This Health Technician position is located at the Milwaukee VA Medical Center in the Acute Care Nursing Division, Ambulatory Procedure Center & Post Anesthesia Care Unit (APC/PACU).

Duties

The Health Technician assists physicians in the performance of procedures in the APC/PACU, provides patient and equipment monitoring support, and operates and maintains all surgical and procedural equipment. The employee assists in the orientation and training of newly assigned staff and provides technical guidance for junior health technicians. Major Duties: Provides technical support to the medical and surgical staff, residents, and APC/PACU personnel. Calibrates, operates and maintains a wide variety of physiologic monitoring, measuring and computing devices. Trouble-shoots equipment and provides support to staff. Maintains/assembles supplies, operates equipment and assists in performing diverse therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Collects and labels blood specimens, and places peripheral IVs. Assists with patient care duties, including personal cares, positioning and transferring in and out of bed, and CPO coverage. Assists RNs with transferring patients for procedures in other services or with transfers to general units. Assists with pre and post-operative and procedural care. Establishes and maintains physiological monitoring systems. Maintains bedside patient care supplies, and restocking of supplies and linens. Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor or designee. Work Schedule: Full time, 8 hour shifts with varying start times between 5:00am and 8:00am dependent on the need of the service, primarily 6:00am to 2:30pm Position Description Title/PD#: Health Technician/PD09059A Physical Requirements: The work involves long periods of standing, as well as considerable walking, bending, lifting, crouching, moving equipment and positioning patients. The work also requires agility and dexterity to handle delicate and complex medical instrumentation.

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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: Must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade (GS-5) in the Federal Service that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the Health Technician. Specialized experience includes: Working with the operational principles, procedures, calibration, and maintenance of sophisticated analytical, monitoring, and computing medical instrumentation. Knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. Working with infection control procedures and aseptic techniques. Knowledge of the functions and operational principles of various life support systems. Knowledge and understanding of preoperative and procedural patients and the practices of the APC/PACU in order to perform routine duties. OR Education: Must have successfully completed 9 semester hours of graduate education, which meets the specialized experience requirement ONLY in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) OR Combination: Must possess equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate level education AND specialized experience which meet the total experience requirements for this grade level (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED) Certification in Basic CPR is Required. To calculate, first identify the percentage of required education you have earned (when substituting, you cannot use the first 60 semester hours that you earned). Then identify the percentage of required experience you possess. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify at the GS-XX. For example, an applicant who has 9 semester hours of graduate level education (i.e. 50% of graduate education required) and 6 months of creditable specialized experience (i.e. 50% of the required experience) would equal 100% of the required experience for the position A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. 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.

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 Clement J Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center 5000 West National Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53295 US
• Name: Trisha Juanez
• Phone: 414-384-2000 X44342
• Email: [email protected]