The Environmental Services (EVS) Technician II is responsible for providing a safe care environment for
patients and staff (visitors as appropriate to the setting) that require additional education and/or training.
This is achieved by demonstrating the principles of cleaning, disinfection, handling large amounts of
infectious and solid waste, and maintaining hard surfaces with specialized equipment. The role also
includes quality assurance towards the reduction of harmful pathogens for the benefit of patients, visitors,
and staff. While executing the assigned tasks, the EVS Technician II will have contact with patients,
visitors, and perhaps family members. This contact may include physical, psychological, educational, and
safety-related aspects and should be appropriate to the specific demographics of patients served in
assigned specialty service areas. The EVS Tech II is responsible for ensuring timely room turns related to
patient throughput within the basic principles of environmental hygiene and infection prevention. The
Environmental Services Technician II, in accordance with organizational standards of quality, is an
essential contributor to cleaning, disinfection, infection prevention, and following all AORN Guidelines. This
role has expanded responsibilities that including maintaining hard floors, carpet, and specialty projects
when needed.
Minimum Requirements
Customer service and Environmental services experience preferred
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
