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Lead Medical Records Technician (Health Information Technician)
Veterans Health Administration · Gainesville, Florida · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency, The public, Federal employees - Competitive service.
Only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. may apply. Non-citizens may be appointed only if qualified citizens cannot be found under VA policy, or under a grandfathering rule for current VHA employees in this job.
Experience: You need one year of experience at the GS-7 level or equivalent, showing knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, and health records. Six months of that year must have built the skills needed for medical records technician work.
Education: An associate's degree from an accredited college in health information technology or health information management works. So does a related degree with at least 12 semester hours in those subjects, such as medical terminology, anatomy, physiology, legal aspects of health care, and introduction to health records. Education can also be combined with experience.
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 6 days (November 9, 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 will be rated on how well you meet the qualifications. Your answers must be backed up by your resume, and missing or unclear 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, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Your resume must show each job's duties, grade level, month and year dates, and hours per week, or you may lose consideration.
- If you use education to qualify, include your transcript, and list courses such as medical terminology and anatomy.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this job, but your resume must still clearly match your answers.
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