Total 693 Others level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Ashton-in-Makerfield, WN4 8DE

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Ensures that crosswalks for the financial and real property management databases are developed.
• Provides assistance with leadership and participates in developing, improving, and maintaining APHIS’s Real Property Portfolio to include property acquisition, utilization, etc.
• As a technical resource the Asset Manager works in collaboration with the subject matter expert to provide direction and instruction as necessary to the Realty Specialists.
• Maintains and creates report formats that track expiring leases and lease changes.
• Training will be coordinated, planned, developed and presented by the incumbent using hands-on environment training.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Provides services for implementing Federal and Departmental policy, planning and programs for the Acquisition and Asset Management Division, Real Property Team.
• Provides expert real property advisory services to management, is the technical real property contact and supervises real property personnel within Marketing and Regulatory Programs.
• Advises on the resolution of critical or unusual problems for a broad range of complex, frequently long-term, realty projects in situations affecting agency-wide operations.
• Prepares and presents reports and briefings on significant issues related to agency and/or GSA leases.
• Coordinates major realty program functions within the Agency and among other agencies and departments.

• Plans and performs audits of outpatient/inpatient medical coding and coding processes throughout BAMC to quantify coding agreement between medical record documentations and the standard ambulatory data record (SADR).
• Quantifies the extent of over or under medical coding on patient encounters to include outpatient, ambulatory procedures, inpatient professional services rounds, inpatient consults and inpatient.
• Performs independent medical coding documentation audits, developing applicable training plans, and providing training to any BAMC employee performing documentation, coding, auditing or training functions.
• Provides BAMC leadership with a written summary of findings and recommendations for improving the accuracy of the medical record documentation and coding.
• Analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of outpatient/inpatient medical coding processes and procedures in meeting established goals.
• Conducts random medical coding documentation audits for monthly Commander's Data Quality Statement and reports findings and recommendations as required.
• Identifies correct principal diagnosis and principal procedure from coded documents based on physician's medical record documentation and established sequencing rules and guidelines.

• Managing, overseeing, and directing the program and services of the Office of Acquisitions.
• Initiating, developing, and implementing new policies and procedures and/or changes to existing policies and procedures.
• Planning, directing, and overseeing the NCI Small Business Innovative Research contract program.
• Evaluating the overall effectiveness and quality of the acquisition program with the Director by planning, designing and executing compliance reviews.
• Providing oversight of the NCI purchase card program totalling an average of $50 million a year. Oversight involves periodic reviews, internal policy development and implementation, and various reports to upper management.
• Advising high level management officials both within and outside of NCI including the Directors and Executive Officers in the appropriate regulations and policies regarding acquisitions.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards


Duties Include:

• Utilizes a mastery of quantitative and qualitative analysis skills in conducting difficult and complex studies involving various operational plans. Evaluates, interprets, analyzes and presents in final form all resource and workload data in support of the study
• Utilizes knowledge of the network office's clinical performance standards, quality and performance improvement principles, regulations and precedent decisions to assist the program office in providing policy and technical guidance to support continuous quality improvement and performance improvement throughout the organization.
• Develops and maintains strategic planning that results in the development of long-range paring and development, performance, and efficiency and effectiveness of service.
• Assists in ensuring that issues/complaints raised by Veterans and Service Members, their families and/or stakeholder are fully addressed.
• Utilizes workforce management/staff optimization principles and organizes, prioritizes, and schedules work assignments to achieve staffing optimization.
• Provides information to the Chief of HR and Network Leadership team which promotes important decision-making that substantially affects economy of operations.
• Assists in seamlessly coordinating planning and operational programming concepts from national clinical program offices with facility operations.
• Effectively deals with conflict and conflict resolution.
• Communicates regularly with national program office, network and facility VA staff and management personnel. including advising higher level officials on resource requirements, budget issues, and other strategic issues.

