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This role focuses on maintaining a clean and orderly environment throughout the facility. The work supports the health and comfort of residents, staff, and visitors. As a Custodial Worker 1, you will perform the following duties:
- Deep Cleaning: Perform thorough cleaning of rooms, common spaces, offices, restrooms, and other facility areas
- General Cleaning: Carry out routine tasks such as mopping, dusting, sweeping, polishing, and sanitizing surfaces
- Supply Restocking: Replace soap, paper products, cleaning materials, and other needed supplies
- Waste Handling: Remove trash, recyclable materials, and infectious waste and place them in proper disposal areas
- Furniture Movement: Shift furniture and equipment as needed to support cleaning tasks and room rearrangements
- Safety Awareness: Maintain safe work practices and report hazards or concerns to supervisors
- Outdoor Maintenance: Assist with shoveling snow and clean debris from sidewalks
Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment, 37.5 hours per week
- Work hours are 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM, with a 30-minute lunch. You will work every other weekend and alternating holidays.
- 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.
QUALIFICATIONS
Additional Requirements:
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Preferred Qualifications (not required):
- Willingness to work in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Willingness to work a 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM shift
- Experience as a custodian, janitor, or cleaning person in an assisted living facility, nursing home, or hospital (Experience might include such things as cleaning restrooms; cleaning resident rooms, offices or public areas; mopping, scrubbing, dusting, sweeping, and buffing)
- Work experience interacting with patients or residents while cleaning in patient or resident rooms or a dining room setting
- Work experience with cleaning bodily fluids and disposing infectious waste into proper storage areas
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 /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. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
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.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.