Total 1,046 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Fort Madison Main Building

The USGS National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC), within the Midcontinent Region of the USGS, provides technical assistance and leadership for addressing health issues involving resources under Department of the Interior stewardship, and fosters partnerships with federal, state, and other agencies to address wildlife health as a component of ecosystem health. The Center investigates infectious diseases and other diseases affecting a broad spectrum of wildlife by a multi-disciplinary team of specialists who provide an integrated program of disease diagnosis, field response, technical assistance, research, training, and support services. The Center's research focuses on understanding the ecology of wildlife disease to identify connections between affected host species, the disease agent, and environmental factors. Our programs aim to use this information to develop effective disease prevention and control strategies to assist resource managers to improve the health of wildlife populations.

The NWHC provides diagnostic investigation services to determine causes of wildlife morbidity and mortality events. These services include expertise in pathology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, and toxicology; and use microbiological, molecular-biological, and descriptive techniques to identify and characterize agents of infectious disease in wildlife. The effects of emerging wildlife diseases are global and profound, and can cause economic and agricultural impacts, loss of human lives, declines in wildlife populations, and ecological disturbances. The NWHC works to safeguard our Nation's wildlife- by studying the causes and drivers of wildlife disease threats, and by developing strategies to prevent and manage them.

As a Veterinary Medical Officer (Pathologist) within the National Wildlife Health Center, some of your specific duties will include:

• Serves as a member of a multidisciplinary team to investigate, diagnose, and resolve wildlife morbidity/mortality events.
• Conducts postmortem examinations of wildlife submitted for cause-of--death investigation.
• Conducts microscopic examination of animal tissues, records and interprets histologic findings, and reviews and interprets lab test results.
• Determines significance of findings and prepares diagnostic reports appropriate for submitter and other relevant Center partners.
• Independently performs or provides support to studies including a focus on the pathology of wildlife diseases. Projects address critical science problems related to wildlife population health, disease control, and prevention.

• Functions in a combined ophthalmology/optometry clinic whose services include examination, diagnosis, triage and treatment of injuries and disorders of the eye by surgical and medical means.
• Arranges and maintains scheduling of surgical patients.
• Coordinates with the operating room and same day surgery personnel for the appropriate setup of lighting, equipment, instruments, window coverings, and all other preliminaries for surgery.
• Under the direction of the surgeon, ensures setup of all solutions, medications, and the local anesthesia mixtures by the operating room staff.
• Serves as first surgical assistant and as scrub assistant to the surgeon in surgical procedures.
• During the procedure, is responsible for the setup of equipment used for cataract extraction, vitreous cutting and aspiration, retinal diathermy and cryopexy, tissue cautery, and any other intraoperative equipment setups as directed by the surgeon.
• Assists surgeon with laser vision corrective surgery. Prepare room, equipment, laser, administrative issues, and patients for surgery.
• Performs setup of patient, instruments and other equipment using sterile technique as appropriate.

• Develops and recommends performance management program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
• Assists in implementation of performance planning, appraisal and incentive systems.
• Provides technical advice and guidance on funding requirements.
• Provide analysis regarding aspects of financial management systems.
• Apply statutory regulatory policies, procedures, standards, and principles for use in budget preparations and operations.
• Provides funding audit trails detailing cost estimates.

• Removes laboratory specimen trays requiring destruction from laboratory storage area and transports trays to destruction area.
• Operates hazardous waste disposal and recycling equipment and transfers waste by-product to dumpster.
• Delivers mail packages to the laboratory, and distributes them from the loading dock to the appropriate location within the laboratory.
• Responsible for coordinating with other laboratory staff and Department of Defense and National Laboratory Certification Program (NLCP) inspectors.
• Performs operator's maintenance on government vehicles, including but not limited to: checking lights, brakes, tires and adding gasoline, oil and water.

• Plans, develops and conducts Initial, Routine, Directed, and Special Food Protection Audits of commercial food establishments for the Activity throughout the states of North Carolina and southern Virginia.
• Performs audit administrative tasks to which includes tasking, tracking, and reviewing reports within the Activity.
• Serves as the team lead with oversight of the Activity Food Protection Program under the supervision of the Activity Food Safety Officer (FSO).

The Housekeeping Aid (HKA) - Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the patient care experience at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as a HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff.

As a HKA-EVS Technician, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors.

Duties include cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. HKA-EVS Technicians sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture. HKA-EVS Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision.


Work Schedule: Various shifts, including weekends and holidays
Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Services Technician OVER-HIRE/PD99909S and PD99909S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Remote: This is not a remote position
Telework: Not available

• Obtaining venous and capillary blood specimens from adults and children according to order.
• Collect blood culture specimens utilizing proper protocols.
• Follow universal precautions, and infection control guidelines in the performance of all phlebotomies.
• Receives lab specimens at reception desk.
• Enter all specimen and patient demographics data into computer.
• Receive patients and visitors to the laboratory both in person and on the telephone.
• Distribute all results of shipped laboratory test to appropriate requesting clinic or physician.
• Provide guidance to providers, nurses, and attendants on specimen collection requirements.
• Ensures all supplies needed are stocked and ready for use in the phlebotomy room.

• Provide direct surgical support of a highly specialized nature to patients undergoing surgery including the newest and most complex, state-of-the-art procedures in multi-specialties.
• Select, assemble, and organize required supplies (setup, connect, test, operate drills, saws, etc.) and instruments for specific surgical procedures.
• Pass instruments and equipment to the surgeon during surgical procedures by anticipating the surgeon’s needs.
• Verify whether the counts are correct or incorrect and communicate with the circulating nurse throughout the case to insure no items are retained in the surgical wound.
• Clean or terminate operating room after surgical procedures. Remove and properly dispose of soiled and/or contaminated linens/materials.

