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• Provides non-professional counseling and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills coaching for patients.
• Keeps Counselors, the Clinical Director, and the Milieu Charge informed of all clinical and administrative issues.
• Participates in the program's behavior management system.
• Provides guidance and instruction in group activities, personal health and hygiene, courtesy, and etiquette to residents.
• Supervises daily tasks and assignments of residents such as making beds, daily chores, and maintaining living units.

This Program Support Assistant position is located at the Bob Stump VA Medical Center in the Education and Learning Resources Service. The incumbent works closely with all positions within Education, providing administrative support in regards to the functions of the department. Major duties of the program support assistant include, but are not limited to:

• Independently plans, develops, maintains and reviews departmental data collection, records, methodologies and techniques.
• Prepares action plans and makes appropriate recommendations for improvements in data collection, maintenance and work flow processes.
• Responsible for maintaining records and files for the department such as meeting minutes, reports, correspondence, records of office transactions, etc.
• Performs work directly related to tracking and maintaining budget records.
• Serves as the Travel Training Specialist for the Education Department.
• Serves as a purchase card clerk and responsible for maintaining accurate records of all transactions of the Education Department's Fund Control Points.
• Acts as the primary timekeeper for the Education Department Staff.
• Serves as a TMS Administrator and provide help desk assistance to employees, run reports and enter tracking data.
• Serves as the New Employee Orientation (NEO) Program Manager.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

This position is being re-announced to solicit additional candidates; applicants who previously applied to this announcement need not reapply unless submitting updated information and/or missing forms.

• Responds to emergencies in an appropriate manner by obtaining equipment and by caring for other patients during the emergency process as needed.
• Assists with direct patient care procedures and related tasks by checking in patients, obtaining patient histories, taking vital signs of temperature, height, weight, blood pressure, respirations, and O2 saturations.
• Obtains and records patient information per unit policy.
• Performs routine specialized procedures of venipuncture, injections, immunization, antibiotics, and intravenous cannulation to collect specimen, electrocardiograms and sterile dressing changes according to established protocols.
• Assists with sterile procedures of sutures, insertion of chest tubes, spinal taps, pelvic exams and physical exams and clean procedures of cast application as requested by the physicians.
• Assists with patient admission and/or transports.
• Arranges clinic appointments for patients.
• Performs waived testing.
• Sets up for oxygen administration.
• Obtains results of labs, tests, scans and discharge summaries.

ORGANIZATIONAL LOCATION: Indian Health Service (IHS), Southwest Region, Phoenix Area - Colorado River Service Unit, Parker Indian Health Center. Position is located in Parker, Arizona. Primary purpose of position is to provide administrative support services for the Division of Financial Management. Position is supervised by the Financial Manager.

Major duties:

• Tracks controlled correspondence; composes and edits correspondence letters and reports.
• Manages the appointment and meeting schedule for the Director of the organizational unit served and senior staff members.
• Purchase supplies, equipment and other material utilizing prescribed purchasing guidelines.
• Assist with management of contract and payment of invoices.
• Time Keeping for the Division .

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Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Performs receptionist duties, customer service and other duties assigned for the proper timely treatment of patients and maintains appointment schedules for one or more outpatient clinics.
• Serves on more than one PACT or in more than one Specialty Clinic area.
• Validates and updates patient demographic information, either in person during check-in or over the phone.
• Collects, scans, and updates health insurance information serving a major role in the revenue process.
• Endures that all necessary health/administrative information are integrated into Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) by sending the documents to scan or performing the function within their area.
• Screens/receives phone calls in a courteous and timely manner, determines the nature of the requests and provide the information desired using privacy rules and established clinic processes.
• Interprets and communicates requirements of VHA Scheduling Directives and complete accurate scheduling responsibilities and assist in training other MSA levels.

