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• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) regarding management of the behavioral health activities across the Defense Health Agency Enterprise.
• Execute presentations with the goal of advocating for change.
• Implement health care policy changes which impact eligible beneficiaries.
• Implement changes to policy that impact the entire system.
• Manages the daily functions of the program to ensure all governing requirements are met.
• Implement training sessions for staff in the behavioral healthcare environment.
• Provide Government policy review of private sector care clinical programs.
• Analyze the financial impact of the clinical programs within health facility.

• You will assist management in formulating and preparing safety program policy statements, standards, guides, and similar materials applicable to the organization.
• You will advise management on their legal responsibility to provide a safe and healthful worksite for employees.
• You will conduct risk assessments to evaluate potential hazards related to a work process.
• You will implement safety and occupational health measures to control or eliminate hazardous operating processes or conditions found.
• You will investigate workplaces, facilities, and operation mishaps by obtaining statements from witnesses or taking photographs of mishap scene.
• You will prepare reports of inspections and evaluations to identify safety and program deficiencies requiring correction and improvement.
• You will implement solutions using negotiation, conflict resolution, or leadership skills to obtain results that support organizational or mission requirements.

• Study the structure and/or functions of organizations to improve Data Quality processes, maximize resources utilization, resolve substantive issues of moderate scope, and proposes solutions for identified shortfalls.
• Plan and conduct comprehensive analytical studies of assigned organization(s) or significant segments of several major management functions to develop improvements in operating efficiency.
• Advise or propose reorganizations and/or realignment of functions and staffing levels.
• Utilize model methods and processes to verify, validate and analyze data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness to ensure uniformity and standardization of information across the different functions within a complex medical organization.
• Utilize innovative and comprehensive methods to determine and assure the reliability and validity of the information.

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
• Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
• Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran
• Experience, Whole Health and/or Community Care.
• Serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Provides health coaching to individuals or groups in outpatient and inpatient settings using multiple formats (face-to-face, telephone, virtual, etc.) to increase/promote a positive lifestyle, habits, and behaviors.
• Support Veterans in fostering internal strengths and external resources to develop self-directed strategies for personalized, sustainable, healthy lifestyle behavior changes and more effectively manage chronic disease.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary clinical and non-clinical staff and teams throughout the VA health care system in a Veteran-centered process to facilitate and empower Veterans to develop and achieve self-determining goals related to health and well-being that align with what matters most and their mission, aspiration, or purpose (MAP).
• Utilizes motivational interviewing, coaching theories, and coaching techniques to assist clients in accomplishing their action steps and goals.
• Provides education around health and wellness coaching services, evidence, and research.
• Utilizes a coaching process model that aligns with NBHWC standards.
• Ensures Veterans are informed of what to expect when engaging in coaching.
• Connects Veterans with well-being services when they are in service of the Veteran's self-identified wellness goals.
• Documents coaching encounters in alignment with local and national guidance.

• Serve as the Program Manager for the Data Quality Management Control Program (DQMC) to establish and operate the DQMC Program for the (Military Health System) MHS.
• Ensure all DQMC Program guidance, policy and instructions conform to and reflect accurate information based on annual updates.
• Advise staff regarding policies, procedures, and directives of management.
• Lead in the creation and execution of a DQMC Program Training Plan.

In collaboration with the Health System Administrator (HSA) and the Clinical Director, provides oversight of the day-to-day operations of the Health Services Department, which involves managing and directing the activities of a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals who are responsible for medical, dental and allied health services to the inmate population.

Initiates and develops schedules for accomplishing the health care mission of the institution, assists and discusses the program plans with assigned providers and ancillary staff.

Assists in monitoring the annual budget for inside and outside medical services; plans and coordinates purchases and/or contracts for supplies, equipment, specialty care or ancillary services; and maintains par inventory levels.

Assists the HSA and Regional HSA to implement the Bureau’s re-entry initiates including timely Inmate Skills Assessment data entry at admission and evaluation of health status documented in an updated electronic exit summary of release.

