Housekeeping Aid

Veterans Health Administration•Martinez, CA

About The Position

The Housekeeping Aid performs a full range of housekeeping activities in patient and non-patient care areas throughout a medical facility. The role may be assigned to any tour and to different designated areas during a tour. The employee typically works independently under general supervision or as part of a team, completing the full range of cleaning duties in an assigned area. The position may also provide guidance to a Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) worker and perform other duties as assigned. Duties include maintaining floors and walls; cleaning fixtures, furniture, bathrooms, patient rooms, glass surfaces, and designated smoke areas; handling refuse, regulated medical waste, recycling, and soiled textiles; replenishing supplies; arranging furniture and beds; and restocking clean textiles. The Housekeeping Aid uses and performs minor maintenance on cleaning equipment and periodically cleans specific non-critical reusable medical equipment. The work requires continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing, and occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds. Schedule is determined upon hiring, varies, and may include weekends and holidays.

Requirements

Demonstrate training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to perform the work; no specific length of training or experience is required.
Meet the screen-out element: ability to do the work of the position without more than normal supervision.
Provide detailed descriptions on the resume supporting knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties.
U.S. citizenship, except that non-citizens may be appointed when qualified citizens cannot be recruited under VA policy.
Be suitable for federal employment as determined by a background investigation.
Selected applicants for testing-designated positions must submit to urinalysis for illegal drug use before appointment; refusal results in denial of employment.
Selective Service registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Complete the online onboarding process and provide acceptable identification for pre-employment requirements.
Serve a one-year probationary period.
Receive the annual seasonal influenza vaccination or obtain a medical or religious exemption; employees with an exemption must wear a face mask.
Physical ability to walk, stand, stoop, kneel, pull, and push continuously; occasionally use heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds; and meet dexterity, coordination, concentration, and visual-acuity demands.

Responsibilities

Perform floor maintenance and wall washing, including sweeping, dust mopping, mopping, scrubbing, stripping, refinishing, buffing, vacuuming, carpet extraction, spot cleaning, and 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 as appropriate.
Empty trash and wastebaskets, replace liners, and transport general refuse, regulated medical waste, and recycling to central collection areas.
Clean and disinfect rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms, including lavatories, showers, bathtubs, urinals, toilet bowls, mirrors, sinks, water fountains, and fixtures.
Replenish paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and soap in dispensers.
Move and arrange furniture, patient wardrobes, beds, and other items to complete cleaning tasks.
Make beds in patient care areas and OD 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 from bulk carts; restock clean textile storage and participate in inventory management.
Defrost and clean patient-care refrigerators and ice machines in nourishment kitchens; clean stainless steel on storage instrument cabinets and counters, elevators, and utility rooms.
Clean ashtrays, smoke stands, and sand urns in designated smoking areas, as well as water fountains.
Perform interim cleaning of windows and window ledges from the inside; clean 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 (CWT) worker and perform other duties as assigned.