Environmental Services/Floor Tech - FT - AVALA Hospital
AVALA_18281
Covington, LA
Summary
The Floor Technician is responsible for maintaining the overall cleanliness, appearance, and sanitization of the hospital. Maintains the cleanliness and appearance of hospital carpet and hard surface floors in rooms and corridors by following a scheduled floor care maintenance program in accordance with standard procedures of the Environmental Services Department and in accordance with AVALAs’ commitment to cleanliness. To maintain a safe, clean area for processing of hazardous waste.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Maintains VCT Floors and carpet floors according to Environmental Services standards.
Maintains Environmental Services closets and equipment in a clean aseptic and orderly manner.
Cleans all floors throughout facility on a regular basis to insure cleanliness and maintenance of floor finishes.
Knowledgeable in the use and operation of various types of floor maintenance products.
Understands the use and compatibility of various types and brands of floor maintenance products.
Vacuums all carpet throughout the facility on a regular basis.
Spot cleans carpet as determined though periodic inspection.
Assists with managing inventory of floor cleaning supplies.
Reports needed repairs and maintenance of floor cleaning equipment.
Core Competencies
Action Orientation - Targets and achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility, establishes standards and responsibilities, creates a results-oriented environment, and follows through on actions.
Communications - Communicates well both verbally and in writing. Effectively conveys and shares information and ideas with others. Listens carefully and understands various viewpoints. Presents ideas clearly and concisely and understands relevant detail in presented information.
Creativity/Innovation - Generates novel ideas and develops or improves existing and new systems that challenge the status quo, takes risks, and encourages innovation.
Critical Judgment - Possesses the ability to define issues and focus on achieving workable solutions. Consistently does the right thing by performing with reliability.
Customer Orientation - Listens to customers, builds customer confidence, increases customer satisfaction, ensures commitments are met, sets appropriate customer expectations, and responds to customer needs.
Interpersonal Skills - Effectively and productively engages with others and establishes trust, credibility, and confidence with others.
Leadership - Motivates, empowers, inspires, collaborates with, and encourages others. Builds consensus when appropriate. Focuses team members on common goals.
Teamwork - Knows when and how to attract, develop, reward, and utilize teams to optimize results. Acts to build trust, inspire enthusiasm, encourage others, and help resolve conflicts and develop consensus in creating high-performance teams.
Professional Requirements
Meets dress code standards and adheres to policies.
Completes annual education requirements.
Maintains regulatory requirements.
Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
Reports to work on time and as scheduled, completes work within designated time.
Wears identification while on duty, uses computerized punch time system correctly.
Completes in-services and returns in a timely fashion.
Attends annual review and department in-services, as scheduled.
Attends staff meetings annually, reads and returns all monthly staff meeting minutes.
Represents the organization in a positive and professional manner.
Actively participates in performance improvement and continuous quality improvement (CQI) activities.
Complies with all organizational policies regarding ethical business practices.
Communicates the mission, ethics, and goals of the hospital, as well as the focus statement of the department.
Promotes professional growth of subordinates by sharing knowledge and/or directing them to sources if information appropriate to given situation. Utilizes journals, books, etc. to learn and/or improve new techniques and equipment.
Assists other staff members in performing any duty that enhances the delivery of patient care.
Regulatory Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent.
Skills
Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
Experience operating Environmental Service equipment. Equipment includes, Automatic Scrubber, Battery Burnisher, Electrical Burnisher, All Purpose Matador, and Carpet Extractor
Basic computer knowledge.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires repetitive motions, standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day. The employee must frequently lift or move items weighing up to 50 pounds.