This position is part of the 136 Airlift Wing located in Fort Worth, Texas. The purpose of this position is to assist the Senior Health System Specialist in planning, controlling, conducting, and administering the operational and medical activities with direct responsibility for assigned programs, to train and evaluate traditional Aeromedical Evacuation Specialist proficiency and competency, and provide ground and flight instruction.
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Summary
This position is part of the 136 Airlift Wing located in Fort Worth, Texas. The purpose of this position is to assist the Senior Health System Specialist in planning, controlling, conducting, and administering the operational and medical activities with direct responsibility for assigned programs, to train and evaluate traditional Aeromedical Evacuation Specialist proficiency and competency, and provide ground and flight instruction.
Texas is one of 9 states with NO state income tax.
As a HEALTH SYSTEMS SPECIALIST (Title 32) with the Texas Air National Guard, your duties will include, but will not be limited to:
Assists in planning, controlling, directing, organizing, and implementing all medical administrative, operational, training, and personnel activities designed to ensure medical readiness of the unit.
Manages medical service personnel in planning, providing, and evaluating patient care activities and related training programs, both on the aircraft and on the ground. Organizes and directs administrative and operational duties.
Reviews and determines medical care, as related to aeromedical evacuation procedures, ensuring the highest level of care is provided. Conducts statistical analysis and identifies trends in core competencies, crew currencies, and proficiencies. Develops, consolidates, and compiles data, evaluates program effectiveness, prepares reports, and briefs Executive Management team at Squadron, Group, and Wing level, as well as higher headquarters. Recommends and implements actions and processes to enhance overall unit and personnel readiness, and/or to correct deficiencies in existing programs.
Establishes and is responsible for on-the-job (OJT) training, the sustainment training program for enlisted personnel, proficiency training, and acts as trainer and certifying official. Determines training needs, schedules personnel for appropriate training, and conducts follow-up review to ensure appropriate training has been accomplished.
Performs as flight instructor/examiner to ensure operational readiness of medical specialists on actual and/or simulated aeromedical evacuation missions. Serves on the unit Review and Certification Board and conducts initial, re-qualification, and periodic flight standardization/evaluation checks of assigned medical specialists. Serves as Flight Instructor for ground and flight training for initial upgrade as well as re-qualification training.
Manages, operates, maintains, interprets, and monitors the Air Force Operations Resource Management System (AFORMS) to ensure proper posting of training, requirements for training, effectiveness of the continuation training program, air crew information at the squadron level.
Performs as a Charge Medical Technician or Medical Technician on large multi-engine transport aircraft during dedicated aeromedical or combined aeromedical/airlift missions.
Conducts public relations appearances and speaking programs in support of recruiting activities. Coordinates all aspects of enlistment actions with appropriate base activities to ensure timely accession to the unit.
Manages the unit deployment program. May serve as Unit Deployment Manager. Manages the Isolated Personnel Report (ISOPREP) program. Manages the unit recall program. Manages the unit mobility equipment program.
Executes unit budget, to include preparation and monitoring expenditures, as well asestablishment of long range requirements and current year shortfalls.
Assists the Senior Health System Technician in the recruiting program to ensure full manning of the unit. Maintains close liaison with recruiting sources in the military/civilian populous to include medical and academic institutions. Promotes the Medical Program by means of new media, personal contacts, and speaking engagements. Coordinates the accomplishment of interviews, arranges for induction physicals and military aptitude testing, and the accomplishment of all related forms for appointment or enlistment.
Appointment Factor(s): This is an Excepted Service position that requires active membership in a compatible military assignment in the Texas Air National Guard and wear of the military uniform.
Areas of Consideration: Areas of Consideration: In-State. This includes:
All currently employed full-time permanent, indefinite and temporary personnel of the Texas National Guard.
All current members of the Texas National Guard.
US citizens, US nationals or individuals who owe allegiance to the United States eligible for immediate transfer into the Texas Air National Guard.
Remarks:
Texas National Guard is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Veterans' preference is not applicable to this position.
This is a Non-Bargaining Unit position.
Direct deposit is mandatory.
Trial period required (see additional information)
For positions requiring the operation of motor vehicles, candidates must have a valid state driver's license for the state in which they live or are principally employed.
For positions requiring a security clearance (Secret or Top Secret) the applicant must possess or be able to obtain a clearance within one year of appointment.
MILITARY REQUIREMENTS:
For Dual-Status Technician positions service affiliation under Title 32 USC 709 is required.
Military skill set is determined by AFSC/MOS requirements. Upon selection, individuals must be assigned to a compatible military AFSC/MOS in accordance with statutes and National Guard Bureau regulations and must obtain/maintain all requirements of the AFSC/MOS
Rank Spread: TSgt(E-6) not to exceed MSgt (E-7)
AFSC: X4N071 Applicants must have "X" prefix on AFSC and current & qualified Aeromedical experience.
Qualifications
In describing your experience in your resume, please be clear and specific. Assumptions regarding your experience will not be made. To be considered for qualification, your resume must include relevant experience with beginning and ending dates of employment/experience reflecting the following:
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:
At least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-07). With progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following: Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.
