EVS Tech I
Baptist Health · Richmond
Summary
Job Description:
Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)
FULL TIME - 2ND SHIFT (MID DAY)
The primary goal of Environmental Services is to provide a clean and safe environment for our
patients, visitors, and staff.
Job Description:
The Environmental Service Technician I is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing care environment. 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.
Requirements:
- Ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention.
- Empties trash, cleans trash can as needed, relines can with clean liner.
- Removes infectious waste and fills sharps containers as needed.
- Damp dusts furniture, ledges, and fixtures with a germicidal agent.
- Dry mops, wet mops floors and vacuums carpeting.
- High dust vents, over bed lights and other items over shoulder height.
- Operates several types of vacuum cleaners and other miscellaneous cleaning tools.
- Expected at times to wear personal protection equipment to include rubber gloves, eye protection, gowns, booties, masks, and hair covers.
- Other duties as assigned such as performing alternate EVS aid responsibilities as needed.
Essential Qualifications:
- Prefer completion of High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Safely and properly lift and transport items weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Safely and properly pull, push, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch and stretch.
Benefits: Full-Time 32 weekly hours (0.8 FTE) - 40 weekly hours (1.0 FTE)
- Health, Vision, Dental and Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $6,000 annually
- Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 5 days of Paid Time Off available upon hire
- Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
- PTO Sell Back Program
- Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
- Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
- Retirement with Company Match