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    Housekeeping Aid- Critical Skills Incentive - Durham, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

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    **This is an
    OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available. The initial cut off date for the referral of eligible applications will be February 20, 2024, with subsequent cut off dates occurring every two weeks. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as needed basis until positions are filled.

    Duties


    The Housekeeping Aid performs the full range of manual cleaning tasks (ex: sweeping, dust mopping, mopping, scrubbing, polishing, dusting, sanitizing, decontaminating and disinfecting) relevant to the facility you are assigned.


    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 (3 operating shifts: 7:00am-3:30pm, 3:00pm-11:30pm & 11:00pm - 7:30am; with rotating weekends and holidays).


    Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid- Critical Skills Incentive/PD05991


    Physical Requirements:

    The incumbent must be physically able to do continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling and pushing; lifting and moving objects such as lightweight cleaning equipment and other objects; and climbing step ladders.

    Frequent lifting or moving objects up to 25 pounds is required. Must be physically able to remain engaged in manual work requiring muscular effort for the entire eight-hour shift.


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