Health Technician

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 52,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, CA is recruiting a Health Technician in the Nursing Acute Care department to provide non-professional technical assistance to licensed staff in caring for patients with emergent health concerns.

Applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date 09/25/2026, with Time-In-Grade considerations for current federal employees and veterans' opportunity eligibility.

Qualifications

• Time-In-Grade requirements apply to current and former Federal employees.
• GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-05 in the federal service.
• Closing date 09/25/2026 must be met for eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide non-professional technical assistance to licensed Nursing Acute Care staff for care of patients with emergent health concerns.

Job description

The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center is currently recruiting for a Health Technician in the Nursing Acute Care, Long Beach, CA. The incumbent will provide non-professional technical assistance to professional and non-professional licensed staff of the Nursing- Acute Care Department for the care of patients presenting with emergent health concerns. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/25/2026.

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:

• GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-05 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

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/.