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Health Technician (Gastroenterology)
Military Treatment Facilities under DHA
Department of Defense
Location
California
Salary
$51,871 - $67,432
per year
Type
Full Time
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January 23, 2026
GS-5 Pay Grade
Base salary range: $33,878 - $44,042
Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience. Bachelor's degree.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves supporting doctors in a military hospital's gastroenterology department by helping with procedures like biopsies, preparing rooms, and ensuring everything is clean and safe to prevent infections.
It's a hands-on role in patient care that requires attention to detail and following medical safety rules.
A good fit would be someone with healthcare experience, especially in assisting procedures, who is reliable and comfortable working in a fast-paced clinic environment.
Key Requirements
- One year of specialized experience assisting physicians with patient procedures, preparing examination rooms, and ensuring equipment sterilization
- Knowledge of sterile techniques and safety measures to prevent infections and cross-contamination
- Ability to assist with biopsy procedures including endoscopic, polypectomies, rectal, and liver biopsies
- Experience ensuring charts, X-rays, and pre-medications are ready for procedures
- Skills in patient teaching and orienting ward personnel on clinic policies
- U.S. citizenship required
- Combination of relevant education (e.g., 9 semester hours in health-related field) and experience may qualify
Full Job Description
About the Position: This position is located at Naval Medical Center with the Directorate of Medicine, Gastroenterology Division in San Diego, California. This is a Direct Hire Solicitation.
Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.
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; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) assisting physician in performing procedures for patient treatment; 2) ensuring examination rooms are prepared for patient procedures; and 3) assuring adherence to equipment sterilization safety measures.
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).
OR Education: Completed a half year (i.e., 9 semester hours) of graduate level education in a field directly related to the work of the position, such as appropriate health personnel.
(NOTE: You must attach a copy of your transcripts for verification).
OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.
To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60.
Add the two percentages. Major Duties:
- Assist with all biopsy procedures including endoscopic biopsies, polypectomies, rectal biopsies, and liver biopsies.
- Responsible for assistance to physicians during specialized diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
- Ensure adherence to sterile techniques and other established safety measures to prevent patient infection and cross-contamination.
- Assure charts and X-rays are available for procedures and administers appropriate pre-medications orally or intramuscularly.
- Perform in-service orientation and teaching of ward personnel and patient teaching in accordance with clinic and hospital policies and procedures.
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