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Department: SSEM Enviornmental Services
Status: Pool (PER DIEM)
Schedule: Varies
Title: Enviornmental Technician lll
Located in Longwood, Florida, Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital is a comprehensive medical, surgical and behavioral health facility with 126 acute-care beds and 80 inpatient behavioral health beds. Orlando Health South Seminole has a 30-bed ER, surgical department, endoscopy center and diagnostic cardiac catheterization laboratory. It also provides a full range of outpatient services, including diagnostic and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, laboratory, surgery, MRI, psychotherapy services and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for wound care. Orlando Health South Seminole is proudly recognized among the nation's "Best Regional Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report, "Great Community Hospitals" by Becker's Healthcare and "Best Places to Work" by Modern Healthcare, named for four consecutive years.
Orlando Health South Seminole is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices and outpatient facilities that span Florida's east to west coasts and beyond. Collectively, our 27,000+ team members honor our over 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to the patients, families and communities we serve.
Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible, so that you can be present for your passions. "Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work" is not just something we say, it's our promise to you.
Top Reasons to Choose Orlando Health - South Seminole Hospital:
- South Seminole Hospital is Nationally Recognized for the BEST Places to Work!
- Benefits Package that begins on day one (Full-Time & Part-Time only).
- Flexible Schedules
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,000 a year.
Position Summary:
The Environmental Services Technician lll isresponsible for executing the daily dutiesrequired to establish andmaintain a safe, clean, and healing environment. The EVS Tech will have contact with patients, visitors, and clinical and non-clinical staff. Contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety related and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned service areas. Responsible for transporting regular waste, soiled linen, weighing and recording clean linen, bio-hazardous waste, recycling waste, maintenance of trash containers, and performing routine manual tasks inside hospital and operate trash dumpsters, scales, and package bio-waste for shipping.
Responsibilities
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaintsfrom customers.
• Transports regular waste, bio-hazardous waste, and recycling waste to the designated collection location and prepared for transporting according per Department of Transportation and Department of Health standards.
• Maintains a clean and safe environment around the linen room, dumpster/bio-trailers area, and/or designated areasthat will leave area clean and litter-free.
• Emptiestrash containers and cleansthem so they are free from spills and marks.
• Operates outside cleaning equipment, such as, but not limited to, pressure washer, leaf blower, Billy Goat and cart washing machine.
• Takes a proactive approach to maintaining the identified patient and non-patient areas that need attention to be compliant with all mandated and regulatory agency requirements.
• Maintains work area in a safe manner by utilizing appropriate safety systemsto protect patients, customers, and team members.
• To achieve a Superior Facility Image, this position is responsible for the cleaning and disinfecting of patient rooms, and ancillary areas, to include, but notlimited to, bathrooms, public areas, corridors,medication storage rooms as
directed and any other areasthat may require attention using designated and appropriate chemicals and cleaning
procedures.
• Maintains equipmentin a clean and functional condition. Keeps work areas orderly, clean, and safe.
• Worksindependently to complete tasks as assigned.
• Responds to common inquiries from units/departments for linen request.
• Delivers clean linen to user areas on established and changing par levels.
• Uses handheld computer (if applicable) or manualsystem to credit and debit clean linen to user areas.
• Recordstelephone requestsfor linen on the Telephone Log. Picks up soiled linen from user areas and dSince eliver to the holding area for Laundry pick up.
• Weighs and records clean and reject linen when delivered and soiled linen at pick up.
• Recordsthe Laundry truck lock tag number to Weight Log for both clean and soiled linen.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Qualifications
Education/Training
High School Diploma or GED preferred.
Licensure/Certification
• DOT (Department of Transportation) Certification within the first 90 days. Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST), preferred.
• Linen Helper Software or similar software.
Experience
Three (3) or more years exp. in Health care supportservices and/or environmental services, hospitality, or related field to include one (1) or more years' experience as a porter or warehouse worker experience.
