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Community Living Center- Nursing Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Butler, Pennsylvania · Closes in 58 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
The job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S., and the conditions say you must be a U.S. citizen to apply. The page also lists current federal employees of the hiring agency (VA) as eligible.
Experience: For GS-3, you need six months of general experience that shows you can learn Nursing Assistant work. For GS-4, you need one year of specialized experience as a Nursing Assistant or in another medical field, such as licensed practical nurse or health technician; for GS-5, you need one year of progressively responsible experience at the GS-4 level.
Education: One year of education above high school with courses related to Nursing Assistant work qualifies for GS-3. For GS-4, you need two years above high school with nursing, health care, or related courses. For GS-5, you need a bachelor's degree or a 4-year course of study with 24 semester hours of health care courses. A completed intensive training course of less than one year may also meet the GS-3 experience requirement.
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 58 days (December 31, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You are rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications, using the occupational questionnaire you complete online. Your application and documents will be verified, and errors or missing information may lower your rating or make you ineligible.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Upload your transcript with your application, since it is required even if you qualify through experience.
- Describe your work clearly and specifically, with dates, hours per week, and duties, because the VA will not assume anything about your experience.
- Submit the full application package before 11:59 PM ET on 12/31/2026, because it is your responsibility to make sure everything is in on time.
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