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Nursing Assistant – Specialty Care 3K Unit
Veterans Health Administration · Minneapolis, Minnesota · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
Only U.S. citizens can apply. The job is open to the public, current permanent VA employees, and current permanent federal employees of other agencies. Veterans' preference does not apply.
Experience: Six months of general experience that shows you can learn nursing assistant work qualifies you for the entry level, GS-3. For GS-4, you need one year of nursing assistant or related medical experience, such as LPN or health technician work, and for GS-5 you need one year of more responsible nursing care experience at the GS-4 level.
Education: One year of education above high school with courses related to nursing assistant work meets the basic requirement. For GS-4, you need two years above high school in nursing or health care courses. For GS-5, you need a four-year program leading to a bachelor's degree with 24 semester hours of health care courses, or a bachelor's degree.
Licenses and certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required; training is provided
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 your application meets the qualifications. Your application, resume, and documents will be verified, and errors or missing 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, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- If you use education to qualify, attach transcripts showing your name, school, program, credits, and degree date.
- Describe your experience clearly and specifically, because the agency will not assume anything about it.
- Plan ahead for the required seasonal flu vaccination or an approved exemption, and submit every required document by the closing time.
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