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• Provide comprehensive occupational therapy services to maximize Solder performance and improve unit readiness.
• Develop programs to optimize performance behaviors or mitigate injury risk.
• Perform formal and informal evaluations in the various areas, such as physical, psychological, cognitive, activities of daily living (ADLs), functional and adaptive skills, and, work and occupational role performance.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement goal-oriented group and/or behavioral-focused individual treatment programs.
• Apply the use of therapeutic modalities and new integrative techniques and technologies.
• Participate on an interdisciplinary team to coordinate the rehabilitation or wellness activities for individual Soldiers or groups of Soldiers with the brigade.
• Educate on the injury/disease process and its effect on function, joint protection, energy conservation, ergonomic needs, work simplification, and cognitive compensatory techniques.

PRIMARY ROLES

• Documents assessment and interventions by policy and practice standards (CPRS)
• Mentors and precepts new staff and students.
• Crisis intervention for unique population
• Completes post-Emergency Department (ED)/Urgent Care and post-discharge phone calls within 2 business days, and documents results in patient's medical record.
• Actively manages a high risk registry which includes patients with elevated HgbA1C, hypertension, elevated LDLs, frequent hospitalizations/admissions, frequent visits to the ED/Urgent Care area, and those who are considered, by the team, to be at high risk for injury.
• Collaborate with the Teamlet {Patient, Primary Care Provider, RN Care Manager, Clinical Associate, and Clerical Associate) and expanded Team (family/caregiver, internal and community-bases services involved in providing care to the patient) in developing the patient-drivencare plan for life.
• Provides patient and family health education with a focus on self-management, prevention, and wellness, based on the patient's personalized health plan/goals.
• Manages triage, telephone triage, and scheduled and unscheduled patients.
• Executes nurse driven clinics for appropriate patient populations in order to support positive health outcomes for veterans.
• Promotes cost effective use of resources and adopt effective least-expensive strategies expected in non­ face-to-face approaches (including Tele-Health).
• Keeps patient's provider and appropriate case manager aware of patient progress, issues, and/or problems.
• Screens patients for social service, home care, and other community care needs; and coordinate or make referrals as appropriate; and seek consultation when indicated.

Duties:

Major duties and responsibilities include:

· Receiving work assignments and direction regarding work methods, procedures and schedules from either the Transportation Coordinator and/or the Mobility Manager.

· Arriving at and departing from pickup and discharge points at scheduled times.

· Reading installation maps and judges road/traffic conditions to determine the shortest and safest route.

· Enforcing passenger safety and seatbelt use.

· Using multiple variations of Mobile Data Computer (MDC) in and out of the vehicles for assigned trips and duties daily.

· Loading and unloading patients and medical supplies.

· Performing operator maintenance such as checking fluid levels and air pressure in tires, cleaning and washing of vehicles, and performing inspection checklists to ensure safe and proper operation.

· Maintaining records and document actions, such as operator inspection checklists/forms and accident/incident reports.

· Using two-way radios (or other device) to maintain communications with dispatcher/supervisor on assignments and locations.

· Possessing Commercial Driver's License (CDL) with passenger endorsement is required for the position.

· Performs other related duties as assigned.

DESIGNATED DRUG-TESTING POSITION: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received.

