EST Critical Area

Specifically, workers within this classification will supply and clean critical and patient areas of the hospital per the Joint Commission and WRNMMC Infection Control protocol and guidelines as designated by the company and in accordance with contract specifications.

Critical patient care areas include the following: surgical areas, recovery rooms, labor/delivery rooms, emergency rooms, isolation rooms, critical care units, ICU, PICU, NICU, infant nursery, central sterile supply area.

Critical care Areas require total aseptic cleaning to control and eliminate infections.

Although you are initially assigned to a primary work area you may be reassigned as needed to periodic rotations by the supervisor and/or management without prior notice to meet the needs of the contract and/or healthcare facility.

Must be able to use light-to-heavy weighted cleaning equipment, such as commercial vacuum cleaners, wet mops, brooms, dust mops, wringers and buckets, wet vacuums, wall scrubbing tools, stepladders, window-washing tools, maid carts, trash barrels, and medium-to-large capacity dumpster carts and barrels; Additional equipment used may include but is not limited to rotary buffing and burnishing machines, auto scrubbers, rotary and extracting carpet shampooing machines.

Will perform special and/or specific cleaning tasks to include but not limited to inpatient, outpatient, administrative area cleaning, duty/tenant bed cleaning, dusting horizontal surfaces, emptying and removing light to heavy trash, damp wiping/dry dusting furniture and other fixtures, cleaning/polishing and sanitizing metal and porcelain bathroom fixtures, dry/wet mopping of resilient floor surfaces, light to heavy wall scrubbing, routine spot washing of walls/windows, replenishing of room supplies, vacuuming of carpeted surfaces, facility emergency response, minor-to-serious non-hazardous calls for spills including interior water related floor situations, high dusting, hand scrubbing of showers, bathrooms and restrooms, tiled ceramic floors/walls, and hand scrubbing of hard floor surfaces.

May be assigned other duties deemed necessary to fulfill the needs of the contract.