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Major duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Assist with acute care licensed staff with the delivery of complex and specialized patient care in possible life-threatening situations.
• Recognize life-threating situations and act to correct emergent and urgent situations according to national/local policy and/or protocol after proper education, training and competency demonstrating knowledge skills, and abilities.
• Perform patient screening by observation-based and collecting patient information in collaboration with licensed personnel.
• Documents all observations and interventions appropriately in Electronic Health Record. Notifies licensed personnel of any observations outside of normal.
• Assist and support behavioral/psychiatric situations in the emergency setting include assisting licensed personnel with crisis intervention and with the management of aggressive or suicidal psychiatric patients, by providing one-to-one observations and applying prevention and management of disruptive behavior techniques (PMDB).
• Use communication techniques required to complete the questioners and templates approved for use in the ED, including active listening, restating, and mirroring.
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for the patient while promoting a sense of worth and dignity under the supervision of the licensed personnel and maintains records.
• All other assigned duties.

The Health Technician assists with clinic flow, clinic stocking and performs various basic direct
patient care activities according to facility policy, and that do not require nursing licensure or
professional nursing education. He/she is also responsible for timely and accurate documentation
of care in the electronic medical record. This includes reporting of subjective/objective
information to ensure continuity between the health care team members. Some of the duties associated with this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Ability to prepare patient and products for dressing changes and performs cast removals.
• Properly sets up a sterile field for procedures when assisting the nurse/physician in patient treatment.
• Ability to work independently in the accomplishment of a wide variety of duties, including setting priorities and coordinating work.
• Ability to measure, report, and document vital signs, weight, height, blood glucose, and patient changes in behavior, attitude, bodily complaints and appearance.
• Electronic Health Record (EHR): Thoroughly and appropriately documents actions interventions and procedures in the medical record.
• Assists in behavioral/psychiatric situations in an outpatient setting.

Major duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Preparing the clinical environment, which may include preparing medical and telecommunications equipment to be used for clinical examination and treatment.
• Serving as a telepresenter within scope of practice during clinical video telehealth (CVT) and VA Video Connect (VVC) encounters including tasks such as establishing and maintaining video conferencing connections, making introductions between patient site and provider site, following instructions of a clinician to facilitate an effective clinical encounter.
• Serving as an imager and clinical data manager for store and forward telehealth (SFT) clinical encounters including tasks such as capturing images, collecting data and transmitting them electronically for clinical review in accordance with VHA national guidelines.
• Taking measures to ensure patient care is delivered safely by following appropriate procedures for inventory management, cleaning of clinical equipment and the care environment while following all patient safety guidelines, protocols, and procedures.
• Completing standardized clinical questionnaires and templates within scope of training and applicable guidelines.
• Ensuring that patient privacy is protected by complying with all information security and patient privacy regulations.
• Receiving and scheduling requests for simple and complex intra-facility, and interfacility telehealth appointments using an electronic resource-based scheduling system.
• Screening patients for Telehealth modality and referring patients that do not meet established criteria to appropriate care.
• Monitoring and maintaining schedules of rooms, patients, technologies, clinical providers and presenters as needed to ensure efficient telehealth operations.
• Providing patient education via approved materials.
• Supporting the Veteran in completing patient satisfaction surveys.
• Communicating effectively with clinical and administrative staff at the assigned local site and those located at remote sites of care.
• Configuring, installing, troubleshooting, cleaning, and performing minor routine maintenance of assigned telehealth technology.
• Ensuring assigned telehealth technologies are managed appropriately to include inventory, secure, ready for use, and accounted for by preparing and tracking maintenance work orders, information systems, inventory records, and communicating with the National Telehealth Technology Help Desk to facilitate troubleshooting, repair, and coordination of replacement equipment as necessary.
• Providing established education and training to Veterans, staff and providers on the use of telehealth technologies and serving as a point of contact to answer questions and address concerns related to these technologies.
• Maintaining knowledge of and skill in applying an extensive body of rules, procedures, and operations in telehealth-related technologies and a variety of computer hardware and software used for telecommunications, data entry and retrieval, record maintenance, document and report generation.
• Maintaining regular contact with other staff members and the Facility Telehealth Coordinator to work out process issues, equipment needs, problems, data collection and any other logistical issues.
• Arranging and completing test video calls with Veterans to prepare the Veterans for clinical encounters using telehealth technologies.
• Ensuring information and resources are maintained for local and remote telehealth providers so they can effectively execute contingency and emergency plans.

