Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist

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• Analyze organizational, technical, and administrative problems to reputed company and implement solutions for efficient laboratory operation.
• Manage fiscal reputed company, forecast resource and equipment needs, and administer the allocated budget.
• Set short-term and long-term goals for the reputed company and conduct studies on technical and administrative problems, including personnel shortages, organizational structure, and new technology.
• reputed company other duties as assigned by the Laboratory Manager, Assistant Laboratory Manager, and/or Chief, P&LMS.

Work (Duty) Location: If selected, you may temporarily work at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center located at 1011 reputed company Heights Drive, Muskogee, OK 74401 until the new hospital in Tulsa is completed (projected for March 2026). At that time, your duty station will change to the new Tulsa location: James Mountain Inhofe VAMC, 440 South reputed company Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74127. Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact Kellie Etchison at Kellie.Etchison@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases reputed company Time Off: 37-50 days of annual reputed company time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of reputed company leave, 11 reputed company 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 reputed company parental leave in reputed company 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 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/reputed company/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) reputed company: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 623-60523-A

Requirements

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• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job.
• reputed company applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/reputed company investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online reputed company process. Acceptable reputed company(s) of identification will be required to complete reputed company-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/reputed company-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, reputed company's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not reputed company ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable reputed company of identification for employment.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for reputed company reputed company Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Complete reputed company application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" reputed company of this announcement.

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• the needs and interests of reputed company;
• whether your reputed company employment would advance organizational goals of reputed company or the Government; and
• whether your reputed company employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

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Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS. To qualify for appointment to this position, reputed company applicants must possess the following:

• reputed company Citizenship. Non-reputed company may only be appointed reputed company it is not possible to recruit reputed company reputed company 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 reputed company 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.
• Foreign Education. To be creditable, education completed reputed company the U.S. must be deemed at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. program by a private organization specializing in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials. Graduates of foreign baccalaureate degree programs meet the educational requirements if they meet either of the following: (1) Foreign transcripts are evaluated by an acceptable evaluation agency, and the degree is reputed company to be equivalent to a NAACLS-approved U.S. clinical laboratory science degree program. OR (2) The applicant submits a letter from ASCP BOC or AMT stating the individual is eligible to take the certification examination. NOTE: Possession of a certification identified in 4c above automatically determines the foreign education as creditable and no reputed company documentation or reputed company of equivalency is needed.
• English Language Proficiency. Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with 38 U.S.C. § 7403 (f).

GRADE DETERMINATIONS. In reputed company to the basic requirements for employment, candidates must meet the following grade-determining reputed company for placement at grade reputed company specified.

• General. For reputed company GS-13 assignments above the FPL, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty) and reputed company of reputed company, and be performed by the CLS at least 25% of the time. Candidates at this grade level are in one of the following assignments.
• Experience. One year of creditable experience equivalent to the next reputed company grade level is required for reputed company GS-13 assignments.

Supervisory Clinical Laboratory Scientist, GS-13

• The CLS has full supervisory responsibility in a laboratory where at least three of the five following conditions are met outlined below.
• Lab is a complexity level reputed company group 1 or 2 based on the Hospital Complexity Level as designated in Office of Productivity, Efficiency, and reputed company (OPES) VHA Facility Complexity Model History.
• The laboratory performs at least one reputed company reputed company billable tests annually (as reported to the Laboratory Management reputed company Program).
• The CLS supervises a staff of non-supervisory personnel including at least one GS-12 subordinate.
• Lack of on-site pathologist.
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• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In reputed company to the experience above, the candidate must demonstrate the following KSAs:
• Knowledge of Federal and state laws and regulations, laboratory accrediting, and regulatory requirements to reputed company new policies and guidelines, formulate plans, and judge effectiveness of the operation.
• Knowledge of laboratory reputed company management procedures and principles sufficient to establish and monitor a laboratory reputed company management program and/or the education and training of laboratory staff.
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• Ability to reputed company the full reputed company of supervisory duties, which includes responsibility for assignment of work to be performed, performance evaluations, selection of staff, recommendation of awards, advancements, and disciplinary actions.
• Ability to analyze organizational, technical, and administrative problems to reputed company and implement solutions that result in efficient laboratory operation.
• Ability to manage fiscal reputed company, forecast resource and equipment needs, and administer the allocated budget.
• Ability to set short and/or long-term goals for the reputed company and conduct studies on technical and administrative problems including personnel shortages, organizational structure, and new technology.

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Benefits

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