Health Technician - Intermediate Care Technician

Full Job Description

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 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 as an integral part of the medical team.

Candidates generally qualify based on U.S. Armed Forces experience or equivalent education. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): The Health Aid and Technician Series, 0640, has a minimum qualification entry requirement.

Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 and above): 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.

In addition to the Individual Occupational Requirement, you may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-6 grade level in the federal service).

Specialized experience include but are not limited to: Prepare and administer medications through various methods, examples include, intramuscular injections, subcutaneous injections, intradermal injections, oral, aerosolized including oxygen, topical, intraocular (eye drops), Optic (ear drops), intranasal, rectal (suppositories), local anesthetics, intraurethral, and intravenous.

Perform minor surgical procedures, medical interventions and administer treatments to manage care to combat disease or disabling symptoms example incise and drain various skin infections or abscesses.

Order appropriate diagnostic studies under the direction of the supervising Licensed Independent Practitioner (LIP) obtains and Reports Diagnostic and laboratory results.

OR, Education: Successfully completed one (1) full year of graduate education (18 semester hours) or an internship in course matter that must include courses directly related to the work of the Intermediate Care Technician position.

This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials.

Education cannot be credited without documentation.

OR, Combination: Combinations of successfully completed graduate level education and specialized experience, as described above, which meet the total experience requirements for this grade level.

The education portion must include graduate courses directly related to the work of the Surgical Technician position. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university.

NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at the GS-07 level.

To calculate, first identify the percentage of required education you have earned (when substituting, you cannot use the first 60 semester hours that you earned).

Then identify the percentage of required experience you possess. Add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal at least 100 percent to qualify at the GS-07.

For example, an applicant who has 9 semester hours of graduate level education (i.e. 50% of graduate education required) and 6 months of creditable specialized experience (i.e.

50% of the required experience) would equal 100% of the required experience for the position A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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. Major Duties:

Duties include, but are not limited to: Obtains patient's experience through patient health history, chief complaints, medication history, and identification of health-related conditions that may impact the patient's health status.

Evaluates patients for emergent/non-emergent medical conditions. Orders appropriate diagnostic studies (i.e. vital signs, EKG, etc.).

Performs interventions based upon patient symptoms and established protocols/standards. Assists in behavioral/psychiatric situations.

Assists Emergency Department Physicians with complex, specialized, and potentially-life threatening procedures.

Administers Oxygen, Basic IV fluids, nebulized medications, limited PO meds, IM meds/immunizations/vaccines.

Recognizes life threatening situations and acts to correct them according to established national or facility protocols. Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm, 40 hours per week.

Position Description Title/PD#: Health Technician - Intermediate Care Technician/PD99968A Physical Requirements: The work involves extended periods of bending, standing and walking.

Generally, the work requires recurring physical exertion with assisting patients.