EVS Lead Housekeeper - Pinnacle Health Services
Description
Pinnacle HealthCare Environmental Services
Job Summary
The EVS Lead Housekeeper is responsible for overseeing and actively participating in the cleaning and maintenance operations across assigned facilities. This role serves as a hands-on leader, providing direct support to the cleaning staff and ensuring that day-to-day operations meet high standards of cleanliness, safety, and service. The EVS On-Site Supervisor is a key frontline leader, promoting a culture of safety and operational excellence while maintaining the high standards of cleanliness required for patient and staff satisfaction.
Schedule: Monday-Friday 2PM-10PM/ rotating weekends
Pay Rate: $21 per hour
Primary Responsibilities
- Supervises the necessary resources needed for the Environmental Services department under their control and makes recommendations for hiring.
- Supervises a waste program that separates, packages, and disposes of all waste in accordance with all applicable regulations.
- Performs quality improvement initiatives under the direction of the EVS manager. Conducts rounding activities to ensure environmental hygiene in all areas assigned. Prepares necessary reporting to manager(s) and documents results.
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of cleaning and disinfection principles and requirements, as well as proper chemical and equipment usage, and labor requirements for maintaining furniture, furnishings, and interior finishes across all areas of responsibility.
- Provides oversight of inventories, usage data, and ordering of consumable supplies and equipment repairs
- Prepares masterwork and time schedules under the manager's direction, coordinating vacation and holiday time and reviewing daily adjustments in the work schedule.
- Performs on-site training for new EVS associates.
- On-the-job training (OJT): Train associates in new skills, knowledge, and competencies while they perform their job duties. Trains, guides, and instructs the trainee through the learning process.
- Performs all types of floor care and maintenance throughout the facility, including hard surfaces and carpeting.
- Performs cleaning and disinfection of the pharmacy, exam rooms, patient care areas, labs, nurses’ stations, and equipment as assigned, as well as other common areas and assignments as required.
Other Responsibilities
- Supervises the work of subcontractors and/or EVS suppliers.
- Adheres to all organizational safety, risk management, infection control, and prevention standards. Promotes a culture of patient safety through observation and education.
- Coaches team members on the chain of infection and the core principles of transmitting infectious pathogens.
- Responds to emergency calls and multiple priorities as needed to coordinate staffing changes and minimize disruption.
- Conduct inspections and competency evaluation. Actively participates and contributes to efforts to improve patient experience, cleanliness scores, and critical departmental performance metrics.
- Controls expenditures within the sphere of approved budget objectives. Take corrective action when variances affect the budget.
Experience
- Required- 1 Year in environmental services in ambulatory and acute care-related support departments.
- Preferred 1 Year of supervisory level experience managing staff.
Special Skills/ Equipment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of team members and management.
- Strong working knowledge of the MS Office Suite, MS Project, project management software, and EVS software systems is preferred.
- Experience with typical EVS equipment/machinery
The following are required upon being hired:
- Physical
- PPD (TB test)
- Blood draw to check for antibodies of the following:
Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Chickenpox, Hepatitis B
- COVID VACCINATION REQUIRED
- Flu Shot required.
“Pinnacle Healthcare Environmental Services is an equal opportunity employer. Pinnacle is a division of Planned Companies that does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other reason prohibited by law in the provision of employment opportunities and benefits.”