The Inventory Management Specialist duties include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures equipment accountability and appropriately managed, assigned and monitored.
• Schedules and conducts physical inventories.
• Maintains accountable property and receipt documents.
• Develops and supports the creation of acquisition strategies and standardization initiatives to acquire and purchase durable medical equipment.
• Analyzes data impacting procurement decisions.
• Conducts market research on product pricing and performance.
• Researches and conducts analysis of potential cost savings, efficiencies and process improvements using quantitative analysis and historical usage patterns.
• Utilizes performance measures to conduct forecasting and quantitative analysis.
• Identifies and rectifies asset management issues.
• Conducts short, mid and long-term advanced planning for non-expendable assets.
• Utilizes inventory principles, standard, and non-standard methodologies, and concepts to determine need to intervene in the supply system.
• Analyzes and advises on equipment purchase recommendations.
• Initiates and reviews reports for lost, damaged, or stolen property.
• Researches alternative sources for equipment procurement.
• Disposes of surplus or excess property.
• Coordinates final disposition of non-expendable assets.
• Participates in facility strategic planning.
• Advises and informs stakeholders concerning the management, control and accountability of equipment in use.
• Trains and assists on equipment acquisition, disposal, scanning and tracking of equipment.
• Assists customers in the creation of performance work statements for equipment procurements.
• Maintains equipment inventory lists.
• Ensures accuracy of all personal property records and property documents.
• Manages and controls all inventory transactions for non-expendable medical equipment requests and transactions.
• Maintains inventory management and control of non-expendable assets.
• Utilizes automated property management systems to manage facility property accountability program, create equipment records, research discrepancies, conduct inventories, bar code equipment and manage turned in excess property.
• Researches and develops solutions to complex problems.
• Traces sequences of inventory management transactions to resolve questions.
• Recommends actions to eliminate problems involved in delivering services to inventory customers or in implementing policies.
• Manages the property management program and determines the means and methods to resolve issues and improve operations.
• Formulates improved inventory management procedures and practices.

• Receives and screens incoming telephone calls and refers them to the appropriate staff when unable to resolve issue and/or concern demonstrating professional code of conduct and effective/polite communication to provide exceptional customer service.
• Maintains the Chief Nurse's schedule via outlook calendar and reschedules appointments needed/required by Chief Nurse.
• Schedules and plans meetings including space and auto-visual reservations, notifying attendees, preparing agendas, arranging meeting rooms, transcribing, and distributing minutes.
• Responsible for transcription, routing, distribution, maintaining files, and uploading to Share Drive any minutes and/or documents from designated Nursing Service and/or assigned meetings within the overall Nursing Service.
• Prepares, routes, and tracks internal and external correspondence and documents and processes incoming and outgoing correspondence.
• Tracks all proficiency/performance reports, emailing NMs reminders of upcoming due dates and reporting reminders monthly in Chief Nurse/NMs meetings. Identifies ways to streamline and improve processes related to time management and record keeping ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide administrative oversight of the Personnel Management program for the service line.
• Monitor the utilization of authorized positions and identifying personnel needs in response to changes in program goals and objectives, budgetary constraints, and/or regulatory mandates.
• Develop proposals for new employees when existing staff are insufficient.
• Serve as a liaison to each of the three distinct unions representing employees at the facility.
• Develop the annual budget proposal for the service line, forecasting needs for all program operations.
• Create business plans for the expansion of existing programs and the implementation of new programs.
• Examine the clinical, operational, financial, and strategic implications of all significant changes to the Agency, Facility and/or Service Line program goals and objectives.
• Integrate data, analyses, conclusions, and recommendations into a concise and persuasive deliverable.
• Research and draft required documentation for the purchase of all equipment utilized by the service line programs.
• Continuously assess the performance of service line programs in relation to national and local access targets.

