Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientist

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Not present. Responsibilities? There's duties. Requirements? Qualifications? Skills? Benefits? Pay? Schedule? We need to include only sections with real specific content. We have: - Summary: mentions EDRP eligibility, student loan reimbursement. That's a benefit? Could be under Benefits. Also mention "Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive". That's also benefit. - Qualifications: Basic Requirements: US Citizenship, Education (bachelor's degree or higher), Certification options, English Language Proficiency, Grade Determinations (GS-12 experience), Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities (list), Preferred Experience. - Duties: Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientists facilitate team... etc. - Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm with rotating weekends and holidays. That's schedule. - Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. - Contact: Damaris.Alvarez@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. - Learn more Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases... etc. That's pay. - Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) - Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave... - Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144 -000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the 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. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. There's no explicit application instructions besides contact email? Might keep contact as part of Benefits? Probably not needed. The instruction says remove application instructions. Contact email could be considered application instruction; better to drop it. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. We need sections: maybe "Responsibilities" (duties), "Qualifications", "Skills" (KSAs), "Benefits" (EDRP, PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance), "Pay", "Schedule". Also maybe "About the role" not present. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have specific content. We need to use

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  for prose. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Thus we need to capture each piece. Let's structure:

  Responsibilities

  • Lead Clinical Laboratory Scientists facilitate team or unit processes by working in collaboration with team members to ensure that tasks, priorities, goals and achievements are coordinated with management
  • Responsible for all aspects of operation in their area of specialty including preparation and maintenance of records and reports, analysis of testing methodologies, training, instrumentation and compliance
  • Acts as a liaison to other departments of the medical center for the appropriate laboratory specialty
  • For all Lead CLS assignments - the individual must spend at least 25% or more of their time performing lead duties over staff one grade level below
  • Communicates the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values
  • Identifies, distributes, balances work, coaches, and facilitates with problem solving methods
  • Prepares reports and maintains records of work status
  • Resolves simple - informal complaints
  • Reports performance, progress, and training needs of the team and on behavioral problems
  • Provides information on promotions, reassignment, recognition of outstanding performance, and personnel needs
  • Responsible for all aspects of operation in their area of specialty - including assignment of work responsibilities, workload management, and completion of assignments for staff at or above the FPL as well as preparation and maintenance of records and reports, analysis of testing methodologies, training, instrumentation, and compliance
  • May act as a liaison to the supervisor and other departments/divisions of the medical center for the appropriate laboratory specialty
  That seems to capture duties. Now Qualifications: Basic Requirements etc. We can have

  Qualifications

  with subpoints maybe as
  . We need to include: 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 Certification: (list options) English Language Proficiency: Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C.7403 (f) Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements for employment - candidates must meet the following grade-determining criteria for placement at grade levels specified GS 12: Experience 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) experience includes: independently carrying out the day-to-day operations in the laboratory - develops - performs - evaluates - interprets - correlates - and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results in line with current laboratory regulatory requirements The work performed may be in a variety of laboratory specialties such as chemistry - microbiology - immunology - hematology - and immunohematology Testing procedures are performed on a variety of biological specimens and/or environmental samples using manual or automated methods This experience is required for all GS-12 assignments Assignments: For all GS-12 assignments above the FPL - the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope - complexity (difficulty) and range of variety and be performed by the CLS at least 25% of the time Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: In addition to the experience or education above - the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs: (list A-F) Preferred Experience: 3 years experience as CLS/MLS Reference link maybe we can keep as prose? It's a reference for more info; we can keep as

  but not a list. We need to avoid duplication. Now Skills: maybe we separate KSAs as Skills section. But we already have KSAs under Qualifications. The instruction: Use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we could have Qualifications for basic requirements, and Skills for KSAs. However we could also combine. But better to follow headings: Qualifications (basic reqs) and Skills (KSAs). Let's do that. Thus:

  Qualifications

  • 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
  • Certification: Candidates must meet one of the 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
  • English Language Proficiency: Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C.7403 (f)
  • Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements for employment - candidates must meet the following grade-determining criteria for placement at grade levels specified GS 12: Experience 1 year of creditable experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11) experience includes: independently carrying out the day-to-day operations in the laboratory - develops - performs - evaluates - interprets - correlates - and validates the accuracy of laboratory procedures and results in line with current laboratory regulatory requirements. The work performed may be in a variety of laboratory specialties such as chemistry - microbiology - immunology - hematology - and immunohematology. Testing procedures are performed on a variety of biological specimens and/or environmental samples using manual or automated methods. This experience is required for all GS-12 assignments.
  • Assignments: For all GS-12 assignments above the FPL - the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope - complexity (difficulty) and range of variety and be performed by the CLS at least 25% of the time.
  • Preferred Experience: 3 years experience as CLS/MLS
  • Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.
  Now Skills section: KSAs list.

  Skills

  • Knowledge of medical technology applicable to a wide range of duties to solve complex problems involving diverse aspects of clinical laboratory practice
  • Skill to maintain - troubleshoot - and repair laboratory instrumentation
  • Ability to develop procedures for new tests - and modify existing procedures and methods to resolve problems relative to complex and difficult situations
  • Ability to manage and coordinate daily work activities and assignments in a section
  • Ability to provide or coordinate staff development and training
  • Ability to provide guidance and technical direction to a wide variety of individuals including physicians - nurses - and other clinical staff regarding technical aspects of testing - specimen requirements and results
  Now Benefits: EDRP, PTO, parental leave, childcare subsidy, retirement, insurance, telework not available (maybe not a benefit). Also Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. That's a benefit. We need to include all specifics. Let's craft Benefits section as
  items. - Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program; must meet specific individual eligibility requirements per VHA policy; 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. - Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized EDRP; Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. - Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases; when setting pay - a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). That's Pay section actually. - 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) - Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child - Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a child