Summary

This position is located within the Sterile Processing Services (SPS) in the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System - at the Lee County Healthcare Center in Cape Coral - 2 hours South of Bay Pines - Florida. The Supervisory Medical Supply Technician (MST) works in support of the Sterile Processing Service (SPS) management team. *** Offering Recruitment/Relocation Incentive. *** Announcement was updated on 9/29/25 to include staffing shortages verbiage.

Duties

• Duties and responsibilities of the Supervisory Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing) include - but are not limited to: Provides oversight and supervision for a group of MSTs - up to the GS-7 level
• Administrative responsibility for planning and directing daily work - and ensures an even workflow and distribution of workload
• Oversight of attendance and leave to include approval of sick leave and annual leave - and revises work schedules to meet anticipated and unanticipated changes in the workload
• Ensures SOPs - Policies and SPS mandates are followed
• Conducts performance appraisals - recommends promotions - reassignments - recognition of superior performance retention or release of probationary employees - or other changes of assigned personnel
• Reviews work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review to ensure completed work meets supervisor's instructions on such things as work sequence - procedures - methods - and deadlines
• Provides technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of the organizational unit
• Conducts corrective counseling with employees - referring disciplinary problems to higher levels of management
• Resolves informal complaints of employees and deals with union representatives on personnel matters
• Instructs employees on work-related activities - policies - procedures and goals
• Provides guidance and training to staff members with less experience
• Work Schedule: Fulltime - Monday through Friday from 7:00am to 3:30pm Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized to highly qualified and eligible new federal appointees or former federal employees with at least a 90-day break in service
• Relocation Incentive: Authorized to highly qualified and eligible fulltime federal employees who physically relocate Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a child
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144 -000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Not authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Functional Statement #: 20811F OCHCO Bulletin Subject: Annual Determination of Staffing Shortages
• Although hybrid title 38 occupations follow title 5 Veterans' preference rules - as required by the Merit Systems Protection Board (Graves v
• VA - 117 M.S.P.R
• 697 (2012)) - 38 U.S.C. § 7412 waives the requirement to apply Veterans' preference to external applicants for appointments made during the fiscal year to hybrid title 38 occupations among those reported to have the largest staffing shortages.