• Perform daily quality assurance testing on all equipment used in the cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments.
• Select appropriate chemical or washing agent necessary for decontaminating or cleaning surgical instruments.
• Assemble, inspect and package instrumentation appropriately by their instruction of use.
• Sterile storage of instrumentation, pulling case carts, inventory stock, removing or replacing damaged supplies/sets.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures of the Department of Health, The Joint Commission, OSHA and other industry standards and regulations, as well as those of medical treatment facility.
• Check the expiration date on all sterile supply items, removes all outdated items, and rotate the stock.
• Inventory emergency procedural carts, scanned into instrument tracking system and lock with proper lock.
• Replenish case carts to retain the established quota level for each item on the cart.
• Interpret test results, take appropriate action based on results and log all results.

• Respond to on-site to accidents and other emergencies involving injury and illnesses; sometimes encounters situations which may be life threatening.
• Conduct a complete examination of the patient to determine the nature, extent, and seriousness of his condition and searches for medical alert symbols.
• Prioritize treatments for patient having multiple problems and employs a variety of established emergency medicine techniques, methods and equipment to the appropriate medical facility.
• Document procedures or treatment rendered.
• Perform thorough safety and maintenance inspections and minor repairs on emergency and patient transport vehicles and a variety of medical equipment.

• Serve as Alternate Biosafety Officer of a controlled access medical research facility.
• Assess risk of exposure to biological agents for personnel and property.
• Set policy and provide written guidance, regulations, policies, and standard operating procedures that incorporate DoD, Army and consensus standards into Biosafety programs.
• Provide training on laboratory safety, and use of positive pressure suits (PPS) for Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) laboratories.
• Inspect and advise on design and modifications of BSL1 through BSL4 laboratories.
• Provide advice on engineering controls and personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Coordinate with researchers to determine empirical guidelines for safe research with biological agents.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• This position will consist of approximately 50% field and captive animal studies, 30% laboratory work, and 20% data analysis, management, and archiving.
• Perform a variety of field, captive animal, and laboratory procedures, including the use of BSL-2 and BSL-3 animal and laboratory facilities.
• Work independently in the field and laboratory with minimal supervision.
• Prepare and conduct field and captive animal studies designed to assess the risk of pathogen transmission among wildlife, domestic animals, and humans.
• Use PIT tags and animal trapping devices such as mist nets, target nets, crow traps, Sherman traps, Tomahawk traps.
• Immobilize and euthanize under field conditions; collect and process biological specimens (e.g., blood and tissue).
• Handle specimens that potentially contain infectious agents, such as viruses and bacteria.
• Comply with Biosafety and Biosecurity Procedures, Good Laboratory Practices, Animal Welfare Act, Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and applicable state and federal laws.
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems encountered in the field, in animal studies, or in the laboratory.

• Serve as a Management Analyst in a headquarters command performing functions related to researching, developing and evaluating assigned or designated missions and functions.
• Formulate management and/or program evaluation plans for improvement on processes such as cost effectiveness, program efficiency, and direction of programs.
• Analyze and evaluate major organizational aspects of substantive, mission-oriented programs. Work results serve as the basis for new organizational systems, regulations or programs.
• Recommend adjustments and/or change to management as a part of organizational improvement strategy.
• Administer cost benefit and/or budget analysis of assigned programs.
• Contact others as necessary, both within and outside the activity, in order to accomplish objectives.
• Apply basic budgetary/financial management principles and techniques to long range planning.

If you ARE NOT a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply using announcement:CBST-12624791-25-AB.

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 30, 2025. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be December 12th, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates on the 1st of each month. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Provides clinical services to mental health populations, including, but not limited to patients with a history of sexual trauma and combat PTSD as well as those with serious mental illness for evidence-based psychotherapy and/or crisis interventions.
• Integrates assessment data in preparing and implementing the plan of care. Maintains a working relationship with the multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Routinely contributes to the development assigned of clinical programs, including policies and procedures. When assigned, the Senior LPMHC will serve as a program leader or manager.
• Documentation in the medical record of assigned patients, by the Senior LPMHC, is in accordance with specific program, medical center, and VA and JCAHO requirements.
• Attends meetings and activities in the medical center and the community, as required. When assigned, he/she provides mentoring for students, interns, and medical residents, under the general supervision of the program manager. He/she may also serve as an educational resource for professional and community groups.
• Provides direct patient care, that is appropriate to the cognitive, emotional and diagnostic needs of the adult and/or geriatric patient. The incumbent must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served in his or her assigned service areas.

If you ARE a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply using announcement:CBST-12624790-25-AB.

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 30, 2025. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be December 12, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates on the 1st of each month. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

Duties include, but not limited to:

• Provides clinical services to mental health populations, including, but not limited to patients with a history of sexual trauma and combat PTSD as well as those with serious mental illness for evidence-based psychotherapy and/or crisis interventions.
• Integrates assessment data in preparing and implementing the plan of care. Maintains a working relationship with the multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Routinely contributes to the development assigned of clinical programs, including policies and procedures. When assigned, the Senior LPMHC will serve as a program leader or manager.
• Documentation in the medical record of assigned patients, by the Senior LPMHC, is in accordance with specific program, medical center, and VA and JCAHO requirements.
• Attends meetings and activities in the medical center and the community, as required. When assigned, he/she provides mentoring for students, interns, and medical residents, under the general supervision of the program manager. He/she may also serve as an educational resource for professional and community groups.
• Provides direct patient care, that is appropriate to the cognitive, emotional and diagnostic needs of the adult and/or geriatric patient. The incumbent must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients served in his or her assigned service areas.