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Intermittent Vocational Nurse (Ukiah VA Outpatient Clinic)
Veterans Health Administration · Ukiah, California · Closes in 50 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, The public.
The job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or owe allegiance to the U.S., although the announcement also says non-citizens may be appointed if qualified citizens cannot be recruited. Current federal employees in the excepted service and current VA employees may also apply.
Experience: GS-4 requires 6 months of LPN/LVN experience, or one year of nursing care work in a hospital, clinic, or similar facility. GS-5 requires one year of GS-4-level experience, and GS-6 requires one year of GS-5-level experience. Two years of LVN/LPN experience is preferred.
Education: You can qualify with graduation from a practical or vocational nursing school approved by the state or accredited by NLNAC when you finished the program. Military health training accepted by your state licensing body also counts. You can also qualify with a license from a state that does not require school graduation plus at least one year of successful LPN/LVN practice.
Licenses and certifications:
- Active, full, current, and unrestricted LPN/LVN license from a U.S. state, territory, Puerto Rico, or D.C.
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 50 days (December 23, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
Yes. This is an open continuous announcement with a first referral cut-off on November 12, 2026, and more cut-offs every 2 weeks. Applications received after a cut-off are still considered as vacancies open.
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. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, and missing or incomplete information may lead to an ineligible rating or a lower score. Referred applicants may be contacted for an interview, and reference checks may be done.
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:
- Your license must be active, full, and unrestricted, and your transcript must come from an accredited school.
- Describe your nursing experience clearly, with dates, hours per week, and duties, because VA will not assume anything.
- Upload your license, transcript, and resume with your application; missing items can lower your rating.
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