This Nurse Midwife position is located within the Directorate of Surgery, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital located in Fort Belvoir, VA. Provides independent and collaborative primary care or specialty, comprehensive and therapeutic health care services, at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. Practices evidence-based care, with competency in assessment, diagnosing and management of a full range of healthcare services for women from adolescence to beyond menopause; nursing theory; research; and advanced clinical practice.
Who May Apply:
All US Citizens and Nationals with allegiance to the United States.
Summary
About the Position:
This Nurse Midwife position is located within the Directorate of Surgery, Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital located in Fort Belvoir, VA. Provides independent and collaborative primary care or specialty, comprehensive and therapeutic health care services, at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital. Practices evidence-based care, with competency in assessment, diagnosing and management of a full range of healthcare services for women from adolescence to beyond menopause; nursing theory; research; and advanced clinical practice.
Who May Apply:
All US Citizens and Nationals with allegiance to the United States.
Incumbent applies a mastery of nursing within the evolving profession of the advanced practice, Certified Nurse-Midwife. Implements and adapts medical theories and technologies, paralleling the latest advancements in scientific evidence, medical initiatives, and evolving obstetrics/gynecology healthcare technologies. Adapts treatment to new, experimental, and ground-breaking theories in the focus of diverse patient care for women, ranging from inpatient to outpatient settings, as well as from available risk management data, supporting the investigation of new drugs. Integrates the art and science of both nursing and midwifery into practice. Assesses acute and non-acute clinical problems. Participates in patient care rounds and conferences, presenting patient cases/topics and communicating patient management strategies to members of the patient care team. Serves in a leadership position and is recognized as a consultant and role model to other health care professionals, colleagues, professional groups, and universities.
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Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Two year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct Deposit of Pay is Required. This position requires the incumbent to complete a Tier 3 (T3) security investigation. This position requires the incumbent to have tuberculosis testing. This position has mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination requirements and is subject to annual seasonal influenza vaccinations unless otherwise exempted for medical or religious reasons. This position is covered by the Department of Defense Civilian Employee Drug-Free Workplace Program as a testing designated position (TDP). This position requires you to satisfactorily complete a pre-employment physical examination. This position requires the incumbent to fulfill credentialing requirements and obtain and maintain appropriate/relevant clinical privileges. This position may require the incumbent to work on any day or shift, including PMs, nights, weekends, holidays, or on an "on call" basis, necessary to meet mission requirements. This position has been designated as Mission Essential and the incumbent must assume essential personnel status during inclement weather/emergencies. This position requires that you obtain and maintain a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Qualifications
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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. Basic Requirement for Nurse Midwife:
Education: Completion of an organized program of study and clinical experience recognized by the American College of Nurse Midwives.
Registration: An active, current registration as a professional nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. An applicant who has graduated from an approved nursing educational program within the past 12 months may be appointed pending State registration as a professional nurse.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
Experience: To qualify based on your work experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which includes performing physical examinations; managing labor and childbirth delivery; providing patient/family education; and providing assessments to acute and/or non-acute obstetrical patients. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone -- no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Education
Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
Foreign education must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency in order to be considered for this position. Please submit your foreign education evaluation with your application.
Additional information
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense
referral system for displaced employees.
If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in
employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
The Department of Defense offers an excellent
benefits program. In addition to your take-home pay, your comprehensive
compensation/benefits package will include most of the benefits described in
the USAJOBS Resource Center.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How you will be evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application package (resume, supporting documents, and responses to the questionnaire) will be used to verify that you meet the basic eligibility and qualification requirements. Only the most recently submitted resume will be considered.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). If you are a
Federal employee in the competitive service and your agency has notified you in
writing that you are a displaced employee eligible for ICTAP consideration, you
may receive selection priority. See Interagency Career
Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP) for more information. Additional
information about the program is on OPM's
Career Transition Resources website.
It is the policy of the Government not to deny employment simply because an individual has been unemployed or has had financial difficulties that have arisen through no fault of the individual. Information about an individual's employment experience will be used only to determine the person's qualifications and to assess his or her relative level of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Although an individual's personal conduct may be relevant in any employment decision, including conduct during periods of unemployment or evidence of dishonesty in handling financial matters, financial difficulty that has arisen through no fault of the individual will generally not itself be the basis of an unfavorable suitability or fitness determination.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
The Department of Defense offers an excellent
benefits program. In addition to your take-home pay, your comprehensive
compensation/benefits package will include most of the benefits described in
the USAJOBS Resource Center.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
The documents you are required to submit vary based on
whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A
complete description of preference categories and the associated required
documents is in the Applicant Checklist
(External).
As described above, your complete application includes
your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which
prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you
will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be
considered any further.
Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted
in any format.
