Total 1,649 Maintenance / Repair job vacancies in WA - Remote - Karratha Region

• You will review proposed actions for potential impact to cultural resources and compliance with historic preservation statutes, regulations, and guidelines.
• You will prepare concise cost estimates for archaeological investigations, develop budgets, and scopes of work environmental contracts.
• You will prepare correspondence (e.g., e-mails, official letters, issue papers) related to environmental planning projects.
• You will perform professional consultative services related to archaeological and historic resources.

Duties include:

• Compiles and verifies data, frequently developing worksheets to improve the accuracy and completeness of information. Responsible for working with numerous, different, and unrelated systems.
• Uses personal computer software, including but not limited to Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.), word processing, internet, and communications and knowledge of computer security.
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels of personnel.
• Researches and communicates with requestor and service line personnel to answer questions and resolve problems concerning obligations, amendments, adjustments, and payments.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with and gain the cooperation from all levels of the administrative and professional staff, including supervisors, management officials, department managers and other high level officials and/or representatives of other Federal agencies and private industry.
• Reviews pending items and ensures that follow-up action is taken on all items pending for excessive periods of time. Traces and resolves discrepancies.
• Reviews and analyzes reports, classifies errors, takes corrective action to balance reports, verifies corrected copy and determines the source of processing deficiencies and recommends corrective procedures.
• Analyzes documents for accuracy and authorization, obligations, and payments.
• Responsible for transactions involving the disbursement and receipt of funds, and shows attention to detail when applying appropriations, object classes, and fund control points, to ensure proper deposits and credits.
• Locates, reviews, and interprets guidance including manuals, directives, handbooks, financial policies, decisions.
• Ensures compliance with technical guidance, federal law, and internal controls.

• Applies comprehensive knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy & physiology, disease processes, treatment modalities, diagnostic tests, medications, procedures as well as the principles and practices of health services and the organizational structure to ensure proper code selection.
• Reviews clinical documentation and provides education to clinical staff on both inpatient and outpatient episodes of care including admissions and discharges, observation, emergency department/urgent care, and clinic visits.
• Prepares and conducts provider education on documentation processes in the health record to include the impact of documentation on coding, workload, quality measures,
  reimbursement, and funding.
• Provides education to providers on the need for accurate and complete documentation in the health record, appropriate code selection of Evaluation and Management (E/M), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and ICD-10 diagnosis codes, and ensuring documentation supports the codes selected to the highest degree of specificity.
• Adheres to accepted coding practices, guidelines and conventions when choosing the most appropriate diagnosis, operation, procedure, ancillary, or evaluation and management (E/M) code to ensure ethical, accurate, and complete coding.
• Reviews VERA input on missed opportunities in provider documentation identified by the VERA coordinator and coordinate provider documentation education with the VERA
  coordinator.
• Ensures documentation supports codes based on guidelines specific to certain diagnoses, procedures, and other criteria used to classify patients under the Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) program.
• Monitors ever-changing regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information for the full spectrum of services provided by the VAMC.
• Assists facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided; provides technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing.
• Searches the patient health record to find documentation justifying code assignment based on an expanded knowledge of the organization and structure of the patient record.
• Uses a variety of computer applications in day to day activities and duties, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, and Access; competent in use of the health record applications (VistA and CPRS) as well as the encoder product suite.
• Develops and conducts seminars, workshops, short courses, informational briefings, and conferences.
• Ensures active intra-departmental training program is in place for the HIM staff.
• Determines and meets training needs of extra-departmental professional, paraprofessional and non-professional personnel by originating training material.
• Facilitates improved overall quality, completeness and accuracy of health record
  documentation.
• Ensures the accuracy and completeness of clinical information used for measuring and
  reporting physician and medical center outcomes with continuing education to all
  members of the patient care team on an ongoing basis.
• Assists in the development of guidelines for data compatibility, consistency, and monitoring for compliance.
• Provides advice and guidance in relation to issues such as documentation requirements, liability issues, advance directives, informed consent, patient privacy and confidentiality, state reporting, etc.
• Analyzes situations or processes and recommends improvements or changes in
  documentation as deemed necessary.
• Compiles, reviews, abstracts, analyzes and interprets medical data incidental to a variety of patient care and treatment activities.
• Conducts daily reviews of all new admissions to designated clinical services to identify those with potential documentation improvements.
• Reviews the health record and discusses the case with the clinical staff.
• Performs admission reviews for specific patient populations to facilitate appropriate clinical documentation and ensures the level of services and acuity of care are accurately reflected in the health record.
• Reviews the appropriateness of patient working Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) and
  length of stay information by reviewing all clinical documentation, lab results, diagnostic
  information and treatment to ensure documentation reflects severity of illness, acuity
  and resource consumption.
• Participates in clinical rounds and may, where appropriate, offer information on
  documentation, coding rules and reimbursement issues.
• Maintains statistical database(s) to track the results and validate the program for identifying patterns and variations in coding practices.

**The salary range listed on this announcement only reflects the General Schedule incorporating Rest of U.S. basic pay. Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to include the locality adjustment for the specific location.**Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Works collaboratively with VISN programs, services, and interdisciplinary coordinated care team members to provide access to care.
• Routinely reviews computer medication profiles for therapeutic duplication, prescription noncompliance and allergies/drug reactions.
• Processes and submits patient requests for new prescription orders and renewals (including controlled substances) into the computer accurately, thoroughly and in a timely manner.
• Professionally handles issues escalated from team members and follows guidelines to address the issue appropriately.
• Leads the training of new staff.
• Assists with the training, orientation and re-training of employees to Pharmacy Service policies and procedures.
• Responsible for reviewing each subordinate's competencies within applicable areas of assignment on an annual basis.
• Assist in maintaining workflow patterns to ensure patient calls are answered in less than 30 seconds and that less than 5% of calls are abandoned by the patient while ensuring accurate record keeping.
• Assists other pharmacy managers and staff to identify areas of duplication of efforts and develops solutions to streamline processes, reduce waste, save costs and improve patient care.
• Completes additional duties as assigned.