Total 38 job vacancies by Veterans Health Administration

Duties may include but are not limited to:

1. Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
2. Delivers safe care to assigned patients, while developing technical competencies.
3. Responsible for maintaining competencies and required job duties such as reading email, attending in-services, and actively participating in staff meetings.
4. Completes mandatory trainings including but not limited to Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior (PMDB), Safe Patient Handling (SPH), Basic Life Support (BLS), NIHSS, and RALS.
5. Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.
6. Correctly and safely performs nursing procedures.
7. Recognizes overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
8. Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
9. Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
10. Requests assistance from co-workers when needed; knows when to ask for help.
11. Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing.
12. Completes initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.
13. Includes the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals.
14. Updates plan of care with assistance as needed.
15. Assesses patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
16. Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.
17. Documentation is consistent, accurate, concise, and timely.
18. Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.
19. Revises plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.
20. Uses the Electronic Health Record (EHR) software per policy.
21. Work in a team format with NAs and LPNs and delegates follows up on tasks.
22. Delivers medications using BCMA.
23. Provides complex wound care.24. Administers blood products as ordered.
25. Administers IV Fluids, TPN, Lipids, PCA and manages multiple IV medications while checking compatibility.
26. Documentation of training must be completed prior to performing any specialty skills such as continuous bladder irrigation, epidural medication administration, peripheral nerve catheter medication administration, chest tube care, blood product transfusions, and tracheostomy care.
27. Completes cardiac telemetry monitoring training and passes exam with 80% or greater within first 6 months of working on an Acute Care unit.
28. Monitors telemetry and responds to rhythm changes timely.
29. Adheres to remote telemetry procedures and policies outlined in SOP T-046 Remote Telemetry Monitoring.
30. Prior to administering ordered chemotherapy/biotherapies, completes
chemotherapy/biotherapy training and passes exam with 800/o or greater.
31. Prior to monitoring EEG, complete EEG monitoring training.
32. Performs other duties as assigned.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Full-time. Day shifts. Compressed tour of six 12-hour shifts and one 8-hour shift in two weeks (7:30am - 8:00pm and 7:30am - 4:00pm). Every other weekend and rotating holidays required.
Compressed/Flexible: Available, as described above.
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) Authorized: This position is eligible for 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 your start date. 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. Contact VHA.ELRSProgramSupport@va.gov for questions/assistance.
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

Duties may include but are not limited to:

• Being responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determining the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care (ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses).
• Delivering safe care to assigned patients, while developing technical competencies.
• Safely and effectively using patient care equipment.
• Correctly and safely performing nursing procedures.
• Recognizing overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responding appropriately.
• Monitoring telemetry and responding to rhythm changes.
• Implementing physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Implementing nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Requesting assistance from co-workers when needed; knowing when to ask for help.
• Formulating a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing.
• Completing initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiating follow-up as needed.
• Including the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals.
• Updating plan of care with assistance as needed.
• Assessing patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Developing and implementing a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.
• Documenting consistently, accurately, concisely, and timely.
• Evaluating and documenting patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.
• Revising plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.
• Using the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), Clinical Procedures, and Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) software per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.
• Working in a team format with NAs and LPNs, delegating and following up on tasks.
• Delivering medications using BCMA.
• Providing complex wound care.
• Administering blood products.
• Administering IV fluids, TPN, lipids, PCA, and managing multiple IV medications while checking for compatibility.
• Completing cardiac telemetry monitoring training and passing exam.
• Performing other duties as assigned

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• 1-2 years prior experience as registered nurse
• Previous inpatient care experience

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Assessing patients pre, during, and post-treatment.
• Administering chemotherapy/immunotherapy, IV fluids, IV electrolytes, and blood products.
• Reviewing lab results and their implications.
• Safely and effectively performing nursing procedures and using patient care equipment.
• Possessing in-depth knowledge of the expected side effects of cancer treatments.
• Assessing patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Educating patients about their disease, treatments, and expected side effects.
• Recognizing overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
• Organizing relevant referrals for patients to other healthcare providers such as dieticians, social workers, or speech and language pathologists.
• Administering research and clinical trial drugs, working directly with the provider, pharmacy, and research coordinators.
• Providing direct patient care: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care based on age-specific components.
• Assuming responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge.
• Determining the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care (ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses).
• Using the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.
• Performing other duties as assigned

Advanced Medical Support Assistant provide administrative support to our clinical colleagues in the care of our Nation's Veterans. Our mission is to provide efficient and effective healthcare services by promoting and enabling the delivery of timely, accurate, accessible health care. VA is committed to cultivating a dedicated workforce of highly skilled employees who understand, believe in and take pride in VA's mission. AMSAs are essential to the success of this mission and may be assigned to many areas (services lines) of the medical center that have a need.

