Total 182 Others level Maintenance / Repair job vacancies in Houston, Texas US

The primary purpose of this position is: An Enlisted Air Reserve Technician (ART), to assist the medical records administration specialist with responsibility for the daily operations of the Medical Records, Quality Assurance, and Risk Management programs. Oversees all activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of, and adherence to the organization's policies and procedures covering Service Treatment Records (STR) administration. Provides direct support to the Medical Records Administration ART and Senior ART by accomplishing a variety of duties relating to medical administration, military functions, and analysis to assist with the operational requirements of the Squadron and Wing Force Health programs. Works directly with AFRC STR Processing Center, sub-set of Air Force Medical Readiness Agency (AFMRA). Provides training to reserve members in the accomplishment of tasks set forth herein.

Duties:
1. Provides direct support to the Medical Records Administrator and Senior ART in planning, directing, implementing, and controlling all elements of the day-to-day STR operation.
2. Ensures quality and security of the STR program.
3. Provides advisory and consultant services on service treatment records to Reserve Medical Unit staff.
4. Educates Reserve Medical Unit personnel and others on service treatment records requirements.
5. Manages Health Service Benefits and Entitlements.

• Provide supervision to other orthotists
• Measure and fit patients with all types of custom made orthotic appliances.
• Operate shop machines and hand tools required to perform fabrication, alteration and repair of orthotic appliances.
• Coordinate interpretation of prescriptions with patients and physicians.
• Ensure acceptable quality standards are maintained within the work area and that appliances produced meet required specifications.
• Identify developmental and training needs of subordinate employees and provide needed training.

• Prepare a full range of baked products found in regular and special diet menus.
• Adjust measurements and revise recipes to improve taste, change quantities, or conform to special diet requirements.
• Calculate daily totals of various ingredients required by bakery for the days production.
• Use bakery tools and equipment, including powered machines, abiding by health regulations and sanitation standards.
• Maintain knowledge of the full variety of ingredients used in baked goods; e.g., hard or soft flour, leavening agents, soda, butter or shortening, hard or soft mineral water.
• Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of bakery by cleaning and washing of ovens, work tables, equipment, refrigerators, utensils, and floors.

• Independently fabricate prosthetic and orthotic devices, with direction.
• Assist with supply inventorying, management, and ordering.
• Perform duties to maintain the functional/safe operations of the fabrication lab.
• Assist the primary orthotist/prosthetist to adjust and adapt lower and upper extremity prosthetic devices
• Perform limited repairs of prosthetic devices.

• Maintain accounting records/subsidiary ledgers for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, collections, payments, income, liabilities, payroll, assets, and equipment.
• Ensures the accuracy and timeliness of accounting documents submitted by assigned activities.
• Determines that all transactions are properly processed, and that total activity agrees with predetermined control tables.
• Analyses and reviews report and machine listing to assure they are in balance and in proper format and sort sequence, that accounting data is valid and that it adheres to prescribed regulatory manuals and procedures.
• Classifies erroneous conditions referring complex errors/problems to the accountant.

• Maintains an assigned area of journals and ledgers.
• Examines, verifies, and analyzes a variety of documents to determine their mathematical correctness, validity, and clerical accuracy.
• Maintains files of all correspondence and messages pertaining to financial records and accounting.
• Audits and verifies each supporting document for propriety of account debits and credits amount of deposit.
• Completes posting documents with back-up attached codes documents and posts to appropriate ledger and journal.

1. Accomplish initial planning functions to include facilities and equipment planning.
2. Review and evaluate suggestions involving equipment.
3. Ensure follow up is in place for facilities development.
4. Develop/revise standards for Equipment to track and maintain life cycle usefulness.
5. On new and proposed weapon system repair assignment, establish and identifies the common, Air Ground Equipment (AGE) and maintenance Ground Equipment (MGE) requirements.
6. Provide technical guidance and coordination on unusual technical problems (for equipment) encountered during the production cycle.
7. Value Engineering Techniques will be used to: Examine high volume/high value components for design changes, depot repair procedures, substitution of equipment, etc.; to investigate processes and repair procedures for improvement; to design adequate tooling for depot operations not covered by technical data and provides adequate fixtures and equipment for direct production support.
8. Support the Production Supervisors in production meetings and assist in identifying significant issues.
9. Comply with and assist in implementing Command standard business practices, policies & procedures.

• Ensure the timely completion and adequacy of the medical charts of inpatient and Ambulatory Patient Visit patients discharged from the hospital.
• Support the completion of discharged Inpatient and Ambulatory Patient Visit type records.
• Reconciles disposition report with records received from the wards.
• Instructs and trains ward clerks, paraprofessionals, and the professional staff for compliance with the medical records procedures and policies.
• Applies a practical knowledge of medical terminology, relevant policy references, and procedures.

• Serves as Lead: Responsible to the supervisor for ensuring work assignments of other employees of the team are carried out by performing a range of duties.
• Fitting and Issuing of Air Force Uniforms to basic training Airmen and Guardians.
• Performs recurring work assignments and storage and issue duties: Perform storage and issue duties; in-check stock, store property, and issue assets using hand-held terminals and computer products.
• Perform daily, annual, directed, and reoccurring inventories, location validations, and warehouse surveys: Investigate suspected overages and shortages.
• Determines stock levels needed for recurring items based on usage, inventory, and project trainee accessions.
• Inspects property with complex and/or unusual characteristic errors and process Care of Supply in Storage (COSIS) transactions.

