Custodial Worker 1

About the role

Do you enjoy hands-on work and find satisfaction in keeping buildings clean, organized, and ready for those who depend on them? The Custodial Worker 1 position with the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs at the Delaware Valley Veterans' Home offers the opportunity to support exceptional care for veteran residents and their spouses. Every task helps create a safe and pleasant setting for the people who call the home their community. Put your skills to work in a role that makes a visible impact each day.

Click here to learn more about the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.

This position performs a variety of cleaning and housekeeping duties throughout the facility to help maintain a clean, safe, and comfortable environment for residents, staff, and visitors. Work follows established procedures and includes the use of cleaning equipment, supplies, and safety practices. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:

• Facility Cleaning: Clean and sanitize resident rooms, offices, common areas, restrooms, and other locations throughout the facility
• Floor Care: Mop, scrub, wax, polish, sweep, and buff floors and other surfaces to meet cleanliness standards
• Waste Removal: Empty waste containers, dispose of trash and recyclable materials, and handle infectious waste according to procedures
• Supply Support: Restock cleaning and restroom supplies and pick up or deliver materials as needed
• Room Preparation: Move furniture and equipment, organize resident rooms, and prepare spaces for occupancy or cleaning
• Safety Practices: Follow chemical handling instructions, use protective equipment when required, and report unsafe conditions

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

Work Schedule and Additional Information

• Full-time employment, 7.5 hours per day, 37.5 hours per week
• Work hours are 1st shift (7:00 AM to 3:00 PM), with rotating days and weekends and a 30-minute lunch.
• Telework: You will not have the option to telework in this position.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

Additional Requirement

• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

Preferred Qualifications (not required)

• Willingness and ability to work in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
• Willingness and ability to work to work full-time
• Work experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person. This experience may include cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices, or public areas; and performing tasks such as mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, or buffing
• Work experience in an assisted living facility, nursing home, or hospital
• Work experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in-patient or resident rooms or in a dining room setting
• Work experience cleaning bodily fluids and disposing infectious waste in proper storage areas
• Work experience removing snow, trash, and debris from sidewalks and building entrance ways
• Work experience using and mixing chemicals or solvents
• Work experience using manual or power equipment to mop, scrub, sweep, strip, wax, and buff floors
• Work experience in an activity or recreation room, bathroom, shower room, bathing room, cafeteria, dining room, entranceway, lobby, common area, nursing station, patient room, resident room, or pharmacy setting

Legal Requirements

• A conditional offer of employment will require a medical examination.
• This position falls under the provisions of the Older Adult Protective Services Act.
• Under the Act, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to, PA State Police and FBI clearance.

How to Apply

• Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
• Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
• Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
• All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.

Veterans

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs.

Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

Additional information

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.