Job Summary

This position is for a Time and Leave Clerk at Hampton VAMC in Nursing Services. This position's primary responsibility is to prepare time and leave records for the following services: Nursing Mental Health, Primary Care Service, Specialty Care Service and Nursing Services. Nursing Mental Health Service is 24-hour care operation with multiple tours of duties, including compressed schedules. Preparation of reports, minutes, and memorandums in final form, without prior typed drafts.

Job Description

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/16/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-05 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-04. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-04 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Utilizes judgment and understanding of Timekeeping procedures to prioritize and complete work., Coordinates with units/clinics daily to annotate scheduling changes, collect overtime/comp-time earned slips and leave reports., Teaches and trains employees how to utilize timekeeping software., Utilizes timekeeping software, enters employee work tours, leave, and premium pays following all applicable rules and regulations, Incumbent provides guidance to managers, supervisors and staff in all timekeeping matters citing appropriate regulatory/policy information, Prepares tracking system and logs hours reported such as overtime pay, compensatory pay, premium pay and other special pay determinations. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 4 years above high school. (NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS MUST BE SUBMITTED WITH THE APPLICATION MATERIALS. CONFERRAL OF DEGREE(S) EARNED SHOULD BE PRESENT ON TRANSCRIPT(S). UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT(S) are accepted. OR, Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond the second year of undergraduate studies. For GS-5 level positions (except Clerk-Stenographer, which does not require specialized experience), only education in excess of the first 60 semester hours (i.e., beyond the second year) is creditable toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. One full academic year of study (30 semester hours) beyond the second year is equivalent to 6 months of specialized experience. 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/.