Serves as a Purchasing Agent with responsibility for the timely acquisition of a wide variety of medical, scientific, technical, and specialized supplies, services, and equipment for patients at the San Juan, VA Caribbean Healthcare System & Outpatient Clinics. Independently counsels veterans, family members, caregivers, stakeholders and other relatives to the items/services provided.

Duties

Counsel's veterans, family members, caregivers, stakeholders and other relatives to the items/services provided. Receives and analyzes prosthetic requests and prescriptions for items, services and durable medical equipment, physicians, therapists, medical center personnel, patients or their representatives. Reviews the request for completeness, comparing disability or diagnosis to equipment and/or services normally provided for the condition for which they are requested, and that proper documentation has been provided to justify the issuance. Tracking software to ensure request are completed within the mandated time frame. Use office automation equipment such as an electric typewriter, computer, word processor, facsimile machines, ADP equipment (keyboard and visual display), calculator, copier, and telephones to effectively communicate with others, place emergency purchase orders. Operates the prosthetic software package to maintain a detailed and accurate accounting of ail transactions taken for veterans and documents their records. Prepares workload, statistical, and narrative reports on a scheduled and ad-hoc basis; and prepares graphs, spreadsheets, power point and other presentations for briefings and meetings. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Purchasing Agent/PD01159A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): 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, 09/18/2023. 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-07 position 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. English Language Proficiency: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), no person shall serve indirect patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic spoken and written English. You must be proficient in basic spoken and written English and in spoken Spanish to meet the requirements of this position. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: 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: purchasing of equipment, supplies, and services through simplified acquisition procedures, formal competitive bid (sealed bid) and renegotiated procedures; screening purchase requests for completeness and adequacy to determine how a purchase should be made; ordering against an existing contract (e.g., Federal Supply Schedules) or through open market/small purchase procedures; soliciting quotes either orally or by issuing requests for quotation (RFQ); selecting and using the appropriate method (e.g., delivery order, purchase order, blanket purchase agreement, impressed funds, and credit cards) to confirm and place an order. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Computer SkillsCreative ThinkingCustomer Service (Clerical/Technical)Technical Competence 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 mostly sedentary requiring some walking, climbing, and carrying light to medium-heave stock items up to 50 pound and make adjustments to equipment to properly fit the patients. The employee may be required to receive and store stock appliances. In the course of doing this, the employee may need to remove large or bulky items from packing boxes and push or carry them to storage facilities. Items may weight up to 50 pounds. Climbing associated with stocking of equipment in storage areas may be necessary. 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.

Contacts

• Address San Juan VA Medical Center 10 Calle Casia San Juan, PR 00921 US
• Name: Necory Smith
• Phone: 608-372-3971 X63901
• Email: [email protected]