Summary

The New Mexico VA Healthcare Network is recruiting for a Health Technicians. This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until June 30 - 2025. The initial cut-off date of eligible applications will be on April 25 - 2025. Eligible applicants received after that date will be referred at regular intervals - every other Friday until all positions are filled.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT: Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 and above): 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. GRADE REQUIREMENT: GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-06 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: setting up equipment for procedures; performing personal patient care; utilizing an automated system to maintain and retrieve patient data; assisting with patient test and procedures; and answering phones and directing phone calls to appropriate personal. There is no educational substitution for the GS-06 level. 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.

Duties

• Collect and labels specimens (blood - urine - sputum - stool) for testing
• Operate guidelines to determine technical factors - sets controls - calibrates - and operates equipment and instruments such as electrocardiogram (EKG) machine - cortisol-binding globulin (CBG) monitor - ankle-brachial index (ABI) doppler - bladder scan - etc
• Independently cleans exam rooms and re-stocks supplies as indicated by the needs of the patient or health care professional
• Orders and maintains all supplies utilized in the clinic
• Perform direct patient support to include gathering information from patients - providing personal patient care and patient education on home use of medical equipment such as glucometers - blood pressure monitors - peak flow meters - etc
• Provide clerical and administrative support to relieve health care professionals in the Primary Care by scrubbing the schedule for appropriate appointments - entering requests for labs as generated by clinical reminder fields - into Computer Patient Record System (CPRS) Graphic User Interface (GUI) - utilizes electronic Quality Measures (eQM) to meet Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL) and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 07:30 AM - 04:00 PM Position Description Title/PD#: Health Technician/PD12810A - PD10189A - and PD10285A Physical Requirements: The work requires frequent walking - standing - stooping - lifting - bending - stretching - pushing - turning and at times lifting heavy equipment and/or patients
• Good vision and hearing are required to collect patient data.