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Have you always wanted to get your healthcare career started? Are you interested in a position that offers terrific benefits and opportunities to grow? Do you enjoy working "hands on" in a team environment? Then you may be a perfect fit for our role in the Environmental Services Department at UPMC McKeesport.

UPMC McKeesport is currently looking to hire a fulltime Custodial Worker to work an evening shift (3 pm to 11:30 pm). This position will also have weekend and holiday responsibility.

Apply today to see where your career can go!

Purpose:

Clean and service building areas according to established procedures. Move furniture, equipment, and supplies in and around hospital departments and performs a variety of environmental service duties to maintain the hospital in a neat, orderly, and sanitary condition.

Responsibilities:

• Clean patient rooms, including operating rooms, as assigned daily and performs terminal cleaning of patient rooms at discharge.

• Strictly adhere to all policies and practices relative to patient care and hospital related information.

• Operate various types of cleaning equipment, both mechanical and electrical, i.e. buffers, wringers, scrubbers, vacuums.

• Clean and disinfect equipment including but not limited to bedside commodes, IV standard and pumps, and specialty equipment and wheeled equipment.

• Clean assigned areas by washing furniture with an EPA approved germicidal solution.

• Scrub and strip hard floors, and refinish floors using a floor maintenance program, chemicals, and machines.

• Re-stock unit-specific equipment and supplies as assigned (refer to area signature service sheet).

• Complete and document daily routine responsibilities on the unit including but not limited to signature service log, designated equipment maintenance checks, etc.

• Collect soiled linens, trash, and waste (including infectious waste) from all areas of the hospital as assigned, disinfect garbage cans, and disinfect/clean compactor area.

• Ensure equipment malfunctions are properly tagged, reported, and delivered to the appropriate department.

• Ensure storerooms and trash chute rooms are clean and organized.

• Shampoo and extract carpets, furniture and runners, cleans stairways, elevators and baseboards.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• 1 year previous job experience required in lieu of High school diploma/equivalent.

• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions in order to successfully complete custodial duties and the ability to use custodial equipment required.

• Prior job experience preferred.

• May in the course of duties be in rooms where medications are stored. No contact with medications is allowed.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Act 34

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran