Medical Technician - Phlebotomy

This position is in the Primary Care Community Based Outpatient Clinic Lab within the Nursing, Ambulatory Care Service. The position will provide lab specimen collection, preparatory processes, quality control checks, and logistics inventory management for the entire clinic. This position provides a service to compliment a fully coordinated continuum of care for patients.

Qualifications:

This position includes a Selective Placement Factor (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective Placement Factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet it are ineligible for further consideration. The Selective Placement Factor for this position is: Experience performing phlebotomy/blood draws on human patients . (This experience must be documented in your resume.) ~AND~

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. In addition to the requirements listed above, the following is also required:

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE

You must possess at least one year of specialized experience that equipped you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of this position, and that is typically in or related to the work of this Medical Technician position. To be creditable, this experience must have been equivalent to at least the GS-4 grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience includes:

(a) Technical medical laboratory support work such as performing laboratory tests and examinations (chemical, microbiologic, hematologic, and blood banking) and preparing reports of findings or (b) technical support work in a closely related field, e.g., biological laboratory technician work, that required application of the methods and techniques for the position to be filled. (THIS

EXPERIENCE MUST BE SUPPORTED BY YOUR RESUME TO BE CREDITABLE.

) ~OR~

SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE

You must have successfully completed a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, with major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects directly related to the position. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business or technical school, junior college, college or university for which high school graduation or the equivalent is the normal prerequisite. Education cannot be credited without documentation. (COPY

OF TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED AT TIME OF APPLICATION.

) ~OR~

COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

You must possess equivalent combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience, as described above, to meet total qualification requirements at the GS-5 level. Transcripts must be submitted with application. Education cannot be credited without documentation. (THIS

EXPERIENCE MUST BE SUPPORTED BY YOUR RESUME TO BE CREDITABLE AND COPY OF TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED AT TIME OF 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/ .