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The Director's office of VA Boston Healthcare System is recruiting for interns for the Brockton, Jamaica Plain, and West Roxbury MA campuses.
The Pathways Internship Program allows students to join VA in career positions that emphasize long-term training and development.
03/18/2022 to 03/28/2022
$50,089 - $65,110 per year
GS 7
6 vacancies in the following locations:
No
Not required
No
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
None
No
No
CBTD-11428848-22-DAL
643657900
Restricted to current students who are eligible for employment through the Pathways Internship Program.
These positions are being filled under the Pathways Internship Program. The program is designed to provide students enrolled in a wide variety of educational institutions, from high school to graduate level, with paid work opportunities in agencies to explore Federal careers while still in school. The Internship provides managers a ready source of student employees and potential permanent employees upon completion of the program requirements. It also provides the student with work experience directly related to the curriculum studies or career goals while offering eligibility for non-competitive conversion to permanent employment upon completion. For more information on Internship opportunities within the Department of Veterans Affairs, please visit: https://www.va.gov/EMPLOYEE/pathways-internship-program/.
Duties: The Health Systems Administrative Internship is an intensive introduction to hospital administration and management. The Intern serves in a training capacity, learns the appropriate rules/regulations used in conducting Department of Veterans Affairs business, and familiarizes him/herself with administrative and clinical operations. Interns will be assigned to one of the following tracks: Quality Management, Nursing Administration, Clinical Operations, Clinic Practice Management, and Hospital Operations.
In collaboration with his/her Supervisor/Mentor, the Intern will outline goals for the internship and develop a plan of action outlining deliverables for a number of hands-on, problem solving projects. Projects will be determined by the needs of the Medical Center, and the Intern will work closely with hospital management/service chiefs and other key personnel in the formulation and completion of projects. Assignments are of considerable complexity, depth, and variety which require the application of independent judgment and exercise of initiative. This position requires an understanding of the critical balance between administrative and clinical functions in healthcare delivery, and the ability to coordinate and control programs and resources to achieve this balance.
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Conversion: This appointment will end 120 calendar days after completion of the selectee's educational program requirements, at which time the individual may, at agency discretion, be converted to a term or permanent appointment in one of the following positions:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
GROUP RATING: Applicants for VA Pathways Internship positions are rated, referred, and selected using a process called Group Rating. Quality groups are defined to reflect the requirements to perform the job successfully and to distinguish differences in the quality of each applicant's job-related competencies or knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). Under the Group Rating Procedure, eligible applicants who meet basic minimum qualification requirements established for the position and whose job-related competencies or KSAs have been assessed through the occupational questionnaire are ranked by being placed in one of the three quality groups:·
Best Qualified Group - Applicants who have a score between 97 and 100·
Well Qualified - Applicants who have a score between 85 and 96.99·
Qualified - Applicants who have a score between 70 and 84.99
After the appropriate quality group is identified for each qualified applicant, Veterans' preference is adjudicated for each applicant based on his/her supporting documentation submitted with their application materials. In Group Rating, certified preference eligible Veterans are listed ahead of non-preference eligible within each quality group. Eligible and qualified CPS and CP eligible will automatically float to the top of the highest quality group followed by other preference eligible and last non-preference eligible.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
Narrative responses are not required at this time. If you are referred for consideration, you may be asked to submit additional job related information, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 03/28/2022 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/11428848.
Once your online application is submitted you will receive a confirmation notification by email. After we receive application packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applications to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certificate(s) is issued and applicants will be notified of their status by email. Referred applicants will be notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notification once a selection decision has been made.
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