Intermediate Care Technician

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/.
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).