The primary purpose of the position is to provide ground keeping and gardener, throughout the facility as assigned. Facilities include inpatient care, outpatient care, nursing home care, and various administrative support buildings. Incumbent is expected to have skills in gardening and groundkeeper maintenance and upkeep.

Duties

The incumbent performs a full scale of groundskeeping tasks to include seasonal planting, fertilizing, transplanting, pruning, chemical application as necessary and in accordance with specific directions, and landscape planning and design. Additional responsibilities involve maintenance of all garden and lawn areas surrounding, and within, the facility. Maintain the landscape this facility in a healthy, disease-free and attractive condition. The incumbent will provide corrective action for problems involving plant management, insect and disease control for both exterior plantings and exterior plantings and interior plants. Performs pressure washing driveways, building exteriors, sidewalks, exterior "welcome mats" railings and other miscellaneous landscape features and adornments to maintain aesthetics and cleanly appearance. Operates a variety of hand and power garden tools such as fertilizer spreader, portable sparer, hedge trimmers, weed eaters, pruning shears, etc. Responsible for the proper operation, storage and maintenance of equipment such as commercial pressure washers, power lawn mowers, edger's trimmers, pruners, weed eaters, sprayers, and miscellaneous hand tools, including but not limited to shovels, hoes, rakes, shears, garden saws, chain saws, etc. Thoroughly familiar with power equipment, such as: Floor machines, vacuums, battery scrubbers, carpet shampoo machines, low pressure spray units, etc. Incumbent is responsible for independent scheduling and accomplishments of tile floor maintenance, carpet, and upholstery care, ceiling cleaning, wall washing. Responsible to assist in housekeeping operations during tour of duty and carrying out all duties assigned by Housekeeping supervisory staff as they relate to the sanitation and cleanliness of the hospital. Transportation of supplies, and/or material throughout the VASNHCS network to include but not limited to East Campus, Vet Center, Capitol Hill homeless program, Carson City, Winnemucca Fallon, Auburn, and Susanville CBOCs will be required. Transports small quantity of hazardous waste from offsite locations to main hospital waste site. Work Schedule: Wednesday - Sunday 0430-1300 Position Description Title/PD#: Gardener/PD02953O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/15/2023. EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstrates you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards. SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualifications will first be evaluated against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification requirement are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated. The potential eligibles are then rated against the remainder of the Job Elements: HorticultureOperation of Equipment/MachinerySpecial Aptitude - Housekeeping Work Screen out Element : Able to perform the work required by the service as the ground keeping and gardener, throughout the facility as assigned. Facilities include inpatient care, outpatient care, nursing home care, and various administrative support buildings. Incumbent is expected to have skills in gardening and groundkeeper maintenance and upkeep. 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 work requires frequent walking, standing, pushing of carts, bending, crawling, and stooping. Candidate must be able to lift heavy objects such as fertilizer, salt, plant material and maneuver loaded wheelbarrow. Often lift and handle materials weighing over 23 kilograms (50 pounds) and carry chemical solutions and equipment weighing up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds) for extended periods.

Education

N/A

Contacts

• Address VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System 975 Kirman Avenue Reno, NV 89502 US
• Name: Diana Avila-Linaja
• Phone: 650-694-6000 X15130
• Email: [email protected]