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Job Field: Science
Location: Everett, WA
Salary: $61,867.00 - $80,427.00 / Per Year
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Phone: (215)697-0532

JOB SUMMARY:

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The Navy and Marine Corps team offers innovative, exciting and meaningful work linking military and civilian talents to achieve our mission and safeguard our freedoms. Department of the Navy provides competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and extensive professional development and training. From pipefitters to accountants, scientists to engineers, doctors to nurses-the careers and opportunities to make a difference are endless. Civilian careers-where purpose and patriotism unite!

 

The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery provides high quality patient- and family-centered medical care in wartime and peacetime. Civilian healthcare professionals work side-by-side with military medical staff to care for active duty members, their families, and retirees at medical facilities around the globe. Every day, no matter what the environment, Navy Medicine is ready to provide world class care, anytime, anywhere.

Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) is a community-based acute care and obstetrical hospital, offering expert primary care, emergency care and a broad range of medical and surgical specialties, with 36 inpatient beds (with expansion capacity to 72+). The hospital is conveniently located off of Highway 3 in Kitsap County between Naval Base Kitsap (NBK) Bremerton and Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and NBK Bangor. NHB is parent command for three Naval Branch Health Clinics and the Puget Sound Family Medicine Residency Program. The three clinics are located at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, NBK Bangor and Naval Station Everett. Also, under the NHB umbrella are Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and the Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program (SARP), which has been relocated to the 7th floor of NHB.  

 

The Occupational Health Nurse is assigned to Naval Hospital Bremerton or Naval Branch Health Clinics Bangor or Puget Sound Naval Shipyard or Naval Branch Clinic Everett.  This position is responsible for providing occupational health care to all employees of the hospital or the branch medical clinic and all commands within the catchments area of the Naval Branch Health Clinics.  The focus of this position is of patient and staff education, and professional nursing care delivery with a secondary focus of administrative/supervisory duties.  This position coordinates other occupational health services to facilitate integration of the occupational health programs.  This position manages programs independently, coordinates with other occupational health, preventive medicine, safety, industrial hygiene, management, and private medical professionals.

The purpose of this announcement is to recruit qualified individuals using OPM Government-wide Direct Hire Authority (DHA) authorized by Title 5 USC §3304 and 5 CFR 337 Part 337, Subpart B.   The rule of three, veteran preference, and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to the direct hire process.   For more information on OPM DHA please visit http://www.opm.gov/DirectHire/factsheet.asp .

 

APPLY NOW!  This announcement has a cut-off date of January 30, 2014.  Candidates who apply on or before January 30, 2014 will be referred first.  Qualified applicants received after January 30, 2014 may be referred on an as needed basis.

TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Occasional Travel
• Local travel and rare trips to sights or Naval Hospital Bremerton

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED

• No

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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• You must be a US Citizen.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal & Regulatory Guidance.
• Suitable for Federal employment as determined by background investigation.
• Selectee may be required successfully complete a probationary period.
• This position is a Drug Testing Designated Position (TDP).
• You must obtain and maintain a security clearance.