Housekeeping Aid Leader
Company: Department of Veterans Affairs
Location: Lancaster
Posted on: June 6, 2021
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Job Description:
Videos Help Duties Summary Click the "Learn more about this agency" link below to discover
the perks and benefits of a Housekeeping career! Learn more about this agency Responsibilities This is a OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open
until September 30, 2021. Applicants will be accepted on an ongoing
basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies
become available. Applicants will remain active for 3 months after
the initial application is received and/or updated. After that
time, you must update your application through your USAJobs account
if you would like to be made active again for possible
consideration during the open period The housekeeping aids who maintain VA facilities for Veterans
and their families are essential to the patient care experience at
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare
career as a housekeeping aide means working alongside other
Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As a Housekeeping Aid, you will perform a full range of light
and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans
rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas
clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash,
installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and
polishing floors. Duties include cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms,
offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas.
Housekeeping Aids sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum
carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light
globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by
climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers
and move furniture. Housekeeping Aids carry out assignments with
minimal supervision. Work Schedule: Full Time 40 hours a week, exact work schedule
during interview. Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid Leader/ PD#
various PDs Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Travel Required Not required Supervisory status No Promotion Potential None 3566 Custodial Working Similar jobs Staffs, Housekeeping Help Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all
requirements by the closing date of this announcement,
09/30/2021. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage
System Qualifications. For this position, the job element method is
used to match what you, the applicant, can do against what the work
calls for. Your knowledge, skills and abilities will be compared to
the knowledge, skills and abilities (called job elements) needed
for success. Your qualifications will first be evaluated against
the prescribed screen out element (WG-2 and higher only;
screen-outs are not applicable to WG-1). Applicants who appear to
meet the screen out element are considered for further rating;
those who do not are rated ineligible and are eliminated from
consideration. The potential eligibles are rated against the
remainder of the job elements. While a specific length of training
and experience is not required, your responses to the questionnaire
must be supported by detailed descriptions of your experience on
your resume. You will be rated on the following Job Elements as part of the
assessment questionnaire for this position: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including
volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace
Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional;
philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social).
Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and
skills and can provide valuable training and experience that
translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for
all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of
work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis
of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants
wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly
the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position
and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: Physical effort
exerted in performing assigned work. Jobs vary in such ways as
the nature, degree, frequency, and duration of muscular effort or
physical strain experienced in work performance. Level moderately
heavy effort is used occasionally in moving, setting up, and
working from ladders. Use of heavy powered equipment is required
but not on a continuous basis. this position demands continuous
walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing. The
work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning
equipment such as wall washers, industrial type buffers weighing
over 50 pounds. Education Not applicable.
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