Organizes training for medical personnel within the guidelines of BOP medical program standards, American Correctional Association (ACA) standards, and individual medical program standards.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and is performed on a regular and recurring basis.

• Lead projects to develop and implement health insurance programs such as Medicare, CHIP, and private plans.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with outside partners to ensure successful planning and execution of these projects.
• Develop operational requirements for overseeing health care and prescription drug services.
• Recommend improvement actions based on your assessments and monitor entities to ensure compliance with agency agreements and all relevant laws and regulations
• Collaborate with the CMS Office of Legislation and Congressional committees to conduct impact analyses or mark-ups of various legislative option

The Primary Purpose of the Position is: Supervises a smaller, less complex laboratory having no GS-11 subordinate to the supervisor.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Performs the full range of supervisory duties. Recommends appointment, awards, advancement, disciplinary actions; plans and assigns work; gives advice and counsel; evaluates work of subordinates; and identifies continuing education and training needs.
• Assures compliance with accrediting agency and regulatory requirements.
• Is responsible for monitoring test analyses and specimen examinations to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
• Establishes and monitors the quality of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical processes as part of the overall laboratory quality management program.
• Assures corrective action is initiated when test performance deviates from established performance specifications.
• Assures orientation, training, and competency assessment of staff.
• Develops policies and procedures, manages document control, develops performance standards, position descriptions, and functional statements.
• Responsible for professional and administrative management of assigned area/s, to include budg.et execution, supplies, and other resources.

DUTIES INCLUDE, BUT NO LIMITED TOO:

• Transportation workload forecasting, appointment and admissions scheduling, reviews documents for omissions and inconsistencies, enters information into automated tracking system.
• Performs work involving consult management, appointment scheduling and admissions scheduling.
• Daily responsibilities include collecting, compiling, and tracking data and statistical information in support of Veteran Transportation Service (VTS).
• Performs a basic analysis of the data and generates a variety of reports.
• Aggregates in-coming data from a variety of sources. Reviews documents, reports and/or applications for omissions and inconsistencies and ensures data entry is complete and accurate.
• Enters pertinent information into an automated tracking system. Receives DSS extracts to verify that the workload being captured in DSS is correct.
• Maintains automated system of program-specific data to track items such as service project milestones, progress reports, program trends, performance measures, compliance strategies, etc.
• Interacts with various other transportation services such as Emergency Medical Service (EMS), Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN), Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) etc., and other transportation providers.

Duties included, but are not limited to the following:

• Prepares reports, maintains records, administrative information, Prepares and presents work-related information to supervisor.
• Researches qualitative and quantitative methods in the appropriate laboratory specialty area. Performs statistical analysis on quality control and quality assurance monitors.
• Performs qualitative and quantitative moderate and complex testing methods in all the assigned laboratory specialty areas.
• Is responsible for coordination of training in the methods and techniques of the appropriate laboratory specialty area.
• Is responsible as a primary source of information for maintaining current instrumentation. Maintains and calibrates instrumentation and equipment to ensure correct performance.
• Troubleshoots instrumentation and equipment problems during the shift to ensure uninterrupted testing.
• Is responsible as a primary source of information for maintain current instrumentation. Is responsible for evaluation of new and evolving developments in laboratory instrumentation and automation.
• Performs all assigned duties in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensures compliance with rules and regulations of assorted regulatory agencies such as CAP, T JC, AABB, and OSHA
• Coordinates quality control activities with the supervisor. Coordinates proficiency program for the appropriate laboratory specialty.
• Acts as a liaison to other departments of the medical center for the appropriate laboratory specialty area.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT & will remain open until April 4, 2025, or until all positions are filled. The first cut-off date is November 20, 2024. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updated. After that time, you must update your application through your USAJobs account if you would like to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period.

