Environmental Services Area Cleaner

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### Job Title
Environmental Services Area Cleaner

### Location
Avon

### Facility
Avon Hospital

Department

### Job Code
I08006

### Shift
Days

### Schedule
7:00am-3:30pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Avon Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Avon Hospital provides state-of-the-art healthcare to all its patients and is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. This designation is the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.

As an Environmental Services Area Cleaner, a caregiver in this role will help maintain a clean, safe and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and fellow caregivers. Responsibilities include performing daily cleaning and sanitation duties in inpatient units, patient discharge areas and surgical settings based on departmental assignments. The caregiver will play an important role in supporting infection prevention, maintaining facility cleanliness and creating a positive environment that promotes patient safety and comfort.

A caregiver in this position will work 7:00am to 3:30pm with rotating weekends and holidays.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

- Cleans ancillary & emergency room areas, exam rooms, offices, waiting areas, public restrooms, and other assigned areas outpatient non-surgical settings.
- Cleaning duties include use of appropriate cleaning products in wiping down surfaces, cleaning spills, emptying garbage cans, cleaning furniture and other tasks as assigned.
- Stocks paper items and other supplies in exam rooms and restroom as necessary.  Informs team leader and supervisory team when low on supplies.
- Follows departmental policies and standard operating procedures.
- Follows and adheres to hospital wide and departmental quality and safety requirements.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

- Requires one to three months on-the-job training to learn developmental policies and procedures, various cleaning techniques, proper use and storage of cleaning agents and chemicals

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

- High school diploma/GED

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:

- Follow 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.

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