Housekeeping Aid

Housekeeping Aid

Selectees will be assigned to GLA VAMC. The Housekeeping Aids who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the patient care experience at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as a Housekeeping Aid means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As a Housekeeping Aid, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties.

Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors. Duties include cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. Housekeeping Aids sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture.

Housekeeping Aids carry out assignments with minimal supervision.

Work Schedule:

Full-time, varying shifts. Tours of duty may vary depending on the internal department needs to include, holidays, weekdays, weekends, day and evening shift schedules. Recruitment

Incentives:

Authorized Position Description Title/PD#:
Housekeeping Aid/PD99909S

Physical Requirements:

The Incumbent must be physically able to do continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing:
Occasionally uses heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type equipment) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties require considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, and concentration. Visual acuity must be sufficient for the incumbent to see dirt, dust and debris.

Working Conditions:

Work is normally performed indoors with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Some work maybe performed outdoors where incumbent is exposed to varying degrees of heat and cold as well as inclement weather. Some exposure to possible contagious diseases, blood and bloody secretion are inherent to this position. Care is required to avoid serious injuries (i.e. broken bones) when working on ladders, or when using 30-100-pound power equipment or handling hazardous materials.