This position will serve as a Police Officer- Instructor at the Martinsburg VA Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia. This position administers and coordinates the education and training program for Police Service from initial-entry training to assessment, in-services training, and retraining of Officers throughout the year. Oversees the initial and on-the-job training of all newly assigned personnel.

Duties

Major duties and responsibilities will include: Conducts classroom lectures and PowerPoint presentations, role-playing scenarios, and skills demonstrations. Develops, presents, delivers, or coordinates courses for training programs. Prepares material related to the use of the VA police computer package; writing reports; documenting incidents; use of Expandable Straight Baton; oleoresin capsicum spray recertification; defense tactics; handcuffing; the clearing of buildings; and ARD and CPR. Prepares training schedules, coordinates equipment, room availability, and dates and times for on-site training and off-campus drills. Ensures the availability of material and handouts for class participants. Changes training curriculum to fit the criteria focused on the jurisdictions, level of experience and complications observed. Oversees instructors' firearms, ground defense, active threat, etc. to provide guidance and evaluate their courses. Accomplishes the training and development of officers and designates tasks necessary for new Police Officers to gain experience to do work. Explains work requirements, methods, and procedures as needed, including providing special instructions and answering technical questions about the work. Prepares lesson plans and critiques instruction and instructional material. Ensures courses are well structured and ample training materials are available from several sources. Provides instruction and modification for training course contents and/or materials. Builds course lessons using materials and information from various sources to construct course lesson plans, visual aids, etc. Maintains and keeps current the video library, law enforcement source library, training records, training budget and training computer files. Coordinates with Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies regarding updates in police information, procedures, and legal decisions. Ensures training is conducted in accordance with all applicable policies and regulatory requirements. Ensures training is properly documented in accordance with VA Law Enforcement Training Center (LETC) and Office of Security and Law Enforcement (OS&LE) requirements. Adjusts course material and aides and supplements courses based on training needs and the local, state, and local law enforcement requirements. Coordinates the use of outside guest instructors, VA law enforcement instructors, and/or local outside law enforcement agencies and emergency/public services agencies and the FBI, DEA, Postal Inspectors, and ATF. Arranges for appropriate guest instructors and subject matters experts to provide necessary training. Applies a variety of instructional techniques including lecture, seminar, conference, and group discussion, programmed instruction, self-paced instruction, self-paced instruction, hands-on, and multimedia instruction. This position is covered by a special rate. The incumbent may be required to travel to other VA campuses and CBOC's. This position is in the Competitive Service. This position is a NAGE Bargaining Unit Position. Conditions of Employment: VA Police Officers must be able to achieve and maintain mandatory Firearm Qualification. New VA Police Officers are required to attend a 12-week course at the VA Law Enforcement Training Center in Little Rock, Arkansas within 90 days of entry on duty. Failure of this course may be grounds for termination. Applicants must possess a valid, State driver's license, have a safe driving record, and demonstrate that he or she is medically qualified to operate the appropriate motor vehicle safely. Officers must successfully complete physical and psychological examinations prior to entering on duty and annually thereafter as a condition of continued employment. An officer who is convicted of a domestic violence violation can no longer be authorized to own, be issued, purchase or otherwise have possession of a handgun and would therefore be eliminated from consideration for this position. Work Schedule: Compressed/Flexible Schedule. Candidates must be willing to work weekends, irregular work hours and extended hours if determined by the needs of the service. Furthermore, candidates must be willing to be placed, detailed, or temporarily assigned to other related services and/or locations, if necessary. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Police Officer-Instructor/PD99844A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: 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, 04/12/2024. 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-7 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-6. 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. GS-07 Qualifications 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 hours worked per week. 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, and county laws" is insufficient to determine your qualifications. Experience must be fully documented in your resume and must include job title, duties, month & year start/end dates AND hours worked per week. POLICE DUTY OR AUXILIARY POLICE DUTY, SECURITY WORK, COLLEGE SECURITY WORK, PUBLIC SCHOOL SECURITY WORK, VOLUNTEER POLICE TRAFFIC OFFICERS, AIRPORT SECURITY SCREENER WORK, PRIVATE CONTRACTED SECURITY WORK, AND WORK IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS, IS NOT QUALIFYING EXPERIENCE. To be considered valid Police Officer experience it must have been gained after attending a local, state, federal or military Police Academy, the position must have authorized the carrying of a firearm while performing assigned duties and full arrest powers authorized. Note:Military experience may only be considered if it was gained while the applicant held one of the following qualifying specialties: Army: 95B,95C, 31A, 31B, 31D Marine Corps: 5803, 5805, 5811, 5812, 5813, 5814, 5821 Air Force: 08111-114, 81110, 81170, 81172, 81130, 81150, 81112, 81132, 81152, 81199, 3P1-4, 3P011, 3P031, 3P051, 3P071, 3P09, 75011, 75031, 75051, 75071, 75091 Navy: 9545, 0000MA Coast Guard:(no code) 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, walking while on patrol, and running while pursuing observed violators or suspects and eloping committed patients, crouching or crawling in restrictive areas during search and standing for prolonged periods of time, physical contact with combative subjects, frequent exposure to inclement weather conditions, such as rain and extreme cold in winter and extreme heat in the summer while outside on patrol. Will at times use extreme physical exertion to restrain felons or psychotic patients in a safe manner. Working Conditions: 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 of exposure. 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 Martinsburg VA Medical Center 510 Butler Avenue Martinsburg, WV 25405 US
• Name: Carrie Trenary
• Phone: 304-268-7780
• Email: [email protected]