This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.

Duties

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf Medical Technologist: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Medical-Technologist-Career-Flyer.pdf Major Duties and Responsibilities - Assists in development and recommends new policies and procedures regarding the installation and use of the laboratory information system (LIS) or the hospital information system (HIS) and bar code expansion project. - Assists with Implementation and maintenance of coding and mapping for laboratory test ordering, reporting, billing, and workload recording systems. - Performs interface validations for instrumentation and Vista Blood Establishment Computer Software (VBECS) for blood bank software updates. - Analyzes emerging trends, software, and technology and adopts appropriate methods for local programs to meet agency goals. - Advise all organizational levels on various aspects of the functions and capabilities of the information system. - Maintain competency to assist the key operator for P&LMS Document Control System, Voice Dictation System and Automated temperature/humidity monitoring system. - Ensures that laboratory policy and procedures are consistent with accrediting agencies standards and requirements as they relate to LIS. - Represents laboratory on appropriate medical center committees; chairs laboratory meetings/VISN 19 LIS conference calls; and interacts with other medical center staff, such as VISN 19, NEO, and accreditation inspectors. - Prepares and analyzes quality reports on LIS status. Incumbent is responsible for management reports such as LIS evaluations. - Communicates effectively and courteously while working as a healthcare team member. - Takes initiative to organize work and sets priorities to meet deadlines. - Serves as the P&LMS point of contact and super-user for the Temp-Trax, temperature monitoring system. - Takes initiative to organize work and sets priorities to meet deadlines. - Scans laboratory documents - Archives and retrieves laboratory documents. - Performs other administrative duties as assigned. -Works throughout the lab as a generalist and also works weekends, holidays and the evening or night shift by themselves when priorities demonstrate a need. -Performs testing procedures on a variety of biological specimens and/or environmental samples using manual and automated techniques. -Monitors the quality control systems. -Creates/Updates procedure manuals utilized by the night shift, assuring continuous review of changing accreditation standards. -Perform, evaluate, interpret, correlate, and validate the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results. -Completes testing to provide relevant clinical information to physicians crucial to patient care. -Considers such factors as the complex network of steps and variables and discrimination required by some tests; conditions which produce erroneous results, specimen properties, physical conditions, and time factors critical to the test; instrument malfunction and test procedure variations; and physiologic conditions that affect test results. -Collects venous blood samples from patients adhering to all safety and patient care requirements. -Judges the acceptability of samples submitted for testing using a broad body of knowledge of pre-analytic sample requirements. -Shows mastery of the VA Laboratory computer software package (VISTA) as job assignments require. Work Schedule: M-F; 08:00AM-4:30PM, and/or variable shifts determined by the needs of the lab. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact [email protected], the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 58763-O Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: -Citizenship Citizen of the United States -English Language Proficiency Medical Technologists (MTs) must be proficient in spoken and written English. -Education and/or Experience Combination -A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in medical laboratory science, medical technology, clinical laboratory science or in a related science (e.g., laboratory sciences such as chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, immunology, etc.). AND Completion of a medical technology clinical practice program. Clinical practice programs completed after 1974 must have been accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS), Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP, formerly CAHEA), or the Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). The professional curriculum may have consisted of a post- baccalaureate certificate program or be integrated into a four- year program of study that culminated in a baccalaureate degree. OR -A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics. AND Two years of post-certification clinical laboratory experience (e.g., blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy, etc.) within the last ten years as a certified Medical Laboratory Technician by the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP-BOC), American Society of Clinical Pathology Board of Registry (ASCP- BOR) or American Medical Technologists (AMT). This experience must include performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. OR -A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics. AND Five years of clinical laboratory experience within the last ten years performing moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory. -Foreign Graduates Graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the educational and/or experience requirements if the degree is found to be equivalent to degree programs recognized by the NAACLS or clinical laboratory experience as described above. This finding may be based on either of the following: A letter from a college or university with a baccalaureate program recognized by the NAACLS stating that the individual's foreign degree has been evaluated and been found to 2 be equivalent to its bachelor of medical technology degree. A letter from ASCP-BOC or AMT stating that the individual is eligible for the certification examination. -Certification Candidates must must currently possess the appropriate certification as a MT, MLS, or CLS given by the ASCP-BOC, ASCP-BOR, or AMT. Grade Determinations: GS-11 -Experience Must have 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the full performance level (GS-09), which is directly related to the position to be filled. OR -Education Must have 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in medical technology or a directly related field. AND -Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) In addition to the experience or education above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: Advanced knowledge of the concepts, principles and practices of medical technology sufficient to perform the full range of duties involved in planning, coordinating and evaluating laboratory services. Knowledge of quality management standards. Knowledge of accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements pertaining to laboratory operations. Comprehensive knowledge of statistical evaluation and analysis. Knowledge of laboratory operations and relationships to the organization. Comprehensive knowledge of laboratory quality control/assurance policies, procedures and principles, as well as safety practices and regulations. -Quality Management Technologist Assignment These assignments require specialized training and experience and have wide latitude for exercising independent judgment. Employees must have advanced knowledge of specialized and complex subject matter extending beyond the duties of test performance. For all assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty) and range of variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time. Provides authoritative consultative services to management at all levels of the organization as it applies to quality management in a clinical 8 laboratory setting. Maintains a laboratory quality management program and ensures monitoring of components and customer feedback. Identifies, defines and resolves issues associated with complex aspects of the collected data. Monitors laboratory quality control systems and performance indicators. Interacts with management officials and vendors providing inter-laboratory quality assurance and laboratory proficiency testing. Develops validation plans for equipment and methodology evaluations and evaluates statistical data collected. Responsible for laboratory continuous readiness for regulating agency inspections and accreditation from agencies such as the Joint Commission (JC) and the College of American Pathologists (CAP). Preferred Experience: None Reference: VA Handbook 5005, Part 11, Appendix G24. For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/. Physical Requirements: -Physical Demands Work is sedentary but also demands standing, walking, bending, twisting, and carrying light items. -Work Environment A majority of the work is performed in an office/clinic setting with minimal risks that requires normal safety precautions; The area is adequately lighted, heated and ventilated. However, the work environment requires someone with the ability to handle several tasks at once in sometimes stressful situations. A smaller portion of work is performed in a laboratory environment where safety precaution, such as standard precautions the use of personal protective equipment are required.

Education

IMPORTANT: 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 VA Western Colorado Health Care System 2121 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 US
• Name: VISN 19 HR Contact Center
• Phone: 719-227-4600
• Email: [email protected]