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Health Technician (Hearing Instrument Specialist)
Veterans Health Administration · Viera, Florida · Closes in 57 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
Only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. can apply. The job is open to the public, and current permanent VA employees and current permanent federal employees of other agencies may also apply. Veterans' preference does not apply because this occupation is on a VA staffing shortage list.
Experience: You can qualify by completing the Department of Labor Apprenticeship Program for Hearing Aid Specialists. For GS-5, no experience beyond the basic requirements is needed. For GS-6, you need one year of experience equivalent to GS-5 that shows the required skills, such as ear anatomy knowledge and hearing aid work.
Education: You can qualify with two academic years beyond high school that include coursework related to the field, such as hearing science, human anatomy and physiology, hearing instrument science, gerontology, psychology, or other general healthcare areas. The school must be accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accreditor. Foreign education must be judged equivalent to a U.S. program by a private credential evaluation organization.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, unrestricted state or territory license or registration to practice as a Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS)
- Active board certification from the National Board for Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences (NBC-HIS), with a temporary exception for non-certified applicants
- Driver's license required for travel
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 57 days (December 30, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This announcement may close before its end date if the position is filled. Eligible applications are referred after monthly cut-off dates, with the first cut-off date listed as 11/10/2026.
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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications, based on your online occupational questionnaire and documents. Applications are reviewed in this order: current permanent VA employees at the facility, other VA employees, current permanent federal employees of other agencies, then all other applicants. Missing or incomplete information may lead to an ineligible rating or a lower rating.
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 the one-page Clinical Resume from the link into the two-page Resume field, and put your full resume in the Other field.
- Include your transcript or apprenticeship certificate and your HIS license or registration, since missing items can lower your rating.
- If you hold NBC-HIS board certification, upload it too; the announcement lists it as a document to send if you have it.
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