Major duties include:

• Use word processing software to execute several office automation functions such as storing and retrieving electronic documents and files.
• Activating printers; inserting and deleting text; and formatting letters, reports and memoranda.
• Utilize the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) by storing a Veteran's healthcare in formation.
• Document all encounters by entering progress notes and bill accordingly by entering corresponding procedure codes.
• Complete a HUD-VASH Case Management Review Note stating the progress.
• Complete a Suicide Behavior Report note when a Veteran has reported an attempted suicide.
• Complete a Safety Plan with Veterans at risk for suicide to develop coping strategies and supports to be used when suicidal thoughts are present.
• Utilize Veterans Health information & Technology Architecture (VISTA) or electronic healthcare record which supports clinical, administrative and financial operations.
• File a Disruptive Behavior Report when a patient or employee engages in behavior that is disruptive.
• Utilize Homeless Operations Management and Evaluation System (HOMES), an online data collection system that tracks homeless Veterans as they move through the VA's homeless programs.
• Provide assistance as a liaison for Veterans' needs on multiple caseloads and communicate these concerns to the HUD-VASH Case Managers and/or HUD-VASH Program Coordinator.
• Meet with Veterans typically by oneself in the office, community and during home visits.
• Utilize interviewing skills such as Motivational Interviewing.
• Respond to cell & desk phone calls in a courteous and timely manner, determine the nature of requests, and provide the information desired using privacy rules and established clinic processes to both the Veteran, Veteran's family, VA staff and the public.
• Screen for Veterans' risk for suicide and homicide at each visit.
• Notify clinical staff in a timely manner of any positive screens to ensure clinical care is provided.
• Conduct case management reviews with Veterans.
• Participate with multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Review Veteran referrals who have not succeeded in maintaining housing to address contributing factors which may impact their housing such as: budgeting, mental health, substance use and legal issues.
• Utilize the Vulnerability Index- Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) to survey both the individual Veteran and his or her family to determine risk and prioritization when providing assistance to homeless and at risk of homelessness persons.
• Teach and role model the value of every individual's recovery experience.
• Drive Veterans to find suitable and affordable housing; to attend their medical appointments, social activities, and community resources; and to apply for employment.
• Assist Veterans in obtaining decent and affordable housing of his/her choice in the most integrated, independent, and least intrusive or restrictive environment by taking them out to view housing, either driving them or riding with them on public transportation.
• Identify community-based self-help and mutual support resources and foster Veteran access via sharing these resources with Veterans, other mental health providers.
• Complete referral packets for the Public Housing Authority (PHA) including helping Veterans obtain needed documentation for referrals.
• Assist Veterans in the completion of Social Security applications and/or VA service-connected compensation and/or non-service connected pension applications.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Major duties include, but not limited to:

• Provides accurate and reliable information on the administrative functions of the service.
• Interacts with managers, supervisors, and staff members on matters related to administrative services by attending meetings and serving on appropriate work teams/groups.
• Serves in a support role in the leadership team and presents suggestions and guidance to lower graded administrative support assistants.
• Maintains subject matter files and records that relate to the work of the department/program areas supported.
• Recommends changes in policies and processes which will increase effectiveness.
• Acts as secondary office timekeeper, in accordance with regulatory guidelines and use of VA Time and Attendance System (VATAS).
• Serves as the Automated Data Processing Application Coordinator (ADPAC) for the Service Line.
• Performs other duties, as assigned by the Service Line Chief.

The Urology Physician Assistant provides patient care and administrative support in surgical Urology section. Provides direct patient care and completes administrative issues. Provides recommendations and medical support to primary care clinics, inpatient wards, CLC, outlying clinics and emergency department.

Duties include but are not limited to:
The urology physician assistant works closely with attending urologists to provide comprehensive urologic care in the urology clinic, hospital, and emergency department. Care includes but is not limited to evaluating and diagnosing urological conditions, prescribing medications, offering patient education, assisting in procedures, managing perioperative patients, and coordinating care. Perioperative care for surgical patients includes but is not limited to surgery scheduling, initiating/receiving consults, interpreting lab results and imaging studies; patient admissions/discharges/dispositions, ward care orders, and rounding. Provide on-call urology coverage with oversight from attending Urologists to respond to calls and consults from primary care clinics, inpatient wards, CLC, and emergency department. Functions include addressing secure messages and alerts, placing VA and community care consults, reviewing records, and managing acute patient care issues. Urologic procedures include but are not limited to placing and managing simple/complex urethral and suprapubic catheters, instilling intravesical chemotherapy/immunotherapy, evacuating intravesical blood clots, performing intracavernosal therapies and posterior tibial nerve stimulation treatments.


Work Schedule: Variable, 4x10, 5x8 with on-call services (after TOD).
Telework: Not eligible
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

• Performs front desk operations such as: scheduling appointments, sending appointment slips, retrieving medical records, making clinic orders, etc.
• Answers the telephone courteously and directs phone calls to the appropriate staff member or department.
• Utilizes computer automation systems by making and sending appointments, ordering lab work, requesting charts and health summaries and filing, etc.
• Assures that clerical and medical supplies are reordered and stocked.
• Promotes safety and risk management initiatives for the unit to help ensure patient, visitor and staff security.

