Houskeeping Aid

Summary

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

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 cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas.

Housekeeping Aids 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 and move furniture.

Housekeeping Aids carry out assignments with minimal supervision

Work Schedule:
Either Shift available: Days 7am-3:30pm Will require 3 days during the week (Mon-Wed/ Wed-Fri), and weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Evenings 3:30pm (Mon-Wed/ Wed-Fri), and weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Position Description Title/PD#:
Houskeeping Aid/PD00000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not authorized

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