Environmental Service Worker – Full Time, Evenings

 NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk has served this richly diverse region as a patient-first community hospital for more than 60 years. As Long Island’s only independent community hospital, we are 100% committed to becoming the community’s healthcare provider of choice with our greatly enhanced services including the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, our highly-advanced heart disease diagnosis and treatment facility, our new modern surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, and our high-touch services including women’s imaging, sleep laboratory and orthopedics and more. These services are delivered with the highest level of compassion by our NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk staff – Long Islanders with an unmistakable mix of courage and heart who care about the people right here in our community and whose sole purpose is to provide personalized comfort. For more information, go to NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk, and interact with us on  LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Indeed, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Environmental Service Worker – Full Time, Evenings – Environmental Srvcs – Full-Time – 04:00 PM – 12:00 AM. 

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk  serves a diverse population of patients, including those with special needs, at all stages of the life cycle. Environmental Service Worker II demonstrates the ability to deal effectively with various age groups of patients, visitors and staff in order to provide required duties. The unique physical and psychosocial needs of patients relative to age-specific requirements are considered in the provision of ESW II duties. Communication skills must be demonstrated through age-specific interactions that enhance customer satisfaction.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to prioritize work assignments.
• Communicate with ES Supervisor.
• Communicate progress of assigned duties to ES Supervisor including completion of assignment.
• At beginning of shift, communicate with ES Supervisor/ES Assistant Director regarding the day’s agenda and goals.
• At end of shift communicates to ES Supervisors any assignments not completed.
• Dry mops/damp mops assigned areas.
• Ability to operate floor buffing equipment.
• Operates automatic scrubbing machine.
• Is Familiar and demonstrates the ability to make decisions on what products needed to complete assignment on time.
• Ensures floor is free of debris.
• Keeps corners and baseboards clean in assigned areas.
• Ensures all safety procedures are followed in the completion of duties.
• Obtains equipment and supplies in an efficient manner
• Ensures all equipment is safe and in proper working condition
• Has knowledge of all chemicals and their proper usage
• Is knowledgeable of equipment used for moving heavy objects and uses it safely.
• Breaks down equipment at the end of shift.
• Places equipment in proper storage area.
• Notifies Environmental Supervisor of the equipment in need of repair.
• Familiar with chemicals used in the curtain cleaning and their proper usage.
• Has knowledge of all equipment used in curtain cleaning processes.
• Inspects and washes curtains as assigned by Environmental Supervisor.
• Interfaces with ES Supervisor on areas that need curtains cleaned.
• Removes curtains for cleaning.
• Replaces curtains after cleaning.
• Can operated washer and Dryer safely and according to manufacture instruction.
• Empties all trashcans.
• Cleans receptacles.
• Identifies and corrects safety hazards (i.e. spills, etc.)
• Replaces liners.
• Transports all trash to waste staging area consistently throughout the day.
• Operates equipment following all safety policies and procedures.
• Cleans immediate area surrounding trashcans.
• Separates cardboard, red-bag, black-bag, recycling and places in appropriate receptacles.
• Demonstrates safety while pulling carts throughout the Medical Center.

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a High school diploma or equivalency in order to follow written work assignments & maintain records
Approximately one to three months experience to gain knowledge of cleaning procedures and power equipment use and maintenance.
Continued education through appropriate seminars, workshops, participation in departmental meetings, inservices & attention to Brookhavens memorandum.
Good interpersonal skills demonstrable in interactions with staff, administrators, patients and visitors.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you’ll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.

View NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk’s Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy. Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal.

NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk  provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $47,455.20 – $47,455.20 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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