PRIMARY ROLES

• Triages and promotes accurate documentation in the Primary Care (PC) PACT notes
• Observes, records, and reports patient's response or changes in patient's condition
• Promptly recognizes and responds to urgent or emergent situations
• Assists provider with exams, procedures (vs. accu-checks, weight/height, PAPs, Telehealth duties, etc.)
• Performs treatments (EKG, injections, dressing changes, etc.)
• Completes encounters in a timely and accurate manner
• Prepares and administers medications i.e. oral and injections (per provider/protocol)
• Tracks and administers required immunizations (per provider/protocol)
• Completes written orders per provider/ protocol
• Enters consults for social services, prosthetics, nutrition, etc.
• Assists with and documents exit/discharged interviews - ensures visit closure by confirming required patient education, orders and clinical reminders have been processed/completed
• Instructs/directs patients to Lab, X-ray and other support services
• Performs and enters urine pregnancy test results in CPRS
• Performs ear irrigations as ordered per provider/protocol
• Assists Team with panel management
• Incorporates Dr. Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring 10 Caritas Process into nursing practice
• Practices per protocol and follows medical center's policies
• Promotes evidence-based patient driven care.
• Completes Clinical Reminders
• Performs other duties as defined
• Responds to Secure Messaging in a timely and appropriate manner (within24-48 hours)
• Reviews daily schedule for patient care needs, identifies high risk patients
• Performs nurse visits, schedules clinic visits, walk-in or urgent patient visits and telephone visits
• Assists with group visits and shared medical appointments
• Identifies additional services needed by veteran/family
• Completes Pre-visit contacts: Reminder calls for appointments
• Responds to view alerts in a timely and appropriate manner (within24-48 hours)
• Contacts patients with normal and abnormal lab results as documented in provider's progress note
• Coordinates care, follow-up labs, procedures, case management and addresses care coordination issues
• Assists with Lipid Management of male/female high-risk patients
• Assists with medication reconciliation
• Utilizes motivational interviewing to guide patients to establish goals
• Identifies high risk populations/chronic disease tracking and patients that could benefit from CCHT, HBPC, OEF/OIF, CVT, Palliative Care, Hospice, etc.
• Work with Team to coordinate chronic disease management per protocol
• Improves transition in care by collaborating with multidisciplinary services, internal and external
• Collaborates with key members of expanded team: Health Promotion Disease Prevention Program Manager, Health Behavior Coordinator, Move Coordinator, Women's Health and others to facilitate care coordination
• Performs telephone triage and utilizes appropriate protocols
• Promotes access with non face to face visits when appropriate, completes post discharge calls within 48 hours
• Responds to patients' medication concerns
• Participates in daily and weekly huddle
• Participates in Team meetings and utilizes Instant Messaging to enhance team communication
• Assists with orientation: PACT patient orientation and new staff/affiliate orientation
• Provides the highest quality care and services to our customers, which includes patients, family members, and medical center employees
• Utilizes Performance Portal, Disease Registry, Almanac and Compass data to identify patients not meeting performance measure goals
• Utilize motivational interviewing to enhance communication and promote patient self management.
• Identifies, educates and coaches to support self-management, prevention and wellness, based on patient's goals
• Checks equipment/supplies daily and restocks
• Utilizes and have knowledge of appropriate cleaning solution for reusable medical equipment
• Performs environmental rounds and inspects assigned area daily
• Preceptor or mentor to colleagues and/or students

Major Duties:

• Distribute and balance workload among CPTs in accordance with established workflow.
• Assure timely accomplishment of and enough CPT workload
• Ensure work assignments of subordinate CPTs are carried out.
• Maintain records of work accomplishments and time expended.
• Provide data, reports, guidance and sometimes resolution to the most complex payroll issues.
• Independently research, resolve and respond to complex and/or non-routine verbal and written pay and leave inquiries from employees, supervisors, Financial Service Center, HR, VISN, and VACO.
• Work with Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) in development of resolutions and/or solutions to unique or regular and recurring payroll errors based on recommendations from CPTs.
• Discuss resolutions/solutions with DCFO and as delegated: HR leadership; supervisor; union representative; subordinate CPTs and occasionally with impacted employees.
• Handle and assist subordinate CPTs with the most complex payroll actions.
• Review completed complex work to see that instruction on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met.
• Training or written examples/instructions as necessary.
• Develop written procedures when there are no well-established procedures.
• Communicate errors to subordinate CPTs to handle independently and regular and recurring errors/issues related to systems/external offices.
• Inform timekeepers and supervisors of changes to leave and/or pay and of changes to existing or additional timekeeping policies, laws, and regulations which involve direction on what changes are made in the manner of posting of time and attendance records.

