Summary
The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center is currently recruiting four (4) Police Officers, in the Police Service located in Long Beach, CA. Police Officers carry out responsibilities where most work is performed on Veterans Affairs Departmental properties, which includes any properties owned, leased, or licensed to VA.
This is an open continuous announcement until July 16, 2024.
Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available.
This job is open to
Clarification from the agency
ALL US CITIZENS.
DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.201) for this occupation.
Duties
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Conduct investigations, apprehensions and detentions of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws of the United States.
- Protect individuals during any given situation against threats to personal safety when enforcing laws and regulations.
- Respond immediately to and engages potentially armed individuals during active threat response situations.
- Respond to highly dangerous and active crimes in progress, making independent decisions and taking immediate steps to preserve life and property.
- Mitigate opportunities for assault, illegal entry, and theft involving highly protected information, property and/or processes at facilities containing special protective methods.
- React to neutralize threats, secure resources and mitigate further risk to personnel or property.
- Provide patrol in vehicles, by foot and/or on a bicycle.
- Respond to calls for police assistance, irregularities, and unusual or suspicious circumstances.
- Conduct asset protection during transport.
- Write comprehensive incident reports.
- Provide policing services in various environments where each type of jurisdiction (Exclusive, Concurrent and Proprietorial) has different enforcement rules.
- Seek, detects, seizes, and protects evidence and witnesses at the scene of an incident.
- Detect and intervenes in criminal activity.
- Enforce traffic rules and regulations, including those related to speeding and reckless operation of vehicles while impaired or intoxicated.
- Investigate incidents and takes steps to mitigate further risk and resolve situations.
- Conduct investigative contacts/stops, exercising search and arrest authority, detaining witnesses, and apprehending suspects.
- Advise individuals of their rights (such as Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.), and protecting the constitutional and civil rights of persons.
- Intervene, when necessary, to deescalate situations and determine when and how much force must be applied.
- Conduct prisoner transports to holding facilities and courts as required.
- Perform and provides training on drug and contraband intervention where contraband identification and knowledge is imperative.
- Execute disaster response and recovery procedures.
- Provide Basic Life Support (BLS) to injured personnel and coordinates additional emergency response when needed.
- Coordinate and directs search, rescue, and recovery for persons at high risk (e.g., missing or wandering patients, minors, etc.), including coordinating with local surrounding police departments to expand the search parameters.
- Intervene, when needed, to deescalate active suicidal behavior and/or prevents suicides.
- Prepare case files and testifying in court as it pertains to enforcing laws and regulations.
Work Schedule: Will be required to work days/nights, weekends, and holidays. Will be required to work shift work to include 8-hour, 10-hour, and 12-hour shifts depending on the staffing needs and will rotate in a fair and equitable manner.
Telework: Not Available
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Position Description Title/PD#: Senior Police Officer/PD99926S
Physical Requirements: The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed.
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- 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
- May serve a probationary period
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
- A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
- Required to attend an 8 -10-week course at the VA Law Enforcement Training Center in Little Rock, Arkansas (if not already completed). Satisfactory completion of this course is a condition of continued employment.
- A character investigation will be conducted on applicants selected for employment. The purpose of such an investigation is to secure evidence of the candidate's honesty, integrity, general character, and loyalty to the U.S. Government.
- Must qualify to be issued a firearm semi-annually and annually with an expandable Straight Baton (MEB). Applicants must be able to possess firearms under the terms of the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended (18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9).
- Must maintain a valid State or Commonwealth Driver's License and pass annual physical and psychosocial assessments.
- Must pass medical requirements: good near and distant vision, ability to distinguish basic colors, and ability to hear the conversational voice. Position requires moderate to arduous physical exertion and/or duties of a hazardous nature.
- Must have the capacity to perform the essential functions of the position without risk to themselves or others. Applicants/employees must possess emotional and mental stability. A psychological examination is required.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
GS-07 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-06 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience includes: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills.
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.
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/.
Preferred Experience: Current Certified Police Officers of the VHA administration.
Education
There is no educational substitution for the GS-07 level.
Benefits
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
How You Will Be Evaluated
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Applicants will be referred in the order in which they were received.
Required Documents
Documents Accepted:
- Cover Letter
- DD-214/ Statement of Service
- Disability Letter (Schedule A)
- Disability Letter (VA)
- License
- Other (1)
- PCS Orders
- Performance Appraisal
- Professional Certification
- Resume
- Separation Notice (RIF)
- SF-15
- SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
- Transcript
Documents Required:
Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application.
Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50, transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees).You will not be contacted for additional information. Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.
Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.
Applications are accepted online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.
If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from
schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
How to Apply
All applicants are encouraged to apply online.
To apply for this position, you must complete the occupational questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 07/16/2024 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12420603.
1. To begin, click Apply Online to create a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USAJOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupational questionnaire.
2. Click Submit My Answers to submit your application package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and appropriate documentation is submitted prior to the closing date. To verify your application is complete, log into your USAJOBS account, https://my.usajobs.gov/Account/Login, select the Application Status link and then select the More Information link for this position. The Details page will display the status of your application, the documentation received and processed, and any correspondence the agency has sent related to this application. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process.
To return to an incomplete application, log into your USAJOBS account and click Update Application in the vacancy announcement. You must re-select your resume and/or other documents from your USAJOBS account or your application will be incomplete.
Next steps
After the vacancy announcement closes, applicants are evaluated to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certificate(s) is issued and applicants will be notified of their status by email.
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