Flex Environmental Services Technician

JOB TITLE: Flex Environmental Services Technician

LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Woodbine

DEPARTMENT: Environmental Services

WORK SCHEDULE: Days

WORK TYPE: Flex

JOB SUMMARY:

Performs a variety of healthcare environmental services (EVS) duties to enhance the healthcare environment by maintaining the location assigned. Follows special healthcare cleaning and trash handling techniques as required ensuring a professional and appropriate service standard while performing the job. Follows system wide standards as well as department specific service standards.

Responsible for ensuring the very best patient/family/ customer experience by optimizing all customer interactions. Fosters a positive work environment through mutual support and cooperation and adheres to unit specific service standards. Performs duties to support the goals and objectives of Geisinger in its efforts to provide quality patient care and patient satisfaction.

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

TEAM PLAYER - Must be able to work and communicate effectively in a team environment.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS - Demonstrates oral, written, and electronic communication skills.

INFECTION CONTROL - Utilizes knowledge of patient safety and error prevention to impede the spread of infection and disease.

HEALTHCARE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT - Knowledge and understanding of legislation and regulatory bodies affecting healthcare practices.

HOUSEKEEPING - Knowledge of processes for providing a clean and bacterially safe environment for patients and facility staff.

HOUSEKEEPING - Knowledge of cleaning and sanitation methods for maintaining linens for hospital facility.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

High school diploma or GED preferred.

Previous experience in environmental services in a health care setting preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Requires ability to stand, walk, bend, lift up to 50 lbs., carry and push carts from 100 lbs. to 500 lbs. when performing duties. Works under a variety of temperature conditions. May involve transporting items outside of buildings in all weather conditions.

Possesses the ability to stand for long periods as well as to walk long distances to perform cleaning and disinfecting tasks of both high and low items/areas.

Requires ability to perform job duties correctly with in established System EVS standards to facilitate patient throughput.

Requires ability to tolerate the associated visual, auditory and scents associated with providing all kinds of medical and surgical care.

Work is typically performed within a office, clinical or classroom environment; frequently performs duties around patients, their families and clinical care providers as well as non-clinical staff

The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.

About Geisinger

One of the nation’s most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver.  We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.

*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.