Program Support Assistant
What you'd do
The Long Beach VA Medical Center is searching for a Program Support Assistant to serve within the Nursing, Spinal Cord Injury and Rehabilitation service. Welcome to VA Long Beach Tibor Rubin - History
Major duties
Duties include, but are not limited to: Carrying out a full range of duties in the Spinal Cord Injury Healthcare Group with specific responsibility for providing clerical, administrative, and clinical support to facilitate efficient and effective function of the Therapy Services Division of the SCI/D Healthcare Group at the VA Long Beach Medical Center. Utilizing methods of automating administrative reports and multiple uses of the data and creates detailed charts and graphs. Managing action item procedures that include the timely and appropriate delegation, dissemination, due date assignment, tracking, collection, routing, and final transmission of actions. Conducting special audits, studies, or surveys to be utilized in the development of procedures, and assisting therapists in collecting complete and appropriate data for reporting processes. Maintaining time and attendance records and reports by accurately recording tour of duty from bi-weekly time schedule into employee timecards for the therapy services section of the SCI HCG. Purchasing and maintaining adequate inventory of therapy supplies on hand to minimize delays and/or disruption to the flow of care for patients served by the section. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00-4:30pm Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Program Support Assistant/PD02213A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
What you need to qualify
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 07/27/2026. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-05 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Working with a variety of different activities to support patients who have spinal cord injury, associated neurological disorders, and/or disabling conditions as a result of the effects of catastrophic disability; Knowledge of an extensive body of rules, procedures, or operations applied to specific assignments and knowledge of the organization and functions of the office in order to perform all the procedural work of the office; Knowledge of the duties, priorities, and commitments of the staff sufficient to independently set up conferences, arrange travel and accommodations, and preparing reports from information gathered regarding the essential work of the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Therapy Program; Ability to effectively and professional communicate information to others, both orally and in writing; Knowledge of the substantial program of the Medical Center as related to the Spinal Cord Injury Health Care Group clerical and administrative support functions. 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/.
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