• Perform bio-psychosocial assessments on child and adolescent behavioral health patients to determine a diagnosis.
• Perform routine case management functions including telephonic monitoring of symptom severity and/or adherence to behavioral health care treatment plans.
• Provide targeted assessment and evaluation, including diagnostic impressions and/or functional status focused on the presenting problem.
• Formulate behavioral health interventions and short-term solution focused treatment in a Behavioral Health Care setting.
• Provide consultation services for a subset of patients who require ongoing monitoring and follow-up.

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Incumbent performs his/her assigned shift, coordinating workflow, determining priority of examinations and ensuring workload completion. Performs a variety of radiographic examinations such as routine, difficult, and complex studies in department as well as OR and on the wards/units. Receives the patient, explains the method of procedure, positions patients, selects and sets technical factors, sets up and adjusts accessory equipment required and makes exposures necessary for the requested procedure. In performing these duties, the incumbent is responsible for the following:

1. Performs standard radiographic examinations of the head, trunk and extremities for diagnoses of illness and injuries with minimal to no assistance. Receives patients and explains examinations to be performed, ensuring patients are properly attired and prepared before positioning patient for requested examination. Performs procedures as defined by the equipment and scope of services, possibly including GI and small bowel series, cholecystograms, cholangiograms, urethorograms, barium and air contrast enemas, myelograms, arthrograms, venograms, DXA Scans, and contrast injections as it correlates to exam. Correlates clinical history, pertinent clinical data and other ancillary diagnostic examinations to obtain radiographic images of optimal value.
2. Able to assist radiologist in fluoroscopic examinations which require incumbent to prepare and administer intravenous, oral, and/or rectal contrast media. Fluoroscopic studies such as upper GI's, barium enemas, esophagrams and small bowel follow through are performed on a digital fluoroscopy unit employing direct digital radiography.
3. Assists in training employees and student technologist, coordinates radiation safety, receives patients and explains procedures, prepares x-ray room and equipment; performs portables, OR procedures, emergency room (Triage), and recovery room.
4. Maintains records of patients examined, and studies performed in the VISTA hospital information system and CPRS.
5. Evaluates the nature of critical and emergency procedures and rearranges patient priorities to accommodate these more urgent requirements.
6. Responsible to explain exams to competent patients so that the patient understands what is to be done as well as what hazards, if any, is possible. Incumbent may be required by procedure or patient's condition to monitor vital signs, recognize allergic reactions and initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
7. Properly identifies patient images using left and right markers. This is essential so that mistaken identity of films to patients does not occur. The technologist must be certain that the patient ID band and the request are identical.
8. Performs operator maintenance on equipment as required.
1. Responsible to the radiologists and supervisor for the quality and quantity of radiographic exams performed in order to assure a high level of acceptability of radiographs while minimizing patient dosage and reducing costs.
10. Performs quality control/assurance checks on studies performed to ensure that only optimally diagnostic images are forwarded to the radiologist(s) for interpretation.
11. Practices radiation safety in order to reduce exposure to patients, staff and self. This is achieved by the use of lead aprons, lead gloves, lead shields, lead-lined walls and collimation. Film badges are worn by the technologists to assure compliance to radiation regulations. The incumbent must also be aware of and practice the safety policies and procedures of the ALM VA Hospital and participate in quality assurance activities as directed.

• Maintains industrial hygiene equipment.
• Conducts assessments to evaluate existing potential health hazards and recommends solutions to problems.
• Conducts surveys and investigations of work operations, identifying and evaluating conditions which may be hazardous to the health or workers.
• Performs respirator fit testing per appropriate standards and guidelines.
• Collect and manage industrial hygiene data.
• Collects air samples for as determined by building Inspections or special projects.

• Serve as the Medical Services Accountable Officer (MSAO) and Hospital Treasurer responsible for the management and operation of medical service accounts.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of all functions related to collections from insurance companies who provide private health insurance coverage for civilian emergencies.
• Direct and oversee the operation and maintenance of funding activities including acceptance/disbursement and accounting of monies, accounts reporting and maintenance, billing, collections.
• Certify the validity and accuracy of outpatient medical services rendered patients.
• Monitor, analyze, reconcile and balance all reports required on a monthly and quarterly basis.

• Monitor budget reports for accuracy.
• Review expense data against established budget in order to identify discrepancies.
• Reclassify expenses to appropriate budget categories.
• Determine base support costs for facility.
• Correct personnel and/or financial data to ensure accuracy of records.
• Organize data related to personnel time and expenses as they impact the overall financial data of the organization.
• Use analytical techniques to measure data for resolution development.

• Perform the full range of receptionist, recordkeeping and clerical duties within the ambulatory setting. Enter, manipulate and/or retrieve information and data from automated systems utilized by MTF.
• Type routine correspondence using various automation systems. Complete request forms for individual patient orders, blood work and other requests.
• Maintain and enter patient appointment schedules for the clinic/practice. Schedules appropriate patient appointments.
• Receive patients and visitors as the initial point of contact, in person or telephonically. Ensures eligibility for care, and contacts Patient Administration for verification. Verify Patient Insurance/OHI.
• Responsible for the clerical duties inherent to the in processing (reception), care and out processing (transition) of outpatients, families/caregivers and guests. Effectively communicates with patient and their care team.
• Reconcile end-of-shift/end-of-day processing and reports.
• Respond to emergency calls and follow communication procedures to include operating emergency phone lines, public announcement systems, and emergency alarms. Clearly communicates with associated parties during emergency related operations.