Cook
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administrion
Veterans Health Administrion
Summary
This position is loced in the Nutrition and Food Service the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Livermore, California. The person in this position prepares nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans.
Summary
This position is loced in the Nutrition and Food Service the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Livermore, California. The person in this position prepares nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans.
Overview
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Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
07/29/2025 to 08/12/2025
Salary
$26.22 to - $30.53 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 4
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Livermore, CA
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
7404 Cooking
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Announcement number
CBSW-12771499-25-FJ
Control number
842055400
This job is open to
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Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
This vacancy is open to Internal permanent employees of VA Palo Alto HCS Nutrition and Food Service only
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Duties
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Major duties and responsibilities include:
Prepares and cooks meals th require little or no processing, such as hot cereals, concentred or dehydred soups, sauces, and gravies
Follows menus, production sheets, and recipes to proper items in the quantity needed
Grills eggs, me pties, pancakes, French toast; broils mes; makes cold sandwich fillings and assembles a variety of sandwiches
Prepares fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables; bakes frozen potoes, pre-made cookie dough, and muffin bters
Prepares and hes convenience items such as frozen hash browns, fish fillets, and chicken nuggets; Prepares purred foods and adjusts consistency with thickeners
Washes, peels, and cuts fruits and vegetables; assembles and mixes salad ingredients and dessert items, including gelin molds and fruit crisps
Weighs, measures, and assembles ingredients for regular and modified diets
Operes a variety of kitchen equipment and follows approprie safety procedures
Follows sanitary food handling procedures
Disassembles and reassembles equipment for cleaning
Cleans and sanitizes work areas, and performs deep cleaning tasks when needed
Operes dish machine
Performs other reled duties
Work Schedule: 6:00am-2:30pm or 11:00am-7:30pm, dependent on department need
Position Description Title/PD#: Cook/PD06239A
Relocion/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959
You may be required to serve a probionary period
Subject to background/security investigion
Pre-employment physical required
Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( ). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment.
Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing de of this announcement, 08/12/2025.
EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstres you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants red in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualificion Standards .
SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualificions will first be evalued against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess least the minimal acceptable qualificion requirement are considered for further ring; those who do not are red ineligible and are elimined. The potential eligibles are then red against the remainder of the Job Elements:
Dexterity and Safety
Interpret Instructions, Specificions (other than blueprint reading)
Merials
Technical Practices
Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Without more than normal supervision
Work Practices
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles 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 credited on the basis of time actually spent in approprie activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indice clearly the nure of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: Subject to continuous standing, walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 lbs. unassisted. Manipules cumbersome and heavy objects, such as washing stainless steel mixing bowls, pushing heavy carts on caster, or opering heavy equipment. Manual dexterity needed to safely opere equipment and to handle sharp knives and blades. Hand-eye coordinion and ability to concentre and react quickly to serve food and opere equipment.
Educion
This job does not have an educion qualificion requirement.
Additional informion
Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacion) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de 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 alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, Human Resources and Administrion/Operions, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) The Fair Chance Act .
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
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How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
Narrive responses are not required this time. If you are referred for considerion, you may be asked to submit additional job reled informion, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring or considerion for employment.
The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.
For more informion on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Stus Candides and Other Candide Definitions document.
Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not oblige management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstement. Management may use any one or any combinion of these methods to fill the position.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members : Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.
Benefits
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Review our benefits
Required documents
Required Documents
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To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or ICTAP/CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.
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SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
How to Apply
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All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/12/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Special Employment Considerion: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for informion on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinor.
The and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .
Agency contact informion
Faith Joiner
Phone
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...
Address
Palo Alto VA Medical Center
3801 Miranda Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or ICTAP/CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
How to Apply
Help
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/12/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Special Employment Considerion: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for informion on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinor.
The and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .
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Agency contact informion
Faith Joiner
Phone
...
...
Address
Palo Alto VA Medical Center
3801 Miranda Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 07/29/2025 to 08/12/2025 Salary $26.22 to - $30.53 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 4 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Livermore, CA Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Announcement number CBSW-12771499-25-FJ Control number 842055400
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administrion
Veterans Health Administrion
Summary
This position is loced in the Nutrition and Food Service the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Livermore, California. The person in this position prepares nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans.
Summary
This position is loced in the Nutrition and Food Service the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Livermore, California. The person in this position prepares nutritious, high quality meals for service to the Veterans.
