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12/02/2017 to 12/18/2017
$57,489 - $74,740 per year
GS 10
1 vacancy in the following location:
Not required
No
Permanent - Excepted Service Permanent
Full-time - Full Time
No
JV-18-JEH-2025916-BU
485661600
Pathology and Laboratory Services is currently recruiting for a Generalist Lead Medical Technologist. The list below is not all inclusive of the duties that the incumbent will perform.
This is a generalist lead medical technologist position located within the Pathology & Laboratory Service Line. The team leader facilitates team/work processes by working in collaboration with team members to ensure that tasks, priorities and goals are coordinated with laboratory management. A MT at this level leads the work group in carrying out the day-to-day operations in the department of the laboratory. The duties include routine testing, quality control, new test correlation/validation, maintenance and troubleshooting of instrumentation. The lead technologists performs functions, such as employee competency records, supply functions, laboratory safety, quality control review, new method development or employee or student training as well as provide professional and technical advice to other technicians and technologists on alternate tours of duty. The incumbent also provides technical advice to staff and other health care members and oversees work assignments and work flow. The team leader is responsible for ensuring that staff follows all policies and procedures and is a subject matter authority when there are questions of a technical or professional nature. The incumbent may be responsible for reporting personnel absences and may be responsible for staff schedules and other assignments delegated by the departmental supervisors.
Medical Technologists perform as a generalist; develops, performs, evaluates, interprets, correlates, and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results. Testing procedures are performed on a variety of biological specimens / samples using manual or automated techniques, and require a broad exercise of independent judgment and responsibility with minimal technical supervision. The work performed is in a variety of laboratory disciplines, such as bacteriology, chemistry (including endocrinology and toxicology), molecular biology, coagulation, flow cytometry, hematology, immunology, immunohematology (blood banking), mycology, parasitology, serology, urinalysis, and virology. Such positions also include requirements to monitor quality control systems and measures; collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients; and provide education for laboratory and other healthcare professionals, and others in the medical center setting including the public. For all assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty) and range of variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time.
Work Schedule: Midnight to 8:30 A.M. with rotating weekends and holidays.
Functional Statement Title/#: Lead Medical Technologist/000000
Physical Requirements:
The work requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as long periods of standing, bending over microscope, reaching for supplies or material, and lifting moderately heavy items such as centrifuges and record boxes (or occasionally lifting heavier items such as reagent packs). The work may require specific physical characteristics and abilities such as dexterity (to perform intricate collection or analysis procedures) and color vision.
Basic Requirements:
Education
and/or Experience Combination -
A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or
university in medical laboratory science, medical technology, clinical
laboratory science or in a related science (e.g., laboratory sciences such as
chemistry, biochemistry, biology, microbiology, immunology, etc.). AND completion
of a medical technology clinical practice program. Clinical practice programs
completed after 1974 must have been accredited by the National Accrediting
Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS), Commission on Accreditation
of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP, formerly CAHEA), or the
Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES). The professional
curriculum may have consisted of a post-baccalaureate certificate program or be
integrated into a four-year program of study that culminated in a baccalaureate
degree.
OR,
A bachelor's degree from an accredited
college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one
course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in
organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics, AND two
years of post-certification clinical laboratory experience (e.g., blood
banking, chemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy,
etc.) within the last ten years as a certified Medical Laboratory Technician by
the American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification (ASCP-BOC),
American Society of Clinical Pathology Board of Registry (ASCP-BOR) or American
Medical Technologists (AMT). This experience must include performing moderate
and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry, hematology,
microbiology immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical experience
which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory.
OR,
A bachelor's degree from an accredited
college/university, including 16 semester hours of biological science (with one
course in microbiology), 16 semester hours of chemistry (with one course in
organic or biochemistry) and one course in mathematics, AND five
years of clinical laboratory experience within the last ten years performing
moderate and/or high complexity testing in blood banking, chemistry,
hematology, microbiology, immunology and clinical microscopy (or categorical
experience which matches categorical certification) in a clinical laboratory.
Foreign
Graduates. Graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the
educational and/or experience requirements if the degree is found to be
equivalent to degree programs recognized by the NAACLS or clinical laboratory
experience as described in paragraph 2b(2) or (3) above. This finding may be
based on either of the following:
(1) A letter from a college or university with a baccalaureate program
recognized by the NAACLS stating that the individual's foreign degree has been
evaluated and been found to be equivalent to its bachelor of medical technology
degree.
(2) A letter from ASCP-BOC or AMT stating that the individual is eligible for
the certification examination.
Certification - All candidates must currently possess the
appropriate certification as a MT, MLS, or CLS given by the ASCP-BOC, ASCP-BOR,
or AMT.
OR
Must currently possess the categorical or specialist
technologist level certification from the certification agencies listed above,
such as, but not limited to, chemistry (C/SC), hematology (H/SH), microbiology
(M/SM), molecular biology (MB/SMB) and blood bank (BB/SBB). Technologists with
categorical or specialist certifications may only perform duties within the
area of the laboratory specific to their categorical certification (e. g., an
individual with a chemistry (C) certification can only perform duties in
chemistry).
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
Preferred Experience:
-Excellent customer service skills
-Ability to adapt to change
-Desire to be an effective leader
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.
Grade Determinations:
(3) GS-10
(a) Experience. Must have 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, which is directly related to the position to be filled.
(b) Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs:
1. Comprehensive knowledge of and skill in applying a wide range of concepts, principles and methodology of the field to perform advanced techniques.
2. Ability to modify or adapt established methods, procedures or techniques to resolve difficult or complex problems.
3. Knowledge of the application of laboratory regulatory requirements.
4. Ability to provide or coordinate staff development and training.
References: Appendix G24. Medical Technologist Qualification Standard. GS-644. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
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This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
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NOTE: The Professional Standards Board (a peer-review group) will review the selected candidates education and experience and recommend the grade and salary at which the candidate will be placed. For internal selectees eligible for promotion, the board will determine grade and HR will determine step in accordance with policy.
Required Documents:
1. VA Form 10-2850c - Application for Associated Health
Occupations (required). Available at the VA Forms website: http://www.va.gov/vaforms/search_action.asp?FormNo=10-2850&tkey=&Action=Search.
2. Resume
3. Complete the Questionnaire
4. Copy of Transcript
5. Proof of Certification
6. SF- 50 for Federal Employees
Other Accepted Documents
-Cover Letter
-DD-214
-OF- 306
-Other
-Other Veterans Document
-SF-15
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Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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