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Patient Care Services is recruiting a Health Technician (Monitor Tech) in the Intensive Care Unit. The Health Technician provides support in a wide variety of basic clinical and intermediate level administrative functions. Ensures compliance with VA regulations, Joint Commission standards, other regulatory agencies. Improves the quality and timeliness of basic services that are delivered to patients by providing a wide variety of ancillary activities. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/08/2023. 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-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: 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, you are required to have technician experience, which is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant 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: Performing both clerical and clinical duties in a medical/healthcare environment. Observing patients' cardiac rhythms. Notifying nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders. Operate and monitor equipment for both 12 lead and IS lead EKG readings. Measures and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient. There is no educational substitution for the GS-06 level. 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. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Communication Computer Skills Infection Control Technical 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 position demands a moderate degree of exertion and a high degree of dexterity, long periods of standing and long distance walking from clinic to clinic. The work requires some physical exertion, prolong periods of standing and working at a variety of machines, bending, stooping, crouching, reaching and stretching to work on devices and appliances and to fit them to the veteran. There may be recurring lifting and moving of moderately heavy supplies and equipment such as wheel chairs and durable medical equipment. 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/. ["The incumbent aids and assists ICU nursing staff in providing quality care for Veteran patients. The Health Technician(Monitor Tech) provides continuous cardiac surveillance, interpretation, and reporting of monitor and telemetry tracing of patients within Patient Care Services. In addition, the incumbents perform patient care support functions. Major duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Maintains ongoing, high-level surveillance of patients' cardiac rhythms and notifies nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders. Measures and interprets patient's heart rhythm and documents on patient record per departmental standards. Initiates and discontinues monitoring equipment on admission, transfer, or discharge. Performs clerical duties related to admission, discharge, and documentation of patient information from Heartbeat Central station. Serves as a resource for training and troubleshooting to both Heartbeat Central station and clinical areas. Maintains and stocks all designated equipment, including telemetry, and transport monitors. Adheres to confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patients, clinicians, employees, and visitors. Provides assistance of a technical, specialized, or support nature to health and medical personnel in the diagnosis or treatment of patient illnesses or medical conditions. Supports medical and health care professionals in tests and procedures to diagnose and treat medical conditions. Performs a range of diagnostic support duties such as taking, recording and reporting to supervisor deviations in vital signs, taking specimens, labeling specimens for the laboratory. Performs and assists RN with personal care such as body and oral hygiene, dressing/undressing, and toileting/elimination always ensuring patient privacy. Answers call lights and if unable to independently assist, communicates patients' needs to assigned RN or Charge Nurse Performs other duties as assigned. As directed, assists in postmortem care including disconnecting patients from monitors and other equipment, bagging up and labeling patients' personal items, and assisting in transferring patients to the morgue. Collect and sends routine urine, stool, blood, and sputum specimens per established protocol. Performs other duties as assigned including floating to other units. Work Schedule: Night Shift with the understanding tours are subject to change to meet the needs of the unit. Rotating weekends and holidays. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (ICU)/PD01643A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required"]

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