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• This position is in the Competitive Service.
• Time-in-Grade Restriction: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service.
• Interchange Agreements with Other Merit System: Employees who occupy medical or medical-related positions and were appointed under 38 U.S.C. 4701(1) or (3) [formerly 38 U.S.C. 4104 (1) and (3)] must be serving in a full-time position without time limit and have served continuously for at least one year in this other merit system to be eligible to convert to the Title 5 System. Some exceptions to this rule may apply if you have previously acquired tenure under a Title 5 appointment.

This position serves as a VISN 22 Veterans Transportation Program Manager within the VISN Office. Provides management, support, and required oversight to assist VA transportation providers and key business staff to medical centers across the VISN. The position manages the VISN VTP including Veterans Transportation Service, Beneficiary Travel, the Highly Rural Transportation Grant Programs.

Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Participates in national VTP Surveys, reviews, studies and manages the VISN participation in such surveys/studies, as well as managing VISN surveys which produce data used to adopt new policies or change existing policy to improve operations and compliance with regulations to achieve higher efficiencies of operation.
• Oversees management of the overall operations of the VTS Program at all the Medical Centers within the VISN.
• Monitors and ensures adherence to VTS, BT, and VHA policy; monitors and ensures sites report metrics accurately and timely; and monitors and communicates with sites regarding obligation of VTS funds.
• The VISN VTP Manager ensures compliance is achieved VISN-wide through periodic program review and communicates directly with VTP Program Office Compliance staff on discrepancies in Improper Payments Elimination & Recovery Improvement Act (IPERA), OIG, and GAO review/missing information.
• Responsible for ensuring implementation of audit/compliance corrective action measures.
• Ensures facility VTP Managers comply in a timely and accurate manner to VTP Program Office, IPERA, OIG and GAO requests for information.
• Ensures VTS programs at the Medical Center level are appropriately engaged with the HRTG recipients to ensure proper transport of Veterans by the grant recipients, and communicates with the VTS Regional Coordinator on issue resolution requiring national attention.
• Serves as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the multi-state region of a VISN regarding veteran and patient transportation for travel. The incumbent consults with the VA Medical Center Mobility Managers and Executive Leadership, the VISN Rural Health Consultant, VISN Business Implementation Manager, and VISN Executive Leadership on issues concerning Veterans access to care and unique transportation issues. As the VISN SME, the VISN VTP Manager provides direct consultation and problem resolution to facilities.
• Works with VISN leadership to establish goals and general policy regarding patient transportation regarding policy for inter-facility transfers, Special Mode Transports, Air Ambulance etc., to ensure compliance with national program policy, as well as the most efficient and patient friendly means of transport are achieved while ensuring expedited transport resulting in improved patient care and improved patient flow within and between VISN facilities.
• Prepares reports, memoranda, and correspondence pertaining to various Veteran transportation issues; presents research findings and recommendations to VTS and MS leadership.
• Provides Train-the-Trainer activities for the VTS program at the Medical Centers during program implementation and provides constant support for day to day operations.
• Employs fact-finding and investigative techniques to gather clear-cut factual answers to questions from VTS field operations.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Performs annual risk assessments of all APHIS assessable units.
• Develops and performs scheduled reviews and/or testing.
• Develops written reports of all reviews and/or testing and present findings and recommendations annually at the APHIS Management Team Meeting.
• Ensures that APHIS is fully compliant with the requirements of newly revised 0MB Circular A-123.
• Develops research methods, plans reviews, conducts interviews, and fact findings.

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

• The employee completes complex purchasing transactions only under direct supervision with direct guidance from seasoned purchasing staff, leads, or supervisors.
• Routine purchasing includes routine purchase orders on established contracts or through established vendor resources using regular significant,
• Use guidance, direction and direct use of policy and guidelines; reviews for discrepancies or loopholes in lengthy specifications or statements of work that are very detailed, or otherwise difficult to understand.
• Coordinates under close direction and supervision, with appropriate vendor for device retrieval and reconciliation of acquisition days o ensure daily fund rental fiscal accountability.
• Under close direction and supervision, has the authority to purchase on contract surgical implants up to a dollar of $100,00 for contracted surgical implants.
• Under close direction and supervision, documents the services required per the contractual agreement and monitors, tracks and trends contractor performance.
• Utilizes various web-based applications to identify required sources of supply.
• Provides procurement support throughout the procurement cycle by filing contracts, processing amendments and modifications, and monitoring the status of deliveries. Reviews, assembles, and maintains procurement related files and all of the required documentation.
• Advises approving officials and purchase card holders on purchase card program, procurement procedures and responsibilities while conducting random reviews in accordance with established Logistics and other departmental policy.

