- Position Title
- Registered Respiratory Therapist-Pulmonary
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBTC-12722781-25-DMD Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Monday, April 21, 2025 to Monday, April 28, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the facility indicated for this position?
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.
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.
2.
Applicants are required to undergo and successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening test and must submit to random drug testing after employment. Will you comply with this requirement?
3.
Are you willing to undergo a pre-employment physical?
4.
A current, valid state-issued Driver's License is required for this position. NOTE: We cannot accept photographs, therefore; please do not submit a copy of your license with your application package. If an interview is requested, you will be required to provide a copy of your current, valid state-issued Driver's License.
Do you possess a current and valid state-issued driver's license?
Do you possess a current and valid state-issued driver's license?
Preferences
1.
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.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- 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 of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Thank you for your interest in the Registered Respiratory Therapist (Pulmonary) position with the Department of Veterans Affairs - Veterans Health Administration. We will evaluate your resume and your responses to this Assessment Questionnaire to determine if you qualified for this position. Your responses are subject to verification. Please review your responses for accuracy before you submit this questionnaire. Choose the one answer that best describes how you meet the qualification requirements. Please provide an answer to each question. Full performance level for this position is GS-12.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS for Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT). The following section is used to determine if you meet the basic requirements for this vacancy. Please choose the most appropriate answer in response to the following questions.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
1.
English Language Proficiency. RTs/RRTs appointed to direct patient-care positions must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f).
Are you proficient in both spoken and written English?
Are you proficient in both spoken and written English?
2.
Education. Individuals must have successfully completed a respiratory care program accredited by the CoARC or its successor. Please check that your program is verified on the CoARC website as this will be verified. Transcripts are required to be submitted.
Do you meet this requirement?
Do you meet this requirement?
3.
Licensure. Persons appointed or reassigned to RRT positions in the GS-0601 series must possess and maintain for the duration of employment a full, current and unrestricted license from a state to practice as an RRT.
Do you have a full, current, and unrestricted license from a state to practice as an RRT?
Do you have a full, current, and unrestricted license from a state to practice as an RRT?
4.
Credential. Persons appointed or reassigned to RRT positions in the GS-0601 series must possess and maintain for the duration of employment a valid, current, unrestricted credential of RRT.
Do you have a current/valid RRT credential?
Do you have a current/valid RRT credential?
GRADE REQUIREMENTS for Registered Respiratory Therapist (Pulmonary), GS-12. The following is used to determine the grade requirements at the GS-12 grade level. Your responses are subject to verification and must be demonstrated in your resume. Please be as detailed as possible in your resume and ensure you demonstrate how you meet the specialized experience and/or knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position. No assumptions will be made.
Select “Yes” or “No” to the following question(s).
5.
Experience, Licensure and Credential. Candidates must possess:
Do you posses one year of experience at the GS-11 grade level as described above and hold an active license and RRT credential as CPFT -OR- RPFT?
Be detailed in your resume as to how you meet the above experience requirement. No assumptions will be made.
- One year of creditable experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level demonstrating the clinical competencies described at that level.
- Knowledge, skills, and abilities at the GS-11 grade level are:
- Ability to collaboratively consult with physicians and other healthcare professionals for complex respiratory care to develop care plans to provide favorable patient outcomes.
- Skill in evaluating the efficacies of therapeutic modalities.
- Skill in performing advanced airway and ventilation management.
- Hold an active license and RRT credential with Certification as as Certified Pulmonary Function Technologist (CPFT) -OR- as as Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist (RPFT)
Do you posses one year of experience at the GS-11 grade level as described above and hold an active license and RRT credential as CPFT -OR- RPFT?
Be detailed in your resume as to how you meet the above experience requirement. No assumptions will be made.
6.
Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities. In addition to the requirements above, candidates must demonstrate all the following KSAs:
Are you able to demonstrate the KSAs at the GS-11 grade level described above?
Be detailed in your resume as to how you demonstrate the above KSAs. No assumptions will be made.
- Knowledge of complex pulmonary function testing to include but not limited to cardiopulmonary stress testing, exercise testing, metabolic testing, bronchoprovocation testing and shunt testing.
- Ability to establish a quality control program related to pulmonary function lab.
- Skill in analyzing physiologic specimen and information from basic diagnostic procedures.
- Skill in assessing for signs and symptoms of adverse actions to medications and or testing procedures.
- Skill in determining appropriate intervention for adverse actions to medications and or testing procedures.
- Ability to provide training in advanced pulmonary function procedures.
- Ability to provide clinical consultation in advanced pulmonary function procedures.
Are you able to demonstrate the KSAs at the GS-11 grade level described above?
Be detailed in your resume as to how you demonstrate the above KSAs. No assumptions will be made.
REMINDER - You must provide a complete application package which includes:
- Resume - Your resume must include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title and Grade Level (for Federal positions)
- Duties (be as detailed as possible and ensure they demonstrate how you meet the specialized experience and knowledge, skills and abilities required for the position)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Proof of current certification, licensure or registration (if applicable)
- If you are a current Federal Employee, you must submit a copy of your most recent SF-50 - Notification of Personnel Action (Not an award SF-50). You may need to submit more than one SF-50 to show you meet the time in experience for the grade being filled.