EVS Housekeeping Technician, Healthcare - Medical Facility

**Pinnacle HealthCare Environmental Services** **Schedule:** Monday - Friday 6:00pm - 10:00pm **(20 hours a week)** **Location:** Somerset, NJ **Pay:** $17.00/hour **Job Summary** The EVS Housekeeper, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and patient experience. **Primary Responsibilities** - Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of specialty units & equipment. Areas include but are not limited to Surgical Services, Endoscopy, Pac U - Performs duties while demonstrating a 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. - Adheres to all organization safety, risk management, and infection control standards while promoting a safety culture. - Accountable for accurately maintaining all appropriate logs and checklists/sheets current. - Responsible for cleaning and disinfection of equipment and assignment areas according to procedures, policies, and manufacturer recommendations. - Demonstrate a working knowledge of the cleaning and disinfecting requirements for highly sensitive environments. - Demonstrates understanding of the training and education related to evidence-based recommendations in accordance with the Association for the Health Care Environment (AHE), Association for Professional in Infection Control (APIC), and Association for Peri-operative Nurses (AORN), CDC, The Joint Commission, and other regulatory bodies. - Maintains supplies and equipment by properly stocking and restocking the environmental services cart neat and organized. - Removes waste and transports it to appropriate disposal areas while identifying proper waste streams (i.e., regulated medical, recycle, solid, and hazardous). - 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) - Recognizes and adheres to patient privacy requirements (HIPAA) **Other Responsibilities** - Demonstrates personal accountability. - Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved. - Demonstrate knowledge of facility safety requirements. - Demonstrates the ability to operate and properly maintain all EVS tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the environment. - Assists in onboarding new Environmental Services Technicians as requested. **Education/Certifications/Licenses** - High School Diploma or GED required. **Experience** - 1-year health care environmental services experience. **Special Skills/ Equipment** - Can distinguish the differences between levels of disinfection and perform low and intermediate-level disinfection. - Ability to explain orally or in writing the differences between levels of disinfection and perform intermediate-level disinfection in areas where required. - Ability to read/write English at 6^th^-9^th^ grade level preferred. - Respectfully listens to the viewpoints and ideas of others. - Ability to communicate orally, openly, candidly, or in writing, creating an environment where co-workers and team members reciprocate. - Respectfully listens to and respects the viewpoints and ideas of others. **The following are required upon being hired:** **** - Physical - PPD (TB test) - Blood draw to check for antibodies of the following: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chickenpox, Hepatitis B - COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED - Flu Shot required. **Benefits** - Full-time employees (defined as working 30 or more hours per week) are eligible for medical, dental, vision and other ancillary benefits. - All employees (full-time and part-time) are eligible to participate in the company’s 401K which has an employer match. “*Pin…