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Responsibilities/Duties:

• Provide treatment to patients suffering from heart problems
• Be updated on the latest heart procedures and studies as new breakthroughs are made in this field on a daily basis as it is one most researched human organ
• Design a healthy diet chart for the patient as diet affects the heart the most
• Design and educate patients on a good exercise regimen to help in quick recovery
• Keep up to date with latest CME and other continuing education, certifications
• Maintain detailed reports on each patient and also a report on their progress
• Coordinate with any other specialist the patient might be seeing
• Complete medication reconciliation with each patient encounter
• Advise patients on any alternative treatment they might be seeking
• Help the patient to fully recover from acute illnesses with properly scheduled follow up intervals.
• Fluoroscopy Procedures
• Right and left heart catheterization
• Valve studies
• Ventriculography
• Coronary Angiogram
• Endomyocardial biopsy
• Implantation of cardiac devices, including permanent pacemakers, percutaneous leadless pacemaker, ICD, and bi-ventricular ICD
• Diagnostic electrophysiology studies for brady and tachyarrhythmias
• Radiofrequency and cryotherapy catheter ablations for supraventricular tachycardias, ventricular tachycardias, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutters, and atrial tachycardias
• Three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping
• Trans-septal catheterizations
• Intracardiac echocardiography

Serves as a project manager, responsible for the overall management, control, coordination and execution of assigned construction programs and projects to include space utilization and capital asset improvements. Development of a Project Management Plan (PMP) is required for each assigned project. Implements corporate decisions, guidance, laws, regulations, and policy in the development of the project and intermediate products in support of the program. Negotiates and integrates all station functions (i.e., clinical, administrative, safety, planning, construction, contracting, etc.), customer needs, regulatory requirements and other agencies' commitments in support of assigned projects into a comprehensive management plan. Within this plan, integrates project scope and criteria, schedules and milestones, budgets, and responsibilities of the participating parties, assumptions and risks, contingencies, and performance measurement criteria.

Responsible for obtaining and maintaining the OCAME and VISN corporate commitment to the management plan. Manages and coordinates the development and execution of capital project scope, budget and schedule and maintains the Capital Asset Inventory (CAI) and SCIP for designated programs/projects. Participates in station programming decisions affecting long and short-range courses of action for assigned projects. Provides input to the station operating budget related to projects assigned. Identifies strategies to resolve problems related to their assigned programs/projects. Establishes deadlines, oversees work production, communicates project status with clients and senior management. Coordinates and helps contracting officer in negotiations during project modifications. Resolves execution conflicts, coordinates project work that impacts hospital operations through direct coordination with all hospital services to mitigate impacts and integrate facility staff support as required oversight of projects that require unique approaches and constant adjustment to environmental conditions. Coordination will be required with regional regulatory agencies to ensure compliance and notification of operations that impact both regional emergency operations and fall within regulatory hazard oversight. Initiative and resourcefulness is required to ensure projects stay within budget, on schedule, and meets all performance requirements. This may require the application of new ways to accomplish results. Management settings will be both formal and informal. Manager will engage stakeholders from within the agency at the local through national level as it relates to influence impacting the project. Engagement will be required with stakeholders not within the agency to include individual Veterans, Veteran Services organizations, professional organizations and local, state, National governmental oversight and regulatory agencies. Coordination will also require engagement with contracted architectural/engineering contractors to include the US. Army Corps of Engineers and Naval Facilities Command. Project Management Services also includes Project Activation which includes but is not inclusive of oversight of space management move coordination, equipment budgeting and acquisitions, special impact projects, etc. Certification in FAC-II P/PM within one year of assignment is required.


Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:00AM - 3:30PM
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

The Registered Nurse, Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Completes face to face, telephone, and video assessments to establish nursing diagnoses as needed.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on population specific components.
• Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned patient care based on the patients' conditions; to use judgment in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments; and to accurately recognize, report and record relevant patient information.
• Ability to observe, identify and respond to the patient's needs for care, including medication, equipment-assisted care, and patient/family education.
• Providing health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
• Perform procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes using effective communication and collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Administering medicine per established policies and guidelines.
• Establishing priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
• Assisting the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
• Responding to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patient's health status.
• Performing diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
• Documenting patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
• Collaborating with other health care professionals.
• Communicating with veterans and family members regarding veteran's care.
• Knowledge and understanding of human behavior, patient motivations and reactions to situations, and ability to appropriately utilize this knowledge in working effectively with patients, family members and other staff.
• Establishes constructive relationships with individual patients and their families to promote positive relationships and communication.
• Fosters an environment of respect for individual patient and family rights to privacy and dignity in all aspects of care delivery.
• May be responsible for charge nurse duties.
• Managing follow-up care.
• Acting as resource to others.
• Participating in continuing education, achieving/maintaining certification.
• Possess knowledge of unit level quality improvement indicators.
• Applies knowledge and actively participates in unit/program level quality improvement processes and initiatives.
• Provides excellent customer service according to ICARE values.
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches in the management of complex patient care.
• Additional duties as assigned such as covering/float to other teams (Teamlet).

**This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until February 28, 2025. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be November 18, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates every 2 weeks. Eligible applications received after that date will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available.**

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application. EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact susan.bringel@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Duties and responsibilities of the Community Living Center LVN/LPN include:

• Provides Resident care to Long Term Care Community Living Centers.
• Uses sound clinical judgment and can vary the order and sequence of assignments based on Resident's conditions.
• Assist RNs in implementing plans of care, prioritization of client needs, relevance of nursing diagnosis, individualization of interventions, expected veteran-resident outcomes, and quality of documentation.
• Utilizes knowledge of physical, social, and emotional factors when planning Resident care, and uses this knowledge effectively in day-to-day interactions with patients and families.
• Recognizes deviations from Resident's baseline. Demonstrates ability to respond to Resident's immediate and long-term needs.
• Prepares and administers medications correctly and understands the action and side effects of all medications administered.
• Observes for physical and/or emotional changes in Resident's condition from prescribed medications/treatments, promptly and accurately documenting noted changes, and reporting any deviations from normal to RN or MD/DO.
• Performs complex treatments and procedures with exceptional skill and knowledge.
• Applies knowledge of Medical Center Policies and Procedures to his/her daily clinical functions and responsibilities.
• Age differences - delivers nursing care that reflects the various phases of the life cycle from 18 to 85 years and over. Distinguishes individual age need differences, considers maturation changes, promotes health in all phases, differentiates the need for special equipment, and considers the young adults and abuse problems.
• Applies knowledge of effective verbal interactions and preventative tactics, such as the use of the least restrictive environment, when confronted by aggressive or potentially assaultive patients.
• Knowledge of physical, social, and emotional factors when planning Resident care, and uses this knowledge appropriately to respond to Code Blue emergencies.
• Recognizes and initiates life saving measures appropriately in the absence of other members of the Healthcare Team.
• Participates in the planning and/or implementation of various codes and emergency management procedures.
• Uses safe techniques when giving Resident' care and handling equipment, using standard precautions and personal/patient protective equipment.
• Recognizes and reports unsafe situations. Initiates appropriate emergency interventions.
• Assesses acute and subtle changes and consistency in patients' mental and physical condition and intervenes appropriately.
• Provide wound care within scope of practice.
• Applies knowledge of human behavior and the various degrees of physical and mental impairment, is able to modify Resident/family teaching methods.
• Assists the professional nurse in planning and implementation of Resident's educational or recreational activities.
• Motivates Resident to participate in learning and recreational activities to improve their quality of life.
• Recognizes Resident care management difficulties or problems and makes suggestions for change.
• Communicates with Resident's and families in a calming, reassuring, and supportive manner.
• Assesses the need for and provides emotional support to the dying Resident and family.
• Observes Resident while on the unit and more frequently as directed in accordance with facility policies.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with Residents and all members of the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Assist NM/ANM in completing special assignments and is a contributing member of Nursing Service.
• Document patient care according to prescribed procedures and maintain an objective relationship with the peers and residents.