While you may immediately associate VA with clinical jobs and medical professions, there are numerous nonclinical jobs that keep our facilities running smoothly. From paperwork to protection and transportation to tidiness, it takes a team to provide care for Veterans.
If you can picture yourself in any of these roles, you can find yourself supporting the work we do to care for Veterans.
10 VA nonclinical career options
- Administrative assistant
You’ll find administrative assistants working to assist leadership and professional staff with clerical duties in nearly every department at VA. Policies, budgets, fiscal management, personnel, logistics, or even property management may fall to you in your daily duties.
- Contract specialist
For those with a passion for paperwork and a love of logistics, a contract specialist position offers you the chance to work behind the scenes processing orders, requisitions, bids, and purchases for any number of our locations.
- Cook
While the name pretty much says it all, there’s quite a bit that goes into being a cook at a VA facility. From grilling up breakfast one minute to doling out cold cuts for lunch the next, you’ll be making meals for hundreds of patients at a time.
- Environmental service technician
Environmental services (EVS) technicians and housekeeping aides can be found mopping floors, vacuuming carpets, washing windows, or collecting trash. Regardless, when it comes to keeping our facilities clean for our Veterans and visitors, we turn to them.
- Firefighter
Did you know VA has its own fire departments—complete with fire engines and ambulances? As a firefighter, you’ll be responding to emergencies, but when not engaged as a first responder, you might also perform safety inspections of the facility or conduct training.
- Food service worker
You’ll find VA’s food service workers in our cafeteria environments setting up stations and serving food to Veterans and visitors. When the rush is over, you chip in around the kitchen with cleaning and maintenance.
- Healthcare engineer
Healthcare engineers provide oversight and project management for construction and maintenance efforts. Whether it’s as small as changing the function of an existing space or as large as building a whole new wing, healthcare engineers manage the work.
- Motor vehicle operator
We employ numerous vehicles in our VA fleets, including cars, vans, and trucks of all shapes and sizes. If transportation from one place to another is needed for patients, employees, cargo, or mail, you’re behind the wheel as a motor vehicle operator.
- Police
VA police officers have varied duties that benefit not only Veterans but also the communities they live in, serving as an active federal police force in and around our facilities.
- Transportation assistant
A transportation assistant reviews and authorizes requests for Veterans traveling from their home to VA medical appointments. By providing and coordinating transportation through VA resources or non-VA common carriers, you make their trip as smooth as possible.
Better benefits, no matter the role
With a job at VA, you’ll be able to take advantage of numerous benefits that will change not only your career, but your personal life as well.
We offer the choice of a variety of health maintenance organizations or fee-for-service health plans, and all cover preexisting conditions. Additionally, we pay up to 75% of health premiums, a benefit that can continue into retirement, making our insurance some of the best you’ll find in health care.
At VA, our employees receive 13 to 26 paid vacation/personal days, as well as 13 sick days annually with no limit on accumulation, and we celebrate 11 paid federal holidays each year, so your schedule can be balanced with your personal priorities.
And when you’re ready for a new challenge, we offer ongoing leadership development through every level of employment. We also have resources that make it easier for you to continue your education if you choose.
Work at VA
When we say there’s a way for everyone to work at VA, we mean it. No matter what your area of expertise, we have a role for you on our team.
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