Major duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Preparing the clinical environment, which may include preparing medical and telecommunications equipment to be used for clinical examination and treatment.
• Serving as a telepresenter within scope of practice during clinical video telehealth (CVT) and VA Video Connect (VVC) encounters including tasks such as establishing and maintaining video conferencing connections, making introductions between patient site and provider site, following instructions of a clinician to facilitate an effective clinical encounter.
• Serving as an imager and clinical data manager for store and forward telehealth (SFT) clinical encounters including tasks such as capturing images, collecting data and transmitting them electronically for clinical review in accordance with VHA national guidelines.
• Taking measures to ensure patient care is delivered safely by following appropriate procedures for inventory management, cleaning of clinical equipment and the care environment while following all patient safety guidelines, protocols, and procedures.
• Completing standardized clinical questionnaires and templates within scope of training and applicable guidelines.
• Ensuring that patient privacy is protected by complying with all information security and patient privacy regulations.
• Receiving and scheduling requests for simple and complex intra-facility, and interfacility telehealth appointments using an electronic resource-based scheduling system.
• Screening patients for Telehealth modality and referring patients that do not meet established criteria to appropriate care.
• Monitoring and maintaining schedules of rooms, patients, technologies, clinical providers and presenters as needed to ensure efficient telehealth operations.
• Providing patient education via approved materials.
• Supporting the Veteran in completing patient satisfaction surveys.
• Communicating effectively with clinical and administrative staff at the assigned local site and those located at remote sites of care.
• Configuring, installing, troubleshooting, cleaning, and performing minor routine maintenance of assigned telehealth technology.
• Ensuring assigned telehealth technologies are managed appropriately to include inventory, secure, ready for use, and accounted for by preparing and tracking maintenance work orders, information systems, inventory records, and communicating with the National Telehealth Technology Help Desk to facilitate troubleshooting, repair, and coordination of replacement equipment as necessary.
• Providing established education and training to Veterans, staff and providers on the use of telehealth technologies and serving as a point of contact to answer questions and address concerns related to these technologies.
• Maintaining knowledge of and skill in applying an extensive body of rules, procedures, and operations in telehealth-related technologies and a variety of computer hardware and software used for telecommunications, data entry and retrieval, record maintenance, document and report generation.
• Maintaining regular contact with other staff members and the Facility Telehealth Coordinator to work out process issues, equipment needs, problems, data collection and any other logistical issues.
• Arranging and completing test video calls with Veterans to prepare the Veterans for clinical encounters using telehealth technologies.
• Ensuring information and resources are maintained for local and remote telehealth providers so they can effectively execute contingency and emergency plans.

• Knowledge of general outpatient clinical policies and procedures in a healthcare environment;
• Ability to obtain, document and record demographic and medical information from patients in order to develop an accurate medical record;
• Ability to use basic ophthalmic equipment;
• Knowledge of basic disinfection of non-critical reusable medical equipment.
• Ability to use basic ophthalmic diagnostic equipment to perform preliminary ocular testing;
• Ability to provide eye care patient education.
• Knowledge of eye anatomy and physiology;
• Knowledge of proper cleaning and maintenance of clinic equipment.
• Participates in performance of quality assurance activities such as staff meetings, mandatory educational in-services, quality control reports, systems redesign, and team and morale improvement.
• Obtains an accurate medical and ophthalmic history,
• Measures and records visual acuity,
• Administers anesthetic eye drops,
• Performing basic tonometry,
• Records a simple spectacle reading through automated lensometry.
• Ensures exam rooms are stocked with adequate supplies;
• Administers eye drops to dilate pupils;
• Performs basic color vision screening;
• Performs basic visual field testing (using Amsler grid or automated equipment).
• Other duties as assigned depending on grade level.

