Housekeeping Aid

About the role

These three positions are full time and located at the VA White River Junction Healthcare System.

Qualifications

Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality to demonstrate your ability to do the work. Evidence of the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties must be supported by detailed descriptions on your resume. Applicants will be rated in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualification Standards.

Your qualifications will first be evaluated against a prescribed screen-out element (typically question 1 in the online questionnaire). Applicants who appear to possess at least the minimal acceptable qualification are considered for further rating; those who do not are rated ineligible and eliminated. Potential eligibles are then rated against the following Job Elements:

• Dexterity and Safety
• Follow Directions
• Handle Weights and Loads
• Reliability and Dependability
• Special Aptitude – Housekeeping Work
• Work Practices

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, religious, 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.

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 clearly indicate the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours per week spent in such employment.

Responsibilities

Housekeeping Aid (HKA)/Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families and are essential to the patient care experience. A VA healthcare career as an HKA/EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff. As an HKA/EVS Technician, 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 but are not limited to:

• Clean wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas
• 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
• Carry out assignments with minimal supervision
• Address spills quickly

Schedule

• Hours vary according to facility needs
• Weekends and holidays may be required
• Compressed/flexible schedule: not available

Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/99909S. This position is in the competitive service. Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) (formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104(1) and (3)) must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment.