Intermediate Care Technician

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)- Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) Program is a program designed to hire former military corpsmen combat medics and medical technicians into positions at VA Medical Centers as an integral part of the medical team. ICTs operate within clearly-defined clinical competencies.

For the purposes of this job announcement ICTs may work in multiple clinical settings based on facility needs this announcement is limited to Primary Care.

*Primary Care Clinics: The PACT ICT is responsible for providing direct and/or indirect patient care to assigned group of patients. Will have knowledge skill and experience to carry out assignments involving point of care testing providing treatments vaccinations performing diagnostic studies and patient/family education. ICT demonstrates active collaboration and communication.

• Assist licensed personnel with the delivery of care to patients with complex and specialized care needs.
• Recognize signs of medical emergencies.
• Apply knowledge of basic first-aid principles in responding to emergency situations.
• Assist in behavioral/psychiatric situations in an outpatient setting
• Deal calmly and effectively with high stress situations (for example tight deadlines hostile individuals emergency situations dangerous situations).
• Assist with patient exams screenings and structured interviews.
• Document actions interventions and procedures in the medical health record.
• Perform observation-based screening and collects patient information in collaboration with licensed personnel by utilizing the appropriate templates and tools established by agency.
• Assists licensed personnel with the delivery of care to patients with complex and specialized care needs.
• Conduct training of personnel in if appropriately trained certified and/or qualified. Ex: facility formal preceptors.
• Help others learn; identifies training needs; provides constructive reinforcement; coaches others on how to perform tasks; acts as a mentor.
• Serve as a responsible member of the team and interact in an appropriate manner with patients family members professionals and other supportive personnel involved in the delivery of patient care.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• To be considered for this position you must complete all required steps in the process. In addition to the application and questionnaire this position requires an online assessment. The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• 5 CFR 330.502 - General restriction on movement after competitive appointment applies.

• 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.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement 02/16/2026.

Minimum Qualifications: English Language Proficiency: Individuals serving in direct patient care positions must be proficient in both spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) and 7407(d).

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade at any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade as required by the this instance you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

This occupational series (0640) has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR). An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for the Health Technician occupational series. All applicants regardless of grade level must meet minimum education or specialized experience requirements. For this occupation the education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. 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 requires application of the knowledge methods and techniques of the position to be filled. OR successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelors degree with major study or at least 24 semester hours (36 credit hours) in subjects directly related to the position. Do you meet the Individual Occupational Requirement for this occupational series

AND

GS-07 grade level: Have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-06 level or pay band in the Federal service. Examples of specialized experience include: obtaining patient health history chief complaints medication history and identification of health related conditions that may impact the patients health status; evaluating patients for emergent/non-emergent medical conditions; ordering and/or performing appropriate diagnostic studies (i.e. vital signs EKG etc.); performing interventions based upon patient symptoms and established protocols/standards; assisting in behavioral/psychiatric situations; assisting Physicians with complex specialized and potentially-life threatening procedures; administration of: Oxygen Basic IV fluids nebulized medications limited PO meds IM meds/immunizations/vaccines; independently recognized life threatening situations and act to correct these according to established national or facility protocols. Your experience must be detailed in your resume to receive full credit.

OR

EDUCATION (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED): Have successfully completed one (1) year of graduate education. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school 18 semester hours should be considered satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement. Part-time graduate education is creditable in accordance with its relationship to a year of full-time study at the school attended.NOTE: Transcripts (unofficial or official) must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

For more information on these qualification standards please visit the United States Office of Personnel Managements website at