Total 6 Maintenance / Repair job vacancies in Harlem, Montana

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: Various shifts, including weekends and holidays
Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Services Technician OVER-HIRE/PD99909S and PD99909S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Remote: This is not a remote position
Telework: Not available

• Perform technical processes, e.g., filling, labeling, and preparing sterile and nonsterile medications for dispensing and or distribution to patients.
• Maintains pharmacy storeroom and hospital drug stocks.
• Repackage drugs into usable sizes and maintain controls for review by a pharmacist.
• Communicate with patients, medical personnel, vendors and other persons utilizing pharmacy information systems and knowledge of medications.
• Provide assistance to Pharmacy staff by answering and prioritize calls from patients needing information on prescription status, refills, etc.

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As a working leader performs the following:

• Maintains current knowledge, and answers questions of other workers on procedures, policies, written instructions, and other directives.
• Passes on to other workers the instructions received from the supervisor by assigning daily tasks to individuals of the work group.
• Demonstrates proper work methods and works along with others to set a work pace.
• Ensures necessary plans, materials, supplies, equipment and tools are available when needed.
• Recommends operation needs per work requests to the supervisor.
• Answers workers questions or obtains needed information or decisions from supervisor on problems that arise during the process of the project.

Major Duties of this position include but are not limited to...

• Coordinates and prioritizes phlebotomy tasks to ensure inpatient and outpatient phlebotomy and sample processing are accomplished.
• Answer phone calls for the laboratory and relay accurate information or refers to the caller.
• Assist with autopsy examinations.
• Provide professional and courteous customer service.
• Perform venipuncture and arterial blood collections for laboratory testing.
• Collecting proper tubes using correct order of draw procedures.
• Labels samples accurately while protecting sensitive data.
• Provide verbal collection instructions for urine, stool, and other sample.
• Operate and maintain centrifuge.
• Complete testing requisitions and pack samples using proper shipping labels according to the specimen types.
• Perform proper body site preparation for venipuncture and arterial blood collections.
• Perform proper application of personal protective equipment for routine and isolation blood collections.
• Recognize signs, symptoms or reactions to phlebotomy procedures (i.e. fainting or vomiting).
• Prints out appointment list for the lab clinics.
• Prepares the lab appointment lists for veterans at least one week ahead of schedule to ensure prompt attention to the patient when they present for specimen collection.
• Investigates missing or incomplete patient laboratory orders.
• Conducts the nurse or provider involved to ensure missing or incomplete orders are placed or corrected prior to the patient presenting for sample collection.
• Provides order numbers to technical staff for orders that need to be canceled for various reasons, i.e. duplicated order, patient no longer on medications, etc.
• Reviews orders in CPRS to ensure that all necessary orders are drawn.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Histology Duties: Technician performs histological techniques such as: fixation, embedding, cutting, and staining in order to prepare tissue slides for final diagnosis by the pathologists. The incumbent is responsible for maintaining specimen integrity and identification from initial accessioning through the entire specimen processing procedure. The incumbent performs a variety of extremely difficult, delicate and complex tissue handling procedure such as preparation of frozen sections for rapid diagnosis of tissue during surgery.
• Prepares/receives specimens: Receives all requests and specimens for testing into the laboratory. Verifies the accuracy and completeness of the request and proper sample submission. Properly identifies all specimens. Verifies discrepancies with the provider. Accessions all specimens into the hospital computer system. The incumbent must be proficient in recognizing tissue from any part of the body and be able to identify the origin and type of tissue.
• Fixation: Perform fixation techniques that are non-routine such as EM, Immunohistochemistry, muscle, and nerve studies, as well as bone decalcification. Understands the unique fixation requirements of each type and size of specimen, and whether or not the specimen must have special treatment before fixation.
• Processing: Must have an excellent understanding of anatomy, and the difference in each type of tissue, how they will respond to different processing protocols, and to determine the correct processing fit for each individual specimen.
• Embedding: Due to the wide variety of specimens the lab can receive (from any part of the body) Knowledge of chemistry and the basic anatomy is essential to understanding the correct orientation of tissue in embedding so that imperative tissue is not lost during cutting. Understanding not only normal, but abnormal/diseased tissue is important. Pathology specimens are irretrievable, therefore trouble-shooting must be done prior to many steps performed.
