Housekeeping Aid Lead - Environmental Services Technician Lead

Veterans Health Administration • Saint Cloud, MN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is within Environmental Management Services (EMS) at the St. Cloud VA Health Care System in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and is aligned under the Housekeeping Supervisor. The lead supports and performs work related to EMS goals and objectives, including environment of care, textile distribution, and employee training. The position leads employees in daily work but has no formal disciplinary authority over staff.

The role involves leading at least three employees while performing the full range of housekeeping tasks. It includes relaying the Supervisor’s instructions, checking completion of assigned work, coordinating projects with nurses and other area supervisors, and coaching employees on proper procedures, techniques, workload expectations, and safety. The lead reports employee progress and work or policy concerns to the Supervisor and may recommend remedial training.

Housekeeping duties include cleaning surfaces and spaces throughout the medical center, such as outpatient surgery and clinics, sterile and clean-room areas, patient rooms, laboratories, pharmacies, offices, isolation rooms, corridors, stairwells, and restrooms. Tasks include dust and damp mopping, waste and medical-waste handling, washing walls, cleaning light fixtures and surfaces, replenishing restroom supplies, making beds, and turning mattresses. The position may also lead textile distribution and inventory, uniform management, and the Patient Assistance Program; move furniture and set up rooms; and scrub, strip, refinish, and polish floors using hand-operated and industrial equipment.

The position is based in a healthcare environment and may involve working in patient areas, operating and treatment rooms, wards, and public or administrative spaces. Protective clothing and personal protective equipment may be required. Work may involve exposure to cleaning solutions, bodily fluids, communicable disease, and hazardous cleaning chemicals, and may be performed indoors or outdoors. The work schedule is either Monday through Friday, 4:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., with some weekends and holidays, or 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with every fourth weekend and holiday.

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 meet the position’s screen-out and job-element qualifications, including dexterity and safety, interpreting instructions and specifications, leading or supervising, using and maintaining tools and equipment, and work practices.
• U.S. citizenship, unless qualified citizens cannot be recruited in accordance with VA policy.
• Suitability for Federal employment, as determined by a background investigation.
• Selective Service registration for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Ability to meet the position’s physical requirements, including occasional bending or stooping, crouching, and kneeling; lifting up to 50 pounds; and hearing and visual acuity and manual dexterity to use a phone and operate equipment.
• Annual seasonal influenza vaccination or an approved medical or religious exemption; face masks are required when an exemption is granted.

Responsibilities

• Lead three or more employees while performing the full range of housekeeping tasks.
• Communicate the Supervisor’s instructions to employees and validate completion of assigned work.
• Coordinate projects with nurses and other area supervisors to support timely, successful completion.
• Provide employees with purpose, direction, motivation, and training in proper procedures, techniques, workload expectations, and safety.
• Report employee progress and concerns to the Supervisor, including work progress and policy or procedure infractions; recommend action as necessary.
• Clean horizontal and vertical surfaces throughout medical center areas, including outpatient surgery, clinics, sterile and clean-room areas, patient areas, laboratories, pharmacies, offices, isolation rooms, storage rooms, corridors, stairwells, toilets, and showers.
• Dust mop and damp mop; empty waste and medical-waste receptacles; wash walls; clean light fixtures and surfaces; and replenish toilet tissue, paper towels, and soap dispensers.
• Make beds and turn mattresses.
• As required, lead textile distribution and inventory management, uniform management, and the Patient Assistance Program.
• Provide on-the-job training to assigned employees and identify employees who may need remedial training.
• Move furniture and set up conference rooms for meetings, training, or other events as required.
• Scrub, strip, refinish, and polish floors using hand-operated and industrial equipment.
• Assure safety compliance.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; specific benefits depend on the type of position and eligibility.
• Potential for approved credit for job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service when determining annual leave accrual rate; approval is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

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