Environmental Aide

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

Shift: Days

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Housekeeping Manager, the Hospital Environmental Aide is responsible for performing a variety of general cleaning tasks in maintaining patient rooms, offices, nurses’ stations, or other assigned areas of Mercy Medical Center, in a sanitary and attractive condition.

Essential Duties:

• Responsible for cleaning all nurses units, patients’ rooms and all other designated facility areas, including floors, woodwork, sills, vents, sinks, furniture, etc.
• Cleans walls, beds, commodes, mirrors, showers, fixtures, doors, closets, drawers, phones, inside windows, water fountains.
• Follows the department’s policies and procedures on cleaning, disinfecting and deodorization.
• Cleans up major spills when necessary, responding to pages in a timely manner.
• Obtains all supplies and equipment for performance of tasks; cleans and restocks housekeeping carts at the end of each shift.
• Responsible for stripping, waxing and polishing floors.
• Responsible for extracting, shampooing and spotting all carpets and upholstery.
• Uses and maintains all floor care equipment.
• Removes all trash and linen within the hospital.
• Takes the soiled rags and mops to the soiled hold; empties and cleans mop buckets.
• Correctly and carefully follows directions for cleaning solution preparations.
• Handles bio-hazard material according to procedures.
• Follows hospital dress code.
• Follows duty schedule and work assignments.
• Keeps abreast of changes in environmental services by attending monthly department meetings.
• Makes a periodic check for environmental needs in assigned area.
• Reports any repairs to maintenance.

Experience:

• Healthcare experience preferred.
• Must be able to follow and comprehend written and oral instructions, be able to identify materials from their labels, and understand their directions for use.

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.