Housekeeping Aid Leader

Veterans Health Administration • White City, OR

9d • Onsite

About The Position

White City VA Medical Center is hiring a Housekeeping Aid Leader at its main hospital in White City, Oregon. The position leads three or more employees while also performing the full range of housekeeping tasks needed to keep the Medical Center and other facility units clean, organized, and sanitary. The leader provides purpose, direction, and motivation to employees; communicates the Supervisor’s instructions; validates completed work; demonstrates proper cleaning methods and equipment use; and trains employees in procedures and safety practices. The role also plans and implements services to meet or exceed customer needs in compliance with local policies, and establishes work schedules and methods based on EMS policies and processes. Duties include scrubbing, stripping, refinishing, and polishing floors with hand-operated and industrial equipment, maintaining supplies and equipment, securing keys and supplies, and ensuring that safety and housekeeping rules are followed.

This is a permanent, full-time position scheduled Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. The shift may change to meet agency needs. The work takes place in clinical and other facility areas, including operating, treatment, examination, imaging, and patient rooms, as well as public, recreational, and administrative spaces. Some duties require protective clothing and personal protective equipment. Work may involve exposure to strong or hazardous cleaning solutions, bodily fluids, and communicable diseases, and may require working indoors and outdoors and interacting with medical and psychiatric patients.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens and meet the position’s experience-based qualifications, which do not specify a required duration of training or experience. A pre-employment physical and background/security investigation are required. Employees must participate in the seasonal influenza vaccination program and serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.

Requirements

• Evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to demonstrate the ability to perform the work; no specific duration of training or experience is required.
• Ability to lead or supervise work practices.
• Ability to interpret instructions and specifications.
• Ability to use and maintain tools and equipment.
• Dexterity and safety awareness.
• U.S. citizenship.
• A pre-employment physical is required.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is required.
• Must serve a one-year probationary period or two-year trial period, as applicable.
• Physical ability to occasionally bend or stoop, crouch, kneel, and lift up to 50 pounds; the role involves standing, walking, and sitting, as well as hearing and visual acuity and manual dexterity to use a phone and operate equipment.

Responsibilities

• Lead three or more employees while performing housekeeping duties.
• Provide employees with purpose, direction, and motivation in accomplishing tasks.
• Maintain a clean, sanitized, safe, organized, and sanitary environment throughout the facility.
• Ensure supplies and keys are properly secured and equipment is maintained.
• Communicate the Supervisor’s instructions to employees and validate completion of assigned work.
• Plan, develop, and implement comprehensive plans to meet or exceed EMS-related customer needs in compliance with local policies.
• Demonstrate cleaning methods and techniques and direct employees in the proper use of cleaning supplies and equipment.
• Scrub, strip, refinish, and polish floors using hand-operated and industrial equipment.
• Train employees in proper procedures and techniques to meet workload and safety outcomes.
• Establish work schedules and methods and accomplish priorities and deadlines in accordance with EMS policies and processes.
• Ensure safety and housekeeping rules are followed.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package is available to eligible employees and their families.
• Eligible selected applicants may receive credit for prior work or military service toward annual leave accrual, subject to request and approval.

What This Job Offers

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