Criminal Justice Technician 1 (PCN 061977)

State of Alaska•Anchorage, AK

22h•Onsite

About The Position

This Individual Position is Exempt from the Hiring Freeze. Qualified Applicants are Encouraged To Apply. Welcome to the Department of Health! We’d be delighted to have you join our team. If you envision yourself in this role and are ready to start an exciting career with us, apply today! This position is open to Alaskan Residents only. Please check out the residency definition to determine if you qualify. What You Will Be Doing: Join our team in the Background Check Unit where you'll conduct thorough national screenings of criminal and civil records for individuals linked to licensed or certified healthcare facilities under the Department of Health and Department of Family & Community Services. Your responsibilities will include meticulously auditing and scanning fingerprint cards, conducting in-depth research, and providing support to the public via phone, email, and fax. Come be a vital part of ensuring safety and compliance in healthcare. Mission and Values/Culture: Step into the tranquil setting of the Division of Health Care Services - Background Check Unit, where each day is spent in the peaceful confines of our office, meticulously processing background checks for individuals employed in licensed and/or certified facilities. Join our dedicated and versatile team as we unite towards the overarching mission of delivering top-tier services to Alaska's most vulnerable communities. Your role here isn't just a job; it's an opportunity to make a meaningful impact every single day.

Requirements

Accountability: Accepts responsibility for own actions and decisions and demonstrates commitment to accomplish work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
Computer Skills: Uses computers, software applications, databases, and automated systems to accomplish work.
Interpersonal Skills: Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well to people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences.
Oral and Written Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral and written presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
Problem Solving: Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
Any combination of education and/or work, internship, and/or volunteer experience or service from any combination of fields that sufficiently builds the above and any job-specific competencies.
Requires use of the Alaska Public Safety Information Network (ASPIN), which includes passing a background investigation including fingerprinting.
Must fill in the Education section of the application. If you have not obtained a degree, please indicate the number of units completed.
Copies of transcripts are required to verify educational credentials used to meet or support the minimum qualifications/competencies for a position and are required with each application (Unofficial is okay; please ensure the institution/URL name is listed on the transcripts).
If education is completed in a foreign college or university, it may be used to meet the above requirements, if applicable. If utilizing this education, you must show that the education credentials have been submitted to a private organization that specializes in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials and that such education has been deemed to be at least equivalent to that gained in conventional U.S. education programs or an accredited U.S. state university reports the other institution as one whose transcript is given full value, or full value is given in subject areas applicable to the curricula at the state university. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence when applying.
When using work experience not documented in your application, please provide the employer's name, job title, employment dates, and whether you worked full-time or part-time.
Applications will be reviewed to determine if the responses are supported and if minimum qualifications are met.
Work experience needed to meet the minimum qualifications must be documented in the application.
If the application does not support minimum qualifications, the applicant may not advance to the interview and selection phase of the recruitment.
A resume will not be used to determine that minimum qualifications have been met for the position you are applying for.
If you have currently or previously been appointed to a flexibly staffed position, please ensure your work experience within a flexibly staffed position indicates the actual dates employed at each level.
Ensure your time and any subsequent flex promotion(s) are documented as a separate position.
This is required as minimum qualifications require experience at a particular level in which the lower level may not be considered.
If this information is not accurately reflected in your application, this may cause the processing of your application for consideration to be delayed.
Attaching a resume or curriculum vitae is not an alternative to filling out the application.
Noting "see resume or CV" or any similar response on any portion of your application may lead to a determination that your application is incomplete and removal from consideration for this job posting.
The State of Alaska does not provide VISA Employer sponsorships.

Nice To Haves

Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
Reasoning: Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
Self-Management: Sets well-defined and realistic goals; displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner; works with minimal supervision; is motivated to achieve; demonstrates responsible behavior.

Responsibilities

Conduct thorough national screenings of criminal and civil records for individuals linked to licensed or certified healthcare facilities under the Department of Health and Department of Family & Community Services.
Meticulously audit and scan fingerprint cards.
Conduct in-depth research.
Provide support to the public via phone, email, and fax.