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Health Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
On-site Hines, IL $51K – $66K Apply by Jul 23, 2026 Health Aid And Technician ESFJISFJISFPISTJ HealthcareTrades
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This position is located at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL (578) - a Level 1a Complexity VHA Facility - and is organizationally aligned under Nursing Service. The primary purpose of this position is to provide direct patient care activities, indirect patient care activities, and related supportive services under the general guidance and direction of a Registered Nurse.
What You'll Do
- →The Health Care Technician provides a diverse range of clinical services supportive of the delivery of quality patient care.
- →The position combines duties that aid licensed nursing personnel and other medical technicians.
- →Under the general guidance and supervision of registered nurses, the Health Care Technician carries out specific direct and indirect patient care assignments and supportive functions to assist in providing total patient care services.
- →The Health Care Technician reports to the Nurse Manager.
- →Establishes helpful relationships with patients and others; interacts in a courteous manner; explains patient care provided.
- →Provides emotional support, friendly assistance, sympathetic understanding, and encouragement to patients/families.
- →Performs, reports, and records measurements, such as vital signs, intake and output, pulse oximetry, bladder scan, glucose finger stick, and other parameters.
- →Identifies obvious patient problems, symptoms, behavioral changes, and deviations from normal in a timely manner to the appropriate Registered Nurse.
- →Performs EKG as directed and provides results to the Registered Nurse.
- →Assist nurses/physicians with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures performed on the unit.
- →Safely transports patients to off-unit appointments in the absence of an escort.
- →Serves as patient care observer (when necessary) in accordance with established Medical Center guidelines.
- →Assists in monitoring the Environment of Care for cleanliness, rooms free of clutter, and ensuring patients' belongings are within reach.
- →Follows policies and procedures to ensure safety for patients, staff, and self.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job Subject to a background/suitability investigation Designated and/or random drug testing may be required Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 A complete application package; including Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Beginning September 27, 2025, Federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length to comply with the Merit Hiring Plan.
- ✓Resumes longer than two pages will result in ineligibility for further consideration for the position..
- ✓Resumes should include information relevant to the knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies of the position to which you are applying.
- ✓VA is unable to make assumptions about qualifications if not clearly listed.
- ✓Resumes must be legible so they can be reviewed for eligibility, minimum qualifications and other position requirements listed in the job announcement.
- ✓Your resume must be 5MB or less.
- ✓We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and page count.
- ✓We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX).
- ✓We do not accept PDF portfolio files.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 909e9078-9a44-45bc-8a45-cb1e51c58ace
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