are maintained during the cleaning of hospital specialty areas (i.e. Operating Room Suites, CATH Labs, GI Labs, VARU, Pharmacy Compounding Lab, Vascular, Labor and Delivery Suites, etc.).
Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions
Safety & Infection Prevention
- Performs the full range of restroom cleaning and complete patient room cleaning, following the cleaning protocol as determined by room, area, and location type (regular, terminal, isolation room cleaning, etc.)
- Follows infection prevention protocols and selects the proper chemicals to accomplish cleaning tasks
- Performs routine cleaning tasks such as maintenance of walls, doors, glass/windows, furniture, equipment, and floors including dust mopping, wet mopping, corners, edges, base coves, and kick plates
- Properly removes trash and linen, ensuring waste stream guidelines and protocols are followed based on waste type (solid waste, bio-waste, chemotherapy waste, pharmaceutical waste, etc.)
- Consistently uses correct personal protective equipment (PPE) and donning/doffing techniques
- Consistently uses proper lifting techniques to avoid personal injury
- Complies with all hospital and department rules, policies, and procedures
- Follows all protocol for proper and safe use of Ultra Violet Light equipment
- Places proper type, size, and number of replacement liners in waste containers and completes proper tie off as required
Customer Service
- Exhibits a positive disposition when greeting and supporting staff members, patients, and visitors
- Practices great customer service and interpersonal skills when interacting with patients, patient family members, guests, and co-workers
- Practices skills and behaviors that support efforts toward World Class Service
Teamwork
- Works with special project team and/or projects as assigned by supervisor
- Participates in performance improvement projects as required
Communication
- Documents daily assignments completed
- Adjusts to staff shortages and covers other assigned areas
- Uses Epic system to maintain productive flow of beds and patients, logging in and out as required
Performs other duties as assigned. Complies with all WellStar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED preferred
- Ability to speak fluent English
- Ability to read, write, and understand simple instructions in English
- Satisfactory completion of the Departmental Training Program within the first thirty (30) days of employment
- Some experience preferred
Company overview
Wellstar Health System is one of Georgia's largest and most comprehensive integrated healthcare systems, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. As a non-profit health system, Wellstar operates with a mission to enhance the health and well-being of every person it serves through its PeopleCare approach. The system employs approximately 29,469 to 33,000 team members across multiple hospitals, health parks, medical offices, outpatient centers, pediatric centers, nursing facilities, and hospice and home care services. Wellstar is nationally recognized for operating Georgia's largest integrated trauma network and features the second-largest Emergency Department in the United States. The organization provides more than $1 billion annually in charity care and community programs, demonstrating its commitment to community health. Wellstar has earned numerous accolades including recognition on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For, Best Workplaces in Health Care, and PEOPLE Companies that Care lists. The system embraces innovation through its venture firm Catalyst by Wellstar, which nurtures early-stage healthcare companies, and maintains academic partnerships with institutions like the Medical College of Georgia for caregiver training. With specialties spanning cardiovascular care, oncology, women's health, pediatrics, musculoskeletal services, and numerous other medical disciplines, Wellstar delivers comprehensive healthcare across all stages of life.