Duties will include but are not limited to:
- Determining health care eligibility for Veteran patients.
- Administrative processing of Veteran patients in enrollment, benefits, and registration.
- Counseling Veteran patients regarding entitlement enrollment for health care benefits and other special programs.
- Obtaining essential information and documentation from Veteran patients for enrollment activities.
- Performing scheduling functions for Veteran patients including appointments, cancellations, and re-scheduling.
- Facilitating communication between Veterans and other facility consult departments.
- Support of inpatient units and wards with administrative duties during day, evening, night, and weekend shifts.
- Processing and record keeping of inpatient medical records.
- Manual and electronic data entry.
- Collation of statistical information.
- Entry of Physician orders and consult requests.
- Prepares Veteran patient statistics.
- Providing reception to incoming and outgoing customers and communication.
- Utilizes Microsoft Office software to compile data and formulate reports

Work Schedule: Typical tour of duty is Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm however shifts could include, Weekdays & Weekends, All Shifts to include Day, Evening, and Night. *Available shifts will be discussed during the interview process.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized for New to Federal Employees in accordance with agency policy
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Not available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Duties may vary based on grade. At the GS-6 full performance level of this assignment, SCC LPN is responsible for observing, recording and reporting changes in the patient's condition, as well as assisting in the development and revision of the patient-driven holistic care plan for life. Duties will include:

• Utilize all available tools, such as care management tool, to enable effective and efficient identification, intervention, and follow-up of individual patients and cohorts.
• Ensure appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to specialty clinics as assigned.
• Function at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.
• Participate in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
• Technically proficient in initiating, performing and completing care of the veteran population.
• Recognize and report unsafe equipment, conditions, and practice.
• Actively seek out educational opportunities to enhance nursing knowledge and skills, and share with other staff to improve and advance nursing practice.
• Perform specialty care operations management processes, as appropriate independently with little direct supervision (including the ability to organize work, follow instructions, write and type legibly and accurately).
• Perform communications and facilitate safe transitions of patients between the SCC site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the SCC member.
• Engage patients in using health care, encourage patients to engage personal support persons, receive input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care.
• Use formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient.
• Collaborate with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported, standardized, tools to support SCC care delivery processes (e.g., pre-visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls, recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation).
• Serve as a preceptor in orienting, educating, and training less experienced LPNs and NAs/HTs related to support duties for more complex, specialized tests/procedures.
• Document in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
• Gather information from non-scheduled patients such as a chief complaint and history of symptoms to document and communicate information to the Registered Nurse.
• Check patients in for appointments and gather vital signs.
• Order labs and diagnostic tests appropriate for the LPN scope of practice following policy/SOP.
• Set up for major and minor office procedures/assist and chaperone.
• Maintain contact with needed departments for supplies (Biomed, decon, processing, SPS, pharmacy, etc.).
• Track the progress and flow of equipment going in and out of the clinic.
• Ensure equipment is in working order, f/u for timely repair/replacement if needed.
• Assist RN in consult follow up and scheduling patients.
• Monitor surgical patients ensuring appropriate scheduling for follow-up including pre-operative and post-operative appointments.

Duties may vary based on grade. At the GS-6 full performance level of this assignment, SCC LPN is responsible for observing, recording and reporting changes in the patient's condition, as well as assisting in the development and revision of the patient-driven holistic care plan for life. Duties will include:

