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Nursing Assistant (Inpatient Community Living Center – Long Term Care)
Veterans Health Administration · Bedford, Massachusetts · Closes in 80 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Federal employees - Competitive service, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
The job is open to the public, but you must be a U.S. citizen, national, or person who owes allegiance to the U.S. to apply. Veterans' preference is waived for this announcement because of a critical staffing shortage.
Experience: For GS-3, six months of general experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant work. For GS-4, one year of specialized experience as a nursing assistant or in another medical field such as licensed practical nurse, health technician, or hospital corpsman. For GS-5, one year of progressively responsible experience equal to GS-4.
Education: For GS-3, one year of education above high school with courses related to nursing assistant work. For GS-4, two years above high school in an accredited school with courses in nursing care, healthcare, or a related field. For GS-5, a four-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree that included 24 semester hours of health care courses, or a bachelor's degree. Completing a training course of less than one year as a nursing assistant may also meet the GS-3 experience requirement.
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 80 days (January 22, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
Qualified applicants are referred as vacancies become available, so positions may be filled before the final 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, based on your online questionnaire and documents. Your application and resume will be verified against your answers, and narrative responses to knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee. Missing forms can lead to an ineligible rating, and unclear or incomplete information may lower your rating.
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 show job title, duties in detail, month and year start and end dates, and hours per week for each job.
- The 2-page resume limit does not apply to this position.
- If you use education to qualify, attach an official transcript from a school accredited by a U.S. Department of Education recognized accreditor.
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