Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Services Technician

Veterans Health Administration • Martinsburg, WV

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is located in Environmental Management Services at the Martinsburg, West Virginia VA Medical Center. The Housekeeping Aid performs custodial and sanitation duties, including textile distribution, waste removal, surface disinfection, and floor care, to maintain a clean, safe, and compliant healthcare environment. The role may also involve working with and providing guidance to a Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) worker, along with other duties as assigned.

The work schedule varies with the needs of the service. The position requires continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing, as well as occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment weighing over 50 pounds. Duties require dexterity, coordination, concentration, and visual acuity to identify dirt, dust, and debris.

No specific length of training or experience is required, but applicants must provide evidence of training or experience demonstrating the ability to perform the work. Applicants are evaluated on reliability and dependability. No education qualification is required.

Requirements

• Evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to demonstrate the ability to perform the position’s duties; no specific length of training or experience is required.
• Reliability and dependability, the stated screen-out element.
• U.S. citizenship, unless appointment of a non-citizen is permitted under VA policy when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
• Suitability for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation.
• Selected applicants in testing-designated positions 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 and application documents.
• Serve a one-year probationary period.
• As a VA Health Care Personnel employee, receive annual seasonal influenza vaccination or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons; employees with an exemption must wear a face mask.

Responsibilities

• Perform floor maintenance and wall washing; clean doors, doorframes, baseboard corners and edges, and stairwells.
• Use pressure washers and heavy industrial powered or battery-operated equipment as needed; adjust, clean, and 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 and disinfect rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms, including fixtures, mirrors, sinks, and water fountains; replenish paper towels, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and soap.
• Move and arrange furniture, patient wardrobes, and beds 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, and bed tables.
• Remove bags of soiled textiles from patient rooms and transport them to designated soiled rooms; load and unload clean textiles from bulk carts 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 storage instrument cabinets and counters, elevators, and designated smoke-area fixtures and water fountains.
• Perform interim cleaning of interior windows, window ledges, glass doors, and other glass surfaces; replace curtains and clean blinds.
• Clean and/or replace needle boxes.
• Periodically clean specified non-critical Reusable Medical Equipment (RME) in inpatient and clinical areas.
• May work with and provide guidance to a Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) worker.
• Perform other tasks and duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Federal employee benefits package; specific benefits depend on position type and eligibility.
• Potential credit for qualifying job-related non-federal experience or active-duty uniformed military service toward the annual leave accrual rate, subject to request and approval before appointment.

What This Job Offers

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