Environmental Services Specialist

Where Youll Work

At CommonSpirit Mountain Region we believe in the healing power of humanity and serving the common good through our dedicated work and shared mission to celebrate humankindness.

St. Anthony Summit Hospital is a Level III trauma center serviced by Flight For Life Colorado. We are nationally recognized as a multiple-time recipient of the Press Graney Guardian of Excellence Award for Patient Experience and we were named a Top 100 Hospital in the U.S. by IBM Watson Health in 2018. We also are a Pathway to Excellence-designated hospital recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as being one of the best hospitals for nurses to work. We provide a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Summit County and the surrounding region including surgical emergency / trauma critical care birth center orthopedics breast care digital mammography breast MRI radiology and imaging infusion therapy nuclear medicine cardiology oncology Summit Sleep Disorders Center Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) gastroenterology and Total Joint Replacement.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

You have a purpose unique talents and NOW is the time to embrace it live it and put it to work. We value incredible people with incredible skills but your commitment to a greater cause is something we value even more. This is the heartbeat of our organization and your time will be spent in a supportive team environment with resources to help you flourish and leaders who care about your success.

Floor Care : Provides basic and specialty cleaning services to all areas of the hospital focusing primarily on the operations of heavy mechanical equipment (e.g. scrubbers buffers polishers extractors wet vacuuming equipment etc.) used in the cleaning and maintenance of hard and soft (i.e. carpet) flooring surfaces including stairwells hallways and public spaces.

Specialty Units : Work includes providing a safe care environment for patients and staff (visitors as appropriate to setting) within a specialty area (surgical services / perioperative suite cath lab endoscopy etc.) achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning disinfection and quality assurance toward the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients visitors and staff.

Other : Responsibilities may also include work in the Environmental Services Tech I classification.

• Responsible for completing as assigned performs all types of floor care and maintenance throughout the facility including hard surfaces and carpeting.
• Adhere to all organizational safety risk management and infection control standards while promoting a culture of safety.
• Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of specialty units & equipment. Areas include but are not limited to Surgical Services Labor Delivery Critical Care Endoscopy MRI Trauma Cath Lab NICU Mental Health and Burn Unit.
• 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 specialty environment tasked with servicing.
• Actively participates in departmental performance improvement initiatives including but not limited to initiatives to improve patient experience and cleanliness metrics.
• Follows all environmental and 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).
• Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved.

Job Requirements

In addition to bringing your whole self to the workplace each day qualified candidates will need the following :

Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate level disinfection in areas where required.

Communicates orally or in writing openly and candidly creates an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate in kind. Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others

Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate level disinfection.

Ability to operate necessary equipment / machines.

Effectively uses computers and mobile devices.

Respectfully listens to viewpoints and ideas of others.

Ability to work without close supervision.

Physical Requirements

Medium Work - exert / lift up to 50 lbs. force occasionally and / or up to 20 lbs. frequently and / or up to 10 lbs. constantly.

Required Experience :

IC

Key Skills

Fire Protection,Graphic Designing,Academics,Apparel Merchandising,Adobe Flash,Client Services

Employment Type : Unclear

Department / Functional Area : Environmental Services

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1