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Nursing Assistant – Community Living Center
Veterans Health Administration · Saint Cloud, Minnesota · Closes in 85 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, The public.
Only U.S. citizens, nationals, or people who owe allegiance to the U.S. can apply. The agency says current permanent VA employees, current permanent federal employees of other agencies, and all U.S. citizens may apply, and Veterans' preference does not apply.
Experience: Six months of general work experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant skills qualifies you for GS-3. One year of nursing assistant or related medical work, such as LPN or hospital corpsman, qualifies you for GS-4. For GS-5, you need one year of progressively responsible experience at the GS-4 level, such as nursing care in long-term or community living settings.
Education: One year of education above high school with courses related to nursing assistant work meets the basic requirement. For GS-4, two years above high school in nursing, health care, or a related field qualifies. For GS-5, a bachelor's degree or four years of study with 24 semester hours of health care courses qualifies.
Licenses and certifications:
- Basic life support (BLS) certification, which you must obtain and keep
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 85 days (January 27, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This is an open continuous announcement, and eligible applicants are referred at regular intervals, so the job may be filled before the 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: You are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, and the VA will verify what you submit. Missing required information may make you ineligible or lower your rating. For GS-4 and GS-5, you must clearly show the required knowledge, skills, and abilities in your resume or KSA responses.
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:
- Download the one-page Clinical Resume from the link and upload it in the Resume field. Put your full resume in the Other field.
- Describe your work with dates and hours per week. The VA will not assume details about your experience.
- If you use education to qualify, upload transcripts showing your name, school, program, total credits, and date conferred.
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