OR
A master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. May substitute an educational degree study program for some specialized experience. If you are using education to qualify for this position, you must provide transcripts to support your educational claims.
OR
A combination of the experience and education listed above. If you are using education to qualify for this position, you must provide transcripts to support your educational claims. ???????
Only experience/education gained by closing date of this position will be considered.
Education
If you are using education to qualify for this position, you must provide transcripts to support your educational claims. Only experience/education gained by closing date of this position will be considered.
Qualifying education requirements includes course work in fields closely related to those specified below:
An Undergraduate Degree in Health Administration, Health Care Administration (or equivalent), Health Care Management, Health Management and Policy, Health Services Administration (or equivalent), Hospital Administration (or equivalent), or related fields such as, Primary Care Management. Other completed degrees in Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Information Systems Management, Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Engineering and Health Management/Health Systems Engineering, Operations Research or other closely-related degree fields.
Or
A Graduate Degree in Health Administration, Health Care Administration (or equivalent), Health Care Management, Health Management and Policy, Health Services Administration (or equivalent), Hospital Administration (or equivalent), Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Statistics, Information Systems Management, or other business-related equivalent.
Special Provision for Inservice Placement:
Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included:
Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements;
Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and
Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.
Additional information
Incentives: Acceptance of a military Federal technician position may result in termination and / or repayment of military incentives. Please check your contract and contact your servicing Education Services (Incentives) office or the Recruiting/Retention office.
Trial Period:
As a condition of employment, you will be required to serve a 1- 2 trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:
- your performance and conduct;
- the needs and interests of the agency;
- whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
- whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Upon completion of your trial period your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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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.
Once the announcement has closed, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine if you meet the qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the assessment questionnaire to determine your level of experience. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application package, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this position. If you are found to be among the top qualified candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.
Your qualifications will be evaluated on the following competencies (knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics). NOTE: You do not have to respond to the KSA's separately but your resume should contain sufficient information to demonstrate possession of the KSA's.
In-depth knowledge of the characteristics of the Worldwide AE systems, policies, and procedures. Knowledge of unit, ANG, Air Material Command (AMC), and U. S. Air Force(USAF) AE missions to analyze, evaluate, and recommend/implement actions to enhance operational readiness and unit effectiveness.
In-depth knowledge of emergency medical practice and procedures. Must be a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician. Required to maintain continuing education credits (48) every two years. In-depth knowledge of altitude physiology and in-flight patient care requirements and procedures.
In-depth knowledge of general management policies, principles, and procedures.
Knowledge of the AE mission, organization, programs, requirements, and functions is necessary to understand the operational implications of functional element inter relationships and to plan, organize, and implement unit's programs and health care delivery, both in-flight and on the ground. Follows DOD, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), USAF, AMC, ANG, federal, state, and local instructions, directives, and guidelines. Skill in applying statistical and accounting-type data analysis tools and techniques to develop and present analytical findings and recommendations in a clear and concise written and/or oral format.
Knowledge of presentation skills needed to influence others and deliver briefings, lead discussions, conduct training workshops and seminars, and prepare project reports. In-depth knowledge of passenger/patient transport principles, associated equipment, and aircraft systems (mechanical restraint systems, cargo doors, ramps, hatches, seats, litters, litter rails, lighting, intercom, and aircraft electrical, power, and oxygen systems).
Knowledge of aircraft configurations, assigned duties before, during and after flight, aircraft electrical/auxiliary power systems to interface and operate medical and/or life support equipment, preflight checks and inspections, preparation of equipment/patients for loading, and skill and knowledge to direct crews in loading, applicable emergency procedures, evacuation routes, and use of survival and emergency aircraft and medical equipment.
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.
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.
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 application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To preview the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12938415
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application.
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.
TX 136th Airlift Wing
200 Hensley Ave
Fort Worth, TX 76127
US
Next steps
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. Your application will be evaluated by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluation is complete, you will receive another notification regarding the status of your application.
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
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 application/Occupational Questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. To preview the Occupational Questionnaire, click the following link: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12938415
A complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on the closing date of the announcement to receive consideration.
To begin, click Apply to access the online application. You will need to be logged into your USAJOBS account to apply. If you do not have a USAJOBS account, you will need to create one before beginning the application.
Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your application package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your application before it is submitted. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
After acknowledging you have reviewed your application package, complete the Include Personal Information section as you deem appropriate and click to continue with the application process.
You will be taken to the online application which you must complete in order to apply for the position. Complete the online application, verify the required documentation is included with your application package, and submit the application.
To verify the status of your application, log into your USAJOBS account (https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login), all of your applications will appear on the Welcome screen. The Application Status will appear along with the date your application was last updated. For information on what each Application Status means, visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/how-to/application/status/.
TX 136th Airlift Wing
200 Hensley Ave
Fort Worth, TX 76127
US
Next steps
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. Your application will be evaluated by the Human Resources Office to determine your eligibility for the position. After the evaluation is complete, you will receive another notification regarding the status of your application.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