The incumbent is responsible for Primary Care, Mental Health, Surgery, Medicine or Ancillary ambulatory clinics
oversight and integration into an efficient Clinic Practice Management (CPM) model.

The duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Supports high quality, accessible, cost effective health care services. Ensures a high quality patient experience for the Veteran, by acting on feedback from the Veteran, his or her fam ily and/or significant others, facility employees, expert clinical staff and the ACOD/GPM.
• Provides data, reports and assistance to the ACOD/GPM in their work in development of strategic plans for the facility as it relates to access to care.
• Measures and provides recommendations with an emphasis on improving clinical product line performance.
• Central to the group's purpose of ensuring an exceptional Veteran patient experience is the development, standardization, implementation, and sustainment of key operational/business processes, including scheduling practices, to ensure efficient and effective management of the clinic.
• Identify and recommend improvements to optimize clinic management processes, access strategies, and "make-buy" decisions through analysis of in-house and non-YA provided care.
• Provides access related consultative services, working in collaboration with facility Service Lines, to review and develop guidance and policies that will facilitate standardized processes within the facility and applicable CBOCs, etc.
• Review and provide input on regulations and policies for local interpretation, utilizing local group practice management and communication strategies.
• Works as part of an in-house team to ensure a wide range of local factors are considered in the application of national policies and procedures.
• May be called upon to collaborate with staff from other facilities and to work on higher level project groups to review and make recommendations for facility and/or VISN level policies, procedures, systems, requirements, documents, and business or access analysis initiatives.
• Reviews and evaluates assigned processes and procedures to determine areas of effectiveness, efficiency, and improvement for proposal through local GPM group and supervisor.
• Reports to supervisor and access leadership in the facility, as assigned. incorporates best practices to help improve patient access to care and that standards are met within assigned services.
• Promotes established system-wide training plans to optimize local use. Supports the local clinic management system based on national requirements.
• Proposes improvements to supervisor regarding national training curriculum for onboarding and sustainment activities. Maintains knowledge of CPM training materials and supports fulfillment of action plans to meet CPM training requirements.
• Works with local personnel to integrate data analytics and measure with continuous process improvement utilizing LEAN, Six Sigma, and other improvement methodologies to meet and sustain ambulatory care goals and objectives.
• Provides administrative program advice for Ambulatory Care clinical support services.
• Acts as liaison or point person for communication with persons and/or group internal or external to the facility, representing Group Practice Management on clinical access issues.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Kansas City VA Medical Center is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

Duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Constructing/shapes and repairs common orthotic/prosthetic devices from casts and/ or documents provided by clinician, such as repairs to custom foot orthoses and shoes, using a wide variety of materials.
• Applying prefabricated orthopedic devices including, but not limited to: lumbo-sacral supports, abdominal binders, cervical collars, wrist splints, arm slings, knee braces, knee sleeves, compression hose, ankle supports, trusses, non-custom in- depth shoes, over-the- counter foot orthotics with limited supervision.
• Contacting manufacturers to ensure that new devices or procedures may be transferred to commercial production without compromise of the principles involved.
• Communicating with all levels of staff, both clinical and administrative, as well as with patients and their families, to discuss all aspects of orthotic restoration.
• Fitting and applying a wide variety of orthotic and prosthetic devices utilizing established safety standards and infection control procedures.
• Selecting and interpreting the most appropriate guidelines in making minor adjustments to adapt the work to individual patients.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Primary responsibility is for patient care, supporting diagnostic and treatment procedures, patient charting and patient education.
• Support functions include both direct patient care and administrative duties.
• Hearing aid troubleshooting and repair; performing visual and auditory checks of hearing aids and hearing assistive technology.
• Fabricating earmold impressions with proper (non-diagnostic) otoscopy.
• Ordering earmolds based on plan of care through prosthetics or DLC and fitting and modifying earmolds.
• Providing basic hearing aid information for patients and caregivers consistent with the audiologist's treatment plan, including but not limited to, realistic expectations, communication strategies, and/or aural rehabilitation.
• Assisting in set up and delivery of face-to-face and telehealth visits by preparing the equipment for patient evaluation and other audiology procedures.
• The incumbent is responsible for ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all interactions in the medical records and that all encounters are correctly documented using electronic medical record and computerized tracking and ordering functions via ROES.
• Maintaining comprehensive supply and equipment tracking systems to include monitoring stock of RME and consumable items.
• Ensuring proper inventory levels to complete the daily tasks; prioritizing the acquisition of all supplies and equipment regarding date of expiration and may maintain a loaner hearing aid inventory.
• The Health Technician (HIS) assists patients through triaging phone calls and audiology requests with regards to priority and urgency, following the audiologist's plan of care.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Delivering established telehealth competency based training for clinicians and telehealth staff members.
• Supports clinical telehealth encounters for both the patient and provider locations by serving as the telepresenter within scope of practice, functioning as an imager and supporting clinical data for telehealth store and forward applications, managing real time clinical telehealth events, providing established patient education, and providing technical and administrative support of telehealth operations.
• Evaluating telehealth operations and supporting performance improvement efforts.
• Providing technical support to end-users.
• Scheduling simple and complex intra-facility and inter-facility telehealth appointments.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting technology, and performing a variety of program support duties as assigned.
• Coordinating, installing, maintaining, and managing the inventory of telehealth technologies including hardware and software with assistance of Biomed and IT.
• Providing established standardized competency-based training, guidance, and information on the use of advanced telehealth technologies to patients, staff, and providers.
• Providing established standardized competency-based training for telehealth technology, facilitating interactive simulations for clinical staff participating in telehealth programs.
• Participating in performance improvement activities aimed at improving the efficiency of the patient telehealth processes.
• Developing reporting procedures, sampling techniques and measurements at various points in the telehealth processes to identify/analyze inherent weaknesses in work and procedures.
• Coordinating clinic set up and monitoring of workload capture and issues for assigned patient and provider clinics including telehealth resource-based scheduling.
• Supporting designated complex telehealth programs that require advanced technical skillsets'.
• Incumbent must possess an active driver's license and be able to sustain long periods of sitting and driving. An ability to lift objects such as laptop cases, nurse/medical bags, and other home care medical supplies in and out of vehicles and into homes is necessary.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Primary responsibility is for patient care, supporting diagnostic and treatment procedures, patient charting and patient education.
• Support functions include both direct patient care and administrative duties.
• Hearing aid troubleshooting and repair; performing visual and auditory checks of hearing aids and hearing assistive technology.
• Fabricating earmold impressions with proper (non-diagnostic) otoscopy.
• Ordering earmolds based on plan of care through prosthetics or DLC and fitting and modifying earmolds.
• Providing basic hearing aid information for patients and caregivers consistent with the audiologist's treatment plan, including but not limited to, realistic expectations, communication strategies, and/or aural rehabilitation.
• Assisting in set up and delivery of face-to-face and telehealth visits by preparing the equipment for patient evaluation and other audiology procedures.
• The incumbent is responsible for ensuring timely and accurate documentation of all interactions in the medical records and that all encounters are correctly documented using electronic medical record and computerized tracking and ordering functions via ROES.
• Maintaining comprehensive supply and equipment tracking systems to include monitoring stock of RME and consumable items.
• Ensuring proper inventory levels to complete the daily tasks; prioritizing the acquisition of all supplies and equipment regarding date of expiration and may maintain a loaner hearing aid inventory.
• The Health Technician (HIS) assists patients through triaging phone calls and audiology requests with regards to priority and urgency, following the audiologist's plan of care.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Delivering established telehealth competency based training for clinicians and telehealth staff members.
• Supports clinical telehealth encounters for both the patient and provider locations by serving as the telepresenter within scope of practice, functioning as an imager and supporting clinical data for telehealth store and forward applications, managing real time clinical telehealth events, providing established patient education, and providing technical and administrative support of telehealth operations.
• Evaluating telehealth operations and supporting performance improvement efforts.
• Providing technical support to end-users.
• Scheduling simple and complex intra-facility and inter-facility telehealth appointments.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting technology, and performing a variety of program support duties as assigned.
• Coordinating, installing, maintaining, and managing the inventory of telehealth technologies including hardware and software with assistance of Biomed and IT.
• Providing established standardized competency-based training, guidance, and information on the use of advanced telehealth technologies to patients, staff, and providers.
• Providing established standardized competency-based training for telehealth technology, facilitating interactive simulations for clinical staff participating in telehealth programs.
• Participating in performance improvement activities aimed at improving the efficiency of the patient telehealth processes.
• Developing reporting procedures, sampling techniques and measurements at various points in the telehealth processes to identify/analyze inherent weaknesses in work and procedures.
• Coordinating clinic set up and monitoring of workload capture and issues for assigned patient and provider clinics including telehealth resource-based scheduling.
• Supporting designated complex telehealth programs that require advanced technical skillsets'.
• Incumbent must possess an active driver's license and be able to sustain long periods of sitting and driving. An ability to lift objects such as laptop cases, nurse/medical bags, and other home care medical supplies in and out of vehicles and into homes is
  necessary.

