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Environmental Services, Floor Technician - Corporate
Join us at Virginia Health Services, where your passion for compassionate care can transform lives. We commit to prioritizing quality of life and want to help you live your best life too!
Recognizing you have many options; Virginia Health Services is committed to investing in its team members and offers the following benefits:
- Competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package to ensure our team members are valued and rewarded for their hard work.
- Holiday pay is available for 11 worked holidays, paid at DOUBLE time.
- Paid time off and sick time available as you accrue it (no waiting period).
- Early wage access to some of your paycheck before payday with Netspend Earned Wage Access.
- Group health insurance that includes medical, dental, vision and an employee assistance program.
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
- Referral program with the ability to earn as much as $1,500 for each new hire you refer.
- Training and development opportunities offered in-house at our state-of-the-art Employment, Enrichment and Education (EEE) Center.
We are dedicated to fostering a supportive environment that values innovation and collaboration, ensuring every team member plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for those we serve. Together, let’s make a difference!
Locally owned and headquartered in Newport News, Virginia since 1963, Virginia Health Services believes that compassionate care is the foundation of a healthier future. Our commitment extends beyond traditional healthcare; we strive to create lasting relationships that empower individuals and families on their journey to wellness with dignity and respect.
Essential Duties and Qualifications
Essential Job Duties:
- Responsible for performing duties in accordance with established organizational policies and procedures for providing a safe environment, 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.
- While executing the assigned tasks, the floor technician will have contact with patients and family. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned work area.
- Possesses technical skills required to properly use cleaning and maintenance chemicals, floor equipment prescribed by written procedures of the environmental services department.
- Responsible for responding favorably to requests to adjust daily workflow or area assignments to meet facility needs
- This position requires you to visit multiple facilities through the week.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Responsible for daily occupied and discharge/transfer facility repairs of patient care areas, equipment as assigned and other common areas of assignment.
- 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 healthcare environment for which tasked with servicing.
- Adheres to all organization safety, risk management and infection control guidelines and standards while promoting a culture of safety.
- Actively participates in departmental performance improvement initiatives, including but not limited to initiatives to improve patient experience and cleanliness metrics.
- Maintains cleaning cart(s), supplies and equipment evidence by properly stocking and restocking
- environmental services cart in a neat and orderly fashion.
- Removes waste and transports to the appropriate disposal area while identifying proper waste streams handling (i.e. regulated medical, recycle, solid, and hazardous).
- Follows all 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:
- Practices critical thinking skills to include prioritization
- Demonstrates personal accountability
- Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through and resolved
- Recognizes the importance of how their communication is received by patients, visitors and other health care workers, staff, etc.
- Recognizes their role as part of the larger organization and models the mission statement through interaction with patients, family, visitors and other facility staff.
Learn more about us at: http://www.vahs.com
Virginia Health Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability or veteran status. We are a drug free workplace.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and responsibilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
