The Wichita VA Medical Center is recruiting for Health Technician (Monitor Technician) to work in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The unit is open 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week. The department is a fast-paced area that provides care for patients with multiple, complex co-morbidities, both surgical and medical. Each area requires excellent assessment skills and critical thinking ability.

Duties

The Monitor Technician is a clinical/technical specialist who provides cardiac monitoring and patient care duties under the supervision of a registered nurse. Duties include but are not limited to: Provide continuous monitoring of cardiac rate, rhythm, and patterns of conduction. Measures, prints, and interprets rhythms at designated intervals and PRN, for up to a total of 30 patients. Recognizes and reports changes in rhythms that are outside of the established parameters. Recognizes life threatening situations and notifies RN. Identifies and troubleshoots potential telemetry equipment malfunctions. In collaboration with biomedical engineering, works to address equipment issues at the lowest possible level without disrupting service. Maintains logs of telemetry equipment locations. Effectively utilizes basic office equipment including, but not limited to multi-line phones, computers, fax machines, and printers. Ability to adapt to ever-changing technologies and processes. Maintains the unit census board to ensure it is kept up to date with patient movement throughout the shift. Orders office supplies for the unit as necessary to maintain adequate levels. In addition to routine and repetitive tasks, the incumbent readily identifies and completes additional tasks with little direct supervision. Full performance level of this position is a GS-06. A job may be offered at any grade in the range of GS-3 through GS-6. 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. Work Schedule: Full-time, Nights and Weekends, 7:00 pm - 7:30 am Compressed/Flexible: Not Available TeleworkTelework: Not Available Virtual: This is NOT a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: PD#02051-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Salary Range: GS-3: $30,015 - $39,022 GS-4: $33,693 - $43,801 GS-5: $37,696 - $49,009 GS-6: $42,022 - $54,625 Current Title 38 Hybrid employees: To qualify for a Title 5 position based on the Interchange agreement, you must meet the following: 1. Be currently serving under a permanent appointment. 2. Served continuously for at least 1 year in the other merit system prior to appointment under the interchange agreement. Current permanent Veterans Canteen Service employees may apply for consideration under this vacancy announcement.

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 the GS-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. For the GS-05 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-04. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-3 Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The IOR for the GS-03 grade level is: You must have successfully completed 1 year of study that included study in medical, health, or related fields. Experience: Six (6) months of general experience. General experience includes: Customer service in a clinical setting, direct patient care, indirect patient care. OR; Education: Applicants may substitute education for the experience required. Successful completion of one (1) year, beyond high school, of study that included study in medical, health, or related fields. (A transcript must be submitted with your application 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. GS-4 Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The IOR for the GS-04 grade level is: You must have successfully completed 2 years of study that included at least 12 semester hours in subjects related to the position. OR you must have 1 year of specialized experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. Experience: Six (6) months of general experience and Six (6) months of specialized experience. General experience includes: Customer service in a clinical setting, direct patient care, or indirect patient care. Specialized experience includes: Working as a member of the Nursing Care Team. Demonstration of interpersonal and leadership skills. Monitoring patient's vital signs. Ability to use computers and other basic office equipment to enter data OR; Education: Applicants may substitute education for the experience required. Successful completion of 2 years, beyond high school, of study that included at least 12 semester hours in subjects related to the position. (A transcript must be submitted with your application 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. GS-5 Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The IOR for the GS-05 grade level is: You must have successfully completed 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. OR you must have 1 year specialized experience at the GS-04 level that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least a GS-4. Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: Customer service in a clinical setting, direct patient care, and/or indirect patient care. Experience working as a member of the Nursing Care Team. Demonstration of interpersonal and leadership skills. Monitoring patient's vital signs. Validating and invalidating alarms. Ability to use computers and other basic office equipment to enter data. OR; Education: Applicants may substitute education for the experience required. 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. (A transcript must be submitted with your application 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. GS-06 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: Cardiac monitoring using appropriate telemetry equipment such as EKG, cardiac monitors, and other diagnostic equipment; monitoring patient's vital signs; recognizing, responding, and reporting signs and changes in cardiac rhythms; and ability to use computers and other basic office equipment to enter data. OR; Education: Graduate education or internship may meet the experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position. Transcripts must be included if basing any 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. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS The work requires at various intervals, long periods of sitting to monitor patients and/or EKG monitors. Technician must be able to visualize monitors, various equipment, and computer screens. In addition, this position requires arduous physical exertion and the use of both hands and legs including lifting 45 pounds, transferring patient, turning and positioning adults of various body weights and pushing/pulling a variety of carts, litters, and/or special beds/chairs. Accurately utilizes sense of hearing, vision, smell and/or touch in patient observation and care. 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.

Education

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Biomedical Equipment Technology
• Diagnostic Medical Testing
• Self-Management
• Technology Awareness

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/.

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

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 Robert J Dole VA Medical and Regional Office Center 5500 East Kellogg Drive Wichita, KS 67218 US
• Name: Trellis Harris
• Phone: 316-685-2221 X53625
• Email: [email protected]