• Cutting: Incumbent must be able to operate and maintain a microtome, understanding how to perfect the angle, speed, and extra treatments that may be needed (decalcification, softening) and co1Tect temperature are required to produce acceptable sections. Verifying co1Tect embedding techniques, determining the proper manner for appropriate sectioning and thickness, and following the cutting protocol for each type of specimen and stain are essential. Manual and automated coverslipping skills are also required.
• Routine and special stains: Performs staining of tissue sections including advanced staining techniques through automation and manual methods ( e.g. Papanicolauo, Romanowsky, GMS, PAS, Prussian Blue, Verhoeff Van Giesen elastic). These procedures are often complex, difficult, and non-standardized. Many choices of alternative ways of proceeding are determined through the incumbent' s professional training and experience. Procedures must be adapted to individual variance in specimen and stain perfo1mance. Appropriate fixation, embedding, and cutting techniques are evaluated to obtain the co1Tect specimen section for staining. After each stain, the incumbent accepts or rejects slides based upon the proper staining reactions before submitting to the pathologist for microscopic diagnosis. The principles of each unique stain involve chemical procedures such as pH balance and altering the concentration of chemical solutions. Chemical interaction with microorganisms, certain tissue fibers, and types of cells, as well as physiology of different tissues, all must be understood in order to dete1mine proper staining.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Histology Duties: Technician performs histological techniques such as: fixation, embedding, cutting, and staining in order to prepare tissue slides for final diagnosis by the pathologists. The incumbent is responsible for maintaining specimen integrity and identification from initial accessioning through the entire specimen processing procedure. The incumbent performs a variety of extremely difficult, delicate and complex tissue handling procedure such as preparation of frozen sections for rapid diagnosis of tissue during surgery.
• Prepares/receives specimens: Receives all requests and specimens for testing into the laboratory. Verifies the accuracy and completeness of the request and proper sample submission. Properly identifies all specimens. Verifies discrepancies with the provider. Accessions all specimens into the hospital computer system. The incumbent must be proficient in recognizing tissue from any part of the body and be able to identify the origin and type of tissue.
• Fixation: Perform fixation techniques that are non-routine such as EM, Immunohistochemistry, muscle, and nerve studies, as well as bone decalcification. Understands the unique fixation requirements of each type and size of specimen, and whether or not the specimen must have special treatment before fixation.
• Processing: Must have an excellent understanding of anatomy, and the difference in each type of tissue, how they will respond to different processing protocols, and to determine the correct processing fit for each individual specimen.
• Embedding: Due to the wide variety of specimens the lab can receive (from any part of the body) Knowledge of chemistry and the basic anatomy is essential to understanding the correct orientation of tissue in embedding so that imperative tissue is not lost during cutting. Understanding not only normal, but abnormal/diseased tissue is important. Pathology specimens are irretrievable, therefore trouble-shooting must be done prior to many steps performed.
• Cutting: Incumbent must be able to operate and maintain a microtome, understanding how to perfect the angle, speed, and extra treatments that may be needed (decalcification, softening) and co1Tect temperature are required to produce acceptable sections. Verifying co1Tect embedding techniques, determining the proper manner for appropriate sectioning and thickness, and following the cutting protocol for each type of specimen and stain are essential. Manual and automated coverslipping skills are also required.
• Routine and special stains: Performs staining of tissue sections including advanced staining techniques through automation and manual methods ( e.g. Papanicolauo, Romanowsky, GMS, PAS, Prussian Blue, Verhoeff Van Giesen elastic). These procedures are often complex, difficult, and non-standardized. Many choices of alternative ways of proceeding are determined through the incumbent' s professional training and experience. Procedures must be adapted to individual variance in specimen and stain perfo1mance. Appropriate fixation, embedding, and cutting techniques are evaluated to obtain the co1Tect specimen section for staining. After each stain, the incumbent accepts or rejects slides based upon the proper staining reactions before submitting to the pathologist for microscopic diagnosis. The principles of each unique stain involve chemical procedures such as pH balance and altering the concentration of chemical solutions. Chemical interaction with microorganisms, certain tissue fibers, and types of cells, as well as physiology of different tissues, all must be understood in order to dete1mine proper staining.