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Transportation Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 8 days ago
On-site Cleveland, OH $47K – $62K Apply by Jun 22, 2026 Transportation Clerk And Assistant ESFJINFJISFJISTJ Healthcare
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The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for a Transportation Assistant. The Transportation Assistant will function in the Travel section within the Patient Care Administrative Service.
What You'll Do
- →Duties of the Transportation Assistant include but are not limited to: Performs work involving consult management, appointment scheduling and admissions scheduling.
- →Evaluates documents, e.g., sampling plans, permit applications and other data collection forms.
- →Aggregates in-coming data from a variety of sources.
- →Performs a basic analysis of the data and generates a variety of reports.
- →Reviews documents, reports and/or applications for omissions and inconsistencies and ensures data entry is complete and accurate.
- →Enters pertinent information into an automated tracking system.
- →Receives DSS extracts to verify that the workload being captured in DSS is correct.
- →Maintains automated system of program-specific data to track items such as service project milestones, progress reports, program trends, performance measures, and compliance strategies.
- →Interacts with various other transportation services such as Emergency Medical Service (EMS), Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and other transportation providers.
- →Coordinates service practices that decrease waits and delays for patients in all specialty areas.
- →Plans consult processing flow to ensure veterans receive consultation services in a timely manner.
- →Utilizes the Veterans Health Information System & Technological Architecture (VISTA), Computerized Patient Record Systems (CPRS) or SharePoint Consult/Request Tracking System in processing internal consultations.
- →Plans for, organizes, administers, and directs how the work will be accomplished for the VTS program.
- →Coordinates the day-to-day operation of VTS program flow, processes, and functions.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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 identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial 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.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 694ce83a-b262-43bc-a062-7af44b9c4b77
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