The Health Tech in Specialty Clinic is a multi-skilled position established to provide direct patient care and provide support in the specialty clinics. They include: podiatry, dermatology, orthopedics, general surgery, pain clinic, spine clinic, ENT clinic, urology, cardiology, rheumatology, infectious disease, pulmonology, neurology, oncology and pacemaker.

Duties

Duties include but not limited to: Report deviations in vital signs to provider and nurse. Provide timely care to ensure care of all patients in clinic. Communicates urgent concern for patients with providers and other staff members. Communicates care, per provider, to all patients and families. Prepare patients for clinic visits, vital signs, and orthostatic vital signs. Assists providers and nurses with other procedures as needed. Maintains and fills liquid nitrogen canisters for cryotherapy treatment. Utilize a range of office and medical equipment for patient care, electrocardiograms, and bladder volume index machines. Assists in surgical site preparation per provider direction. Assists with suture, staple, and steri-strip removal per provider direction. Set up sterile fields. Assist with safe lifting of patients to provide care. Restock clinic rooms daily and check for outdated supply items. Transfer Patients Documents all care in the electronic health record. Ensure sterility and integrity of reusable medical equipment. Ensure clinical equipment is in working order. Take surgical grade pictures of lesions site and location, documentation and download information into patients records. Handel all specimen collection and pathological labeling of specimens per protocol. Provide pre and post handling or reusable medical equipment. Work Schedule: Tour of Duty ranges from the hours of 7:00am - 5:30pm. Shift will be 8 and a half hours long. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (Medical Assistant)/PD70217A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement, 08/05/2024. ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. You may qualify based on your 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-04 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Ability to assist medical and nursing staff through technical and specialized support services which aids in the diagnosis or treatment of patients; knowledge of clinical, laboratory, and administrative work in support of the inpatient services; ability to take vital signs; obtain laboratory specimens and prepare them for transport by labeling and sealing within biohazard bags; knowledge of basic instruments and diagnostic or treatment procedures. Gather diagnostic information for medical providers by monitoring patients using specialized machines including continuous pulse oximetry monitoring, and 12-lead EKG; 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. (EXPERIENCE MUST BE DETAILED IN RESUME IN ORDER TO RECEIVE FULL CREDIT). OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, with major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects directly related to the position. from an accredited school, college or university. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED). OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond the first 60 semester hours of a course of study leading to a bachelor's degree is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirements. Two full academic years of study, or 60 semester hours, beyond the second year is equivalent to 1 year of specialized experience. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED). Physical Requirements: Physical and mental stamina are required. The duties involve working under considerable stress, tense situations and with patients who are stressed and worried about their medical conditions. Work involves long hours of standing, stooping, bending and stretching without a break during procedures which require concentration. Manual dexterity and agility are required to correctly assemble instruments. Strain is incurred in staying alert on long cases under difficult situations. Working Conditions: Work is performed under bright surgical lights in rooms that are often warm while wearing hot moisture proof barrier gowns, gloves and masks. Frequently work must be performed in an uncomfortable positions. Work involves high risk of regular and recurring exposure to blood and body fluids, air-borne contaminates. There is high risk for needle sticks or other punctures by contaminated sharps. There is risk of falls from slick floors (irrigating fluids) and electrical cords. Universal precautions, sterile technique and personal protective equipment must be utilized vigilantly. May be expected to stay beyond shift if clinics or procedures are running late. 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

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address Mann-Grandstaff Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 4815 North Assembly Street Spokane, WA 99205 US
• Name: Rachael Seath
• Phone: 253-582-8440 X75638
• Email: [email protected]