The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center is currently recruiting for five (5) Police Officer, in the Police Service located in Long Beach, CA. Serves as a Police Officer carrying out responsibilities where most work is performed on Veterans Affairs Departmental properties, which includes any properties owned, leased, or licensed to VA. This is an open continuous announcement until August 11, 2023. Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Conduct investigations, apprehensions and detentions of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States. Protect individuals during any given situation against threats to personal safety when enforcing laws and regulations. Respond immediately to and engages potentially armed individuals during active threat response situations. Respond to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress, making independent decisions and taking immediate steps to preserve life and property. Mitigate opportunities for assault, illegal entry, and theft involving highly protected information, property and/or processes at facilities containing special protective methods. React to neutralize threats, secure resources and mitigate further risk to personnel or property. Provide patrol in vehicles, by foot and/or on a bicycle. Respond to calls for police assistance, irregularities, and unusual or suspicious circumstances. Conduct asset protection during transport. Write comprehensive incident reports. Provide policing services in various environments where each type of jurisdiction (Exclusive, Concurrent and Proprietorial) has different enforcement rules. Seek, detects, seizes, and protects evidence and witnesses at the scene of an incident. Detect and intervenes in criminal activity. Enforce traffic rules and regulations, including those related to speeding and reckless operation of vehicles while impaired or intoxicated. Investigate incidents and takes steps to mitigate further risk and resolve situations. Conduct investigative contacts/stops, exercising search and arrest authority, detaining witnesses, and apprehending suspects. Advise individuals of their rights (such as Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.), and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of persons. Intervene, when necessary, to deescalate situations and determine when and how much force must be applied. Conduct prisoner transports to holding facilities and courts as required. Perform and provides training on drug and contraband intervention where contraband identification and knowledge is imperative. Execute disaster response and recovery procedures. Provide Basic Life Support (BLS) to injured personnel and coordinates additional emergency response when needed. Coordinate and directs search, rescue, and recovery for persons at high risk (e.g., missing or wandering patients, minors, etc.), including coordinating with local surrounding police departments to expand the search parameters. Intervene, when needed, to deescalate active suicidal behavior and/or prevents suicides. Prepare case files and testifying in court as it pertains to enforcing laws and regulations. Work Schedule: Will be required to work days/nights, weekends, and holidays. Will be required to work shift work to include 8-hour, 10-hour, and 12-hour shifts depending on the staffing needs and will rotate in a fair and equitable manner. Telework: Not Available Position Description/PD#: Senior Police Officer/PD99926S Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
• Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Personnel

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/11/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a position GS-07 on you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Preferred Experience: Current Certified Police Officers of the VHA administration. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: (In addition to meeting Time and Grade) You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-06 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: ArrestCriminal InvestigationFirst ResponsePublic Safety and SecuritySecurity Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Long Beach VA Medical Center 5901 East Seventh Street Long Beach, CA 90822 US
• Name: Joseph Parra
• Email: [email protected]