• Classification: Assists HR specialists and/or supervisory officials, actions officers by performing technical and administrative work in support of position classification programs and functions.
  • Duties may include: locating, reviewing, retrieving, and summarizing information from classification standards and position descriptions; maintains master position description files and the online Position Description Library; provides a variety of general information regarding position classification functions and processes.
• Recruitment and Placement: Assists HR specialists and/or supervisory officials, and action officers by performing technical and administrative work in support of recruitment and placement programs.
  • Duties may include: developing and issuing vacancy announcements; screening applications to determine completeness and basic eligibility; preparing certificates of qualified candidates; generating receipt acknowledgements and final action responses; performing qualifications analysis and rating on lower-grade positions as assigned; conducting and/or assisting in the conduct of rating panels; coding and processing personnel actions; preparing pre-appointment packages; in-processing employees; and providing a variety of general information regarding recruitment program functions, processes, and procedures.
• Employee Benefits: Assists HR specialists and/or supervisory officials, and action officers by performing technical and administrative work in support of employee and labor relations programs.
  • Duties may include: interviewing employees and/or managers to obtain background information regarding specific incidents; summarizing relevant facts for HR specialists; informally resolving recurring issues by explaining basic HR policies (i.e., approvals of sick leave); providing alternative approaches to resolve simple problems and/or providing appropriate employee referrals.
• Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process: Acts as The Registrar in the PIV process. Captures the Applicant's fingerprints, biometric information, and photo. Scans and validates the I-9 documents, ensuring agreement between the Applicant's name and information appearing on the I-9 documentation.

• Incumbent(s) must be able to train staff on the requirements of VHA Scheduling Directives and complete accurate scheduling responsibilities.
• Incumbent must screen/receive phone calls in a courteous and timely manner, determine the nature of requests and provide the information desired using privacy rules and established clinic processes.
• Schedule appointments accurately and in a timely manner.
• All appointments will be made with the patient's input, either in person or by phone.
• Notifies his/her supervisor when clinic access is less than desirable or if an individual patient cannot be scheduled within mandated clinic time frames.
• Exercises supervisory authorities and responsibilities involving work assignment and review, as well as the administrative and personnel management functions relative to the staff supervised in conjunction.
• Daily review of active/pending consults and Audio CARE communications for accuracy and disposition.
• Incumbent(s) will rotate this to assure all MSA staff is in attendance and understand the process.
• independently manage position responsibilities with little supervision as well as set priorities and deadlines adjusting the flow and sequencing of the work to meet team and patient needs.
• Important interfaces and collaborations also occur with all clinical staff in Specialty & Diagnostics, as well as, with staff outside the service line.
• Coordinating schedules and assignments with RN Managers/Assistant RN Managers and adjusting as needed. Serves on Medical Center committees as needed, and prepare various reports in area of expertise.
• Assures that all supervised staff receives all required annual training. The incumbent is responsible for the competencies for all supervised staff.
• Plans and/or coordinates a formal orientation and training and assures training programs for new employees are completed as required to achieve efficiency of operations on a daily and long-term basis.
• Ensure adequate leave coordination to avoid inability to properly respond to the needs of the service.
• Monitors personnel assignments, work distribution and work performance to assure adequate service is being provided and work is properly distributed to accomplish the workload.
• Independently carries out a wide variety of tasks involving atypical problems or complex situations.
• Advises Lead MSA of requirements for on the job training for new MSAs.
• Responsible for extracting and analyzing data to provide reports in support of performance measures to senior management.

The incumbent works collaboratively with interdisciplinary team members such as pharmacists, social workers, providers, nurses, case managers, etc. while exhibiting expertise in utilizing numerous advanced patient systems in support of multiple clinics. The AMSA duties include maintaining appointment schedules, scheduling special studies or labs and following up on administrative items from the Huddle and/or staffing meetings. The incumbent ensures demographics are updated. He/she must screen/receive phone calls and visitors in a courteous and timely manner, determine the nature of requests and provide the information desired using privacy rules and established processes.

