You will serve as the Lead Police Officer with the VA Puget Sound Healthcare System in Seattle, Washington. Recruitment and Relocation incentives may be authorized for highly qualified candidates.

Duties

Duties include but not limited to: You will lead a team of Police Officers and other administrative staff. You will direct day-to-day lead policing operations and non-lead policing assignments. You will work in collaboration with the Police Supervisor carrying out Police Service's overall mission, where most of the work is performed on Departmental property. You will assign, distribute, review, approve, and disapprove employees' assignments. You will monitor and review the status and progress of the work and make workload adjustments to ensure the workload is balanced. You will provide input on performance rating and any disciplinary action (to include removal) of Police Services employees. You will coach and mentor current and new employees to ensure employees obtain the necessary training to be productive. You will provide leadership in protecting Veterans, volunteers, and others on Departmental property, U.S. officials, other individuals, during any given situation against threats to personal safety when force becomes necessary to enforce laws and regulations. You will serve as a Federal Police Officer with full law enforcement and investigative authority. You will carry firearms and other weapons and intervene when necessary to deescalate situations. You will lead on investigations and personally conduct investigations, apprehensions, arrests, or detention of individuals suspected of criminal offenses. You will identify and preserve evidence, write comprehensive incident reports, prepare case files, and testify in court as it pertains to enforcing laws and regulations. You will provide patrol in vehicles, by foot, and on a bicycle. You will respond to calls for police assistance, emergencies, irregularities, and unusual or suspicious circumstances. You will perform drug and contraband intervention techniques. You will perform other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Tours may vary to include 8, 10, 12 hour shifts, depending on the need of the service. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Lead Police Officer/PD99900A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): 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, 12/01/2023. 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-08 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. 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. **Police Officers must meet the standards as outlined in the Lautenberg Amendment (PL 104-208) to the Gun Control Act of 1968 (18 USC 922). Lautenberg Amendment states that persons who have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence cannot own, be issued, purchase or otherwise have possession of a handgun. 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-7 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization (or equivalent pay band). Specialized experience includes: leading and directing employees in their duties in response to potential threats of violence, detecting criminal activity, fire and other emergencies; enforcing federal, state, and local laws; making arrests; conducting foot and vehicle patrol; maintaining control of a scene or incident; taking statements from witnesses/suspects and advising them of their rights; preparing detailed reports of criminal offenses, violations, incidents, and citations issued; interrogating suspects; and applying all correct rules of search and seizure. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. Experience as a security guard or corrections officer is generally not qualifying. Note: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hour worked per week. You MUST possess a valid State license, have a safe driving record, can pass a road test, and demonstrate that I am medically qualified to operate a motor vehicle safely. You MUST be able to legally able to carry a firearm, and are you willing and able to achieve and maintain qualification/certification with the agency-approved firearm. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: ArrestCriminal LawLeadershipManages Human ResourcesSecurityTeaching Others 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 requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed. Work Conditions: The work involves both moderate and high risks and possible endangerment of life or serious injury that requires the exercise of safety precautions and use of personal protective equipment The work is performed in settings in which there is regular and recurring exposure to moderate to severe discomforts and unpleasantness, such as high temperatures in confined spaces, high temperatures due to mandatory protective personal equipment, or adverse weather conditions during extended periods of traffic and patrol duties. The work involves moderate risk requiring exercise of safety precautions when working around hazardous materials such as toxic gases, explosives, infectious biological materials, and others that pose a moderate risk of exposure. 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 VA Puget Sound Health Care System 1660 South Columbian Way Seattle, WA 98108 US
• Name: Stephenie Merrill
• Phone: 509-525-5200 X26794
• Email: [email protected]