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Job Title: 2nd shift EVS Housekeeping Job Description The EVS Housekeeping professional ensures a clean, safe, and sanitary environment throughout the healthcare facility by performing routine, terminal, and isolation cleaning in patient care areas, clinical spaces, and public areas. This role includes high and low dusting, cleaning walls, ceilings, vents, and lighting, maintaining restroom facilities, and providing comprehensive floor care.
The position also involves removing and transporting trash and medical infectious waste, moving furniture and equipment, and maintaining cleanliness in areas such as emergency rooms, operating rooms, offices, public restrooms, clinics, nurses’ stations, and exam rooms. Responsibilities Perform routine, terminal, and isolation cleaning in accordance with established healthcare cleaning protocols and infection control standards.
Complete high and low dusting, including walls, ceilings, vents, light fixtures, and other environmental surfaces. Clean and disinfect restroom facilities, including toilets, sinks, showers, and associated fixtures, ensuring they remain sanitary and well-stocked. Provide floor care services such as sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, buffing, and vacuuming in patient rooms, corridors, and common areas. Remove, handle, and transport regular trash and medical infectious waste safely and in compliance with facility procedures.
Move furniture, equipment, and other items as needed to support cleaning tasks and room setup or turnover. Clean and maintain a variety of areas including emergency rooms, operating rooms, offices, public bathrooms, clinics, nurses’ stations, exam rooms, and other assigned spaces. Use appropriate cleaning agents, tools, and equipment such as buffers, scrubbers, vacuums, and mops in a safe and effective manner.
Frequently push, pull, and transport heavy objects, equipment, and furniture to facilitate thorough cleaning. Perform continuous physical position changes, including standing, bending, kneeling, and stooping, to access and clean all environmental surfaces. Climb stepladders when necessary to clean light fixtures, vents, windows, and cubicle drapes. Clean hard-to-reach areas such as bathtubs, shower stalls, plumbing fixtures, stairs, baseboards, furniture legs, and wheels of furniture.
Wring out wet mops and remove trash from containers, ensuring proper disposal and cleanliness of receptacles. Carry out constant repetitive hand and arm motions to damp wipe surfaces, run buffers and scrubbers, vacuum, and mop floors. Work in close proximity to patients and hospital staff, maintaining a professional and respectful demeanor at all times. Follow all safety, infection control, and environmental services policies and procedures to minimize risk of exposure and maintain a safe environment.
Adhere to facility standards for reliability and consistency by maintaining stable employment patterns and fulfilling scheduled shifts. Essential Skills Ability to lift up to 40 pounds safely and repeatedly throughout the workday. Ability to stand for up to 8 hours per shift while performing cleaning and environmental services tasks. Ability to read, write, speak, hear, and comprehend English to follow instructions, safety protocols, and communicate with staff.
Stable work history, with the ability to hold jobs for at least 6 months at a time. Preferred minimum of six months of cleaning or housekeeping experience in roles such as housekeeper, janitor, environmental services worker, caregiver, or custodian. Capability to perform frequent pushing, pulling, and transporting of heavy objects, equipment, and furniture. Comfort working with and near patients and hospital staff in a healthcare environment.
Ability to work safely with frequent exposure to medical infectious waste and occasional exposure to exposed patient body parts. Capacity to perform frequent kneeling, stooping, and continuous physical position changes to clean varied surfaces and spaces. Ability to carry o