At this level, the AMSA performs a full range of duties to include scheduling appointments along with interpreting provider orders in accordance with VHA national scheduling guidelines. Incumbent will also communicate directly with the patient to obtain required information to determine patient needs. He/she will have knowledge of various software utilized to run reports and queries. The work includes functions such as serving as an initial point of contact for functions including but not limited to scheduling patient appointments, tracking, reviewing and responding to electronic orders, consults, and other elements in the electronic medical record. The incumbent must display a practical knowledge of computerized data entry, information processing systems and software related to patient care. The Advanced MSA plays an essential role in shaping the patients experience and is vital to providing timely access to health care.

Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday - Friday (Up to Supervisors Discretion).
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or result in you losing consideration for the job. The incumbent:

• Performs other reversible intra-oral procedures, and provides chair side assistance and other supportive services in the dental clinic.
• Maintains supply levels and cleanliness of dental station, sterilizes instruments, materials and equipment.
• Assists patient in completing medical history statements, records examination and treatment information as relayed by dentist.
• Instructs patient in preventive dental care; demonstrates brushing and flossing techniques and use of disclosing tablets; explains the common causes of decay and its relationship to general diet
• Takes preliminary impressions for study models and modifies impression trays as needed
• Pours and trims models from impressions; and constructs impression trays.
• Exposes and develops intra- and extra-oral radiographs.
• Places cavity bases and liners on prepared tooth; places matrix bands and wedges when required; places condenses, carves and finishes simple amalgam restorations; and those requiring retentive pins or cusps replacement; places, compresses and finishes synthetic anterior restorations; places and contours temporary restorations

Major Duties:

• Greets visitors to the facility and answers all incoming call, transferring to appropriate department and providing phone coverage for other departments.
• Receives, routes, or otherwise handles incoming and outgoing materials such as controlled or routine correspondence, reports, memoranda's, and other forms of written communication. Performs office automation duties to prepare documents such as correspondence, forms, and reports which can include technical material, graphs and charts.
• Timekeeping duties for service unit, prepare travel orders and travel vouchers for the Health Center.
• Manges the appointment and meeting schedule for the Director of the organization unit and other senior staff members as well.

The PA will be fully qualified and certified to function in both a clinical and administrative role and in accordance with the guidelines and policies of the PVAHCS Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Gynecology Section of the Surgery Service. This individual is delegated the authority and responsibility in his/her area of expertise to assume major clinical, consultative, educational, research, and administrative duties and assignments related to this care.

A PA is a credentialed health care professional who provides patient-centered medical care to assigned patients as a member of a health care team and who is authorized to practice with defined levels of autonomy and to exercise independent medical decision making within their scope of practice.

Clinical duties:
The core elements for a PA Scope of Practice may include, but are not limited to:

• Obtaining medical histories and performing physical examinations.
• Providing and coordinating medical care for assigned patients in any care setting, including establishing diagnoses, formulating and implementing care plans, and providing follow-up care.
• Evaluating outpatients to determine the need for further health care.
• Ordering diagnostic studies and other special tests, such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computerized Tomography (CT) scans, etc.
• Carrying out health promotion, disease prevention, and patient education activities.
• Ordering or obtaining laboratory specimens.
• Ordering ancillary services, such as, pharmacy, social services, physical medicine and rehabilitation therapies, prosthetic services, etc.
• Ordering VA specialty service consults and initiating requests for non-VA medical care and consults in accordance with VHA and local facility policy and procedures.
• Ordering patient care supplies.
• Writing orders for or prescribing medications in accordance with policy.
• Obtaining and documenting informed consent for treatments and procedures for which the PA is responsible. The PA's Scope of Practice must authorize obtaining informed consent for the treatment or procedure being performed. In addition, the Scope of Practice must authorize the PA to perform the procedure or provide the treatment for which the consent is being obtained or to actively participate as an integral member of the treatment team performing the procedure such as assisting the primary surgeon.
• Providing education and counseling of patients and families in preventive care, medical conditions, and the use of prescribed treatments and drugs.
• Reviews consults to the gynecology section.

• Facilitate response/actions to patient inquires to care and treatment received by the Gynecology Service.
• Functions as a liaison between the Gynecology Section Chief, the Surgery Service and respective Specialty Surgery Sections, and the Ambulatory Care Service including but not limited to Primary Care, Medical Specialty Care, and Emergency Care .
• Attends committee meetings and process action teams representing the Gynecology service at the direction of the Gynecology Section Chief or Designee.
• As needed assists other practitioners assigned to Gynecology who have administrative or clinical concerns.
• Assists the Gynecology Section Chief or Designee with quality of care activities.
• Other administrative duties as assigned by the Gynecology Section Chief or Designee.