This position is with the Ralph H Johnson VAMC located in Charleston, SC. The employee will be working within the Surgical Service/Operating Room Section. The Health Technician works as a team member under the direction of the Nurse Manager, Operating Room, or Registered Nurse designee.

Duties

This position is covered by NAGE bargaining unit. Per the NAGE Master Agreement, the Area of Consideration will be: 1st Area of Consideration: Current permanent Facility (including satellites) employees 2nd Area of Consideration: Current Permanent VA employees 3rd Area of Consideration: All other Status candidates Major duties include but are limited to: Works and communicates with nurses, doctors, and other medical and ancillary staff. Lifts, moves, and transfers patients as needed. Transports patients to and from the Operating Room, Holding Area, and PACU. Transports laboratory specimens to the Lab. Assists with the gathering and returning of equipment and positioning devices. Performs other ancillary duties as assigned (of a similar nature). Assists with set-up and reprocessing of reusable medical equipment (RME). Obtains and transports blood products. Responds to emergency situations, such as cardio pulmonary arrest, hemorrhage, and shock by assisting in performing resuscitation measures under supervision of professional staff. Maintains adequate stock of supplies throughout the day (masks, surgical scrub brushes, linen, or OR solutions. Maintains daily logs, including temperature logs for all required equipment. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 11:00am - 7:30pm or 9:00am - 5:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (Operating Room)/PD08021A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized 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, 10/10/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Advancement to positions up to GS-5. Applicants may be advanced without time restriction to positions up to GS-5 if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade the employee held within the preceding 52 weeks under his or her latest non-temporary competitive appointment. 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: Positions in this series range widely in type and include support duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists. Therefore, technician experience is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. Specialized experience would be but not limited to providing patient care assistance; experience coordinating PACU stretcher and ICU bed flow; experience assisting with transporting of scheduled patients; experience answering telephones and referring calls to the appropriate staff. -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 directly related to the position (transcript required if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education). -OR- Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education. 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. At least 8 of the excess semester hours must be directly related to the work of the position (transcript required if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education). You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Customer Service Attention to Detail Flexibility Problem Solving Infection Control Veteran and Customer Focus 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: Duties regularly require providing manual assistance in lifting and positioning patients, most of which are at stages of unconsciousness. There are extensive periods of regular and recurring standing, walking, bending, lifting, pushing, reaching, prolonged stretching and computer use. The incumbent must be able to travel to among different treatment areas with ease. 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

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 Ralph H Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 109 Bee Street Charleston, SC 29401 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]