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Allied Health Professional

This announcement is open continuous. Certificates will be issued to the hiring manager on a weekly basis until all positions have been filled. Announcement will remain open until all vacancies are filled and may close sooner than 9/11/2026. Major duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Receives/acts on assignments for a variety of difficult examinations on compromised patients for planned, urgent & emergent tests.
• Performs full range of complex procedures using specialized equipment requiring precise adjustments to respond to individual patient needs, conditions or test sequences.
• Performs sleep monitoring (PSG) on individuals with variety of sleep disorders.
• Explains procedures and positions patient to insure comfort during variety of tests, taking into account the patient's age, mental and physical status.
• Applies electrodes according to recognized standards using The American Academy of Sleep Medicine Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events.
• Applies thoracic and abdominal transducer; pulse oximeter finger or ear probe; respiratory effort belts; nasal/oral sensors; and other equipment.
• Recognizes sleep apnea, sleep movements, nocturnal seizures, and parasomnias such as nocturnal myoclonus and rapid eye movement (REM) behavior disorder; makes adjustments in recording parameters to optimize performance of sleep studies
• Annotates seizures, abnormal sleep behavior and significant respiratory events on electroencephalographic records in real time.
• Recognizes artifacts, movements and diagnostic findings making changes in recording techniques and parameters to optimize display of the phenomenon.
• Scans and examines environment of recording to detect/eliminate possible sources of artifacts, recognizes artifacts as they occur in real time; works rapidly to diagnose/eliminate artifacts, in order to preserve integrity of recording.
• Monitors patient, diagnostic equipment, recording and video equipment throughout the study; obtains artifact-free data and tracings; records significant observations.
• Provides an assessment of the patient's condition throughout the patient's stay.
• Scores clinical events and sleep/wake stages by applying professionally accepted guidelines.
• Analyzes approximately 1000 pages of information per PSG for sleep stages; heart rate and arrhythmias; respiration rate and pattern; oxygen saturation level; pH level; myoclonic activity; seizure activity; thoracic and abdominal movement pattern; tidal volume changes, tumescence activity; EOG activity; bruxism; specific EEG patterns; awakenings/ arousals; and other significant observations.
• Prepares and organizes patient charts and patient rooms.
• Participates in Home Sleep Testing (HST) program; sees HST patients, trains clinic staff on HST data collection and setup, PAP setup, and follow-up; instructs remote technicians to download the HST data to the Minneapolis VAHCS Sleep Center; assures competency in HST and CPAP setup.
• Assures sterile supplies and other required equipment are carefully selected and properly presented as determined by the test being performed.
• Maintains inventory of supplies and initiates purchase requests.
• Ensures that all equipment is kept clean and safe for use by the CPAP patient.
• Prepares, calibrates, interfaces, and operates all equipment used in polysomnographic procedures.

Nights - Sunday to Wednesday

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Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

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) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

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.

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

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

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This is not a virtual position.

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