The VA St. Louis Health Care System is recruiting for a Hospital Housekeeping Officer located within the Environmental Management Service, and reports directly to the Assistant Director.

Duties

St. Louis VA Medical Center is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans. Duties include, but are not limited to: Manages day to day operations of the EMS program. Ensures the local, network and national goals are met for the EMS program. Provide and improve support services that affect patient care needs and improve patient care outcomes. Determines the best approach for long range and short-term staffing needs. Shows an understanding of medical center policies and priorities by communicating them throughout the EMS department. Ensures justifications for major expenditures are complete and valid prior to submission to the approving body. Monitors the cost-effectiveness of the EMS program based on workload. Performs and recommends modifications to established program functions. Gathers information, analyzes data and evaluates data. Uses appropriate documentation to develop budgetary requests in accordance with organizational goals. Develops, coordinates and directs all administrative functions and management of the EMS program. Controls the EMS program budget with multiple fund control points. Determines the best approach to address budget shortages based on analysis. Ensure program functions are conducted with highest possible standards in a coordinated manner. Develops work plans to meet education and training needs. Monitors the performance improvement efforts of work to ensure priorities are adjusted in response to events. Makes presentations to executive leaders outlining recommended changes. Ensures all staff are aware of patients' rights and provides services directed toward those rights. Prepare various types of correspondence (monitoring forms, memos, directives, and cost efficiency-assessments). Conducts studies on program-related subjects. Establishes and communicates standards and criteria for each activity within the EMS program. Develops technical procedures and standards that preserve a clean and sanitary environment. Assigns daily work to team, monitors progress and addresses staff errors in practice and policies during training period. Establishes deadlines, prioritizes work when short staffed. Determines the best approach to continuously monitor productivity, accessibility and compliance of program guidelines. Review leave requests, initiates disciplinary and performance related actions. Develops programs and procedures to ensure subordinate supervisors implement the appropriate actions based on guidelines. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday. 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Telework: AD-HOC; Teleworks only on an as needed basis. Agreement must be in place. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Hosp Housekeepg Officer/PD070830 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/19/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12 grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: practical working knowledge of the basic principles of chemistry, biology, and bacteriology as applied to environmental sanitation, infection control, and to the choice and use of antimicrobial agents in the disinfection, sanitization, and/or sterilization of surfaces and equipment; experience in laundry and linen management; knowledge of waste management, including the requirements relating to hazardous, toxic, and infectious wastes and provisions for their final disposition; and knowledge of pest management, including alternative methods of control and the selection and application of chemicals. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ThinkingBudget AdministrationCommunicationsTeamwork 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: No special physical demands such as above average ability, dexterity, or strength are required to perform the work. Incumbent walks occasionally throughout the medical center while making rounds and performing inspections. Work is sometimes sedentary and there will be some walking, standing, and bending. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VA St Louis Health Care System 1 Jefferson Barracks Drive St. Louis, MO 63125 US
• Name: Kaitlyn Judson
• Phone: 314-652-4100 X54932
• Email: [email protected]