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Job Title

Environmental Services Assistant Hiring Event 10/7

                        

Location

Akron

                    

Facility

Akron General Medical Center

                     

Department

                      

Job Code

AK9905

                     

Shift

Day/Evening/Night/Weekend

                       

Schedule

12:00am-12:00am

                       

Job Summary

                         

Job Details

Environmental Services Assistant Hiring Event

October 7, 2026 | 12:00 p.m.

Build Your Career with Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Looking for an opportunity to make a difference while building a career in healthcare? Join Cleveland Clinic Akron General for our Environmental Services Assistant Hiring Event and learn how you can become part of a team dedicated to creating a safe, clean, and comfortable environment for patients, visitors, and caregivers.

As a member of our Environmental Services (EVS) team, you’ll play an important role in supporting the patient experience throughout the hospital. This position offers hands-on training, opportunities to develop valuable skills, and the chance to build a rewarding career within Environmental Services and across Cleveland Clinic.

Various shifts and hours are available.

A caregiver who excels in this role will: 

• Clean patient rooms, utility rooms, nourishment rooms, conference rooms, offices, corridors, stairways, locker rooms and restrooms. 

• Clean toilets, urinals, sinks and lockers. 

• Replenish supplies. 

• Collect trash and needles and dispose of them in an appropriate manner. 

• Dust ceilings, ceiling vents, TVs, light fixtures, doors, walls, wall hangings and flat surfaces.

• Wash or spot clean walls, cabinets, elevators, counters, desks and windows. 

• Clean floors, carpets, floods and body fluids.

• Use and maintain equipment, such as vacuums, buffers, cleaning carts, buckets, wringers, sweeping tools and mops. 

• Clean and disinfect beds, stretchers, wheelchairs, IV poles and other items in patient rooms.

• Strip and make beds.

• Transport and move furniture and equipment. 

• Report malfunctioning equipment, unsafe conditions and broken items.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Interest in housekeeping work demonstrated by previous experience or ability to learn

• Ability to follow written and oral instructions, use care and attention when using equipment

• Insurable under the hospital plan to be permitted to drive a company vehicle

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:   

• High School Diploma or GED 

• Hospital, cleaning and/or factory experience

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to perform work in a stationary position for extended periods
• Ability to be mobile for extended periods of time
• Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment
• Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information
• Ability to move/transport equipment weighing up to 10 pounds (lbs.)
• Ability to move/transport carts weighing up to or more than 100 pounds (lbs.)
• Ability to move/transport items weighing up to 50 pounds (lbs.)
• Ability to inspect equipment
• Ability to clean, operate cleaning equipment and use cleaning products
• May come into contact with communicable diseases and/or body fluids

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required

                       

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility. 

If applying for a Florida position, please see the following website for more information on the background screening requirements required by the Agency of Health Care Administration: https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

Please review the Equal Employment Opportunity poster. 

                  

Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.