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Job opening: Housekeeping Aid

Salary: $18 - 21 per hour
City: Butler
Published at: Jul 24 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division of a VA Medical Center and is under the direct supervision of the Housekeeping Supervisor or designee. The incumbent will perform both janitorial and custodial services. The VA provides career benefits which offer work/life balance and helps prepare you and your family for the unexpected with personal and sick leave option, flexibility, insurance options, retirement, and competitive compensation.

Duties

Butler County is the fastest-growing county in Western Pennsylvania Butler VA Health Care System is located in the heart of Butler County and convenient to community support services for Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio-area Veterans. At Butler VA Health Care System, we are Making Lives Better© for America's Veterans every day in every way. 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. Housekeeping Aids carry out assignments with minimal supervision. These duties include, but are not limited to the following: Performs floor maintenance and wall washing. Cleans doors, doorframes, baseboard corners/edges, and stairwells. Tasks are accomplished by sweeping, dust mopping, damp and wet mopping, scrubbing, buffing, stripping, refinishing, vacuuming and extracting carpets, spot cleaning furniture/carpets, and high and low dusting. Empties trash and wastebaskets and replaces liners. Cleans rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms; ensuring that they are cleaned and meet acceptable standards (cleans, disinfects, and deodorizes lavatories, showers, bathtubs, urinals, and toilet bowls and fixtures; cleans mirrors, sinks, and water faucets). Replenishes supplies of paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizers and soap in all areas where dispensers are located. Moves and arranges furniture, patient wardrobes, beds, etc. in assigned areas to accomplish cleaning tasks. Performs routine patient room and terminal room cleaning Performs cleaning of windows and window ledges, cleans glass doors and other glass surfaces, replaces curtains and cleans blinds. During inclement weather may be required to shovel snow/spread salt. Other duties as assigned and as needed. Work Schedule: Thursday-Monday 7:00am-3:30pm Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not available Position Description Title: PD99909S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive: This position my me eligible for a Critical Skills Incentive.

Requirements

  • You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
  • Subject to a background/suitability investigation
  • May serve a probationary period
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
  • A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc.
  • Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. 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: Dexterity and SafetyFollow DirectionsHandle Weights and LoadsReliability And DependabilitySpecial Aptitude - Housekeeping WorkWithout more than normal supervisionWork 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.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

  • Address VA Butler Healthcare 353 North Duffy Road Butler, PA 16001 US
  • Name: Paula Schubele
  • Phone: 850-710-0150
  • Email: [email protected]

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