This position will serve as a full time Medical Technologist - Ancillary Testing and Information Management Technical Specialist within the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System. This is a senior laboratory position requiring the ability to exercise independent judgment, provide effective oversight and meaningful quality improvement, interact professionally with all internal and external customers, and function cohesively as a member of the Laboratory Management Team.

Duties

The Technical Specialist is an experienced medical technologist who serves as a subject matter expert and extender of the Laboratory Information Manager as well as the Ancillary Testing Coordinator. The duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following: Ensuring data innovations middleware is operational. Serves as the laboratory ADPAC to handle task such as initiating network access request cool math sponsoring employees for their PIV cards, working with local and regional IT services to resolve network interface issues. Maintaining the VistA laboratory package with updated patches, test definitions, interface connections, ensuring accurate transmission of data between laboratory analyzers and VistA/CPRS and setting up interfaces for point of care analyzers. Ensuring data in the laboratory test file, including test descriptions, is accurate and periodically updated. Ensuring laboratory compliance with all federal, VHA and laboratory accrediting agency standards. Implementing and maintaining coding and mapping for laboratory test ordering, reporting, billing, and workload recording systems. Ensuring all reference ranges are updated appropriately, system calculated parameters are being performed accurately and result transfers are accurate. Working with Bio-Med to assist in the setup of new analyzer platforms and label printers. Developing, reviewing, and updating standard operating procedures in compliance with CLSI guidelines, and laboratory accrediting agency standards. Carrying out day to day operations related to laboratory computer use and serving as a local expert for national software developers for alpha or beta testing of software packages. Work Schedule: 7:00am to 3:30pm Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 02512F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements: A. United States Citizenship: You must be a citizen of the United States. Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with 38 U.S.C.7407(a). B. English Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). C. Education and/or Experience: A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in medical laboratory science, medical technology, clinical laboratory science or in a related science (laboratory sciences such as chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, immunology, etc.), AND the completion of a medical technology clinical practice program. NOTE: Clinical practice programs completed after 1974 must have been accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS), Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP, formerly CAHEA), or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). The professional curriculum may have consisted of a post-baccalaureate certificate program or be integrated into a four-year program of study that culminated in a baccalaureate degree. OR; A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics, AND two years of post-certification clinical laboratory experience (e.g., blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy, etc.) within the last ten years as a certified Medical Laboratory Technician by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP-BOC), American Society of Clinical Pathology Board of Registry (ASCP-BOR) or American Medical Technologists (AMT). This experience must include performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. OR; A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics, AND five years of clinical laboratory experience within the last ten years performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. Foreign Graduates: graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the educational and/or experience requirements if the degree is found to be equivalent to degree programs recognized by the NAACLS or clinical laboratory experience as described above. This finding may be based on either of the following: A letter from a college or university with a baccalaureate program recognized by the NAACLS stating that the individual's foreign degree has been evaluated and been found to be equivalent to its bachelor of medical technology degree. A letter from ASCP-BOC or AMT stating that the individual is eligible for the certification examination D. Certification: Candidates must currently possess the appropriate certification as a MT, MLS, or CLS given by the ASCP-BOC, ASCP-BOR, or AMT. Exception: Non-certified applicants who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for certification may be given a temporary appointment up to the full performance level not to exceed one year as a graduate medical technologist under the authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405(c)(2)(B). E. Grandfathering Provision: May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). F. Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements above, applicants must meet the following grade requirements. Technical Specialist GS-11: Experience or Education: 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the full performance level (GS-9), which is directly related to the position to be filled. OR; 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in medical technology or a directly related field. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: Advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, methodology of medical laboratory technology, regulatory and accrediting agency requirements, medicolegal requirements and pertinent statistics sufficient to perform complex diagnostic tests. Skill to apply new scientific/technical developments and theories to laboratory testing. Advanced knowledge of instructional techniques to instruct newly hired technologists and clinical pathology residents in proper performance of tests and applications of the laboratory procedures. Ability to develop procedures for new tests and modify existing procedures and methods in order to resolve problems relative to complex and difficult situations. Advanced knowledge of a particular discipline or function with wide latitude for exercising sound independent judgment. G. References: VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G24 - Medical Technologist Qualification Standard, dated May 12, 2014. H. Physical Requirements: This position is both desk based and requires mild physical excursion for a significant part of the time which includes walking up to one hour, standing up to 8 hours, bending and reaching, lifting, pushing, and carrying up to 44 pounds. This position requires ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination and requires visual acuity of near vision correctable at 13 inches to 16 inches; far vision correctable in one eye to 20/50 and 20/100 and the other; depth perception; ability to distinguish basic colors; ability to distinguish shades of colors; hearing (aid permitted). Disposition takes place in an indoor environment involving everyday risk or discomforts which require safety precautions typical of a laboratory.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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 Spark M Matsunaga Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 459 Patterson Road Honolulu, HI 96819 US
• Name: Frances Medina
• Phone: 916-640-8042
• Email: [email protected]