- Position Title
- Assistant Hospital Housekeeping Officer
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSR-12743313-25-RLC Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, June 6, 2025 to Monday, June 16, 2025
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the facility indicated for this position?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
There is a time in grade requirement for this position. You must have served at least one year time in grade at the GS-09 in order to be eligible for the GS-11. Do you meet the time in grade requirement?
There is a time in grade requirement for this position. You must have served at least one year time in grade at the GS-09 in order to be eligible for the GS-11. Do you meet the time in grade requirement?
2.
You must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level performing Supervisory duties such as administrative and communications support work related to housekeeping duties that equip you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties or an Assistant Hospital Housekeeping Officer? To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least GS-09 grade level in Federal service. Specialized experience includes: Extensive knowledge of advanced sanitation programs and a working knowledge of hospital sanitation programs within the facility in the areas of, environmental sanitation, laundry/linen operations, and interior/exterior infrastructure cleanliness, and regulated and non-regulated medical waste disposal. Analytical ability to research, assemble, and compile information and data, evaluate the results against appropriate standards, and recommend corrective action where indicated. Knowledge of pertinent regulations and policies as they apply to the duties of the position and to the functions of the housekeeping program areas are required. Ability to plan work to be accomplished by subordinates, establishes and adjusts short term priorities, and prepares schedules for work completion. Ability to assign work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the work capabilities of employees.
Or
Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M
Or
a combination of specialized experience and graduate education in excess of two years
Or
Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M
Or
a combination of specialized experience and graduate education in excess of two years
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
3.
Duties are accomplished through management of 116 FTE to perform daily, routine tasks to subordinate supervisors and holds them responsible for the performance.
4.
Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates.
5.
Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
6.
Hears and resolves complaints from employees.
7.
Effects minor disciplinary measures, such as warnings and reprimands, recommending other actions in more serious cases.
8.
Assists in developing plans for the provision of support services.
9.
Coordinates program efforts with other internal activities, and program management officials.
10.
Implements policies for the administration of all program areas and assures compliance with applicable local, agency wide guidelines and laws.
11.
Conducts cost comparison, quality control, manpower utilization, and work simplification studies.
12.
Plans, coordinates, and directs short-and-long term operating activities of a complex Environmental Management Program.
13.
Develops and implements organizational structures and operating plans and procedures to achieve program goals.
14.
Provides advisory services to all levels of management and to all health care system departments regarding the requirements and resolution of substantive support services problems and services provided.
15.
Establishes frequency of cleaning standards, conducting product/equipment evaluations and
various program reviews.
various program reviews.
For each item, select the one response that most accurately describes your current level of experience and capability using the scale below.
16.
Consults and aids other officials in resolving problems relating to environmental health conditions, infection control and choice and use of cleaning agents and equipment.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
17.
Plans and directs expanded health care system support services programs that are designed to maintain visual and bacteriological cleanliness.