• Provide full range of professional injury screening and prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to maximize Soldier performance and improve unit readiness.
• Perform physical therapy professional duties requiring an advanced practical knowledge of physical therapy skills, evidence-based practice, data collection and reporting as part of the H2F team.
• Plan and organize professional injury screening and prevention.
• Research, analyze, and report on injury control and program effectiveness.
• Advise Commanders and Directors on the development and implementation of strength and endurance programming and execution.
• Participate on the Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) team to coordinate the rehabilitation or wellness activities of individual or groups of Solders.

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.
• Carries 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.
• Observes, identifies and responds to the patient's needs for care, including medication, equipment-assisted care, and patient/family education.
• Provides health education and procedural teaching to patients and significant others.
• Performs procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes using effective communication and collaboration with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Administers medicine per established policies and guidelines.
• Establishes priorities and making ethically-sound decisions to ensure safe patient care.
• Assists the physicians during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to promote optimal patient outcomes by team collaboration.
• Responds to emergency situations to promote optimal patient outcomes by recognizing changes in patient's health status.
• Performs diagnostic studies within the scope of nursing practice as ordered by the physician.
• Documents patient data to ensure continuity in the provision and coordination of patient care.
• Collaborates with other health care professionals.
• Communicates with veterans and family members regarding veteran's care.
• Applies 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.
• Manages follow-up care.
• Acts as resource to others.
• Participates 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).

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal procedural care.
• Focus is on individual growth and development in practice with increased levels of self-direction.
• Delivers and manages the care of patients undergoing therapeutic and diagnostic endoscopy procedures including both inpatients and outpatients.
• Assesses the patients physical and mental status prior to procedures, educates on procedural and post-procedural care, and documents responses to interventions, findings, and reports any changes.
• Seeks guidance on how to improve care provided to patients and families.
• Delegates elements of care to the appropriate individual based upon assessed needs, condition, and safety of the patient.
• Functions in many roles and may include, pre-procedure assessments, post procedural recovery, and assisting physicians during procedures.
• Maintain proficiency on the maintenance, cleaning, and preparation of endoscopy specific equipment.
• Recognize changes in patient care situations and initiates appropriate emergency situations.
• Adapts to changes in the daily schedule.

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the CW Bill Young Medical Center.

Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Set up cafeteria lines, steam tables, dining room tables, and side service stands with hot and cold food items.
• Serve food cafeteria style by placing uniform portions of food on customers'/patients' plates.
• Break down and clean assigned area when the meal is finished and return food to the kitchen.
• Set up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary.
• Return soiled trays and dishes to the dish room after meals.
• Deliver meal trays to the patients' bedsides.
• Brew coffee according to the number of servings required.
• Assemble and toss fresh fruit or green salads in quantity using prepared dressings and portions into standard serving sizes.
• Apportion other food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and containers.
• Make cold sandwiches using prepared ingredients and pack box lunches.
• Work in one or more functional areas of the kitchen such as food preparation, dish and pot washing, dry and refrigerated. storage and receiving, and the serving line.
• Sort, wash, peel and cut fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Operate and break down equipment.
• Perform heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas.
• Separate food waste and trash from dishes, glasses and silverware in the dish washing area.
• Remove inspection doors, strainer pans, screens and spray arms for preventive maintenance of the dish machine.
• Unload delivery trucks.
• Store sanitized dishes, glasses and silverware.
• Scrape, soak, scour, and scrub the heavier cooking utensils.
• Move heavy garbage cans when collecting and transferring trash from the work area to the disposal area.

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

The Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based outpatient care to assigned patients and oversight of licensed vocational nurses/nursing assistants, as appropriate to the setting. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of patient care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge, and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction. The nurse will assist in directing the provision of nursing education, orientation, competencies and providing quality improvement and outcomes utilization consultation. Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic, outpatient care through collaborative strategies with others. Evaluates practice in an ongoing process, based on best evidence. Provides peers with informal constructive feedback for improvement. Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of healthcare professionals. Contributes professional nursing perspective in discussions with the interdisciplinary team. Partners with others to effect change and produce optimal outcomes. Supports colleagues through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care. Shares educational findings, experiences, and ideas with peers. Questions outpatient clinical practices for the purpose of providing evidence-based care. Participates in activities and strategies to sustain an evidence-based-practice culture.

