Housekeeping Aid

Veterans Health Administration•Martinez, CA

About The Position

The Housekeeping Aid performs a full range of housekeeping activities in patient-care and non-patient-care areas throughout a medical facility. The position may be assigned to any tour of duty and to various designated areas. Work is typically performed independently with general supervision or as part of a team, with responsibility for all cleaning duties in an assigned area. Duties include cleaning and maintaining floors, walls, fixtures, restrooms, patient rooms, designated smoke areas, glass surfaces, and other facility spaces. The employee handles refuse, regulated medical waste, recycling, and soiled textiles; replenishes supplies; moves furniture and patient-care items to clean assigned areas; and provides bed-making, textile-restocking, and inventory support. The role also includes cleaning selected non-critical reusable medical equipment, adjusting and performing minor maintenance on cleaning equipment, and occasionally guiding a Compensated Work Therapy worker. Other duties may be assigned. The work schedule is determined upon hiring and varies; weekend and holiday work may be required. The position involves continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. It occasionally requires using heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds, as well as considerable dexterity, coordination, concentration, and visual acuity.

Requirements

Provide 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.
Describe relevant duties and responsibilities in the resume; part-time experience must include the hours worked per week to be credited appropriately.
Meet the position's screen-out element and applicable OPM Federal Wage System qualification standards.
U.S. citizenship is required, except that non-citizens may be appointed when qualified citizens cannot be recruited in accordance with VA policy.
Must be suitable for federal employment, as determined by a background investigation.
Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing-designated position must undergo urinalysis for illegal drug use before appointment.
Selective Service registration is required for males born after December 31, 1959.
Complete the online onboarding process and provide acceptable identification for pre-employment requirements.
Serve a one-year probationary period and receive written certification for continued employment after that period.
As VA Health Care Personnel, receive annual seasonal influenza vaccination or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons; wearing a face mask is required when an exemption is granted.
Meet the physical demands of continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing; occasional use of powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds; and considerable dexterity, coordination, concentration, and visual acuity.

Responsibilities

Perform floor maintenance and wash walls, including sweeping, dust mopping, damp and wet mopping, scrubbing, stripping, refinishing, buffing, vacuuming, carpet extraction, spot cleaning, and high and low dusting.
Clean doors, doorframes, baseboard corners and edges, and stairwells.
Use pressure washers and heavy industrial powered or battery-operated cleaning equipment; adjust, clean, perform minor maintenance on equipment, and change attachments.
Empty trash and wastebaskets, replace liners, and transport general refuse, regulated medical waste, and recycling to central collection areas.
Clean, disinfect, and deodorize restrooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms, including fixtures, mirrors, sinks, and water fountains.
Replenish paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and soap in dispensers.
Move and arrange furniture, patient wardrobes, beds, and other items to clean assigned areas.
Make beds in patient-care areas and operating department rooms; clean mattresses, springs, bed frames, bedside stands, over-bed lights, blood pressure cuffs, bed tables, and other patient-room items.
Remove bags of soiled textiles from patient rooms and transport them to designated soiled rooms; load and unload clean textiles and restock closets, cabinets, shelves, and carts.
Participate in textile inventory management activities.
Defrost and clean patient-care refrigerators and ice machines in nourishment kitchen areas.
Clean stainless steel on storage instrument cabinets and counters, elevators, nurse utility rooms, diet kitchens, and wards; clean ashtrays, smoke stands, and sand urns in designated smoke areas.
Provide interim cleaning of interior windows and ledges, glass doors, and other glass surfaces; replace curtains and clean blinds.
Clean and/or replace needle boxes.
Periodically clean specific non-critical reusable medical equipment in inpatient and clinical areas.
May work with and provide guidance to a Compensated Work Therapy worker and perform other assigned duties.