<p>This Housekeeping Aid/Environmental Services (EVS) Technician Part-Time position is in Environmental Management Services at the VA Providence Healthcare System, located at the 830 Chalkstone Ave., Providence, Rhode Island 02908 location.</p> <p>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.This occupation is currently approved for a Veterans Health Administration enterprise-wide Critical Skills Incentive (CSI). Candidates may be eligible for a lump sum CSI. The amount of lump sum CSI is determined based on appointment date and may be pro-rated as determined by the end date of the CSI. 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.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.Duties include but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Clean wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. </li><li>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. </li><li>Carry out assignments with minimal supervision. </li><li>Address spills quickly, install light bulbs in halls and rooms. </li></ul> <p>Work Schedule: Part-time, schedule will be based on facility needs. Weekends may apply.</p> <ul> <li>Mid Shift differential is additional 7.5% of base pay </li><li>2nd Shift differential is additional 7.5% of base pay </li><li>3rd Shift differential is additional 10% of base pay </li><li>Weekend Shift differential 25% of base pay </li></ul> <p>Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Not Available</p> <p>Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid / PD99909S</p> <p>Recruitment Incentive: Not Authorized</p> <p>Relocation Incentive: Not Authorized</p> <p>Notifications:</p> <ul> <li>This position is not a bargaining unit position. </li><li>This position is in the Competitive Service. </li></ul> <p>Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: 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 to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment.Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.</p>