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EVS Tech II Full Time Second Shift

Baptist Health · Elizabethtown, Kentucky, US

Summary Job Description: EVS Tech II - Housekeeping Full-time, Second shift (3:00p - 11:30p) Works every other weekend JOB DESCRIPTION : The Environmental Se...

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Summary Job Description: EVS Tech II - Housekeeping Full-time, Second shift: (3:00p - 11:30p) Works every other weekend: JOB DESCRIPTION: The Environmental Services (EVS) Technician II is responsible for providing a safe care environment for patients and staff (visitors as appropriate to the setting) that require additional education and/or training. This is achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning, disinfection, handling large amounts of infectious and solid waste, and maintaining hard surfaces with specialized equipment. The role also includes quality assurance towards the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients, visitors, and staff. While executing the assigned tasks, the EVS Technician II will have contact with patients, visitors, and perhaps family members. This contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and safety-related aspects and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in assigned specialty service areas. The EVS Tech II is responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The Environmental Servic...