EVS Senior Coordinator at Lake Mary Hospital - Orlando Health

Department: SSEM Enviornmental Services

Status: Full-Time / 40 hours a week

Schedule: Varies

Title: EVS Senior Coordinator

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital

Lake Mary Hospital will open in January 2025, with 124 beds housed in one six-story tower and the ability to expand to up to 240 beds in the five-story tower. The new hospital will feature the following services:

• Labor and delivery services, and a future neonatal intensive care unit
• 6 state-of-the-art operating rooms
• 3 catheterization labs with a dedicated interventional radiology and vascular lab
• Comprehensive cardiovascular care
• 16 ICU Beds
• Observation unit
• Outpatient Scripts Pharmacy

 Top Reasons to Choose Orlando Health – Lake Mary Hospital:

• As a new hospital, Orlando Health Lake Mary offers unique opportunities for career advancement, leadership roles, and professional development.
• Benefits Package that begins on day one (Full-Time & Part-Time only).
• Flexible Schedules
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,000 a year.

Position Summary:

The Environmental Services (EVS) Senior Coordinator is responsible for assisting the supervisor with day-to-day operations, which include scheduling and training of staff, monitoring quality and operating all equipment as necessary. Position requires individual to train team members, monitor all essential functions for all current employees, and serve as a working lead covering positions in Environmental Services. The position is responsible for executing the daily duties required to establish and maintain a safe, clean, healing environment development and monitoring EVS and procedures, and contributes to department quality initiatives and programs. Serves as a member of the EVS Leadership team and assumes shift/operational responsibility in the absence of the supervisor.

Essential Functions
• Conducts one-on-one training sessions using approved techniques, procedures, and educational materials in the training process.

• Provides instruction to new hires and current employees in various areas.

• Properly demonstrating technical skills, including steps cleaning process for patient & non-patient rooms, isolation rooms, critical care areas, ER trauma units, and ancillary areas, including but not limited to, restrooms/bathrooms, public areas, corridors, and any other areas that may require attention.

• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, using appropriate designated engagement techniques.

• Maintains accurate floor care logs and checklists.

• Able to mix chemicals according to instructions.

• Recognizes the importance of how their communication is received by patients, visitors, and other health care workers, staff, etc.

• Recognizes their role as part of the larger organization and models the mission statement through interaction with patients, family, visitors, and other facility staff. Adheres to all Standards of Precaution, SDS and Hand Hygiene directives.

• Must complete all mandatory training as designated and required.

• Participates in departmental quality assurance and improvement activities as appropriate.

• Must be able to maintain productivity and volume standards established for the assigned facility.

• Keeps current with all policies and procedures of the hospital and the department.

• Practices critical thinking skills to include prioritization of duties and immediate needs/requests (Stat cleans).

• Identify and utilize appropriate resources to ensure identified problems or concerns are followed through.

• Demonstrates knowledge of facility safety requirements.

• Demonstrates the ability to operate and properly maintain all EVS tools and equipment needed to clean and disinfect the
environment.

• Assists in onboarding new Environmental Services Technicians I, II, III and IV and V’s as requested.

• Cleaning duties include, but are not limited to, patient bed, furniture, light fixtures, ceiling vents, windows, window.
• Instructs proper procedures for replenishing supplies as needed.

• Uses programs that include the hospitals bed management system.

• Instructs in accomplishes these functions by pushing, pulling, cleaning carts, moving supplies and equipment, carrying buckets, operating equipment such as vacuum cleaners and wearing protective clothing as required by work environment or regulatory agency.

• Provides comprehensive oversight of the shift.

• Provides new hires Sixty (60) Day evaluations and assist with annual competencies.

• Interfaces with Supervisors, Office Coordinators, Ops. Managers and Director.

• Proactively handles any improvement opportunities or concerns. Leads or participates in performance improvement projects and process improvement efforts.

• Research, coordinates, and implements core training programs and systems (cleaning and disinfection practices, protocols, auditing tools, competencies, job aides, in-services, skills labs, etc.).

• Develops and utilizes appropriate evaluation systems to measure effectiveness of educational activities and uses feedback to adjust programs accordingly.

• Collaboratively selects training materials with department director and/or manager.

• Maintains and organizes training materials and associated validation of employee competency training to meet accreditation requirements.

• Establishes EVS annual continuing education calendar.

• Completes training evaluations and critique reports for each individual trainee.

• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers.

• Reports unsafe situations and turns in Engineering Service Requests for repair.

• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.

• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Education/Training
High School Diploma or GED

Licensure/Certification
• DOT (Department of Transportation) Certification within the first 90 days of employment
• (CSCT) Certified Surgical Cleaning Technician within the first year of employment.
• (CHEST Certification) Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Professional Experience within the first year of
employment.

Experience
• Five (5) years health care environmental services experience
• Analytical and oral communication skills.
• Bed Management Systems