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Housekeeping Aid
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
On-siteNorthport, NY$21.8 – $25.5/hrApply by May 26, 2026Custodial WorkingESFJINFJISFJISTJHealthcareHospitalityTransportation
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This position is located within the Environmental Management Services Division at Northport VA Healthcare Center. This position 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).
What You'll Do
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: The Housekeeping Aid executes a full range of housekeeping activities in patient and non-patient care areas.
- →The position may be assigned to any tour and may be required to work in various designated areas during any tour of duty.
- →Typically, the position works independently with general supervision, or works with a team and is responsible for the full-range of cleaning duties in an assigned area throughout the medical facility.
- →These duties include, but are not limited to the following: Performs floor maintenance, wall washing.
- →Cleans doors, doorframes, baseboard corners and edges, and stairwells.
- →Tasks are accomplished by sweeping, dust mopping, damp and wet mopping, scrubbing, stripping, refinishing, buffing, vacuuming and extracting carpets and runners, spot cleaning areas, and high and low dusting.
- →Periodically utilizes pressure washers and heavy industrial powered and battery-operated equipment.
- →Adjusts, cleans, and performs minor maintenance on this equipment and changes attachments for their proper use in achieving the best results.
- →Empties trash and wastebaskets, replaces liners.
- →Transports general refuse, regulated medical waste and recycling to central collection areas.
- →Cleans rest rooms, bathrooms, and shower rooms, ensuring that they are cleaned and meet acceptable standards (cleans, disinfects, and deodorizes lavatories, showers, bathtubs, urinals, and toilet bowls; cleans mirrors, sinks, and water fountains; washes and polishes light and toilet fixtures).
- →Performs other duties as assigned.
- →Work Schedule: Various with rotating weekends Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/PD99909-S 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.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓Suitable for Federal employment, determined by a background investigation Selective Services Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓This position does not have an education qualification requirement.
Personality Fit
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