• Utilize all available tools, such as care management tool, to enable effective and efficient identification, intervention, and follow-up of individual patients and cohorts.
• Ensure appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to specialty clinics as assigned.
• Function at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.
• Participate in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
• Technically proficient in initiating, performing and completing care of the veteran population.
• Recognize and report unsafe equipment, conditions, and practice.
• Actively seek out educational opportunities to enhance nursing knowledge and skills, and share with other staff to improve and advance nursing practice.
• Perform specialty care operations management processes, as appropriate independently with little direct supervision (including the ability to organize work, follow instructions, write and type legibly and accurately).
• Perform communications and facilitate safe transitions of patients between the SCC site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the SCC member.
• Engage patients in using health care, encourage patients to engage personal support persons, receive input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care.
• Use formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient.
• Collaborate with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported, standardized, tools to support SCC care delivery processes (e.g., pre-visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls, recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation).
• Serve as a preceptor in orienting, educating, and training less experienced LPNs and NAs/HTs related to support duties for more complex, specialized tests/procedures.
• Document in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
• Gather information from non-scheduled patients such as a chief complaint and history of symptoms to document and communicate information to the Registered Nurse.
• Check patients in for appointments and gather vital signs.
• Order labs and diagnostic tests appropriate for the LPN scope of practice following policy/SOP.
• Set up for major and minor office procedures/assist and chaperone.
• Maintain contact with needed departments for supplies (Biomed, decon, processing, SPS, pharmacy, etc.).
• Track the progress and flow of equipment going in and out of the clinic.
• Ensure equipment is in working order, f/u for timely repair/replacement if needed.
• Assist RN in consult follow up and scheduling patients.
• Monitor surgical patients ensuring appropriate scheduling for follow-up including pre-operative and post-operative appointments.

Advanced Medical Support Assistant provide administrative support to our clinical colleagues in the care of our Nation's Veterans. Our mission is to provide efficient and effective healthcare services by promoting and enabling the delivery of timely, accurate, accessible health care. VA is committed to cultivating a dedicated workforce of highly skilled employees who understand, believe in and take pride in VA's mission. AMSAs are essential to the success of this mission and may be assigned to many areas of the medical center.

Duties will include but are not limited to:
- Ensures the legal requirements governing eligibility and entitlement to Fee Basis care are met.
- AMSA is the first line of support for the MSA in comprehension and correct utilization of Eligibility benefits.
- Counsels' patients, their families, and agency employees on entitlement to Fee Basis benefits. Interprets Fee Basis policies to patients, their families, agency employees and Veteran's organizations.
- Renders decisions on eligibility for Fee Basis care and reviews requests for care from healthcare providers. The work involves the execution of specific rules, regulations, or procedures and typically comprises a complete segment of an assignment. The work product or service affects the accuracy, reliability, or acceptability of further processes or services.
- AMSA Employee can do all scheduling and consult functions per VHA National Office of Community Care and local and departmental guidelines. As an Advanced MSA has the skill set and training to work the more complex requests.
- Coordinate with Service Chiefs and Service Administrative Officers to review the utilization by using various reports (e.g., Electronic Wait List, Consult Management), ensure the workload management is closely monitored to effectively support the needs of the clinic, and make any necessary adjustments.
- Interpret and communicate requirements of VHA Scheduling Directives and complete accurate scheduling responsibilities.
- Provide education and training to other MSA staff such as scheduling appointments and utilize Electronic Waiting List accurately and timely, utilize Veterans scheduling input, and decrease multiple trips for Veteran as able.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior federal work experience or military service experience.
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 000000
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf

The incumbent serves as a Social Work Program Coordinator, locally titled Caregiver Support Program (CSP) Manager, which provides a state-of-the-art continuum of services, education, and resources to caregivers of Veterans with complex needs. The incumbent oversees service delivery and coordination of care activities for family caregivers who provide personal care services to eligible Veterans regardless of period of service. The CSP includes the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) and the Program of General Caregiver Support Services (PGCSS) at the VA Health Care System.

The incumbent provides the full range of supervisory duties which would include responsibility for the assignment of work to be performed; performance evaluations; selection of staff, training of staff, and recommendation of awards, advancements, and when appropriate, disciplinary action.

• Develops and facilitates CSP-program-focused direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for VA facility staff and the community.
• Develops and implements a plan for outreach to Veterans and Veteran caregivers who may benefit from the CSP program services (but who do not presently use VA for their health care needs).
• Maintains a current network of referral resources to include peer support mentoring groups, caregiver skill-building and self-care educational opportunities, mental health support, legal and financial services.
• Directly supervises the VA HCS Caregiver Support Coordinator(s) (CSC) and, when applicable, the Program Support Assistant (PSA) and other interprofessional staff assigned to the Caregiver Support Program.
• Coordinates program implementation with multiple clinical services across all campus locations within the VA facility, including but not limited to nursing; physical, occupational, and speech therapists; and mental health and primary care providers.
• May provide clinical interventions to the Veteran and caregiver populations served by the programs.
• Develops policies and procedures for program operation and prepares reports and statistics for facility, VISN, and national use.
• Plans organizes, and coordinates administrative, operational, clinical, and personnel activities for the CSP program,
• Provides oversight of facility CSP program fiscal matters of the functions supervised (which would include fund controls, contracts, and equipment expenditures), forecasts resource and equipment needs, and administers the allocated budget.
• Manages CSP clinical and business operations, accountability for program effectiveness, and modification of service patterns to comply with the delivery of standardized processes.
• Develops a data-driven, continuous quality improvement program with established goals and outcomes to evaluate and document the program's effectiveness.