NOTE: This position is multi-disciplinary and can be filled by: Social Worker, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, or Marriage & Family Therapist. Applicants must apply to the appropriate vacancy announcement.

The ADD/C's primary responsibility is to provide clinical and administrative leadership, management and supervision of all Vet Center staff and all other professional, paraprofessional and nonprofessional staff assigned to work at the Vet Center and to plan, develop, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate all treatment services of the Vet Center.

Additional duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Oversight: The ADD/C oversees clinical effectiveness of Vet Centers. Performs quality assurance inspections of Vet Centers Ensures clinical charting and Veteran client privacy is following Readjustment Counseling Service and VHA policies.

Quality Assurance: Oversees the administrative and clinical aspects of a major specialty treatment program, for quality assurance in RCS. Ensures clinical quality assurance utilizing various clinical modalities and evidence-based practices. Reviews and evaluates Vet Centers at least annually. Establishes and tracks developmental objectives to guide the team in improving services to Veteran clients.

Clinical Crisis Management: Develops, reviews, and analyzes a clinical crisis reporting system that accurately tracks critical incidents to improve Vet Center services. The individual collaborates and coordinates with VA entities to facilitate and ensure that a Mortality & Morbidity (M&M) quality review panel is conducted when Vet Center clients die by suicide. Ensures the Peer Review protocol process is completed at Vet Centers when the outcome of the Self- Directed Violence Assessment tool indicates a suicide attempt. Utilizes administrative and clinically qualitative outcomes to further educate staff.

Staff Development and Education: Ensures that the clinical staff in their respective RCS Zone is adequately trained to address the needs of Vet Center clients. The individual also ensures staff is kept abreast of clinical issues or evidence-based treatments. Assesses the educational developmental needs of the clinical staff. Responsible for monitoring licensure of all eligible clinical staff in consultation with Deputy District Director and Staffing, to ensure compliance. Develops educational activities, training curriculum in conjunction with District Offices.

Education Liaison: Oversees and ensure that all clinical supervisors adhere to established VHA policies governing health professions training in VHA facilities.

Supervision/Guidance: Provides consultation, clinical supervision, and guidance to the clinical staff of the Vet Centers. The individual is the primary clinical supervisor for each Vet Center Director within their RCS Zone. The venue of supervision may be on-site during a quality assurance site visit, telephonic, tele-video, or through written policy and directives.

