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Cleveland Clinic’s Environmental Services (EVS) Department is consistently ranked among the highest-performing EVS teams in healthcare. As a Team Lead, you will help create the clean, comfortable, and safe environment our patients expect by ensuring all assigned areas are properly maintained, stocked, and organized. In this role, you will lead a team of Environmental Service Area or Floor Technicians, providing daily guidance, orientation, and training. You will collaborate with other EVS Team Leads and supervisors to coordinate work across all settings, ensuring a clean, safe, and well-maintained environment. As a knowledgeable resource on EVS responsibilities, your efforts play an essential role in enhancing the facility’s appearance and supporting caregivers in delivering an exceptional patient experience.
A caregiver in this role works days from 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. with rotating holiday and weekend requirements.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Orient and train caregivers.
Assist with scheduling to ensure resource availability and reassign schedules as needed.
Inform supervisor of performance concerns and policy violations.
Follow and assist with adherence to policies and procedures on patient isolation and Environmental Services standards.
Ensure compliance with hospital-wide and departmental safety requirements.
Collaborate with Environmental Services Team Leads and management to maintain a sanitary, safe environment.
Clean various areas including patient rooms, exam rooms, offices, waiting areas, public restrooms, discharge rooms, and surgical/non-surgical rooms.
Stock paper items and other supplies in patient rooms, exam rooms, and restrooms.
Perform daily cleaning tasks such as dust mopping, vacuuming, gum removal, and buffing hard floor surfaces.
Complete waste stream removal, including general waste, recycling, and infectious waste.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
High School Diploma or GED
Ability to provide direction on departmental policies and procedures, various cleaning and patient hospitality techniques, proper use and storage of cleaning agents, chemicals, and cleaning equipment
One year of experience in an environmental services or housekeeping role with strong customer service skills
Ability to be flexible with work assignments
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with others through teamwork
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Leadership experience or experience providing work direction
Physical Requirements:
Requires full body motion, including ability to perform work while lifting, bending, stooping, crouching, squatting and reaching.
Requires continuous walking and standing on hard surfaces.
Requires regular handling and use of disinfectants and other cleaning agents and chemicals.
Light Work - Exerting 11 to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.
Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.
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