Clinical Lab Scientist

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: Summary (EDRP info), Qualifications (detailed), Preferred Experience, Duties, Work Schedule, maybe Pay? No pay info. Benefits? Not mentioned. Schedule is given: "Work Schedule: 4 Ten hour shifts - 22:00PM-0800AM -with rotating weekends and holidays Requires On-call signups to support transplant and staffing shortages - with a minimum of 2 shifts per month". So we can have a Schedule section. We also have EDRP info: could be Benefits? It's a program. Could be placed under Benefits? But it's not typical benefit like health insurance. However we can create a section "Benefits" if there is specific content: EDRP authorized. The posting says "This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program." Also details about award amount up to $200,000, eligibility period one to five years. That is specific. So we can include Benefits section with that info. We also have Qualifications section: includes basic requirements, certification, etc. That's substantive. Responsibilities: Duties section. Skills: maybe we can extract KSAs from grade determinations? But those are part of qualifications. Could create Skills section from KSAs? However the instruction: Use headings only when posting has real specific content for it. The posting includes KSAs under each grade determination. That's specific. Could create a Skills section summarizing KSAs? But we must not invent or summarize away detail; we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we create a Skills section, we need to include the KSAs as list items. That's okay; it's not summarizing away, it's extracting. However we must ensure we don't lose any info. The KSAs are part of qualifications; we could keep them under Qualifications. But we could also separate Skills. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Qualifications and Skills into one Qualifications section that includes both requirements and KSAs. That's fine. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No Job ID. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Thus structure:

About the role

maybe include summary about EDRP? Actually About the role could contain the summary paragraph about EDRP eligibility. Or we could have a Benefits section for EDRP. Let's decide. We have summary: "This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval - award amount (up to $200 -000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application." That's about benefits. So we can put that under

Benefits

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and maybe

for details? Could list award amount and eligibility period as list. Then we have Qualifications: include basic requirements, certification, English language proficiency, grade determinations (including experience/education and KSAs). We'll put that under

Qualifications

. Inside we can have

for prose and

• for lists. We have Preferred Experience: could be part of Qualifications or Responsibilities? It's about preferred experience for night shift generalist. Could be under Qualifications as a paragraph. We have Duties: under

  Responsibilities

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  • for each duty. We have Work Schedule: under

    Schedule

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    . We must not create Pay section because no pay info. We must not create Skills section separately if we included KSAs under Qualifications. We must preserve all substantive information: ensure we include all details from the posting: EDRP details, citizenship, education, certification options, exception for non-certified, failure to obtain certification, loss of credential, grandfathering provision, English language proficiency, grade determinations for GS-07, GS-09, GS-11 (including experience/education and KSAs), preferred experience, duties list, work schedule. We must not include boilerplate like "Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/." That's a reference; maybe we can keep as a paragraph? It's not boilerplate; it's a reference link. Could keep under Qualifications as a note. But it's not essential; but we should preserve all substantive information. It's a reference link; we can include as a

    with the URL. Also "The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-11 The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is in the range of GS7 to GS-11". That's substantive; include under Qualifications maybe. "Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019 - Employee Occupational Health Service for requirements." That's a reference; we can include as a note. "Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive Contact V20CompensationTeam@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized" We have EDRP already covered; also note former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. That's a detail about EDRP eligibility; include under Benefits. Contact email: we can include under Benefits as contact. We must not include application instructions; but contact email for EDRP coordinator is not application instruction; it's okay. We must not include duplicated lines. Now craft HTML. We'll start with

    About the role

    ? Actually we might not need About the role if we have Benefits and Qualifications etc. But we could include a brief About the role summarizing the position (maybe the summary about EDRP is more about benefits). The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can include About the role if we have content. The posting does not have a generic "About the role" paragraph besides the summary about EDRP. But we could treat the summary as About the role? It mentions EDRP eligibility; not exactly role description. However we could still include About the role with a brief description: "This position is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) role eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)." But that would be inventing? It's derived from the summary; we could keep the summary as About the role. The summary is about EDRP eligibility, not role description. But we can still put it under About the role; it's still substantive info from the posting. The instruction: "use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It's just examples; we can choose which sections to include. So we can include About the role with the summary paragraph. Then Benefits section with EDRP details. Then Qualifications with all the qualification details. Then Responsibilities with duties. Then Schedule with work schedule. We must not include Requirements heading separately; we can combine Requirements into Qualifications. We must not include Skills heading separately. Now craft. We need to ensure we use

    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for EDRP details we can make a list: eligibility requirements, award amount, eligibility period, former participants ineligible, contact email. For qualifications we have many sub-items; we can break into lists where appropriate. We must preserve all substantive information; we must not lose any. Let's extract details: Summary (About the role): - This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program. - You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. - Program Approval - award amount (up to $200 -000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application. Benefits (maybe same as above). We'll keep under Benefits. Qualifications: Basic Requirements: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - Education: A bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university - NOTE: The Supervisory CLS (Laboratory Director) - GS-15 - requires unique education requirements (reference education requirements located in that assignment below) - we can keep as a note. Certification: (1) Candidates must meet one of the certification options below (a) Generalist certification as an MLS given by ASCP BOC or AMT (b) Generalist certification as an MT given by ASCP BOR or AMT (c) Categorical certification or Specialist certification by ASCP or AMT NOTE: Categorical and specialist certifications are not acceptable for CLS Generalist positions or lab sections unrelated to the categorical or specialist certification held Categorical or specialist certifications are acceptable for higher-graded positions within the relevant lab section or one of the non-section specific assignments (including - Ancillary Testing Coordinator - Education Coordinator - Laboratory Information Manager - Quality Manager - Laboratory Manager - Regional Technical Specialist - National Quality and Compliance Agent - Regional Program Manager - Regional Director - Laboratory Director - or National Quality and Compliance Officer) (2) Exception for Non-Certified (a) Applicants who do not currently hold valid certification may be hired by VA and actively work toward their certification if they meet one of the routes identified in Appendix A that makes them eligible to take the MLS certification exam through the ASCP BOC or the MLS certification exam through AMT Certification Agency (b) Non-Certified applicants who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for licensure may be given a temporary appointment CLS under the authority of 38 U.S.C.7405(c)(2) (c) Non-Certified individuals may only provide care under the supervision of a certified CLS at or above the FPL (d) Non-certified individuals may only be appointed at the entry level and may not be promoted/converted until certification is obtained (e) Temporary appointments of non-certified CLS may not be extended beyond 2 years or be converted to a new temporary appointment (3) Failure to Obtain Certification In all cases - CLSs must actively work to meet requirements for certification starting from the date of their placement into the occupation At the time of appointment - the Human Resources (HR) Office staff - in collaboration with the supervisor - will provide the employee with the written requirements for certification - including the time by which the certification must be obtained and the consequences for not becoming certified by the deadline Failure to obtain certification during this time period may result in separation from employment (4) Loss of Credential If an employee fails to maintain the required certification - management officials - in collaboration with HR Office staff - must immediately remove the employee from duties and responsibilities associated with this occupation This may also result in separation from employment (5) If a CLS currently has - or ever had - their CLS certification revoked - suspended - denied - restricted - limited - or issued/placed in a probationary status - HR Office staff must appoint them according to the provisions in VA Handbook