Housekeeping Aid

Veterans Health Administration

Wichita (KS)

On-site

USD 28,000 - 33,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

The Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, seeks a Housekeeping Aid for Environmental Services in Wichita, KS. You will perform comprehensive cleaning tasks across patient areas, corridors, and facilities to ensure a safe, sanitary environment.

Shifts include days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. The role emphasizes reliability, physical stamina, and adherence to cleanliness standards in a federal healthcare setting.

Qualifications

Must be able to perform a full range of cleaning tasks and operate cleaning equipment.
Ability to work across multiple shifts (days/evenings/nights) including weekends and holidays.
Demonstrated attention to detail and physical stamina for long periods of walking and standing.

Responsibilities

Perform light and heavy cleaning duties in VA facilities to maintain clean and safe patient areas.
Address spills, dispose of trash, vacuum, scrub floors, and sanitize areas as required.
Maintain wards, patient rooms, offices, and restrooms to meet cleaning standards.

Job description

Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

The Housekeeping Aid performs the full range of manual cleaning tasks (ex: sweeping, mopping, scrubbing, polishing, dusting, sanitizing, decontaminating and disinfecting).

Key Responsibilities

The Housekeeping Aid (HKA) - Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians 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 HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff.

As a HKA-EVS Technician, 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.

HKA-EVS Technicians 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. HKA-EVS Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision.

Work Schedule: Multiple Shifts to include days, evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays at the needs of the service Position Description Title/PD#: Housekeeping Aid/PD99909S 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.

Which agency is hiring for this position?

This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.

What is the salary for this position?

The posted pay range is $20.35 – $23.71/hr.

What is the application deadline?

Applications close on 2026-09-24.

Who is eligible to apply?

This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.