Health Technician
Veterans Health Administration has an opening for a Health Technician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The listing describes it as a full-time position.
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Veterans Health Administration has an opening for a Health Technician in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. The listing describes it as a full-time position.
The advert mentions nursing and patient care among the skills and tools for this role.
Pay stated in the listing: $45,901 - $59,671 per year.
Benefits mentioned in the advert: health insurance.
Visa sponsorship is not mentioned. Applicants from outside United States should check the official work permit route before applying.
Dev Global Jobs found this job on USAJobs on Nov 6, 2026; applications close on Nov 20, 2026.
- Employer
- Veterans Health Administration
- Location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Job type
- Full-time
- Pay
- $45,901 - $59,671 per year
- Found
- Nov 6, 2026 on USAJobs
- Closes
- Nov 20, 2026
- Employer text
- 345 words, about 2 min to read
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This job's listed pay is 39% below the benchmark.
Source: OECD Average annual wages, 2025
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About the role
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To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/20/2026. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement. This position has an Individual Occupation Requirement (IOR).
You must meet the following: - Possess technician experience that requires application of knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled. (This position is part of the series that range widely in type and include support duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists.) In addition to meeting the IOR above, you must meet the experience as described below:GS-06 grade level: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade lever GS-05.
Specialized experience includes but is not limited to: setting up equipment for procedures; performing personal patient care; utilizing an automated system to maintain and retrieve patient data; assisting with patient test and procedures; and answering phones and directing phone calls to appropriate personnel.
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/.
Duties include, but are not limited to: - Performs peripheral and EJ venipuncture to obtain blood samples. - Assists medical and nursing personnel with the set up for sterile procedures. - Change sterile dressings. - Collect and labels specimens (blood, urine, sputum, stool) for testing. - Operate guidelines to determine technical factors, sets controls, calibrates, and operates equipment and instruments such as EKG machine, CBG monitor, ABI doppler, bladder scan, etc. - Cleans used medical instruments and disposes of waste materials. - Performs finger stick glucose mointoring. - Independently cleans exam rooms and re-stocks supplies as indicated by the needs of the patient or health care professional.
Orders and maintains all supplies. - Perform other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Rotating Position DescriptionTitle/PD#: Health Technician/PD10285A Physical Requirements: The work requires frequent walking, standing, stooping, lifting, bending, stretching, pushing, turning and at times lifting heavy equipment and/or patients. Good vision and hearing are required to collect patient data
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