VA Careers - Social Work: https://youtube.com/embed/enRhz_ua_UU

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf

The incumbent serves as a Social Work Program Coordinator, locally titled Caregiver Support Program (CSP) Manager, which provides a state-of-the-art continuum of services, education, and resources to caregivers of Veterans with complex needs. The incumbent oversees service delivery and coordination of care activities for family caregivers who provide personal care services to eligible Veterans regardless of period of service. The CSP includes the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (PCAFC) and the Program of General Caregiver Support Services (PGCSS) at the VA Health Care System.

The incumbent provides the full range of supervisory duties which would include responsibility for the assignment of work to be performed; performance evaluations; selection of staff, training of staff, and recommendation of awards, advancements, and when appropriate, disciplinary action.

• Develops and facilitates CSP-program-focused direction, orientation, coaching, in-service training, staff development, and continuing education programs for VA facility staff and the community.
• Develops and implements a plan for outreach to Veterans and Veteran caregivers who may benefit from the CSP program services (but who do not presently use VA for their health care needs).
• Maintains a current network of referral resources to include peer support mentoring groups, caregiver skill-building and self-care educational opportunities, mental health support, legal and financial services.
• Directly supervises the VA HCS Caregiver Support Coordinator(s) (CSC) and, when applicable, the Program Support Assistant (PSA) and other interprofessional staff assigned to the Caregiver Support Program.
• Coordinates program implementation with multiple clinical services across all campus locations within the VA facility, including but not limited to nursing; physical, occupational, and speech therapists; and mental health and primary care providers.
• May provide clinical interventions to the Veteran and caregiver populations served by the programs.
• Develops policies and procedures for program operation and prepares reports and statistics for facility, VISN, and national use.
• Plans organizes, and coordinates administrative, operational, clinical, and personnel activities for the CSP program,
• Provides oversight of facility CSP program fiscal matters of the functions supervised (which would include fund controls, contracts, and equipment expenditures), forecasts resource and equipment needs, and administers the allocated budget.
• Manages CSP clinical and business operations, accountability for program effectiveness, and modification of service patterns to comply with the delivery of standardized processes.
• Develops a data-driven, continuous quality improvement program with established goals and outcomes to evaluate and document the program's effectiveness.

Order of Referral: Applications received up to 11:59p.m. EST on the date in which 75 minimally qualified applications is reached will receive first consideration. Applications received after 11:59p.m. EST on the date in which 75 minimally qualified applications are received may not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. Additional applications will be reviewed in one day increments at management request.

This position may be filled as virtual (i.e., the employee may work at a VA facility or VA-leased space other than the facility that is hiring the employee and may telework) and is authorized for telework up to 50%. VA supports the use of telework and filling virtually to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. Telework eligibility and potential duty location may be discussed during the interview process.

Major Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Functions as an advisor, administrator, educator, consultant, and mentor who possesses a wide range of experience and leadership skills.
• Provides leadership and oversight for VACO clinical and administrative operations as directed by the National Program Manager, Purchased Long Term Services and Supports.
• Supports the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of Veteran-driven and organizational goals.
• Relates effectively with VACO and program healthcare executives, and the community as well as program and service leaders at the network and facility levels.
• Assists the National Program Manager with healthcare operations and the functions and activities expected of them.
• Contributes ideas and recommendations for the establishment and revision of standards of care, policies, and objectives for the enhancement of Veteran care.
• Provides program management of the Skilled Home Care programs and acts to improve the quality and oversight of these programs.
• Coordinating activities related to the planning, development, and execution of all related skilled home care programs, coordinating the general program support work such as collection, compilation, research, and/or tracking of data and program information.
• Advises and provides technical and clinical expertise on overall operations and functions for all Veterans Heath Administration (VHA) Skilled Home Care program activities and collaborates across numerous offices and locations.
• Performs high level administrative or technical program work in support of the program, office, or of the organization.
• Provides leadership in the development, enhancement, and improvement of national standards, policies, and guidelines to improve the effectiveness, quality, and oversight of Skilled Home Care
  programs and for Veterans who require these services.
• Supports national and VISN level activities and field facilities by providing clinical program and policy guidance and assistance with the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the accomplishment of strategic plans and initiatives related to the Skilled Home Care programs.

