Environmental Services Technician-Housekeeping Aid Leader

Veterans Health Administration • Biloxi, MS

8h • Onsite

About The Position

This position is located within Environmental Management Services (EMS) at a Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is generally aligned under the Housekeeping Supervisor. The role supports and performs tasks related to EMS goals and objectives, including environment-of-care work, textile distribution, and training. The position has no formal disciplinary authority over staff in the execution of daily tasks.

The technician communicates the Supervisor’s instructions to employees, validates completion of assigned work, coordinates projects with nurses and other area supervisors, and ensures tasks are completed on time. The role also trains employees in proper procedures, techniques, and safety practices; reports employee progress and relevant policy or procedure infractions to the Supervisor; and performs cleaning across a range of medical-center areas.

The work schedule includes all tours and may change based on facility needs. Physical requirements include occasional bending or stooping, crouching, and kneeling; lifting up to 50 pounds; and spending approximately 40 percent of work time standing, 40 percent walking, and 20 percent sitting. Hearing and visual acuity are required.

Requirements

• Evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to demonstrate the ability to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Ability to perform the duties demonstrated through detailed resume descriptions of relevant knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Meet the position’s screen-out element and job-element qualifications, including work practices; interpreting instructions and specifications; using and maintaining tools and equipment; dexterity and safety; and leading or supervising.
• U.S. citizenship, except that non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA policy.
• Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation.
• Applicants tentatively selected for a testing-designated position must submit to urinalysis for illegal drug use before appointment; refusal results in denial of VA employment.
• Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Complete the required online onboarding and pre-employment requirements, including providing acceptable identification and completing application requirements.
• Complete a pre-employment physical.
• Serve a one-year probationary period.
• As VA Health Care Personnel, receive annual seasonal influenza vaccination or obtain a medical or religious exemption; employees with an exemption must wear a face mask.
• Physical ability to occasionally bend or stoop, crouch, kneel, and lift up to 50 pounds; hearing and visual acuity.

Responsibilities

• Communicate instructions from the Supervisor to employees and validate completion of assigned work.
• Coordinate projects with nurses and other area supervisors to support timely and successful completion.
• Ensure tasks are complete and deadlines are met.
• Provide employees with purpose, direction, and motivation while training them in appropriate procedures, techniques, workload outcomes, and safety practices.
• Report employee progress to the Supervisor and make recommendations regarding work progress and policy or procedure infractions.
• Assure safety compliance.
• Clean horizontal and vertical surfaces in outpatient surgery, outpatient clinics, central sterile areas, clean rooms, patient areas, laboratories, pharmacies, offices, support areas, isolation rooms, storage rooms, corridors, stairwells, toilet rooms, shower rooms, and other medical-center areas as required.
• Provide on-the-job training to assigned employees.

Benefits

• Federal employees receive a comprehensive benefits package; specific benefits depend on position type and should be confirmed with the hiring agency.
• VA may grant newly appointed Federal employees credit for job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual-leave accrual; approval is required and not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed