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Nursing Assistant - Float Pool
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 77 days ago
About the Role
Join the VA Black Hills Health Care System as a Float Pool Nursing Assistant, providing support across multiple care areas! You will deliver direct patient care, assist with activities of daily living, monitor clinical changes, and support Veteran needs in acute, long-term, mental health, and outpatient settings.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include, but not limited to: Provide full-range nursing care assistance for Veterans with physical or behavioral health needs in varied clinical settings.
- →Perform ADLs including bathing, grooming, toileting, dressing, mobility support, and promoting independence.
- →Observe and report subtle changes in condition such as mood, behavior, skin color, or appetite.
- →Obtain glucose readings, monitor intake and output, and report abnormal findings promptly.
- →Assist with group activities and support treatment plans that promote recovery and autonomy.
- →Recognize and react to emergencies, initiate basic life support, and request assistance as needed.
- →Serve as a preceptor/mentor to new NAs and assist with unit orientation.
- →Work Schedule: This is an intermittent position.
- →Intermittent employment is defined as non-fulltime employment in which employees serve under an excepted or competitive service appointment without a regularly scheduled tour of duty.
- →A position with an intermittent work schedule is sporadic and unpredictable so that a tour of duty cannot be regularly scheduled in advance.
- →Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
- →Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Physical requirements: You will be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination or evaluation as part of the pre-employment process for this position.
- →Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of evaluation or examination.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All 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/security investigation.
- ✓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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination or evaluation.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
- ✓Training provided.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 90610943-9bba-4443-a31d-b9396f62263d
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