Research: Reviews all research proposals involving Vet Centers and advises the Deputy District Director of the effectiveness and value of the project to enhance treatment of Vet Center clients. Upon approval of any research project, the ADD/C monitors the process and compliance with VHA research protocol; ensures proposal guidelines, Veteran client privacy, and timely completion. Independently studies such areas to arrive at appropriate solutions to be recommended for implementation.

Outreach: Monitors Vet Center outreach activities are strategically planned and adjusted to ensure market penetration of the local eligible individuals' population. Reviews and advises the Deputy District Director as to the appropriateness and effectiveness of outreach efforts, strategies, and activities. Promotes the sharing of successful outreach strategies among the Vet Centers in a best practices model.

Collaboration and Networking: Ensures that Vet Centers maintain clinically productive relationships with programs and organizations internal and external to the Readjustment Counseling Service. The goal of these relationships is to attain a network of liaisons and coordination of services that enhance prompt and successful referrals of Veteran clients. Collaborate with internal and external partners to further program goals and enhance patient centered care.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; some evenings and weekends may be required based on the needs of the District.
Telework: Ad-hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Please see note below.
Functional Statement #: PD478270
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

** Hired employee will need to have a permanent residence and currently living in one of the states falling under the "10RCS4 Continental District," to include Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, or Mississippi. **

Duties include but not limited to:

• Providing recommendations regarding strategic decisions that affect the overall RRTP Programming operations which includes scheduling of groups, scheduling Veterans of staff facilitated programming.
• Developing practice management protocols to demonstrate productivity and access, manages daily programming operations including continuous quality improvement related to programming and provides RRTP leadership productivity metrics for all disciplines within the RRTP monthly.
• Proactively and systemically developing, gathering, collating, managing, analyzing and interpreting data regarding the RRTP's operation.
• Working closely with RRTP Chief and creates presentations that include data, action plans, process improvements, and meaningful information regarding trends in data.
• Proactively recommending and maintaining capacity in various clinic types based on demand trends and future projections and improves productivity at all levels of clinical operations. Maintaining all schedules for RRTP staff and requests scheduling changes based on programming needs. Providing program managers a monthly review of productivity for each staff through dashboard awareness and data utilization.
• Establishing environments favorable to the accomplishment of RRTP programming.
• Creating processes for organizing and maintaining the RRTP's clinical programming, adhering to the requirements found in MHRRTP Directive 1162.02.
• Facilitating routing meetings that promote bidirectional communication, review of performance standards, ameliorates an administrative barrier to programming and providing recommendations to be more successful with metrics.
• Providing guidance on clinic builds, productivity standards, productivity reviews, as well as Labor Mapping certifications.
• Providing recommendations related to programming needs including FTEE needed to support programming by census.
• Performing demand/capacity analysis, templating and has indirect authority to ensure scheduling operations of patients are upheld in clinic flow for highest patient outcomes and satisfaction.
• Developing and implementing local business operational policies related to programming, scheduling, ensuring minimum programming hours are met, coordinating with programming not provided by RRTP staff, administrative requirements of creating staff schedules according to programming needs, and provides advice to executive leadership on clinical programming operations based on audits, utilization of groups and RRTP metrics.
• Overseeing the daily programming.
• Advises, counsels, and instructs employees on both work and administrative matters. Hears and resolves minor complaints from employees; addresses concerns in a timely manner and works closely with Human Resources as well as the union.
• Interviews candidates for positions in the units; recommends appointments, promotions, and reassignments to unit positions; identifies and provides trainings needs; and finds ways to improve production or increase the quality of work within the area of authority.
• Facilitating routing meetings for direct reports.
• Creating and maintaining policies.

