Intermediate Care Technician

US-Department-of-Veterans-Affair; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The US Department of Veterans Affairs, Atlanta VA Health Care System, seeks an Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) to perform ongoing patient care duties in the Emergency Department as part of Nursing and Patient Care Service.

Applicants must meet time-in-grade requirements and possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least GS-05; the announcement closes 2026-08-27.

Qualifications

• Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 and above): Positions in this series include support duties to medical or health personnel and require applicable knowledge and techniques.
• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05.

Skills

Specialized Experience (GS-4+)

Time-In-Grade requirements

Job description

The Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) performs ongoing patient care duties in the Emergency Department of the Atlanta VA Health Care System as a part of Nursing and Patient Care Service. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/27/2026.

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 and for a GS-07 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-06. 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.

Individual Occupational Requirement:

Candidates must meet the following as well as the specialized experience in the next section.

• Specialized Experience (for positions at GS-4 and above): 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.

In addition to the above Individual Occupational Requirement, you must meet the specialized experience as described below:

• 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.

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/.