The Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) Generalist is assigned to the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This position serves as an advance technician for outpatient care settings such as; primary care, mental health, and specialty clinics.

Duties

Duties include: Implement nursing interventions to assist patient activities of daily living. Basic nursing care (ADLs); dressing, oral hygiene, suctioning naso/orocavity, bathing, shaving, nail care, hair care, eye care, skin care, feeding Measure intake and output and documents in patient record. Perform collection of specimens including blood glucose, urine, sputum, wound, or feces, urine glucose testing Deliver Specimens to lab as needed. Respond to emergency situations such as cardiopulmonary failure, hemorrhaging, and shock by assisting in the performance of resuscitation measures. Transport patient to procedural areas or for discharge when necessary. Enter notes or patient data into patient's electronic medical record Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 5:00am - 1:30pm; Subject to change based on the needs of the Facility. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Intermediate Care Technician/PD99968S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not 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, 05/13/2024. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Individual Occupational Requirements: You must have experience in supporting duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists. Technician experience is experience that requires application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. In addition to the Individual Occupational Requirement, You must have the following 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-6) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Administer medications by mouth or by injection (intramuscular or subcutaneously) and watching the administration of intravenous solutions for proper timing and replacement of medication and/or proper flow. Experience with Specimen collection and Preparation. Prepare lab specimens and transfer to the lab for processing. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Clinical Data Collection/DocumentationDiagnostic Medical TestingPatient CareTechnical Competence 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 involves long periods of moving about the work unit. Work requires regular and recurring bending, lifting, stooping, stretching, lifting and repositioning patients, or similar activities. 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 Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center 2002 Holcombe Boulevard Houston, TX 77030 US
• Name: Kaitlyn Schmidt
• Phone: 319-333-6474
• Email: [email protected]