This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division at the Augusta VAMC The position performs both janitorial and custodial services (e.g, textile distribution and inventory activity, sanitizing and disinfecting, waste removal, cleaning of blinds, replacing curtains, washing windows and walls, dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures, sweeping, scrubbing and applying floor finishes. Work is regularly performed by hand and with light and heavy powered equipment.

Duties

Duties - Determining the need for and providing training to employees. - Scheduling regular meetings with staff to make them aware of new procedures or directives. - Cleaning and sanitizing restrooms and patient rooms. - Selecting proper equipment to clean floors, carpets, drapes, and light fixtures. - Reviewing operations, policies, and procedures to ensure program complies with guidelines and regulations and regulatory bodies. - Ability to identify and report all safety hazards, broken fixtures or other issues found using the electronic work order system. - Keeping subordinates abreast of proper methods, procedures, and uses of equipment and supplies. - Ability to work in extreme environments, occasionally exposed to inclement weather, biohazard materials and mentally unstable clientele. - Ensuring adequate stocking and distribution of linens within assigned areas. - Reorganizing the work schedule efficiently in order that work is accomplished in a timely manner. - Adhering to safety policies and procedures while performing manual work. - Following sanitation and infection control procedures to prevent the spread of bacteria. - Determining and assigning the appropriate number and types of personnel for duties on a daily and project by project basis. - Assigning deadlines and priorities to subordinate staff and reassigning personnel and resources to accomplish unanticipated work. Work Schedule: Either Shift available: Wednesday - Sunday 3:30 pm - 12:00 am Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid Leader Unit C/PD07852A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/24/2024. 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: CommunicationDexterity and SafetyInterpret Instructions, Specifications (includes blueprint reading)Lead or SuperviseSpecial Aptitude - Housekeeping WorkWork 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 EFFORT: 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. WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is normally performed indoors with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. Some work may be performed outdoors where there may be exposed to varying degrees of heat and cold as well as inclement weather. PPE may be required in some circumstance as 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.

Education

Not applicable.

Contacts

• Address Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center One Freedom Way Augusta, GA 30901 US
• Name: Marques Entzminger
• Email: [email protected]