Serves as a Training Instructor providing on-going training service and instruction for EMS's Training Program. Performs regular assignments related to training course development, delivery, modification, and evaluation. Conducts various training-related studies and analysis and coordination activities.

Duties

Develops and maintains training materials and curricula for multiple EMS courses to be presented to EMS staff. Makes recommendations for changes that involve substantive rather than procedural matters and obtains and adapts current instructional material. Evaluates training courses for EMS's training programs and works closely with senior specialists to evaluate courses to enhance EMS's overall training program. Establishes a mechanism to document and track identified deficiencies. Gathers relevant information, analyzes pertinent data, develops findings, and makes recommendations that are largely modeled on precedents. Serves as a participant in task analyses to determine training requirements and provides input into special staff studies of training and testing materials. Conducts studies and performs analyses on course-related subjects and/or coordinates activities involving programs of instruction. Serves as technical advisor/instructor for applying intensive practical knowledge of sanitation and disinfection application within health care environment. Provides instruction covering a wide variety of topics in well-established areas of hospital housekeeping and other EMS-related subject-matter fields. Uses a wide range of teaching techniques, methods, and tools, depending on the students' learning requirements. Ensures courses are well structured and have the appropriate training materials. Trains employees within EMS, and provides instruction, and modifies course content with an emphasis on biological cleanliness and infection control. Serves as a participant in the Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) Program collaborating and working with others, such as Nursing Assistants throughout the hospital and clinics on activities related to environmental sanitation. Provides training and instruction courses in a classroom environment to Service Chiefs, Section Chiefs, supervisors, and front-line employees focusing on Environmental Management, Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAis), low-incidence high-consequence pathogens, microbiology, chemistry, Reusable Medical Equipment (RME), and medical terminology. Develops and maintains liaison with and obtains information from instructors, specialists, and educators within the facility and other organizations such as the American Society of Healthcare Environmental Services. Collaborates with EMS managers to develop a waste management automated tracking system to record performance inspections. Ensures data entry requirements are reflected using "competency question and answers" for portion of each inspection and reviews conducted by service supervisors. Creates a data collection system for all waste management activities used to track required information and to complete numerous VACO reports regarding waste management. Work Schedule: 8am-4:30pm OR 7am-3:30pm, Monday-Friday Position Description/PD#: Training Instructor - Environmental Management Services/PD99970S Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/15/2024. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS-09 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-09 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. 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-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience that demonstrated a practical knowledge of the subject area of the position and of the methods and techniques of instruction. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Teaching or instructing in an adult education program, secondary school, college, military installation, or industrial establishment in the appropriate field(s). Supervising or administering a training program. Development or review of training/course materials, aids, devices, etc., and evaluation of training results. Work in the occupation or subject-matter field of the position to be filled that required training or instructing others on a regular basis. . OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- education or a subject area related to the position to be filled. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. When combining education with experience, first determine the applicant's total qualifying education as a percentage of the education required for the grade level; then determine the applicant's experience as a percentage of the experience required for the grade level; finally, add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analysis and Problem SolvingEducation and TrainingOral CommunicationProblem SolvingQuality AssuranceTechnical Credibility 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 largely sedentary. However, physical demonstrations to staff are required to include sanitation processes and techniques, equipment usage, as well as lifting heavy weights while demonstrating proper lifting techniques, etc. Physical demands are required to perform work such as sitting, pushing, pulling, standing, walking, bending, and stooping. Job also requires using audiovisual equipment while teaching that may involve lifting and/or pushing the equipment. There will be some walking, standing. bending, carrying light items, driving of an automobile and the expectation of obtaining GSA approvals for vehicle usage. Work will involve travel to all campuses. 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VA NY Harbor Healthcare System 423 East 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 US
• Name: Shalonda Hinds
• Phone: 518-225-6701
• Email: [email protected]