Clinical Laboratory Scientist (Generalist)

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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Summary: eligible for Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - student loan payment reimbursement program. Must meet eligibility requirements, submit EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval - award amount up to $200,000 and eligibility period one to five years determined by VHA Education Loan Repayment Services after review. - Qualifications: Applicants pending completion of educational or certification/licensure may be referred but not hired until all requirements met. - Basic Requirements: US Citizenship, English proficiency, bachelor's degree or higher from accredited college/university. - Certification: Must meet one of options: Generalist certification as MLS given by ASCP BOC or AMT; Generalist certification as MT given by ASCP BOR or AMT; Categorical or Specialist certification by ASCP or AMT (note restrictions). Also details about non-certified applicants, temporary appointments, etc. - Grade Determinations: GS-07, GS-09, GS-11 with experience/education requirements and KSAs. - Duties: description of functions as Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) etc. - Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: 0800-1630 - rotating weekends and holidays - Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Not Authorized - Permanent Change of Station: Not Authorized - EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive - Contact: ???????VISN2EDRPCoordinators@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance - Learn more (maybe ignore) - Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases - Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience - Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child - Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to monthly maximum of $416.66 - Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA - Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) - Telework: Not Available - Virtual: This is not a virtual position - Functional Statement #: 11958F - Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized We need to produce sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. We need to include only sections with real specific content. Let's map: - About the role: Could be summary about position, maybe the summary paragraph about EDRP and role? The posting includes a summary about EDRP eligibility. Also maybe "This position is in the Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service of the Albany VA Medical Center in Albany - NY". That could be about the role. - Responsibilities: Duties section. - Requirements: Basic requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, education) plus certification requirements? Might be considered qualifications. But we have separate Qualifications section for education/experience etc. The instructions: Use headings for About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to decide what goes where. Typically: - About the role: brief overview (mission, location, EDRP eligibility). - Responsibilities: duties list. - Requirements: basic eligibility (citizenship, English, degree) plus maybe certification? But certification is part of qualifications? The posting lumps certification under Qualifications. However we have both Requirements and Qualifications headings. We need to allocate content accordingly without duplication. We could treat Requirements as the basic mandatory criteria (citizenship, English proficiency, bachelor's degree). Qualifications as the certification/education/experience/grade determinants etc. Skills could be KSAs (knowledge, skills, abilities) from grade determinations. Benefits could be the total rewards (PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance). Pay section: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. Schedule: Work schedule 0800-1630 rotating weekends and holidays. We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So if a section lacks content, omit. Check each: - About the role: we have summary about EDRP eligibility and location. That's substantive. - Responsibilities: duties list (long). Good. - Requirements: citizenship, English proficiency, bachelor's degree. That's specific. - Qualifications: certification options, non-certified routes, grade determinations (experience/education for GS-07, GS-09, GS-11). Also maybe "Applicants pending completion..." etc. That's substantive. - Skills: KSAs from grade determinations (knowledge, skills, abilities). Could be separate. - Benefits: PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance. Also maybe EDRP? But EDRP is more like a benefit; could be included in Benefits or About the role. Since we have About the role already covering EDRP, we could keep EDRP there. Benefits: PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance. - Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. - Schedule: 0800-1630 rotating weekends and holidays. We must not include boilerplate like recruitment/relocation incentives not authorized, PCS not authorized, telework not available, virtual not a virtual position, functional statement #, etc. Those are boilerplate; we should remove. Also remove contact email? It's not boilerplate but maybe considered minor metadata; we could fold into a short p or drop. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. Contact email could be considered minor metadata; we could either drop or include in a p. Probably drop to keep clean. Now produce HTML fragment with headings

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must not lose details. We need to be careful to include all details from each section. Let's draft. About the role: include EDRP eligibility details, location (Albany VA Medical Center, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service), maybe mention that it's a Clinical Laboratory Scientist position. Responsibilities: list duties as bullet points. Requirements: bullet points for US Citizenship, English proficiency, bachelor's degree or higher from accredited college/university. Qualifications: include certification options, non-certified applicant routes, grade determination details (GS-07, GS-09, GS-11) with experience/education and KSAs? But KSAs maybe go to Skills. However the qualifications section includes "Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities:" for each grade. Might be better to put those under Skills. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we can split: Qualifications includes certification, experience/education requirements; Skills includes the KSAs. Let's extract: Qualifications content: - Applicants pending completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. - Basic Requirements (already covered) but we already have Requirements. - Certification: Must meet one of the following certification options below: * Generalist certification as an MLS given by ASCP BOC or AMT * Generalist certification as an MT given by ASCP BOR or AMT * 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) * Exception for Non-Certified: 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 that makes them eligible to take the MLS certification exam through the ASCP BOC or the MLS certification exam through AMT Certification Agency * 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) * Non-Certified individuals may only provide care under the supervision of a certified CLS at or above the FPL * Non-Certified individuals may only be appointed at the entry level and may not be promoted/converted until certification is obtained * Temporary appointments of non-certified CLS may not be extended beyond two (2) years or be converted to a new temporary appointment * 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 * May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria) - Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements for employment - candidates must meet the following grade-determining criteria for placement at grade levels specified * Clinical Laboratory Scientist - GS-07 Experience: None beyond the basic requirements * Clinical Laboratory Scientist - GS-09 Experience: 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade OR Education: Master's degree or 2 academic years of progressively higher-level graduate education in medical technology or a directly related science And Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: Knowledge of policies and procedures of clinical laboratory testing; Knowledge of laboratory quality control and quality assurance principles; Knowledge of laboratory equipment and routine maintenance; Ability to work as a team member and effectively complete assignments; Ability to read and interpret written instructions; Ability to accurately perform pre-analytical - analytical - and post-analytical phases of testing * Clinical Laboratory Scientist -GS-11 Experience: 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade level OR Education: Must have 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education or a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in medical technology or a directly related science And Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: Knowledge of professional clinical laboratory science principles - practices - concepts - and theories that support sound - independent work; Knowledge of laboratory quality control and quality assurance procedures and principles of performance improvement; Skill in informatics - laboratory data flow - and laboratory processes; Ability to maintain - troubleshoot - and repair instrumentation; Ability to use independent technical judgment to analyze and interpret laboratory results; Ability to read - interpret - and apply complex written instructions; Ability to communicate - consult - and interact