Evs Tech I
bhs baptist healthcare
📍 richmond kentucky united states🕐 15d ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**Summary**
**Job Description:**
**Job Title: Environmental Services Tech I (EVS I)**
**FULL TIME 2ND SHIFT**
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:**
**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
### _If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!_
### Baptist Health is an _Equal Employment Opportunity_ employer.