The Department of Veterans Affairs Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) Program is a program designed to hire transitioning service, National Guard, Reserve, and Veteran corpsmen, combat medics and medical technicians into positions at VA Medical Centers. This position serves as an advance technician for outpatient care settings such as; primary care, mental health, and specialty clinics. As an ICT Generalist the incumbent may serve in a medical center or community-based outpatient clinic (CBOC).

Duties

Major Duties Include (but not limited to): Assisting licensed staff with preparing patients for medical evaluation, setting up equipment, passing instruments and providing treatment during in-person or virtual visits. Responsible for collecting a wide range of specimens and preparing them for transfer to processing. Operates specialized medical equipment to obtain diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes. Responsible for collecting a wide range of specimens and preparing them for transfer to process. Performs 12-lead electrocardiograms. Provides patient education within scope of care or while providing an intervention. (Examples: post-procedural care and wound care). Conducts or assists with the training of personnel in if appropriately trained, certified and/or qualified. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30am to 4:00pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Intermediate Care Technician/PD99968A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorize Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorize

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/06/2024. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): This position and series has an IOR requirement. All applicants must satisfy the IOR to be further considered for the position. Specialized Experience: 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, technician experience is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-07 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Performs observation-based screening and collection of patient information in collaboration with licensed personnel. Assisting licensed personnel with the delivery of care to patients with complex and specialized care needs. Completes appropriate documentation in the approved electronic medical record. Assists in behavioral/psychiatric situations in an outpatient setting. Operates specialized medical equipment to obtain diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes. Assist with daily schedule scrubbing, PACT Metrics and team huddles. Assist with telephone calls, pre-PACT visit phone calls, and pre-visit clinical reminders. Use technology to conduct Video Connect visits and secure messaging. OR Applicants may substitute education for the experience required for the GS-07 level (Transcripts Required): Possess (1) One full year of graduate education. Note: One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended. 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. 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 Malcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1601 Southwest Archer Road Gainesville, FL 32608 US
• Name: Wendy York
• Phone: 785-350-1588
• Email: [email protected]