This position serves as a program support assistant located with Office of Patient Care Services (OPCS) at VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System (VASNHS) located in Las Vegas, NV. OPCS services are at various outpatient sites around the valley, with inpatient services provided at the VA Southern Nevada Medical Center.

Duties

Major duties include, but are not limited to the following: Serves as assistant to the Associate Nurse Executive (ANE). Processes incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other forms of written communication. Types all reports to include charts, ensuring correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and timely completion. Prepares final forms, allied health affiliation agreements, coordinates necessary data/forms for nursing and allied health students/faculty and/or preceptors commencing/terminating affiliation I preceptor ships and other data as required by the ANE. Serves as the recorder for Staff Meetings, committee meetings, Management Meetings, and Shared Governance committees. Performs office automation duties using such software applications as electronic mail, calendar, spreadsheet, Database MS Access and other comparable database software to organize data and information for subsequent manipulation and retrieval. Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards Work Schedule: Full Time, Monday through Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Support Assistant/PD042920 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/22/2023. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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. 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-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Knowledge of the functions of the Emergency Department and its providers. Must have a working knowledge of the VA hospital and clinical services, policies, and procedures. Knowledge of work measurement functions, statistical reporting and record systems. Skill to compile and summarize information and data, identify inaccuracies or anomalies in the information. Make recommendations to resolve discrepancies. Knowledge of computer software (i.e., VistA, CPRS, EDIS, Work, Excel, and PowerPoint) (This experience must be well documented in your resume or application package to be creditable.) You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Computer SkillsTechnical CompetenceWorkforce Planning 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 with occasional lifting, bending, carrying light items, walking and driving required in the delivery of reports, filing, binders on and off shelving and other materials, etc. Physical dexterity is required in the operation of the compute machine, and other required office equipment. Must be able to concentrate for long period. 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 Las Vegas VA Medical Center 6900 North Pecos Road North Las Vegas, NV 89086 US
• Name: Kia Moore
• Phone: 650-493-5000
• Email: [email protected]