This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Police Safety Service at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. The mission of the service is to serve and protect Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities. Safety and security are paramount to ensuring that the VA successfully serve and honor the men and women who are America's Veterans.

Duties

The incumbent serves as a Police Officer Corporal (Instructor) ensuring a safe and secure environment across VHA within various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments, such as VHA Medical Centers and facilities, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, and domiciliaries throughout the United States. This position serves as a vital part of the VA Police Services often serving as the face of the VA and as the first person a Veteran or visitor encounters when entering a VA facility. The incumbent provides security and assistance to Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities daily. The incumbent is expected to empathize, engage, and communicate with all individuals they encounter to ensure a positive outcome and the safety of the facility and all its occupants. The incumbent serves as a Policing Corporal Instructor to provide training education to VHA's Police Officers. Serves as a Police Officer Corporal (Instructor) and administers and coordinates the education and training program for Police Service from initial-entry training to assessment, in-services training, and retraining of Officers throughout the year. Oversees the initial and on-the-job training of all newly assigned personnel. Conducts classroom lectures and PowerPoint presentations, role-playing scenarios, and skills demonstrations. Develops, presents, delivers, or coordinates courses for training programs. Prepares material related to the use of the VA police computer package; writing reports; documenting incidents; use of the Expandable Straight Baton; oleoresin capsicum spray recertification; defense tactics; handcuffing; the clearing of buildings; and AED and CPR. Prepares training schedules, coordinates equipment, room availability, and dates and times for on-site training and off-campus drills. Accomplishes the training and development of officers and designates tasks necessary for new Police Officers to gain experience to do work. Prepares lesson plans and critiques instruction and instructional material. Ensures courses are well structured and ample training materials are available from several sources. Builds course lessons using materials and information from various sources to construct course lesson plans, visual aids, etc. Maintains and keeps current the video library, law enforcement source library, training records, training budget and training computer files. Ensures training is conducted in accordance with all applicable policies and regulatory requirements. Ensures training is properly documented in accordance with VA Law Enforcement Training Center (LETC) and Office of Security and Law Enforcement (OS&LE) requirements. Coordinates the use of outside guest instructors, VA law enforcement instructors, and/or local outside law enforcement agencies and emergency/public services agencies and the FBI, DEA, Postal Inspectors, and ATF. Ensures that staff complies with LETC required training commitments, courses, and timeframes and maintains training materials, attendance records, test scores, etc. and completes related reports. Prepares plans, regulations, supplements, standard operating procedures (SOPs), staff studies, estimates, and reports on all phases of the training program. Provides advice and assistance to all levels of management concerning determinations of training needs; sources of training support; design and presentation of training; and evaluation of results. Advises individuals of their (Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.) rights, and protects the constitutional and civil rights of persons. Exercises arrest authority; searches and detains suspects; takes charge of emergencies and established operating procedures; makes arrests and performs booking procedures. Serves as an on-call point of contact to direct the Police Department during natural disasters, terrorist acts, criminal activity, and other emergencies during non-business hours or anytime during the absence of a supervisor Responds immediately to and engages potentially armed individuals during active threat response situations. Serves in critical workplace violence prevention and risk mitigation functions, including service as the VA Police representative to the interdisciplinary Disruptive Behavior Committee. Maintains departmental equipment as necessary and supports and protects visiting dignitaries as required. MUST ATTEND and complete all instructor courses through the VA law enforcement Training Center. Work Schedule: 8-12 hour rotating shifts to include weekends, holidays and possible overtime Position Description Title/PD#: Police Officer (Training Instructor)/PD99844A

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• May serve a probationary period
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. GS-07 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Conducting vigorous walking and vehicle patrols; identifying and arresting offenders; interview and questioning witnesses; writing a variety of reports; accurately conducting investigations; interrogating suspects; preventing, resolving, and investigating simple infractions to violent crimes and felonies; making arrests and performing booking procedures; issuing citations; confiscating drugs and alcohol; and properly handling and processing evidence. Training classes concerning policy, procedures, techniques, technology and equipment, maintaining current and accurate training records, reviewing training records and coordinating scheduling of needed training with management, conducting special studies, compiling/evaluating police report narratives and statistical data for special management projects and/or for data retrieval, analyzing crime trends, identifying training deficiencies, working with employees to resolve complaints or discrepancies, preparing plans, test examinations, and training units, observing and evaluating performance of employees during quarterly training sessions, monthly rapid response drills, and during real world situations, training employees in a classroom setting, preparing lectures and handouts, utilizing audio visual equipment as part of training presentations. Leading and conducting investigations, apprehensions and detentions of persons suspected or convicted of criminal violations; maintaining order to protect life and property; responding to emergency situations; gathering information and preparing reports; conducting routine patrol, traffic control, and traffic accident investigations; conducting classroom lectures, presentations, or skills demonstrations; and recommending modifications of training curriculum when necessary. Note: 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. Experience as a security guard or corrections officer is generally not qualifying. Note: You must provide detailed information of your experience performed. Information such as "I was a Patrolman", "I was a Police Officer for a number of years," or "I enforced Federal, State, county, and laws" is insufficient to determine your qualifications. Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hour worked per week. There is no educational substitution for the GS-07 level. 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. Physical Requirements: The work requires regular and recurring physical exertion, long hours of standing, walking, driving and similar activities. The incumbent must respond to alarms, pursue suspects, participate in training activities, climb stairs and walk during assigned foot patrols in and around large building, campus, and other physical settings. Agility, dexterity and strength are needed to pursue, apprehend and detain uncooperative suspects. On a regular and recurring basis, the work requires strenuous exertion physically restraining disorderly individuals to prevent harm to others or the individual. Incumbents must be physically able to lift or carry injured or hurt persons, evacuate persons to safety during storms, disasters, fires or other emergencies. The incumbent is expected to maintain a high standard of physical fitness and hand and eye coordination in order to maintain his or her semi-annual qualification with his or her assigned firearm and annual qualification with his or her assigned departmental issued intermediate weapons. Strenuous physical exertion is also required during many required and recurring training activities such as those related to weapons training, Active Threat Response training and Ground Defense and Recovery training.

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.

Contacts

• Address Battle Creek VA Medical Center 5500 Armstrong Road Battle Creek, MI 49037 US
• Name: Jamie Cole
• Phone: (269) 832-1641
• Email: [email protected]