Environmental Services Technician
Main function Maintains cleanliness of all patient care areas including: operating and endoscopy suites, reception and waiting areas; also assists with operating room turnover.
Duties and responsibilities:
Philosophy:
- Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives.
- Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures.
- Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct.
- Conducts self as a positive role model and team member.
- Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties.
- Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities.
- Understands importance of keeping facility clean and tidy.
- Works in calm, orderly manner.
Communication:
- Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers.
- Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner.
Financial practices:
- Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices.
- Reports wasteful practices.
- Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements.
Compliance program:
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program.
- Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures.
Performance-improvement program:
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program.
- Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures.
Safety/risk-management program:
- Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities.
- Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person.
Professional competence:
- Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences.
- Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff.
- Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations.
- Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities.
- Welcomes suggestions and recommendations.
- Adheres to proper dress code.
Duties:
- Is oriented to surgical facility.
- Assists with turning over operating rooms between cases.
- Cleans rooms between cases (e.g., dusts shelves and countertops, removes linens and places in bag for daily pickup, removes all garbage from operating room, endoscopy suites, recovery room and same day surgery unit.)
- Knows location of equipment and supplies.
- Keeps scrub sinks clean and free of debris.
- Stocks scrub brushes, antimicrobial handwashing solution, and surgical supplies, Toilet tissue and paper towels.
- Keeps caps, masks, and shoe covers stocked.
- Distributes clean linen and scrubs to all appropriate areas.
- Moves and arranges furniture in a neat and tidy fashion.
- Performs general delivery service for the facility and runs errands as needed.
- Keeps kitchen clean.
- Keeps hallway free of clutter.
- Checks/empties sharps containers throughout facility.
- Maintains janitor’s closet – clean and orderly.
- Performs light maintenance work/jobs as assigned.
Responsibility for assets | Not applicable.
Qualifications:
- Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians.
- Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and general public.
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems.
Requirements:
- Required 1. High school diploma or GED certificate 2. Strong ethical and moral character references.
- Preferred 1. Patient care technician experience 2. ASC experience.
Job quality requirements:
- Accuracy.
- Attention to detail.
- Timeliness.
- Organization.
- Little supervision needed to accomplish tasks.
Dependability | 1. Attendance 2. Punctuality 3. Ability to follow instructions 4. Ability to meet deadlines
Physical/mental requirements | 1. Ability to sit, stand, and walk 2. Ability to push, pull, lift, and position equipment and patients
Working conditions (environmental) | 1. Well lit and ventilated area with complicated equipment, some of which is hazardous in nature 2. Category III: exposure to blood borne pathogens and may encounter chemical hazards
Reports to | Director of Nursing, Clinical Coordinator, Charge Nurse
Supervises | Not applicable
Contacts | 1. Patients 2. Physicians 3. Facility personnel 4. Administration 5. Medical director