• Job Description

  Req#: 772076800
  About the Position: This position is located at A.T. Augusta Military Medical Center (formerly Fort Belvoir Community Hospital) in the Pathology Department.
  
  This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
  
  Duties
  
  
  • Develop new solutions to methodological problems, analyzes test systems, and devise plan to achieve objectives.
  • Performs Core Laboratory analyses which involve a wide variety of different test methods and systems.
  • Retrieve information from automated systems for various purposes, including to respond to physician requests, investigate abnormal results, or analyze workload or service utilization.
  • Review daily Quality Control data, resolving most issues and elevating those that cannot be resolved.
  • Interact directly with patient care physicians in discussing interpretation of test results.
  • Perform all duties in compliance with quality control, quality assurance, proficiency testing, safety requirements, and standards set by the College of American Pathologists and local, state, and federal agencies.
  • Calibrate or maintain instrumentation, troubleshooting instruments or processes when necessary for accurate results.
  • Support all laboratory equipment and take appropriate corrective actions should quality control and/or performance indicators fail.
  
  
  Requirements
  
  
  • Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
  • Pre-appointment physical required.
  • Inclement weather essential.
  • Position is mission essential.
  • A mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination is required. Applicants tentatively selected for appointment will be required to sign a statement (Condition of Employment) consenting to seasonal influenza vaccinations.
  • This position may require rotating shift work, to include evenings, nights, weekends and holidays.
  • Heavy lifting up to 40lbs.
  • This position requires the incumbent to have tuberculosis testing.
  
  
  Qualifications
  
  
  Who May Apply: US Citizens
  
  In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
  
  Basic Requirement for Clinical Laboratory Scientist:
  
  A. A Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from a regionally accredited college/university including courses in biological science, chemistry and mathematics, AND successful completion of a Medical Laboratory Scientist/Clinical Laboratory Scientist program accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS) or an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.
  
  OR
  
  B. At least a full 4-year course of study that included 12 months in a college or hospital-based medical technology program or medical technology school approved by a recognized accrediting organization. The professional medical technology curriculum may have consisted of a 1-year post- bachelor's certificate program or the last 1 or 2 years of a 4-year program of study culminating in a bachelor's in medical technology.
  
  OR
  
  C. A Bachelor's or graduate/higher level degree from an accredited college/university, including 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of biological science (with one semester in microbiology), 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of chemistry (with one semester in organic or biochemistry), one semester (one quarter) of mathematics, AND five years of full time acceptable clinical laboratory experience in Blood Banking, Chemistry, Hematology, microbiology, Immunology and Urinalysis/Body Fluids. This combination of education and experience must have provided knowledge of the theories, principles, and practices of medical technology equivalent to that provided by the full 4-year course of study described in A or B above. All science and mathematics courses must have been acceptable for credit toward meeting the requirements for a science major at an accredited college or university. Acceptable experience is responsible professional or technician experience in a hospital laboratory, health agency, industrial medical laboratory, or pharmaceutical house; or teaching, test development, or medical research program experience that provided an understanding of the methods and techniques applied in performing professional clinical laboratory work. Certification/licensure as a medical technologist (generalist) obtained through written examination by a nationally recognized credentialing agency or State licensing body is a good indication that the quality of experience is acceptable.
  
  Exemption: You are exempt from the basic requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0644 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017 or before. Note: You will be required to provide appropriate documentation to the respective Human Resources Office to validate your status.
  
  In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements below:
  
  Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing high complexity patient testing (such as chemistry and hematology pre-analytics and automation, chemistry assays, immunoassays, osmolality, therapeutic drug monitoring, toxicology, serology/immunology, differentials, coagulation, urinalysis, body fluids, semen analysis) within a Clinical Pathology Service/Core Laboratory; setting up/monitoring quality controls; troubleshooting/performing maintenance on testing instruments; and performing proficiency testing for national accreditation. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).
  
  OR
  
  Education: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: Clinical Laboratory Science or Medical Technology.
  
  OR
  
  Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12. Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.
  
  AND
  
  Certification: Certification from the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American Medical Technologist (AMT) or other board or registry deemed comparable by Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (OASD(HA)) or their designee as a Medical Technologist (MT) or Medical Lab Scientist (MLS) is required.

• About the company

  The United States Department of Defense is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. The DOD is the largest employer in the world, with over 1.3 million active-duty service members as of 2020. More employees include over 826,000 National Guard and reservists from the armed forces, and over 732,000 civilians bringing the total to over 2.8 million employees. Headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., the DoD's stated mission is to provide "the military forces needed to deter war and ensure our nation's security".

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