Housekeeping Aid

Summary

This is an open continuous announcement which will be used to fill any Housekeeping Aid position that may become vacant within the facilities and CBOCs for which we are hiring. Applicants will be referred as positions become available.

The first cut off date for qualified applicants to be referred to the hiring manager will be November 3, 2023 and every four weeks after that as positions become available.

Duties

CRITICAL SKILLS INCENTIVE (CSI): This occupation is currently approved for a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) enterprise-wide CSI. Candidates may be eligible for 20% of their salary as a lump sum CSI. The amount of lump sum CSI will be pro-rated determined by the appointment date and the end date of the CSI. Eligible candidates will be required to sign a service agreement agreeing to an obligated service period. Failure to complete the obligated service period may result in a debt for the unearned portion of the CSI.

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. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas.
• Sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture
• Empty waste baskets
• Clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders
• Refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers
• Move furniture.

Work Schedule: This will be discussed during the interview, multiple work schedules available

Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/PD99909-S

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Approved

Salary Information:

• Altoona VA Medical Center and all associated locations: $17.11 to $19.94 per hour
  • DuBois
  • Johnstown
  • State College
• Butler VA Medical Center: $17.52 to $20.44 per hour
• Erie VA Medical Center: $17.11 to $19.94 per hour
• Pittsburgh VA Medical Center and all associated locations: $17.52 to $20.44 per hour
  • Monroeville
  • Aspinwall

Physical Requirements: 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.

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