Health Technician - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Full Job Description

The Health Technician for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Services (PMRS) provides logistical and administrative support for special programming within the rehabilitation services department.

Works within the assigned station within the PMR service of North Florida/South Georgia.

Must possess knowledge of scheduling guidelines, myhealthyvet, supply, and logistical processes, as it supports physical medicine and rehabilitation physician staff during diagnosis and treatment of patients.

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: In accordance with 38 U.S.C.

7402(d), No person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.

You must be proficient in basic written and spoken English in order to meet the requirements of this position.

Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): Applicants must meet IOR to be further considered.

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.

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 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:1) Perform reception duties by assisting visitors to the office.2) Perform simple treatment procedures such as changing sterile dressings, applying slings or bandages, taking and recording vital signs.3) Instruct patients and families the requirements of home self-care for injuries or ailments.4) Observe patients and reporting changes in condition (deviation in color, pulse, respiration, temperature, and blood pressure).5) Interview patients to document complaint, medical history, and personnel information, placing information into electronic patient medical records.

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.

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.

Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

Physical Requirements: Must pass a pre-employment physical examination as required by VA Handbook 5019. This examination is administered by VA Occupational Health.

This position requires moderate lifting., carrying objects such as wheelchairs., frequent reaching above shoulder, use of fingers, hands and legs, , walking & standing up to 8 hours, bending and climbing and able to hear whisper.

The incumbent must be physically, emotionally and mentally stable in order to efficiently perform the essential functions of this position without hazard to themselves or others. Major Duties:

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION*** Major Duties Include (but not limited to): Administer pre-evaluation screen and outcome measures prior to staff evaluation to include vitals and/or documentation needed for appointments.

Provide administrative support to the PMRS programming to include Amputee Care, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Musculoskeletal Injections, Low ADL Monitoring Program (LAMP), Chiropractic services, and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

For example, support Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (m TBI) program by administering and assisting in the collection of data from standardized testing.

Provide audio/visual assistance to rehabilitation programming, such as assisting with telehealth appointments. Assist in the logistical organization of PMRS as assigned.

Examples include TBI clinics EMG, Injections, rehabilitation clinics such as power mobility, amputee or clinical orthotics & prosthetics.

Serve as the point of contact (POC) for issues related to My Healthy Vet programming an monitor clinical response team to patient requests via secure messaging.

Utilizes computer based electronic patient medical records, manages communication and correspondences related to patient medical records requests from community providers and care delivery communications from within the PMRS to include TEAMs channels/chats and communication between other services to include MAS Assist PMRS providers in the ordering and maintenance of supplies and equipment in department.

Assist PMRS providers in the proper routing of clinic patients.

Return patient inquiries, address patient requests and concerns (In person, phone calls, myhealthevet messages; PATS-Rs) and document in the computerized patient record system.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm (Note: Work schedules are determined and approved by the supervisor.

The incumbent may be required to work various shifts on a permanent or temporary basis based on facility/patient care needs). Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized