What are the responsibilities and job description for the Custodial Worker position at UPMC?
UPMC McKeesport is currently hiring a fulltime EVS Associate to join our team!
Have you always wanted to get your healthcare career started? Are you interested in a position that offers terrific benefits and opportunities to grow? Do you enjoy working "hands on" in a team environment? Then you may be a perfect fit for our role in the Environmental Services Department at UPMC McKeesport.
UPMC McKeesport is currently looking to hire a fulltime Custodial Worker to work rotating shifts. This role will also have weekend and holiday responsibility.
UPMC offers a competitive benefits package and an opportunity to continue to grow professionally from both a technical and managerial standpoint.
Apply to see where your career can go!
Purpose:
Clean and service building areas according to established procedures. Move furniture, equipment, and supplies in and around hospital departments and performs a variety of environmental service duties to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.
Responsibilities:
- Clean patient rooms, including operating rooms, as assigned daily and performs terminal cleaning of patient rooms at discharge.
- Strictly adhere to all policies and practices relative to patient care and hospital related information.
- Operate various types of cleaning equipment, both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums.
- Clean and disinfect equipment including but not limited to bedside commodes, IV standard and pumps, and specialty equipment and wheeled equipment.
- Clean assigned areas by washing furniture with an EPA approved germicidal solution.
- Scrub and strip hard floors, and refinish floors using a floor maintenance program, chemicals, and machines.
- Re-stock unit-specific equipment and supplies as assigned (refer to area signature service sheet).
- Complete and document daily routine responsibilities on the unit including but not limited to signature service log, designated equipment maintenance checks, etc.
- Collect soiled linens, trash, and waste (including infectious waste) from all areas of the hospital as assigned, disinfect garbage cans, and disinfect/clean compactor area.
- Ensure equipment malfunctions are properly tagged, reported, and delivered to the appropriate department.
- Ensure storerooms and trash chute rooms are clean and organized.
- Shampoo and extract carpets, furniture and runners, cleans stairways, elevators and baseboards.
