This position is located within the Environmental Management Services (EMS) at the Bath VA Medical Center, in Bath, NY. The EMS provides a high quality of environmental operations to ensure a safe, clean environment for all veterans, staff, and visitors. The incumbent serves as a Training Instructor for EMS, providing training related to the hospital's major environmental management programs of national scope, interest, and significance.

Duties

Course Development, Evaluation, and Analyses: Develops and maintains training materials and curricula for multiple EMS courses to be presented to EMS staff. Makes recommendations for changes that involve substantive rather than procedural matters and obtains and adapts current instructional material. Gathers relevant information, analyzes pertinent data, develops findings, and makes recommendations that are largely modeled on precedents. Conducts training studies and analyses in EMS's functional specialties or subject matter areas. Coordinates EMS training activities related to assignments and projects to develop and implement training courses or course materials. Collaborates in healthcare committees and professional studies to advance hospital and VISN strategic plan initiatives. Consults with external subject matter experts to analyze unusual situations and develops process improvement solutions. Maintains an updated library of training materials, educational curricula, and the Environmental Care procedure manual. Uses a variety of creative instructional strategies to meet identified educational objectives and needs and to validate learning.. Assures EMS-related educational programs and processes comply with quality standards and professional requirements and policies. Mentors staff on professional and career development which may include guidance related to VA educational opportunities. Interacts professionally and collaboratively with all levels of staff, fostering effective communication and conflict resolution. Demonstrates respect for cultural, social, and religious diversity through confidential and ethical behavior in working with issues related to staff or organizational concerns. Updates coursework continuously to maintain pace with industry developments. Course Instruction: Serves as technical advisor/instructor for applying intensive practical knowledge of sanitation and disinfection application within health care environment. Provides instruction covering a wide variety of topics in well-established areas of hospital housekeeping and other EMS-related subject-matter fields. Uses a wide range of teaching techniques, methods, and tools, depending on the students' learning requirements. Works independently using adjusting methods and/or materials to fit situations different from those in existing guidelines. Trains employees within EMS, and provides instruction, and modifies course content with an emphasis on biological cleanliness and infection control. Provides curriculum instruction and simulation laboratory training for EMS staff. Plans and organizes, coordinates, and integrates training guidance with other VHA's and EMS's functional activities. Provides training and instruction courses in a classroom environment to Service Chiefs, Section Chiefs, supervisors, and front-line employees focusing on Environmental Management, Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs), low-incidence high-consequence pathogens, microbiology, chemistry, Reusable Medical Equipment (RME), and medical terminology. Develops the training schedule plan for each fiscal year, as well as the monthly training calendar for the days, times, and location of training programs for the service. Participates on committees relative to sanitation and waste management operations and provides information and assistance to the Infection Prevention and Control Committee (IPC) as a Representative of Environmental Management Service (EMS). Provides didactic classroom instruction reinforced with healthcare facility-l level simulation laboratory training to improve employee competency, efficiency, safety, productivity, and adherence to directives. Miscellaneous: Carries out technology program implementation for waste management related training. Keeps abreast of technical development in the sanitation and waste management field. Researches the value of new technology/equipment. Collaborates with EMS managers to develop a waste management automated tracking system to record performance inspections. Ensures data entry requirements are reflected using "competency question and answers" for portion of each inspection and reviews conducted by service supervisors. Creates a data collection system for all waste management activities used to track required information and to complete numerous VACO reports regarding waste management. Rotates on each of the Environmental Care Section tours of duty to accommodate training needs of the EMS staff to prepare employees to successfully reach target-grade levels. Work Schedule: 8AM-4:30PM, M-F Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Not Available Position Description/PD#: Training Instructor, PD # 99770-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/19/2023. 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 GS-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation, or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s). Supervising or administering a training program. Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc., and evaluation of training results. Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have master's or equivalent graduate degree OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B. or J.D., if related OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: CommunicationComputer SkillsEducation and Training 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 is largely sedentary. However, physical demonstrations to staff are required to include sanitation processes and techniques, equipment usage, as well as lifting heavy weights while demonstrating proper lifting techniques, etc. Physical demands are required to perform work such as sitting, pushing, pulling, standing, walking, bending, and stooping. Job also requires using audiovisual equipment while teaching that may involve lifting and/or pushing the equipment. There will be some walking, standing. bending, carrying light items, driving of an automobile and the expectation of obtaining GSA approvals for vehicle usage. Work will involve travel to all campuses. and community-based outpatient clinics to provide training. Duty hours shall vary according to the training need of the facility in consultation with supervisor. 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.

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 Bath VA Medical Center 76 Veterans Avenue Bath, NY 14810 US
• Name: Girolamo Tavolante
• Phone: (315) 863-2853
• Email: [email protected]