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
07/29/2025 to 08/12/2025
Salary
$26.22 to - $30.53 per hour
Pay scale & grade
WG 4
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Livermore, CA
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Competitive
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
7404 Cooking
Supervisory stus
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Suitability/Fitness
Announcement number
CBSW-12771499-25-FJ
Control number
842055400
This job is open to
Help
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
This vacancy is open to Internal permanent employees of VA Palo Alto HCS Nutrition and Food Service only
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Duties
Help
Major duties and responsibilities include:
Prepares and cooks meals th require little or no processing, such as hot cereals, concentred or dehydred soups, sauces, and gravies
Follows menus, production sheets, and recipes to proper items in the quantity needed
Grills eggs, me pties, pancakes, French toast; broils mes; makes cold sandwich fillings and assembles a variety of sandwiches
Prepares fresh, canned, and frozen vegetables; bakes frozen potoes, pre-made cookie dough, and muffin bters
Prepares and hes convenience items such as frozen hash browns, fish fillets, and chicken nuggets; Prepares purred foods and adjusts consistency with thickeners
Washes, peels, and cuts fruits and vegetables; assembles and mixes salad ingredients and dessert items, including gelin molds and fruit crisps
Weighs, measures, and assembles ingredients for regular and modified diets
Operes a variety of kitchen equipment and follows approprie safety procedures
Follows sanitary food handling procedures
Disassembles and reassembles equipment for cleaning
Cleans and sanitizes work areas, and performs deep cleaning tasks when needed
Operes dish machine
Performs other reled duties
Work Schedule: 6:00am-2:30pm or 11:00am-7:30pm, dependent on department need
Position Description Title/PD#: Cook/PD06239A
Relocion/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959
You may be required to serve a probionary period
Subject to background/security investigion
Pre-employment physical required
Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( ). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment.
Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing de of this announcement, 08/12/2025.
EXPERIENCE: A specific length of training and experience is not required, but you must show evidence of training or experience of sufficient scope and quality of your ability to do the work of this position. Evidence which demonstres you possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of this position must be supported by detailed descriptions of such on your resume. Applicants red in accordance with the OPM Federal Wage System Qualificion Standards .
SCREEN-OUT ELEMENT: Your qualificions will first be evalued against the prescribed screen out element, which usually appears as question 1 in the on-line questionnaire. Those applicants who appear to possess least the minimal acceptable qualificion requirement are considered for further ring; those who do not are red ineligible and are elimined. The potential eligibles are then red against the remainder of the Job Elements:
Dexterity and Safety
Interpret Instructions, Specificions (other than blueprint reading)
Merials
Technical Practices
Use and Maintain Tools and Equipment
Without more than normal supervision
Work Practices
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (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 th transles 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 credited on the basis of time actually spent in approprie activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indice clearly the nure of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Physical Requirements/Working Conditions: Subject to continuous standing, walking, frequent bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling. Lifts or moves objects weighing up to 40 lbs. unassisted. Manipules cumbersome and heavy objects, such as washing stainless steel mixing bowls, pushing heavy carts on caster, or opering heavy equipment. Manual dexterity needed to safely opere equipment and to handle sharp knives and blades. Hand-eye coordinion and ability to concentre and react quickly to serve food and opere equipment.
Educion
This job does not have an educion qualificion requirement.
Additional informion
Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacion) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave a re (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience. This credited service can be used in determining the re which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment de 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 alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, Human Resources and Administrion/Operions, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) The Fair Chance Act .
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
Benefits
Help
Review our benefits
How you evalued
You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE.
Narrive responses are not required this time. If you are referred for considerion, you may be asked to submit additional job reled informion, which may include, but not limited to; responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities; completion of a work sample, and/or contact for an interview. Your resume and/or supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your ring or considerion for employment.
The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.
For more informion on the "Who may apply" eligibility requirements, please refer to the OHRM Stus Candides and Other Candide Definitions document.
Placement Policy: The posting of this announcement does not oblige management to fill a vacancy or vacancies by promotion. The position may be filled by reassignment, change to lower grade, transfer, appointment, or reinstement. Management may use any one or any combinion of these methods to fill the position.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members : Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.
Benefits
Help
Review our benefits
Required documents
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or ICTAP/CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
How to Apply
Help
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/12/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Special Employment Considerion: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for informion on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinor.
The and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .
Agency contact informion
Faith Joiner
Phone
...
...
Address
Palo Alto VA Medical Center
3801 Miranda Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Applicion Package which includes:
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualificions for this position. Please make sure you have included other documents required for your applicion, such as a copy of your transcript (if using educion to qualify), SF-50's (current/former Federal employees), documention to support Veterans Preference claims, or ICTAP/CTAP documention (for displaced Federal employees). You will not be contacted for additional informion.
Resume
SF-50/ Notificion of Personnel Action
How to Apply
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All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete applicion package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/12/2025 to receive considerion. To preview the questionnaire click .
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USA JOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your responses and approprie documention is submitted prior to the closing de.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Special Employment Considerion: VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply, including those eligible for hiring under 5 CFR 213.3102(u), Schedule A, Appointment of persons with disabilities [i.e., intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities, or psychiric disabilities], and/or Disabled veterans with a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. Contact the Agency Contact for informion on how to apply under this appointment authority via the Selective Placement Coordinor.
The and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candides for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit approprie documention (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance ring, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty locion) and be found well-qualified (have a final ring of 85 or more) for this vacancy. Informion about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website .
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Palo Alto VA Medical Center
3801 Miranda Avenue
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Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. After we receive applicion packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, we will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 07/29/2025 to 08/12/2025 Salary $26.22 to - $30.53 per hour Pay scale & grade WG 4 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Livermore, CA Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Competitive Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus No Security clearance Drug test No Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Announcement number CBSW-12771499-25-FJ Control number 842055400
Job ID: 487886638
Originally Posted on: 8/2/2025
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