• Monitors and examines fund control point accounts and requests additional funding for procurement needs working with direct supervisor, fund control point Service Line Chief and the Fiscal Department.
• Serves as the first line of contact for medical staff and customers in regard to procured items. Provides clerical support and coordination to approving officials and administrators.
• Performs a variety of receptionist, timekeeping, record keeping and miscellaneous duties in medical facility.
• Makes purchases involving specialized requirements and/or commercial requirements that have unstable price or product characteristics, hard-to-locate sources, or similar complicating factors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Maintains strategic and operational plans for the operation of the team in alignment with the goals of USDA, APHIS, and Veterinary Services.
• Identifies program and administrative issues within Veterinary Services which would benefit from increased usage of informatics.
• Provides leadership and management to project-focused teams comprised of analysts and informatics specialists to develop data and approaches for reporting and analysis of the identified issues.
• Works across government, states, and industry to integrate comprehensive data as needed.
• Leads, designs, and implements solutions for generating decision options using the analytical data sets for organizational decision making at both the strategic and operational levels.
• Communicates project and team needs and works with peers to enroll or engage team membership from within Strategy and Policy, or other APHIS offices.
• Represents the Center in professional and public settings.
• The employee assigns and reviews the work of project teams to ensure timely performance, soundness, and value.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Supervising subordinates more than 25% of the time including, but not limited to, recruitment, selecting, appraising, rewarding, addressing performance problems, and fostering an inclusive workplace.
• Ensure that proper and timely attention is devoted to high level, high priority, urgent and/or controversial issues, problems, situations, or information requests.
• Researches, analyzes and writes materials relating to program issues, or those for which there is no clear program definition.
• Prepares speeches and talking points for the Deputy Administrator and Associate Deputy Administrator as needed.
• Monitors status of actions of interest to the Chief of Staff and provides status reports in various forms.
• Elicits cooperation and participation from staff and other resources contributing to action tasks, written products, and reports developed on behalf of the Chief of Staff.
• Develops agenda, coordinates input and preparation of necessary background materials, and monitors status of action in response to decisions made.
• Advises officials in the Office of the Deputy Administrator as well as staff across all program lines on policy development, operational planning, and day-to-day management of headquarters operations.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Supervising subordinates more than 25% of the time including, but not limited to, recruitment, selecting, appraising, rewarding, addressing performance problems, and fostering an inclusive workplace.
• Advises officials in the Office of the Deputy Administrator (ODA) on policy development, operational planning, and day-to-day management of headquarters operations.
• Serves as a conduit for communication to internal and external stakeholders and ensures proper and timely attention is devoted to high level, high priority, urgent, and/or controversial situations.
• Directs involvement and/or make assignments to program officials to provide background or staff work products in support of such activities.
• Participates with the Deputy Administrator and VS executive team (VSET) in processes associated with making and communicating critical policy and program management decisions.
• Provides liaison between the Deputy Administrator, VSET, and other managers through the organization.
• Prepares speeches and talking points for the Deputy Administrator, facilitates topical or decision-point discussion groups, and ensures appropriate preparations are made for executive gatherings.
• Develops agenda, coordinates input and preparation of necessary background materials, and monitors status of action in response to decisions made.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Communicate regularly with project leads and other staff to determine how projects are progressing.
• Generating regular project and road map status reports.
• Act as the point of contact for project leads to communicate personnel and resource needs.
• Work with individual project leads to develop project specific tracking and management tools in either MS Teams, MS Excel, MS Project, or MS Planner.
• Work with project leads in identifying and mitigating potential risks to projects.
• Working with project leads to ensure that proper project documentation is captured.
• Work with project leads and Leadership to solicit upcoming fiscal year budget needs according to the budget cycle.