OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans.

Duties

- Housekeeping Aid Supervisor's notify supervisor when additional direction and information is required. Advises supervisor concerning additional training required, for a team or for individual workers. Provides the group with the supervisor's instructions and ensures the daily work is assigned to the appropriate employees. - Ensures the material and tools required for the tasks are available. Develops training, teaches, conducts on-the-job training, and continuously provides guidance on policies, procedures, instructions, and directives to fellow staff to maintain a clean healthcare facility utilizing infection control standards. Supports and is involved in teamwork and team building. Involved in on-the-job problem solving; developing, implementing and evaluating improvements to work processes. Teamwork is required! - Supervises staff, maintains their time keeping, and administers appropriate verbal and written disciplinary actions when needed. Completes periodic written performance appraisals for assigned staff, provides praise, and appropriate awards. Oversees staff performing the full range of environmental sanitation duties in hospital areas, healthcare facilities, and or Community Outpatient Clinics; utilizing a variety of cleaning techniques, supplies, and equipment. Directs the use of a wide variety of chemical solutions and floor care products, all of which must be handled in accordance with their accompanying safety data sheet, insuring that chemical materials and waste are always kept secure. - Experience with basic computer skills; records and conducts periodic inspections to ensure effective cleaning, sanitation, and infection control procedures are being used. Identifies, corrects, or writes work orders to address material discrepancies, Maintains numerous waste streams in accordance with applicable instructions, regulations, and operating procedures. - Ensures the safety of personnel by appropriating and enforcing the use of required personnel protective equipment. Oversees the safe use of operating power cleaning equipment to scrub, strip, wax, polish floors utilizing equipment such as; automatic scrubbing machines, buffers, carpet cleaning machines, industrial vacuums, etc. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 3:30pm-12:00am; You may be required to work some holidays, weekends, and/or off duty times in order to support emergency needs. Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not available Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid Supervisor/PD08646A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Travel: You may be required to travel for this position up to 10% of the time. Please note: The application review cut-off for this job announcement is 50 applications. This position will be closed at 11:59pm ET on the date that the 50th application is submitted or the closing date for the announcement, whichever comes first.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/27/2023. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only; screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to meet the screen out element are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the assessment questionnaire for this position: Dexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (other than blueprint reading)Use and Maintain Tools and EquipmentWork Practices Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: The physical demands of this position will be that which is normally required of a housekeeping aid. Some heavy lifting (equipment and materials), movement of furniture required along with stamina to perform physical labor. Continuous walking, standing, stooping, bending and lifting, arduous physical effort is required in the performance of manual tasks described; such as washing walls above five feet and operating powered equipment over extended periods of time when providing training to employees, etc. You may be required to lift items weighing up to 50lbs. You may be exposed to communicable pathogens, skin irritations, mechanical and/or electrical hazards, and other potential safety hazards. Your primary duties are accomplished indoors with limited exposure to the outdoor environment. You may encounter temperature extremes, dirty, dusty, drafty, and noisy working conditions. Equipment utilized to accomplish duties and tasks require special care to avoid serious injury. In addition, you may be subject to occasional noise, skin irritations, cuts, and bruises. When occasionally performing cleaning tasks, moderate effort is expended.

Education

Not applicable.

Contacts

• Address CW Bill Young Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 10000 Bay Pines Boulevard Bay Pines, FL 33744 US
• Name: Anthony Jenkins
• Phone: 5618750885
• Email: [email protected]