Health Technician (Intensive Care Unit)

The incumbent aids and assists ICU nursing staff in providing quality care for Veteran patients. The Health Technician(Monitor Tech) provides continuous cardiac surveillance interpretation and reporting of monitor and telemetry tracing of patients within Patient Care addition the incumbents perform patient care support functions. Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Maintain ongoing high-level surveillance of patients cardiac rhythms and notifies nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders.
• Measure and interprets patients heart rhythm and documents on patient record per departmental standards.
• Initiate and discontinues monitoring equipment on admission transfer or discharge.
• Perform clerical duties related to admission discharge and documentation of patient information from Heartbeat Central station.
• Serve as a resource for training and troubleshooting to both Heartbeat Central station and clinical areas.
• Maintain and stocks all designated equipment including telemetry and transport monitors.
• Adhere to confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patients clinicians employees and visitors.
• Provide assistance of a technical specialized or support nature to health and medical personnel in the diagnosis or treatment of patient illnesses or medical conditions.
• Support medical and health care professionals in tests and procedures to diagnose and treat medical conditions.
• Perform a range of diagnostic support duties such as taking recording and reporting to supervisor deviations in vital signs taking specimens labeling specimens for the laboratory.
• Perform and assists RN with personal care such as body and oral hygiene dressing/undressing and toileting/elimination always ensuring patient privacy.
• Answer call lights and if unable to independently assist communicates patients needs to assigned RN or Charge Nurse Performs other duties as assigned.
• As directed assist in postmortem care including disconnecting patients from monitors and other equipment bagging up and labeling patients personal items and assisting in transferring patients to the morgue.
• Collect and sends routine urine stool blood and sputum specimens per established protocol.
• Perform other duties as assigned including floating to other units.

Work Schedule: Various days/nights weekends holidays
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (Intensive Care Unit)/PD01643A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• 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.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public 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.

To qualify for this position applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

Individual Occupational Requirement: 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 you are required to have technician experience which is experience that required application of the knowledge methods and techniques of the position to be filled.

In addition to meeting the Individual Occupational Requirement applicants must also meet the specialized experience.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge skills and abilities (KSAs) 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:

• Performing both clerical and clinical duties in a medical/healthcare environment.
• Observing patients cardiac rhythms.
• Notifying nursing/clinicians of any rate/rhythm changes according to clinician/provider orders.
• Operate and monitor equipment for both 12 lead and IS lead EKG readings.
• Measures and interprets patients heart rhythm and documents on patient.

Note: IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Verbiage displayed on your resume or application must contain your own words. You may refer to the specialized experience located within the vacancy announcement to assist with describing work experiences; however resumes or applications received that copied verbatim from the announcement will be evaluated and may be reviewed as falsifying your experience or application.

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.