Major duties/functions include, but are not limited to:

• The nurse is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care.
• Delivers safe care to assigned patients, while developing technical competencies.
• Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.
• Correctly and safely performs nursing procedures.
• Recognizes overt abnormal signs and symptoms and/or changes in patients' condition and responds appropriately.
• Implements physician's/provider's orders in a timely and complete manner.
• Implements nursing interventions/orders in a timely and complete manner
• Requests assistance from co-workers when needed; knows when to ask for help.
• Formulates a plan of care based on nursing assessments, using the nursing process, based on the ANA Standards of Nursing Practice.
• Completes initial assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.
• Includes the patient and family/significant other in developing the initial plan of care and establishing goals.
• Updates plan of care with assistance as needed.
• Assesses patient's learning needs, learning preference and readiness to learn.
• Develops and implements a plan to meet learning needs, instructing patients and families in basic health teaching and discharge planning.
• Documents the nursing process.
• Documentation is consistent, accurate, concise, and timely.
• Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected outcomes.
• Revises plan of care according to evaluations of patient's responses and outcomes.
• Uses the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), Eccentric Clinical Procedures, and Bar Coded Medication Administration (BCMA) software per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Social Work: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-Social-Worker-Career-Flyer.pdf

Responsible for defining the mission and vision of the service, developing the scope of practice for social workers, designing a Social Work Service Plan of Care, and ensuring implementation of quality improvement measures. Responsible for developing, planning, clarifying, administering, and managing the Social Work Service for the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center and its four Community-Based Outreach Clinics.

Facility has a variety of clinical programs with a wide range of acute activities providing inpatient and outpatient services and treatment for patients in general medicine and surgery, medical specialty programs, geriatric and extended care, psychiatry, substance abuse, hospice and palliative care, home-based primary care, community care, and various other ambulatory care programs with related educational and program evaluation functions. Overseas programs: Caregiver Support, PACT, CBOC, Inpatient, Palliative Care Social Work, Care Cancer Care Navigation, APU Inpatient, Urgent Care, Vet Center consultation Rural Health, Community Nursing Home, Veteran Direct, Home Health Aide, Respite, Community Living Center, Intimate Partner Violence, Spinal Cord, Transplant, and Medical Foster Home. Full responsibility for clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management and supervision, and organizational stewardship for a social work program.

Functions/Scope of Assigned Duties

• Program Administration
  • Ensures the delivery of Social Work Services on a routine and emergent basis
  • Informs other disciplines changes in Social Work program policies and procedures
  • Provide direction and/or ensures that essential Clinical Social Work functions are provided
  • Psychosocial screening, assessment, planning, and intervention
  • Develops procedures for the coordination of Social Work Service during disasters, drills, and emergencies
• Policy and Procedures
  • Assesses trends in provided treatment
  • Makes decisions regarding resolution of difficult problems
  • Draft policy
  • Ensures all programs within the Service meet CARF and The Joint Commission requirements
• Staff selection, education, and career development
  • Participates in recruitments
  • Oversees orientation of clinical staff
  • Ensures that unlicensed SWs have access to clinical supervision
• Education
  • Assesses continuing education requirements
  • Oversees competency requirements
  • Creates Memoranda of Understanding with Social Work schools
  • Requests trainee positions through OAA
  • Selects Social Workers to serve as training faculty or student supervisor
• Supervision/Consultation
  • Provides professional, administrative, and clinical supervision
  • Oversees the professional practice functions
  • Participates in/provides input into performance appraisals
  • Mediates professional and service ­line conflicts
  • Consults with other Services, Program Managers, or Care ­Line Managers
• Resource Management
  • Establishes and communicates productivity standards
  • Responsible for budgeting and fiscal oversight
  • Supports Social Work research
  • Provides education and consultation
• Risk Management
  • Ensures compliance
  • Evaluates and assesses operations and processes
  • Provides input to improve professional SW, RN, and PSS practice
• Ethics
  • Provides leadership in identifying and addressing ethical issues that impact clients and staff
• Other
  • Completes all duties delineated herein and all other duties as assigned

This announcement will close on 11/25/2024. The first 50 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.

