The Phoenix VA Health Care System is recruiting for one (1) Lead Medical Technician for the Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service at the 32nd Street Outpatient Laboratory. The Lead Medical Technician serves as the outpatient lead. This position is responsible for training new staff, and is responsible for the proper receipt and accessioning of specimens.

Duties

The Lead Medical Technician is responsible for ensuring timely phlebotomy services to Veterans, with emphasis on maintaining excellent customer service. This position is responsible for performing the full range of routine and emergency waived testing procedures such as glucose monitoring, urine pregnancy, occult blood testing. The major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: Ensures safe and non-traumatic processes are used with critical concern for the donor and for the quality of the specimen while using standard aseptic procedures and safeguards. Performs duties involving customer satisfaction utilizing phone and face to face communication with all levels of clinical, clerical, and administrative staff and customers. Demonstrates professional attitude and technical competence, while performing duties. Performs venipuncture in accordance with facility and laboratory policies and procedures. Performs phlebotomy procedures with various types and sizes of tubes used for collection, and knowledge of how much blood is required for each test, types of tests, what color of tube needs to be drawn and what anticoagulants are necessary to assure accurate test results. Establishes minimum acceptable criteria for control/ documentation protocol pertaining to test or examination procedures. Maintains and controls laboratory records. Ensures all test tubes are labeled accurately when performing venipuncture using facility and laboratory designated patient identifiers. Performs puncture in accordance with facility and laboratory policies and procedures. Performs the full range of routine and emergency waived testing procedures such as glucose monitoring, urine pregnancy, occult blood testing. Performs urine drug testing collections in accordance with facility and laboratory policies and procedures. Prepares slides, smears, cultures, etc., of extremely delicate or otherwise volatile specimens, using critical concern for the quality of the specimen given the procedure to be used for test or examination. Calibrates and maintains laboratory Instrumentation on timely intervals so as to minimize breakdown and delay of procedures. Selects, performs, evaluates, and monitors the performance of test procedures both manually and on testing equipment; recognizes and reacts to indicators of malfunction and when appropriate locate and Implement corrective action. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00 am - 3:30 pm, occasional weekends, and Holidays as needed. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Lead Medical Technician (32nd Street Lab)/PD20018A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), No person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. You must be proficient in basic written and spoken English in order to meet the requirements of this position. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): Applicant must meet the IOR to qualify for the position. Applicant must possess a) technical laboratory support work such as performing laboratory test and examinations (chemical, microbiological, hematologic and blood banking) and preparing reports of findings OR b) technical support work in a closely related field e.g., biological technical work, that required application of methods and techniques for the position to be filled, OR c) successful completion a 4 year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or at least 24 semesters hours in subjects appropriate to the position being filled. To qualify for this position at the GS-6 level, you must meet one of the following: EXPERIENCE: At least one (1) full year of specialized experience, equivalent to at least the GS-5 grade level, that equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is: (a) Technical medical laboratory support work such as performing laboratory tests and examinations (chemical, microbiologic, hematologic and blood banking) and preparing reports of findings or (b) technical support work in a closely related field, e.g., biological laboratory technician work, that required application of the methods and techniques for the position to be filled. At this level, specialized experience should include experience performing a variety of relatively standardized tests, examinations, and determinations. The procedures and techniques are well-established but involve many meticulous sequential steps to complete a test; and following written procedures which give carefully detailed instructions on each step of the assigned test and examinations.~OR~ EDUCATION: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects appropriate to the position to be filled. (Transcripts must be submitted at time of application) ~OR~ COMBINATION: Equivalent combinations of post-high school educationand specialized experience, as described above. Note: only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to l year of specialized experience.(Transcripts must be submitted at time of application) 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 manual dexterity and exceptional hand/eye coordination, some physical exertion, such as regular and recurring walking, bending, sitting over a microscope and concentrate for long periods of time while reading specimens and to stand for several consecutive hours during the preparation of specimens: In many situations the duration of the activity (such as most of a workday) contributes to the arduous nature of the job. Position requires lifting of reagent containers weighing up to 35 pounds. Work Environment: The work involves regular and recurring moderate risks or discomforts which require special safety precautions, e.g., working around moving parts, carts, or machines; with contagious diseases or irritant chemicals. Employees are required to use protective clothing or gear such as masks, gowns, ear plugs, lab coats, boots, goggles, gloves, or shields to moderate risks, or to follow procedures for minimizing risk. Adherence to safety and universal precautions and use of protective gear are mandatory to reduce occupational risk factors.

Education

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 Carl T Hayden Veterans' Administration Medical Center 650 East Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85012 US
• Name: Stacy Cole
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]