Included but are not limited to:

• Delivers fundamental knowledge-based care to assigned clients while developing technical skills.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care based on age-specific components.
• Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
• Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines.
• Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.

• This is a Bargaining Unit Position.
• This position is in the Excepted Service.
• 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.

Demonstrates competence in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others. The GS-7 LPN has an exceptional degree of knowledge and skills necessary for self-direction in carrying out the most complex practical nursing care assignments for both inpatient and outpatient care. Assignments include performing nonstandard and specialized activities sufficient to solve a range of complex nursing problems of considerable difficulty and responsibility, under very general supervision. In addition to meeting the requirements for the LPN GS 3-6 levels, possess broader knowledge and skills for increased involvement in the development and modification of the Veterans plan of care, ability to exercise independent technical judgment, and possess and apply a comprehensive working knowledge of the principles, art, and science of practical nursing. Positions at this grade level require broader knowledge and skills because supervision is more general, and employees are expected to be involved to a greater degree in the development and modification of treatment plans.

Work Schedule: 7:30am - 4:00pm (Monday - Friday) Flexible to meet needs of organization
Telework: Ad-hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Major duties and responsibilities include: Aids requiring activities in performing market research, reviewing specifications and statements of work, and approving acquisition milestone plans; Ensures specifications and statements of work are prepared in a manner which adequately describes the Government's requirements without restricting competition; Advises technical personnel as to inadequate, ambiguous or vague specifications to avoid Government liability; Performs a complete review of recommended sole-source requirements and conducts necessary market analyses to test the noncompetitive assumptions of requisition; Selecting the appropriate method of procurement i.e. simplified acquisition procedures, sealed bidding, negotiations; Responsible for advertising all applicable requirements and preparing the solicitation document using agency contract writing systems for issuance, insuring regulatory and legal sufficiency, and promoting maximum competition; Conducts public bid openings, reviews bids and determines responsiveness and responsibility of low bidder in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements when using sealed bidding; Serves as contract administrator on awarded contracts; Conducts post-award conferences with Contractor and Government personnel to provide information and to clarify standard and special contractual provisions of the contract; Negotiates required changes to contract conditions to protect the agency; Resolves problems of delivery, production, quality, differing site conditions, inspection, and other pertinent matters; Performs cost/price analysis on change order proposals and analysis of delivery requirements; Administers payment provisions of the contract for partial payments, progress payments and final payments using the VA Online Certification system; Establishes position of the Government in disputes and issues final decisions of the Contracting Officer; Closes out contract upon completion of the contract, resolution of all conflicts, and final disposition of payment and obtains adequate release of claims documents to protect the agency; Fully utilize contract writing system (i.e., Electronic Contract Management System), contract reporting system (i.e., Federal Procurement Data System), financial management system (i.e., Integrated Funds Distribution, Control Point Activity, Accounting, and Procurement), and prosthetics application suite (i.e., Graphical User Interface), in accordance with Agency policies. Performs other related duties as assigned.



Work Schedule: Tour of Duty is 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Compressed/Flexible Schedules: Available
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Remote: This is a remote position. (Remote refers to work performed on full-time basis anywhere other than a VA facility or using VA-leased space.)
Virtual: This is not virtual position. (Virtual refers to work performed on full-time basis using VA-leased space or at a VA facility other than the facility that hired the employee.)

**For this position, telework (up to 80% per pay period) or remote work (100% off site) may be authorized upon supervisor approval if within the commuting distance of the advertised duty station(s) or within the geographical footprint of the NCO (9).

Position Description/PD#: Contract Specialist/PD11007A
Bargaining Unit: This is a bargaining unit position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized
Physical Requirements: The work is sedentary in nature. There are no special physical requirements. The work is performed primarily in office areas or conference rooms and similar environments. However, it may require some traveling and visits to Government and/or contractor's facilities and other contract-related performance sites.