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• The Nurse II Inpatient Mental Health (MH) Registered Nurse (RN) provides and leads the provision of competent, evidence-based care, the psychiatric MH nurse independently provides patient-centered and recovery-oriented care, milieu management, and maintains self-awareness while caring for patients living with MH conditions.
• Facilitate shift reports, warm hand-offs, and nurse-led psychoeducational groups; use therapeutic communication techniques, practice de-escalation techniques, and utilize recovery-oriented language.
• The nurse actively participates in MH interdisciplinary treatment team, MH Environment of Care rounds, assumes team lead for psychiatric emergencies, reports and assists in resolving safety concerns, and documents nursing assessments, nursing plan of care, patient safety observations, and environmental safety rounds according to facility policy.
• The nurse maintains professional boundaries to protect patient vulnerabilities and act in the best interest of the patient.
• Has oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants, as appropriate to the setting.
• The nurse will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization consultation.
• Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement.
• Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals.
• Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussions with the MH interdisciplinary team.
• Supports colleagues through MH knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality nursing care.
• Shares MH educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers.
• Questions clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care.
• Participates in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based MH practice culture

Functions of the Position:

• The HUD-VASH Senior LMHPC complies with all CARF, Joint Commission, VHA, and VA SORCC policies and standard operating procedures relevant to this position and Veteran care, including VHA Directive 1162.05.
• Incumbent independently performs case finding functions and outreach, identifying and screening veterans for psychosocial needs. Incumbent must possess the knowledge and ability to independently implement treatment modalities, provide counseling or psychotherapy for individuals, families, and groups.
• Independently conducts psychosocial assessments. Develops treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team. Updates treatment plans on regular intervals. Incumbent possesses the skills to offer psychosocial interventions and to measure outcomes of interventions. Expertly manages all documentation requirements of assigned HUD-VASH program, ensuring that all required case notes and reports are completed timely. Uses all correct note titles and templates. Incumbent is responsible for accurate diagnosis and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding in the electronic health record and reports.
• Incumbent is able to coordinate community-based services, including information and referral for additional services from other VA programs, other government programs and community agency programs. Incumbent has advance skills in community partnership building and is able to expertly represent the VA Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center & Clinics (VA SORCC) in remote locations.
• Independently identifies high-risk Veterans and provides case management services. Incumbent provides crisis intervention services, seeking to address the cause as well as the presenting complaint, coordinates family conferences, and serves as liaison to family members. Has working knowledge and experience in use of medical and mental health diagnoses, disabilities, and treatment procedures. This includes acute, chronic, and traumatic illnesses/injuries, common medications and their effects/side effects, and medical terminology.
• Establishes and maintains effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans and their families. Incumbent is able to independently work with Veterans and families who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric, medical, and social problems utilizing individual, group, and family counseling and therapy skills.
• Independently provides consultation services to other staff regarding the psychosocial needs of Veterans and the impact of psychosocial problems on health care and adherence to treatment plan. Ability to evaluate incumbents' own practice through professional peer review, case conferences, and other organizational means.
• Incumbent is able to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people from varied backgrounds.
• General knowledge of Veterans' benefits and services relating to special programs, service-connected compensation, and non-service-connected pension. Facilitates referrals based upon Veterans' needs and eligibility.
• Incumbent meets the needs of customers while supporting VA missions. Consistently communicates and treats customers (Veterans, their representatives, visitors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner. Incumbent is able to provide the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures.
• Incumbent expertly manages any problems or conflicts and resolves customer service issues independently.
• The incumbent will operate such vehicles as sedans, station wagons, 4x4 utility, pick-up trucks and stake bed trucks weighing less than 22,000 pounds. Incumbent may drive Veterans to and from places as clinically indicated, such as hospitals, doctor's offices, meetings, and activities relevant to Veteran's treatment plan. May need to assist Veterans requiring special help into and out of vehicles and ensuring their safety and comfort while in the vehicle. Has working knowledge and skill in the use of word-processing, data management, and other computer systems, especially those programs in use by VHA.
• Has thorough knowledge of VA performance measures related to assigned programs and effectively shapes practice patterns to improve standing on performance measures. Independently monitors facility performance measures and implements performance improvement plans as needed.
• Attends and participates in regular service line and team meetings. Offers suggestions for program improvements.
• Completes all mandatory web-based trainings by stipulated due dates.