NHS Human Services, Inc.

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. Responsibilities 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 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. Additional Information VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. The following will be communicated to applicants for VA employment in a testing designated position and will also be included in all VA vacancy announcements for such positions: All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drugs use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be well-qualified, applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors if applicable, and must be proficient in most of the requirements of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website which can be found at https://www.opm.gov/. Receiving Service Credit for Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed. This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement."