The incumbent serves as a Policing Corporal Instructor to provide training education to VHA's Police Officers, located within the Sheridan VA Medical Center and satellites Police Service (PS). The incumbent provides security and assistance to Veterans, and others who frequent VA facilities daily. Serving a safe and secure environment across Sheridan VAMC, outpatient clinics, and others. Empathizes, engages, and communicates; ensures the safety of the facility and all its occupants.

Duties

Major duties include, but are not limited to: Administers and coordinates education and training program for Police Service from initial-entry training to assessment, in-services training, and retraining of Officers throughout the year. Makes suggestions and recommends on the curricula modifications based on observations and trends in the policing field. Applies a variety of instructional techniques including lecture, seminar, conference and group discussion, programmed instruction, self-paced instruction, hands-on, and multimedia instruction. Builds course lessons using materials and information from various sources to construct course lesson plans, visual aids, and others. Maintains and keeps current the video library, law enforcement source library, training records, training budget, and training computer files. Ensures that staff complies with VA Law Enforcement Training Center (LETC) required training commitments, courses, and timeframes. Analyzes results of tests and employee performance to identify special or additional training requirements. Coordinates the use of guest instructors, VA law enforcement instructors, and/or local outside law enforcement agencies. Assists supervisors and employees on guidance needed to develop a comprehensive career development and training program for Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Police Service, Police Officers. Serves as a Corporal Police Officer in addition to serving as an instructor, performing law enforcement and security responsibilities. Promotes the protection of property and civil rights of individuals by maintaining law and order. Protects Veterans, volunteers, and others on Departmental property, U.S. Officials, other individuals, and self during any given situation against threats to personal safety when force becomes necessary to enforce laws and regulations. Carries firearms and other weapons; intervenes when necessary to deescalate situations and determines when and how much force must be applied. Advises individuals of their (Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.) rights and protects the constitutional and civil rights of persons. Performs vehicular patrols as required. Enforces laws, rules, regulations, and resolves violations/offenses. Conducts preliminary investigations and coordinates with surrounding emergency response agencies as needed. Exercises arrest authority; searches and detains suspects; takes charge of emergencies and established operating procedures; makes arrests and performs booking procedures. Testifies in court as needed. Serves as an on-call point of contact to direct the Police Department during natural disasters, terrorist acts, criminal activity, and other emergencies during non-business hours or anytime during the absence of a supervisor. Performs other duties as assigned. Designated Drug-Testing Position: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received. Work Schedule: Primary tour of duty Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm and requires working uniformed shifts on evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, rotating shifts, and off-shifts to support needs of the service. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Police Officer (Instructor)/PD99844A and PD99844S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): May Be 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, 03/04/2024. 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-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-6 grade level in the Federal service (or equivalent pay band), that provided a knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Specialized experience includes leading and conducting investigations, apprehensions and detentions of persons suspected or convicted of criminal violations; maintaining order to protect life and property; responding to emergency situations; gathering information and preparing reports; conducting routine patrol, traffic control, and traffic accident investigations; conducting classroom lectures, presentations, or skills demonstrations; and recommending modifications of training curriculum when necessary. Note: 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: You must provide detailed information of your experience performed. Information such as "I was a Patrolman", "I was a Police Officer for a number of years," or "I enforced Federal, State, county, and laws" is insufficient to determine your qualifications. 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 will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Education and TrainingFirst ResponsePartneringPublic Safety and SecuritySecurityTeaching 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 frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over fifty (50) pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend, or detain. 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. 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 Sheridan VA Medical Center 1898 Fort Road Sheridan, WY 82801 US
• Name: Jennette Stroud
• Phone: 515-323-1412
• Email: [email protected]