Housekeeping Aid

Housekeeping Aid

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 aide 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.

Major Duties:

• Performing reliably and dependably is based on past work and/or school performance.
• Using proper cleaning solutions and/or chemicals to successfully remove stains from a variety of surface (floors, carpet, tile, walls, etc.)
• Applying appropriate cleaning solutions to various types of floors (linoleum, wood, or marble), walls, and ceilings to clean and maintain such surfaces
• Cleaning and sanitizing restrooms: urinals, commode, sink, mirror, etc.
• Cleaning patients' rooms using sanitizing chemicals that will not compromise patients' health to disinfect surfaces.
• Removing soiled linen from ward areas or clinics using the proper collection methods for handling possible contaminated items
• Keeping a stock of cleaning materials and equipment needed to do your work.
• Operating powered equipment such as scrubbing machines, buffers, carpet cleaning machines and/or industrial vacuums
• Keeping equipment, cords, hoses, etc., clean and properly stored when not in use.
• Performing routine maintenance on cleaning equipment such as changing filters and brushes on vacuum cleaners and floor buffers.
• Pushing, pulling, lifting, carrying or moving cleaning equipment around for several hours or more at a time
• Standing/walking for several hours or more while cleaning and moving furniture.
• Emptying trash cans at various locations several times a day.

Work Schedule:

2nd shift Mon-Friday 2:30pm-11pm, 3rd Shift Sunday-Thursday 10:30pm-7:00am

Position Description Title/PD#:
Housekeeping Aid/PD12061A

Physical Requirements:

The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds. The duties necessitate considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, and concentration as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris.