Service Associate

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Service Associate (SA) is an integral member of the patient care unit, health care team, and environmental services program. The SA works in close collaboration with other team members in providing support for the service/facility area or patient care unit activities and assistance in meeting basic patient care and service/facility needs as outlined. Duties include: cleaning and making up beds and stretchers; maintaining equipment and reporting need for repairs and/or requisitioning the repairs; assisting with ordering, receiving and distributing supplies; replenishing carts and rooms with supplies; cleaning and disinfecting floors, walls, ceilings, windows, lights, furniture, vents, washrooms, kitchen, medication room, portering of patients, etc. Daily; performing errands to stores, lab, pharmacy and nutrition; emptying garbage, sharps containers and linen; defrosting and cleaning of refrigerators, freezers and ice machine...