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Podiatrist Program Manager – Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP)
Veterans Health Administration · Seattle, Washington · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public, Internal to an agency.
Open to the public and to current VA federal employees. You must be a U.S. citizen, national, or someone who owes allegiance to the U.S., though non-citizens may be appointed if qualified citizens cannot be found.
Experience: Preferred experience is 3 years of managerial experience in mental health and 5 years of mental health experience in general. The announcement does not give a GS grade for experience.
Education: You need a doctor of podiatric medicine (DPM) degree, or an equivalent podiatry degree, from a U.S. podiatry school approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education. You must also have completed, or be currently completing, an approved residency. Foreign degrees need a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full and unrestricted license to practice podiatry in a U.S. state, territory, Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia (may be pending at selection)
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 3 days (November 6, 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 are rated on how well you meet the qualifications, using an online questionnaire and your application package. Your resume, CV, and documents will be verified, and missing or incomplete information may lead to 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:
- Make sure your resume or CV clearly shows your managerial and mental health experience, with dates and details for each job.
- Upload your podiatry license and, if you use education to qualify, your transcript, along with the questionnaire.
- Claim veterans' preference in the questionnaire and attach proof, such as your DD-214, if it applies to you.
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