Job Profile Name: Floor Technician

General Description:Cleans patient areas and facility floors to promote environmental safety and patient satisfaction.

Essential Responsibilities: Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.

• Cleans patient rooms as required; cleans beds with approved disinfectant.
• Collects soiled linen; dusts and/or mops floors, washes walls, cleans bathroom fixtures, collects bio-hazardous trash, and performs high dusting, using various cleaning chemicals and disinfectants as required, cleans and maintains equipment, maintains daily report of rooms cleaned and submits to department supervisor.
• Vacuums/cleans patient care areas, public areas and offices as assigned.
• Ensures safe care to patients adhering to policies, procedures, and standards within budgetary specifications, including time management, supply management, productivity, and accuracy of practice.
• Promotes individual professional growth and development by meeting requirements for mandatory/continuing education, skills competency, supports department-based goals which contribute to the success of the organization; serves as preceptor, mentor, and resource to less experienced staff.
• Dust mops, damp mops, and/or vacuums floors as assigned; buffs or extracts carpet; strips and waxes floors as scheduled; cleans and maintains entrances as assigned.
• Moves furniture as requested; cleans upholstery as scheduled; removes trash; cleans equipment and performs meeting room setups.

General Responsibilities:

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: High School diploma preferred.

Experience: Experience buffing, stripping,finishing, burnishing and waxing floorsis preferred.Command of English strongly preferred.

Licensure/Certifications/Registrations Required: None required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Experience buffing, stripping,finishing, burnishing and waxing floorsis preferred.

Command of English strongly preferred.

Physical Functions: Ability to walk, stand, stoop, kneeling, bending, and extending for prolonged periods. Requires lifting up to 75 pounds and push/pull a wheeled cart. Ability to work in a fast paced health care environment.

There is exposure to chemicals on a constant basis requiring special clothing or safety equipment.

Contacts: Department and Hospital staff, patients, visitors and general public.