The Acute Care - Phlebotomy Health Technician serves as a vital member of the health care team by assisting with patient care activities with a primary responsibility of phlebotomy. The position is also responsible for expediting the care and treatment of patients and ensuring implementation of all requested diagnostic exams and performing routine and complex patient care duties. In addition, the incumbent performs duties in such a way as to encourage patient efforts towards goals for recovery.

Duties

Greets and assist arriving patients/families/visitors/ambulances, directing to appropriate treatment area. Answering phones, placing calls and pages as needed. Uses communication skills to work effectively and diplomatically with Medical Center employees, patients and visitors. Serves as resource for health maintenance programs, supportive therapy, consultative services, and follow-up care and resources to veterans. Provides patient care to include personal care, treatments, procedures, patient charting, patient teaching, and patient transport. Observes and reports any change in equipment and any physical, mental or emotional changes in patients. Provides lab collection services while serving as an integral member of the acute care team that offers a wide array of varying services including urgent management of chronic diseases, urgent management of psychiatric substance abuse disorders, and various unit-specific tasks as assigned. Performs CBG/Glucose- POC (Fingerstick). Draws blood, labels specimens and transports to Lab. Performs EKG's as ordered, notifies RN and MD of completion. Work Schedule: Full-Time, ROTATING Shifts to include holidays and weekends. Tour of Duty to be determined by supervisor based upon facility needs Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician/PD03651A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved 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, 01/26/2024. 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-6 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-5. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: Applicants who meet the Individual Occupational Requirements described below are fully qualified for the specified entry grade and must also meet the specialized experience requirements. To qualify you must possess the following 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. In addition to meeting the above Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) AND Time-In-Grade, applicants must also meet the experience relevant to this position. 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-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience include: Understanding of policies and procedures as related to patient care, and how to locate those policies. Practices cooperative and professional interpersonal communications with diverse multidisciplinary teams. Independently performs phlebotomy techniques and procedures. Daily usage of Computer, and clerical skills. Performs specimen collection, and diagnostic exams. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Clinical Data Collection/DocumentationCommunicationsSpecimen Collection 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 population of male and female veterans served ranges from the adult, age 18, to the elderly adult, age 65 and over. There is a large outpatient population, with visits to the Emergency Department and admissions for medical co-morbidities. This position requires visual acuity, keen hearing, clear distinctive speech, and manual dexterity. This position requires potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, stooping, sitting, bending, pulling, pushing, and lifting up to 35Ibs. Transferring patients and objects may be required. The incumbent may be exposed to infected patients and contaminated materials and may be required to don protective clothing in isolation situations or operative/invasive procedures. The incumbent may occasionally be exposed to patients who are combative secondary to delirium, dementia, or psychiatric disorders. The incumbent must be a mature, flexible, sensible individual capable of working effectively in stressful situations, able to shift priorities based on patient needs. 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 Biloxi VA Medical Center 400 Veterans Avenue Biloxi, MS 39531 US
• Name: Lesa Lang
• Phone: 804-566-8397
• Email: [email protected]