Duties includes but are not limited to:

Portfolio Responsibilities

• Supports advancement of the VHA ONS Strategic Plan Workstreams and associated subgroups therein, delivering goals, objectives, and action plans.
• Aligns the vision, direction, and objectives of the ONS nursing leadership and nursing clinical practice with ambulatory care programs and committees to elevate the quality of professional nursing practice throughout the VHA health care system and in support of the VHA Nursing Workforce Strategic Plan and in collaboration with other ONS portfolios.
• Communicates and fosters effective labor management partnerships.
• Provides analysis and reporting of clinical practice data, developing action plans and interventions, and assesses results of actions in follow up.
• Engages in succession planning, including mentoring and coaching others into roles within and external to ONS.

• Facilitates multiple teams to achieve desired outcomes, creating, implementing, and measuring large complex projects within an integrated health system.
• Demonstrates effective oral and written communication and human interpersonal skills, as evidenced by communicating clearly, being able to work with diverse constituencies, developing rapport with people at all levels of the organization, and having the ability to clearly communicate goals, objectives, and progress in meeting milestones.
• Establishes external relationships and collaborative alliances, which facilitate teamwork, enhance nursing practice, scientific inquiry, and promote partnership with academic and professional organizations at a regional (VISN) and national level.
• Serves on, leads, and/or establishes key committees to improve clinical and nursing processes across the enterprise as a national ONS representative for ambulatory care nursing.

• Promotes the identification, dissemination, and evaluation of best practices in ambulatory care nursing and team-based care.
• Assesses trends in ambulatory care nursing practice and clinical outcome measurement systems to identify and implement optimal practices and approaches, and the use of information systems, electronic health record, metrics, and outcome measures to guide care.
• Responds to internal and external communications and maintains knowledge of and communicating activities through communication with VA and non-VA stakeholders.
• Promotes the development, operationalization, and sustainment of strong partnerships between VA and external stakeholders through national ambulatory care-related nursing committees and workgroups with representation from national nursing leaders to end users to advance standardization and excellence.

Advanced Medical Support Assistants (AMSAs) in the Social Work Service Line provide administrative support to our clinical colleagues in the care of our Nation's Veterans. Our mission is to provide efficient and effective healthcare services by promoting and enabling the delivery of timely, accurate, accessible health care. VA is committed to cultivating a dedicated workforce of highly skilled employees who understand, believe in and take pride in VA's mission. AMSAs are essential to the success of this mission.


Duties will include but are not limited to:
- Determining health care eligibility for Veteran patients.
- Administrative processing of Veteran patients in enrollment, benefits, and registration.
- Counseling Veteran patients regarding entitlement enrollment for health care benefits and other special programs.
- Obtaining essential information and documentation from Veteran patients for enrollment activities.
- Performing scheduling functions for Veteran patients including appointments, cancellations, and re-scheduling.
- Facilitating communication between Veterans and other facility consult departments.
- Support of inpatient units and wards with administrative duties during day, evening, night, and weekend shifts.
- Processing and record keeping of inpatient medical records.
- Manual and electronic data entry.
- Collation of statistical information.
- Entry of Physician orders and consult requests.
- Prepares Veteran patient statistics.
- Providing reception to incoming and outgoing customers and communication.
- Utilizes Microsoft Office software to compile data and formulate reports.


Work Schedule: Typical tour of duty is 8:00am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday. *Available shifts will be discussed during the interview process.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior federal work experience or military service experience.
Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
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Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

VA Careers - Lead Medical Support Assistant: https://youtube.com/embed/UJO_XH5uCLs

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Medical Support Assistant: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-MSA-VA-Career-Flyer.pdf

The Lead MSA is an expert at all functions of MSA and Advanced MSA work. In addition to the
duties of the advanced level, the Lead MSA monitors and makes work assignments, provides input on performance, resolves daily workplace issues, and maintains efficient workflow.

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

• Ensuring coverage of all areas of responsibility
• Conducting ongoing reviews to ensure quality of work
• Ensuring accurate and timely scheduling of appointments
• Providing guidance to staff members to include changes in policies and procedures
• Distributing and balancing workload
• Creating and maintaining employee work schedules
• Orienting and providing on-the-job training for new and current employees
• Ensuring all training requirements are met
• Organizing the work structure of his/her assigned areas
• Acting as liaison between staff to resolve day-to-day conflicts
• Ensure consults for each section are acted on, scheduled, and completed accurately and timely based on VA Directives, laws, and memorandums.
• Ensure all appointments are scheduled according to VA Directives, laws, and memorandums
• Ensure outpatient encounter forms are completed accurately and timely in accordance with the Health Care System policy.
• Ensure adequate coverage plan is in place for the section.