Health Technician (Podiatry)

Description:

The primary duty is to provide patient care, supporting diagnostic and treatment procedures, patient charting and patient education. Support functions include both direct patient care and administrative duties. The health technician (Podiatry) performs under the clinical supervision of staff podiatrists or above. The duties and responsibilities are to be carried out in all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the Podiatry service.

Requirements:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 03/17/2025.

Time-In-Grade Requirement : Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

Individual Occupational Requirement : Positions in this series range widely in type and include support duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists. Therefore, technician experience is experience that required application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled.

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: assists with surgical preparation and minor procedures, to include placing and removal of blades on sharp instruments , assists patients in getting on and off the examination table, removal and replacement of socks and shoes if necessary in the podiatry clinics, conducts quality control procedures on equipment and products and maintains proper records for quality control reports and workload reporting, interviews patients and reviews records prior to all procedures to determine presence of allergies or contradictions, skillful in dealing with technicians, medical students, and physician in training at various levels of residency, maintains proper levels of disposable and non- disposable supplies and assuring that instruments are maintained in enough quantity and in good working order, resolves simple informal patient or staff complaints and reports formal complaints to the appropriate management official, proficient in taking foot impressions, performs glucometer checks, performs redressing, and the paring of minor callous around and ulcer site between visits.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Manages and Organizes Information
• Medical Information
• Technical Competence
• Technical Documentation
• Safety Engineering

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note : A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: Works involves various physical demands requiring the employee to be versatile in the many functions performed. These include sedentary work performed at a desk with intermittent standing, walking, bending, and lifting of lightweight records and supplies (rarely exceeding 25 pounds). The demands may unpredictable requiring the incumbent to adjust accordingly. May be required to assist in transporting and transferring patients from wheelchair or stretcher to the examination environment. Will be responsible for moving equipment as necessary. Sufficient hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity to assemble and clean endoscopic instruments is required. The ability to bend, stoop, stretch, lift, and position patients is frequently necessary.


For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ .