Intermediate Care Technician

About the role

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Intermediate Care Technician (ICT) Program is a program designed to hire transitioning service, National Guard, Reserve, and Veteran corpsmen, combat medics and medical technicians into positions at VA Medical Centers as an integral part of the medical team. Candidates generally qualify based on U.S. Armed Forces experience or equivalent education.

Responsibilities

• Performing observation-based screening and collecting patient information in collaboration with licensed personnel.
• Completing approved templates and tools, such as the outpatient intake form, normal result notes, and follow-up treatment protocols established by the agency.
• Assisting in behavioral/psychiatric situations in an outpatient setting.
• Assisting licensed personnel with crisis intervention, management of aggressive or suicidal psychiatric patients, by providing one-to-one observations and applying prevention and management of disruptive behavior techniques (PMDB).
• Assisting outpatient licensed staff with the delivery of care to patients with complex, specialized, and potentially life-threatening situations.
• Observing patient status and keeping licensed personnel informed of any change in condition.
• Performing clinical responsibilities including but not limited to: Vital signs, Equipment and surgical instrumentation setup, Treatments and interventions, Wound care, Specimen collection and preparation.

Requirements

• Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00am-3:30pm
• Compressed/Flexible: Compressed tour available after orientation
• Telework: Not available
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Qualifications

• To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/30/2026.
• Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): The IOR is a basic requirement that must be met. To qualify for this occupational series, all applicants, regardless of grade level must meet specialized experience listed below:
• 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.
• English Proficiency: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), No person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. You must be proficient in basic written and spoken English in order to meet the requirements of this position.
• Education: One full year of graduate education meets the requirements for GS-7 only in those instances where it is directly related to the work of the position.
• Preferred Qualifications: Primary Care, Emergency Room, Urgent Care, Ambulatory Care. Experience in the military as a Hospital Corpsman, Combat Medic, Medical Technician is highly desired. Examples of military occupational specialties highly desired, include but are not limited to: 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.

Benefits

• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).

Pay

• The work involves extended periods of bending, standing and walking. Generally, the work requires recurring physical exertion with assisting patients.

Schedule

• Open-Continuous Announcement
• Closing date: 09/30/2026 or until all positions have been filled.
• Multiple cut-off dates used to consider applications for referral to the selecting official.