About the Role
Step into a fast-paced hospital environment where your expertise keeps patients, families, and clinicians safe. As a Clinical Environmental Services Specialist (EVS II), you’ll execute high-level, time-sensitive disinfection and specialty floor care in critical care areas, ensuring every surface meets rigorous standards for cleanliness and infection prevention.
Key Details
- Location: Irvine, CA (92618)
- Pay Rate: $23.00–$25.00 per hour on W2
- Duration: 6 months
- Schedule: Part-time opportunities across 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shifts. Full weekend availability and no schedule restrictions are required.
A Day in the Life
You begin by reviewing assignments and safety protocols, then move through priority tasks: terminally cleaning an operative/invasive area, disinfecting an isolation room, and turning over emergency department spaces. Throughout the shift, you restock supplies, remove trash and soiled linen, and complete specialty floor and carpet care projects. Over 75% of your day focuses on high-level, time-sensitive cleaning in critical patient areas. You close your shift by documenting work, maintaining equipment through basic preventive care, and preparing for the next team’s arrival.
What You Will Do
- Clean and supply patient rooms, treatment and procedure rooms, restrooms, utility areas, nurseries, nursing stations, lounges, offices, waiting spaces, and other assigned zones per standard operating procedures.
- Perform advanced disinfecting tasks in critical environments, including discharges, isolation rooms, terminal cleaning of operative/invasive areas, and emergency department spaces.
- Execute specialty floor care and carpet care: strip/refinish resilient flooring; extract and terminally disinfect carpet and upholstery; complete special projects as assigned.
- Safely use cleaning equipment, tools, chemicals, and supplies; follow quality control requirements and basic preventive maintenance steps for equipment.
- Remove trash and linen, restock supplies, and uphold room readiness standards.
- Demonstrate professionalism in appearance, conduct, and both verbal and non-verbal communication; deliver outstanding, service-oriented support to patients and staff.
- Recognize and interpret signs, symbols, labels, and written instructions; follow them precisely.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies
- Customer Service: Anticipate and respond to patient and customer needs with empathy and urgency.
- Diversity: Work inclusively with people of varied backgrounds so all can contribute fully.
- Equipment Knowledge: Operate EVS equipment and technology required for the role; for clinical areas, use devices pertinent to procedures and practice.
- Job Knowledge: Apply departmental concepts, procedures, and unit-based competencies.
- Interpersonal Skills: Build respectful relationships; listen actively; communicate with tact.
- Oral/Written Communication: Convey information clearly in speech and writing across mediums.
- Travel: May require local travel between organization locations.
Organizational Behaviors We Value
- Trust & Accountability: Act with integrity; protect patient confidentiality; own your words and actions.
- Business Acumen: Use resources and equipment wisely; share knowledge; adapt to change.
- Customer Satisfaction: Present a professional image; listen, problem-solve, and pursue service recovery when needed; ensure services are safe, accurate, timely, and compliant.
- Innovation: Bring forward ideas to improve quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness; adopt new methods and technologies.
Qualifications
- Required: Ability to read, speak, understand, and follow written and verbal directions in English; recognize and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Preferred: High school diploma or GED; basic computer skills (email, computer-based training); prior hospital and/or hospitality housekeeping experience; familiarity with equipment such as vacuums, extractors, bovac, and rotary floor machines.
License: Valid California driver’s license required for those authorized to operate vehicles.