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Lead Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing)-Censitrac Administrator
Veterans Health Administration · Houston, Texas · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, Federal employees - Competitive service, The public.
Open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S., including the public and current federal employees. The job conditions also state that you must be a U.S. citizen to apply.
Experience: For the GS-8 level, you need one year of experience at the next lower grade level that shows you can do this work. The basic entry requirement is six months of experience that shows you can do the work or understand it. Preferred: at least five years of hospital-based sterile processing experience.
Education: One year of education beyond high school that includes at least 6 semester hours in health care courses, such as sterile processing, nursing assistant, hospital corpsman, operating room, or surgical technician courses, or other related courses. The school must be accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accrediting body. Education and experience can also be combined.
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).
The job will close once 50 applications are received, which may happen before the official closing date.
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: Your application is rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications. Eligible applications are referred in this order: current permanent DeBakey VA Medical Center employees, then current permanent VHA employees, then current permanent VA nationwide employees, then all other applicants. Missing required information can result in an ineligible rating or a lower overall rating, and your experience will be verified.
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:
- Make your resume show job title, duties, start and end dates by month and year, and average hours per week for each job.
- If you are a current or former federal employee, include an SF-50 that shows one year in your current grade. Award SF-50s are not accepted.
- Describe your sterile processing and equipment tracking experience clearly and specifically, because the VA will verify it and will not assume details.
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