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    Housekeeping Aid - Des Moines, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

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    This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division of the Des Moines VA Medical Center. Incumbent performs both janitorial and custodial services (e.g., textile distribution and inventory activity, sanitizing and disinfecting, waste removal, cleaning of blinds, replacing curtains, washing windows and walls, dusting and polishing furniture and fixtures, discharge cleaning, sweeping, scrubbing and extracting, polishing floors and applying floor finishes)

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    This occupation is currently approved for a Veterans Health Administration enterprise-wide Critical Skills Incentive through 09/07/2024.

    Candidates may be eligible for a lump sum CSI for a pro-rated amount if onboard prior to the CSI expiration date.

    Eligible candidates will be required to sign a service agreement agreeing to an obligated service period and failure to complete the obligated service period may result in a debt for the unearned portion of the CSI.


    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: 7:00am-3:30pm OR 3:30pm-12:00am OR 12:00am-8:30am; all schedules may include periodic weekend scheduling


    Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid - Environmental Service Tech - Critical Skills Incentive Authorized/PD99909S


    Bargaining Unit: This is a bargaining unit position


    Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: Not Authorized


    Physical Requirements:
    The position demands continuous walking, standing, stooping, kneeling, pulling, and pushing.

    The work requires the occasional use of heavy powered cleaning equipment (e.g., wall washers, industrial type buffers) weighing over 50 pounds.

    The duties necessitate considerable dexterity, hand, foot, and eye coordination, and concentration as well as visual acuity to see dirt, dust and debris.


    The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers.

    This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest.

    As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran.

    This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community.

    This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.


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