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Position Title
Intermittent Nurse Practitioner-Home Based Primary Care Santa Rosa
Agency
Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
Announcement Number
CBSW-10863708-20-YZV Opens in new window
Open Period
Monday, July 20, 2020 to Wednesday, September 30, 2020
For preview purposes only. To apply, please return to the USAJOBS announcement and click the Apply button.
Eligibilities
1. Do you claim Veterans' Preference? (limit characters)
2. Are you currently employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.

To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50).  Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted).  Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
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Preferences
1. Would you accept a temporary appointment? (limit characters)
2. Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?

If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
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Assessment 1
Thank you for applying for a position as an Intermittent/Per Diem Nurse Practitioner (Home-Based Primary Care)-Santa Rosa for the San Francisco VA Health Care System! (limit characters)
BASIC REQUIREMENTS- We will evaluate your resume and responses to this Assessment Questionnaire to determine your qualifications for  Intermittent/Per Diem Nurse Practitioner (Home-Based Primary Care)-Santa Rosa position. Your responses are subject to verification and must be supported by your fully detailed resume and supporting documents. (limit characters)
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s). (limit characters)
1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY - Are you proficient in spoken and written English? [To be appointed under authority of 38 U.S.C., chapter 73 or 74, to serve in a direct patient-care capacity in VHA, applicants must be proficient in written and spoken English]. (limit characters)
2. EDUCATION: Do you a posses a master's degree from a program accredited by accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) http://www.nnac.org (http://www.nnac.org/)) or the American Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the commission on collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE; http://www.aacn.nche.edu) at the time you completed the program?
OR
If you are a foreign graduate, do you have a current, full, active and unrestricted U.S. registration. (Please provide a copy of your transcripts or supporting documents to support your response).
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3. NP LICENSURE: Do you possess a current, full, active and unrestricted licensure or otherwise recognized as a nurse practitioner in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States? (Please provide a copy of your licensure). (limit characters)
4. NP CERTIFICATE: Do you possess a full and current certification as a nurse practitioner from the American Nurses Association or another nationally recognized certifying body in case management or ambulatory care? (PLEASE PROVIDE A COPY OF YOUR CERITIFICATION FOR VERIFICATION) (limit characters)
5. DRIVER LICENSE: Do you possess a current and valid State issued driver's license? (limit characters)
6. DEA PREFERRED: Do you possess a current Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Registration? (limit characters)
7. PREFERRED NP EXPERIENCE LEVEL: Do you possess at least 2 to 3 full years of Home Base Primary Care or Community Home Care/Hospice experience? (limit characters)
8. Have you review the "REQUIRED DOCUMENTS" section of the announcement and supplied all required documents [e.g., resume/CV, OF-306, VA 10-2850 variations, SF-50 (if civil service federal employee), DD-214/SF-15/Preference Letter (if Veteran), etc.]?
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Merit Promotion Documentation Reminder- If you are a current Federal employee, you must provide a copy of your last or most recent SF-50, "Notice of Personnel Action." An SF-50 showing your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. 
  • Award 50's do not provide sufficient information and will not be accepted for the purpose of verifying time-in-grade. 
  • Examples of appropriate SF-50's include:
    • Within grade increases at the highest grade held; or
    • Promotions with an effective date more than one year old; or
    • SF-50's at the highest grade held with an effective date more than one year old.
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RESUME REMINDER: Your resume must include the following information for each job listed: 
  • Job Title 
  • Duties (be as detailed and specific as possible)
  • Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2014 to April 2015 or 06/2014 to 04/2015) 
  • Full-Time or Part-Time Status (include hours worked per week).
Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
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9. CERTIFICATION OF UNDERSTANDING - I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and behalf, all of the information included in this questionnaire is true, correct and provided in good faith. I understand that if I make an intentional false statement, commit deception, or fraud in this application and its surrounding materials, or any document, or interview associated with the examination process, my eligibility may be canceled; I may be denied an appointment or I may be removed and debarred from Federal service (5 C.F.R. part 731). I understand that any information I give may be investigated and that responding "No", or providing no response to this item, will result in my not being considered for this position. (limit characters)