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Nursing Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Little Rock, Arkansas · Closes in 5 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Federal employees - Excepted service, Internal to an agency.
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job. The job is open to the public, current permanent VA Nationwide employees, federal employees of other agencies, and U.S. citizens.
Experience: For GS-3, you need six months of general experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant skills. 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 can qualify you instead of experience. A training program of less than one year as a nursing assistant may also meet the GS-3 experience requirement. For GS-4, two years of college with nursing or healthcare courses qualifies; for GS-5, a bachelor's degree or a four-year course of study with 24 semester hours of health care courses qualifies. Schools must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Licenses and certifications:
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, required if selected
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 5 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: Your application is rated on how well you meet the qualifications, and applications are referred in this order: current permanent Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System employees, then current VHA employees, then VA Nationwide employees, then all other applicants. Your application and documents will be verified, and missing or incomplete information may result in an ineligible rating or a lower score.
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 resume must list job title, duties, start and end months and years, and average hours per week for each job.
- The complete application package, including the questionnaire and documents, must be submitted by 11:59 PM ET on 11/09/2026.
- The posting says both 'Telework eligible: No' and 'Telework: Available,' so ask the agency contact, April Bookout, if you need to know.
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