Place of Work:
Projected Duty Locations
Overseas Locations: Belgium, Germany, Italy and Japan
Stateside Locations: AL, AK, AZ, CA, CO, DC, GA, HI, KS, KY, LA, MD, NY, MA, MO, NC, NJ, NY, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, and VA
Position Status:
This announcement may be used to fill permanent full-time, part-time or intermittent positions. Indicate on your resume your availability for any of these appointments.
Number of Vacancy:
Many
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NSPS Position:
This position is covered by the National Security Personnel System. For more information on NSPS, please visit the website at http://www.cpms.osd.mil/nsps/index.html.
Duties:
Positions filled from this vacancy announcement will be at the YI-1 level.
Nursing Assistants perform a variety of nursing care duties concerned with personal care, diagnostic procedures, treatments, charting and patient teaching following established procedures and treatments in hospitals, clinics or other patient care facilities.
Applicants must clearly identify their choice of geographic locations.
24%-25% COLA will be added to the base salary for the states of Hawaii and Alaska.
Overseas COLA maybe be added to the base salary for overseas locations.
About the Position:
Federal employees seeking CTAP/ICTAP eligibility must submit proof that they meet the requirements of 5 CFR 330.605(a) for CTAP and 5 CFR 330.704 for ICTAP. This includes providing with your application, a copy of the agency notice, a copy of your most recent Performance Rating and a copy of your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location. Please annotate your application that you are applying as a CTAP or ICTAP eligible.
Resumes of qualified applicants will be posted online. When job opportunities occur, the selecting officials could make the selections from this online database. Selected applicants will be contacted directly by the hiring organizations. NO referral lists will be generated from this announcement.
Who May Apply:
All U. S. citizens and Nationals with allegiance to the United States.
Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) eligibles.
Qualifications:
General Schedule
The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened for the Office of Personnel Management's basic qualifications requirements, and the skills needed to perform the duties of this position as described in this vacancy announcement.
Your pay will be set within the range specified in this vacancy announcement and will be based on your qualification, education, experience, training, and availability of funds.
Education can be substituted for experience. Review the qualification requirements for specific information.
Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
Applicants must have one year of specialized experience at the next lower pay band or equivalent under the General Schedule (GS) or other pay systems.
Quality of experience relates to how closely or to what extent an applicant's background and recency of experience, education, and training are relevant to the duties and responsibilities of the announced position. Candidates must have the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies to successfully perform the work of the position at the appropriate level.
Other Information:
To successfully claim veteran's preference, your resume/supplemental data must clearly show your entitlement. Please review the information listed under the Other Requirements link on this announcement or review our on-line Job Application Kit.
Multiple positions will be filled from this announcement.
This announcement will be used to fill multiple positions at various locations.
Positions listed with multiple grades may be filled at any grade level and may or may not have promotion potential.
Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees.
May require overtime work.
May require shift work and/or work on rotating shifts to provide coverage on evenings, weekends, holidays and in other situations.
The Department of Defense (DoD) policy on employment of annuitants issued March 18, 2004 will be used in determining eligibility of annuitants. The DoD policy is available on http://www.cpms.osd.mil/fas/staffing/pdf/rem_ann.pdf
Recruitment bonus may or may not be authorized.
Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement.
U.S. citizens overseas under ordinarily resident status are not eligible for appointment under the Status of Forces Agreement.
Candidates initially selected from the U.S. may be eligible for certain foreign area benefits.
Please note that active-duty military members are eligible to apply no earlier than 120 days before their separation or retirement date.
Permanent Change of Station/Relocation expenses may or may not be authorized.
Temporary Duty (TDY) travel may be required.
Other Requirements:
Child Care Criminal History background checks may be required prior to movement to position.
Secret security clearance may be required.
Personnel security investigation may be required.
Position may be designated as Emergency Essential.
A medical examination may be required.
Immunization screening may be required.
This position may be required to comply with the Drug Abuse Testing Program.
You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
If selected, official college or university transcript must be submitted.
Must provide documents for credentialing for health care positions.
All Health Care Providers must be able to obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) Training and certification Current Advanced Life Support of other advanced certification does not supersede BLS completion.
Documentation to support Military Spouse Preference needs to be submitted at time of application.
Male applicants born after December 31, 1959 must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration.
Direct Deposit of Pay is Required.
You must include the announcement number on your application.
You may claim Military Spouse Preference.
Applicants claiming veteran's preference must clearly show an entitlement to such preference on the resume/supplemental data submitted.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in the vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
One year trial/probationary period may be required.
This announcement may be used to fill Lead or Supervisory positions. A one year supervisory probationary/trial period may be required.
You will need to click on Employment. This will bring up a new page. Click on Build a Resume, complete and submit.
Next, click on Search for Jobs. You can search again to find a vacancy you would like to apply for or, you can go to the bottom on the Vacancy Announcement Job Board page and put the following Announcement Number in the Announcement field.
Announcement Number: MD-DH-08-631
Then click on the announcement number link and scroll down to the bottom of the vacancy to How to Apply and follow the directions.
