Intermediate Care Technician

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

Job summary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seeks an Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) assigned to the Fayetteville, NC VA Medical Center to support the ED as an advanced technician for patients undergoing treatment.

Eligible applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date, 2026-10-13. Current or former federal employees must meet time-in-grade and provide SF-50 documentation as described in the announcement.

Qualifications

• One year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-6 in the normal line of progression.
• Experience includes medication administration, clinical tasks, emergency care, and mental health services.
• Observation-based patient screening and collection of information.
• Assists in behavioral and psychiatric situations and Telehealth peripherals.
• Education may substitute for experience per federal standards.

Skills

Medication administration

Clinical tasks

Emergency care

Mental health services

Education

Graduate education substitution: 1 year for GS-7

Job description

The Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) is assigned to the Fayetteville, NC VAMC and serves as an advanced technician for the ED for patients who are present for treatment. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/13/2026.

You may qualify based on your experience or education as described below:

Applicants who are current or former 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-7 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-6. 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.

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-6 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Medication administration; clinical tasks; emergency care; mental health services, patient screening; performs observation-based screening and collection of patient information, assists in behavioral and psychiatric situations, and operates specialized medical equipment; collecting a wide range of specimens, prepare specimens for transfer, performs skin biopsies, assist with minor procedures (nail removal, skin graph placement, and Jones dressing), conducts or assist with training and experience using Telehealth peripherals; 4NOX- Basic Medical Technician, 4NOIC- Independent Duty Medical Technician, X4NO- Aeromedical Evacuation Technician, 1T2X1- Pararescueman, 68W- Combat Medic Specialist, 18D- Army Special Forces (Medic), 68WW1- Special Operations Flight Medic, HM0000- Basic Hospital Corpsman, HM8404- Field Medical Service Technician, HM8425- Surface Force Independent Duty Corpsman, HM8402- Submarine Force Independent Duty Corpsman, HM8401- Search and Rescue Medical Technician, HM8403- Fleet Marine Force Reconnaissance Independent Duty Corpsman, HM8406- Aerospace Medical Technician, and HS- Basic Health Services Technician. . OR,
• Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must demonstrate the following; Graduate education or an internship meets the specialized experience required above GS-5 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position. One full year of graduate education meets the requirements for GS-7. One year of full-time graduate education is considered to be the number of credit hours that the school attended has determined to represent 1 year of full-time study. If that information cannot be obtained from the school, 18 semester hours should be considered as satisfying the 1 year of full-time study requirement.

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/