Total 11 job vacancies by Indian Health Service

• 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 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 .

• 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.

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.

• Interviews patients to obtain pertinent patient registration information; i.e. demographic and insurance information and authorization to enable the Business Office to bill for health care services provided from all alternate resources, including the non-beneficiary services.
• Determines the eligibility of patients seeking health care, who have not previously been treated at the facility, by obtaining the certificate of Indian blood or other documentary proof of tribal membership, according to the IHS guidelines.
• Identifies those patients whose health benefits are subject to prior approval to determine extent of health care for both inpatient and outpatient. Obtains and verifies the health records and the RPMS Patient Registration System for Medicaid, Medicare and private/commercial insurance eligibility information for all patients seen prior to all clinic visits.
• Initiates all admitting forms to complete the admission with current patient data, including the RPMS Patient Registration System. Initiates patient identification bands for all admissions.
• Interviews patient to obtain information to initiate a new health record and/or communicate to Medical Records to reactivate a retired/stored record. Enters all information into the RPMS Patient Registration System and prints appropriate forms.

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

• Receives, assesses, routes, handles incoming and outgoing materials such as routine correspondence, reports, memoranda and other forms of written communication.
• Performs office automation duties such as reports, forms, presentation materials which may include complex graphs, charts, and tabular materials.
• Compiles, organizes, and tracks program data which may include statistical information in support of the organization's program operations.
• Manages the appointment and meeting schedule for the Director of the organizational unit served.
• Receives, refers, and interacts with persons within and outside the immediate organizational unit.
• Performs a wide variety of administrative tasks such as purchasing supplies, equipment and other materials utilizing prescribed purchasing guidelines and procedures.
• Follows-up on and tracks expenditures and ensures prompt payment.

Major Duties:

• Receives and examines alternate resource claims for quality and completeness, assuring claims have appropriate supporting documents.
• Coordinate collections for the third party reimbursement program
• Develop statistical reports and control methods in determining receivables and collections.
• Identifies, audits, posts, and collects from third party health plan carriers to recover maximum dollars.
• Responsible to review for accurate processing all of billing for all denials and payments of intial claims.

• Receives visitors and telephone calls to the clinic and directs calls to the appropriate party.
• Transfers orders for patient activities, diets, treatments and tests to a wide variety of forms (some electronic) and routes them to the appropriate department for action.
• Functions as the timekeeper for the clinic. Processes computer generated timecards for unit employees, which includes a variety of employment situations (e.g., full-time, part-time, temporary).
• Initiates a new health record by interviewing patients. Enters information into the RPMS Patient Registration System and prints appropriate forms. Informs Medical Records to reactivate a retired/stored record.
• Arranges appointments for patients with specialty clinics, contract services and consultants. Coordinates appointments in a timely manner to avoid conflicts in patient treatment.