The North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System (NF/SGVHS) is recruiting a Health Technician at the Community-Based Outpatient Clinic located in St. Augustine, FL. The incumbent will assist the medical and nursing staff through technical, specialized or support services for the diagnosing or treatment of patient illness or medical conditions.

Duties

The Health Technician position incumbent assists the medical and nursing staff through technical, specialized or support services for the diagnosing or treatment of patient illness or medical conditions. Duties include but are not limited to: Receives and directs patients, answers routine inquiries, and makes referrals. Assists higher-graded technician/care provider to position patients and answer patients questions during complex procedures when required. Counsels health subjects including nutrition, care of minor injuries and illnesses, and home care of diseases. Assists medical staff with or performs diagnostic procedures used to diagnose medical conditions. Adjusts, adapts, and operates specialized equipment and accessories needed for difficult procedures. Performs patient care procedures such as collection of specimens, applying dressing, adjusting simple supportive equipment. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician/PD05063A 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, 03/06/2024. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: 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, you are required to have technician experience, which is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement, applicants must also meet the specialized experience. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Performs observation-based screening and collection of patient information in collaboration with licensed personnel. Performs patient care procedures such as collection of specimens, applying dressing, adjusting simple supportive equipment. Performs difficult measurements or tests on patients such as taking tissue cultures and specimen samples which require difficult specialized procedures. Teaches patients and family members the necessity of continuing proper health care; Provides follow-up care instructions and demonstrations for patients. Skill in the operation and use of specialized equipment and materials within the environment to which they are assigned including but not limited to: Lab specimen processing equipment, and glucometer use. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Clinical Data Collection/DocumentationPatient CareTechnical Competence Note: IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to the specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement, to assist with describing work experiences; however, resumes or applications received that copied verbatim from the announcement will be evaluated and may be reviewed as falsifying your experience or application. 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 standing, walking, bending, lifting, and carrying light items. The work requires above average agility and dexterity. They work may require heavy lifting of equipment or patients. The work environment involves risks typically associated with performance facility work. Work involves regular and recurring exposure to moderate risks or discomforts that require special safety precautions. 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 Malcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1601 Southwest Archer Road Gainesville, FL 32608 US
• Name: Mary Guthrie
• Phone: 813-816-7155 X110408
• Email: [email protected]