File Clerk

Description:

The position is located at the Oklahoma City VA Health Care System, Health Information Management Section (HIMS) of the Health Administration Service. Duties include the maintenance of accessible records and providing efficient service for direct and indirect patient care by managing the receipt and scanning of health documents in a timely and accurate manner.

Requirements:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/29/2024.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Candidates may be advanced without time restriction to positions up to GS-5 if the position to be filled is no more than two grades above the lowest grade the employee held within the preceding 52 weeks under his or her latest non-temporary competitive appointment. (Current SF-50 is required if applicable)

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

General Experience: To qualify for this position, applicants must possess one (1) year of general experience that possesses the skills, knowledge and ability of the position which includes, but is not limited to...Progressively responsible clerical, office, or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of the position to include knowledge of standard formats, forms, grammar, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation in order to perform a wide variety of record keeping, correspondence, and tracking operations; ability to communicate properly to coordinate record transfer, record follow-up, and record scanning and indexing functions with clinical and administrative team members; and the ability to type and use computer skills to carry out duties associated with transferring information and maintaining a record request file. OR

Education: Applicants may also qualify for this position using their past education experience. For this position, applicants must have successfully completed 2 years of post high school education to be qualified. This education must have been obtained in an accredited business, secretarial or technical school, junior college, college or university. One year of full-time academic study is defined as 30 semester hours, 45 quarter hours, or the equivalent in a college or university, or at least 20 hours of classroom instruction per week for approximately 36 weeks in a business, secretarial, or technical school. OR

Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond post high school level.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Analytical Thinking Attention to Detail Decision Making

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The work is mostly sedentary; however until records have been automated, work may involve considerable walking, standing and bending in the search for health records. There is lifting and carrying of bulky records and boxes, usually not to exceed 50 pounds. Pushing carts is routine for retiring records.

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.