If you submit more than one
copy of your resume, only the most recent version will be reviewed. The latest
timestamp will be used to determine which version of your resume is "most
recent." It is your responsibility to check the status and timestamp of all
documents you submit as part of your application.
If your resume includes a
photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to
make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered
for this vacancy.
For qualifications
determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of
employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to
present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application
will be marked as incomplete and you will not receive consideration for this
position.
If you are unable to apply online or unable to upload your
supporting documents follow the directions located at: Faxing
Applications and Documents The Vacancy ID is
1938640. You will need the
questionnaire, View Occupational Questionnaire, to complete your faxed application
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the
application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the
Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and
marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than
you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal
information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an
un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your
eligibility.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online
questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required
Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by
11:59 PM (EST) on Thursday, April 13, 2017 to
receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply Online
to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the
prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and
complete the occupational questionnaire.
Click the Submit My Answers
button to submit your application package.
It is your responsibility to
ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the
closing date.
To verify your application
is complete, log into your USAJOBS
account, select the Application Status link and
then select the more information link for this position. The Details page will
display the status of your application, the documentation received and
processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this
application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus
scan process.
To return to an incomplete
application, log into your USAJOBS
account and click Update Application in the
vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other
documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be
incomplete.
It is your responsibility to
verify that information entered, uploaded, or faxed (i.e., resume) is complete,
accurate, and submitted by the closing date. Uploaded documents may take up to
one hour to clear the virus scan. Faxed documents must be completely
transmitted by 11:59p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the closing date of the
announcement.
The Department of the Defense provides reasonable
accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable
accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify
the servicing civilian personnel unit. Your requests for reasonable
accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
DDAAFG Director for Surgery
9300 Dewitt Loop
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive
an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application
package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality
ranking for this position.
If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified,
your application will receive no further consideration.
The documents you submit must support your responses to
the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support
your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or
"incomplete application" and you will not receive further consideration for this
job.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
The documents you are required to submit vary based on
whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A
complete description of preference categories and the associated required
documents is in the Applicant Checklist
(External).
As described above, your complete application includes
your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which
prove your eligibility to apply. If you fail to provide these documents, you
will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be
considered any further.
Your resume:
Your resume may be submitted
in any format.
If you submit more than one
copy of your resume, only the most recent version will be reviewed. The latest
timestamp will be used to determine which version of your resume is "most
recent." It is your responsibility to check the status and timestamp of all
documents you submit as part of your application.
If your resume includes a
photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to
make eligibility and qualification determinations and you may not be considered
for this vacancy.
For qualifications
determinations your resume must contain hours worked per week and the dates of
employment (i.e., HRS per week and month/year to month/year or month/year to
present). If your resume does not contain this information, your application
will be marked as incomplete and you will not receive consideration for this
position.
If you are unable to apply online or unable to upload your
supporting documents follow the directions located at: Faxing
Applications and Documents The Vacancy ID is
1938640. You will need the
questionnaire, View Occupational Questionnaire, to complete your faxed application
NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the
application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the
Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and
marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than
you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal
information before you submit your application. You may be asked to provide an
un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your
eligibility.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
To apply for this position, you must complete the online
questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required
Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by
11:59 PM (EST) on Thursday, April 13, 2017 to
receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply Online
to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the
prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and
complete the occupational questionnaire.
Click the Submit My Answers
button to submit your application package.
It is your responsibility to
ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the
closing date.
To verify your application
is complete, log into your USAJOBS
account, select the Application Status link and
then select the more information link for this position. The Details page will
display the status of your application, the documentation received and
processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this
application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus
scan process.
To return to an incomplete
application, log into your USAJOBS
account and click Update Application in the
vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other
documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be
incomplete.
It is your responsibility to
verify that information entered, uploaded, or faxed (i.e., resume) is complete,
accurate, and submitted by the closing date. Uploaded documents may take up to
one hour to clear the virus scan. Faxed documents must be completely
transmitted by 11:59p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the closing date of the
announcement.
The Department of the Defense provides reasonable
accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable
accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify
the servicing civilian personnel unit. Your requests for reasonable
accommodation will be addressed on a case-by-case basis.
DDAAFG Director for Surgery
9300 Dewitt Loop
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060
Next steps
If you provided an email address, you will receive
an email message acknowledging receipt of your application. Your application
package will be used to determine your eligibility, qualifications, and quality
ranking for this position.
If you are determined to be ineligible or not qualified,
your application will receive no further consideration.
The documents you submit must support your responses to
the online questionnaire. If your application contradicts or does not support
your questionnaire responses, you will receive a rating of "not qualified" or
"incomplete application" and you will not receive further consideration for this
job.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
