Job opening: Supervisory Environmental Care Specialist
Salary: $90 310 - 117 400 per year
Published at: Dec 04 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is responsible for performing technical, administrative, and professional work in association with the Assistant and Chief Hospital Housekeeping Officers that includes housekeeping, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Regulated Medical Waste (RMW) and services related to Environmental Management Service at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System (VAPAHCS), as assigned to the Palo Alto, Menlo Park, or Livermore Divisions and as assigned Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's).
Duties
The Environmental Care Specialist performs technical, administrative, or professional work involving managing, administering, operating and supporting services and programs related to the operation and safety of the VAPAHCS division and CBOCs assigned to him/her. Incumbent is fully responsible for planning, organizing, directing, controlling and evaluating the entire Environmental Management Service (EMS) program to the areas assigned, including assisting in budgetary control and financial management. All assigned activities must be coordinated with other VAPAHCS programs and activities approved by the Chief, EMS, and VAPAHCS. Incumbent is organizationally responsible to the Chief and Assistant Chief, EMS, VAPAHCS; however, he/she is given a very wide range of latitude in which to function independently with minimal supervision.
Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Coordinates, develops, directs and manages a hospital housekeeping program that emphasizes maintaining the health care environment at or above an acceptable level of bacteriological and aesthetic cleanliness.
Assists with coordinating, planning and supervising hospital housekeeping functions such as environmental sanitation, linen distribution, pest control, patient assistance program, waste management, bed services program, CWT program and monitoring and surveillance of contracted services, laundry, pest control, sanitation, and waste management.
Coordinates, controls, directs, and plans housekeeping program operations in association with the Assistant Chief and Chief EMS.
Responsible for analysis of existing management processes such as: work scheduling and workflow; in support of environmental/housekeeping services to medical, surgical, administrative, etc.
Responsible for independently planning and carrying out important environmental management programs or projects, determining the approach to be taken and the methods to be used, resolving conflicts that may arise, and coordinating the work with others as necessary and interpreting policy in terms of established objectives.
Perform the administrative and personnel management functions relative to staff supervised.
Establish guidelines and performance expectations for staff
Provides informal feedback and periodically evaluates employees' performance, resolves informal complaints and grievances, develops work improvement plans
Responsible for furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity (EEO) by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices in regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap.
Assists in the direction and maintenance of a system of reports and records which reflect the status of equipment, supplies, and materials, operational needs and adjustments, as well as a variety of personnel and workload reports inclusive of personnel actions of assigned division and CBOC's.
Assists in the proper formulation and administration of separate accounts of the annual EMS budget related to his/her assigned division and CBOC's.
Coordinates the bio-hazard and general waste removal from the medical center.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 6:00am to 2:30pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Environmental Care Specialist/PD06670A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/16/2024.
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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The 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 and/or education as described below:
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: applying law, regulations, guidance and/or procedure regarding sanitation, linen distribution, supply distribution, customer service, pest control and waste management operations; overseeing a team and other day to day operations related to environmental care; ensuring the establishment of adequate training programs; involved in short and long range planning, establishing policy and budgeting; writing performance evaluations, memorandums and policy updates.
OR
Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. (NOTE: A transcript or course listing must be submitted if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. Applications submitted without this information will not be considered).
OR
Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a master's degree.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Administration and ManagementCommunicationsFinancial ManagementProject Management
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: Assignments regularly involve long periods of walking to the various areas provided support, as well as bending, stooping and moving equipment.
Work Environment: The work environment is principally within the confines of the hospital and visits to Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) as required and is climate controlled.
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
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit:
https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Contacts
- Address Palo Alto VA Medical Center
3801 Miranda Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
- Name: Rekha Shastry
- Phone: 360-450-8391
- Email: rekha.shastry@va.gov
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