The Supervisory MRT (ROI) must ensure that only the information that the Veteran specified be released, is shared only with those whom the Veteran has authorized, or who have legal authority to receive such information. To perform this task, a MRT (ROI) must possess expertise in all applicable Federal laws, rules, and regulations regarding release of health information.

Incumbent serves as supervisor and technical expert for the Release of Information Unit. Provides guidance and suggestions to the Chief, HIM and Assistant, Chief HIM regarding staffing needs and shortages within the ROI section. Provides effective audits and monitors for all areas of responsibility, assuring that accurate and timely data is processed by all employees. Reviews work accomplished and assesses quality, quantity, accuracy and timeliness of work produced by each employee. Ascertains problems encountered and takes corrective action. Develops performance standards and conducts performance evaluations. Develops and conducts competency assessments. Responsible for carrying out established personnel functions and practices. Keeps employees informed about important aspects of personnel management programs. Formulates and initiates performance standards. Interviews new employees, recommends selection, and carries out training and development of assignments, awards or disciplinary action. Approves leave and establishes work schedules. Implements provisions of EEO programs to ensure fair and equal treatment for all employees.

Prepares formal requests and recommendations for promotions, reassignments, other status changes, or recognition of outstanding performance of assigned employees. Prepares and submits functional statements for new positions, clarification, or updates. Receives formal grievances, resolving those that can be resolved by the first level supervisor. Takes disciplinary action as deemed necessary and proposes to higher authority specific disciplinary action. Keeps employees informed of management goals and objectives and higher levels supervisors informed of employee participation and concerns. Ensures that release of information activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of and adherence to privacy policies and procedures are performed and coordinated in compliance with applicable federal laws and regulations including the Privacy Act of 1974, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Automated Medical Information Exchange(AMIE).

Ensures that record retrieval and record transfers to other VA facilities for the purposes of continuity of patient care and release of information are timely. Maintains contact with VA Regional Counsel (VARO) in all matters relating to malpractice, subpoena actions and request for preparation of TORT records. Assist in performing 100% quality review of all TORT cases prior to sending records to VARO for litigation. Prepares weekly ROI and TORT record turnaround statistics. Monitors workload and production of staff, taking action where necessary to meet deadlines, monitors/evaluate performance and ensures accuracy of work completed. Assures that the work of staff is at an appropriate quality and productivity level. Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 21J36-O
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

This job is open to current, permanent employees of the Western New York (WNY) VA Medical Centers and WNY affiliated Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

The Deputy Chief of Quality, Safety & Value (QSV) - Registered Nurse demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The Deputy Chief of QSV will demonstrate performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. The incumbent will ensure that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks in order to lead performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and act as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.

The Deputy Chief of QSV - RN assumes a leadership role in facilitating regulatory compliance for internal and external oversight bodies (i.e., The Joint Commission (TJC), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directives and Handbooks, etc.), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and VHA performance measures, supporting performance improvement work, and supporting and guiding the work of committees.

Job Duties Include but are not limited to:

• Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
• Ensures that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
• Leads performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.
• Consult and act as a resource to leadership and staff in standards interpretation implementation, patient safety, infection control, risk management, and re-design of processes and structures to improve care outcomes.
• Develop and implement policy and procedures, collaborates with service departments, and works toward meeting the strategic plan of the organization.
• Monitor corrective actions from survey findings and assists services who are performance outliers.
• Responsible for completing clinical quality reviews, clinical data analysis, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Support all QSV work to include but not limited to Accreditation, System Redesign, Infection Prevention, Patient Safety, Risk Management, High Reliability Organization (HRO), Just Culture, and evidence-based practices.

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Project management: Assist senior staff members in planning, engineering management, operation, and overall coordination; and for providing advice, assistance and information on all matters related to assigned conventional projects of moderate complexity. Work typically requires coordination of project work requirements with other technical and administrative elements within the agency. Applies standardized knowledge of engineering principles, methods, techniques, and criteria to projects that are conventional in nature. Provides engineering services associated with job order contracting and construction to include evaluating tenant requirements; to establish scope of work; design criteria; and estimates of design time and costs; providing technical assistance to support contract administration; accomplishing study/design requirements; and preparing/coordinating design packages for renovations, repairs and or alterations.
• Customer support: Serves as a central point-of-contact for status of all engineering work requests of a short-term nature. Reviews work requests for feasibility, compliance with restrictions imposed by regulatory and statutory directives and the impact of the planned operation and maintenance of the installation. Within the parameters of prior experience, determines which requests the incumbent can approve and have processed, and which require other approving authorities. Based on determinations, makes recommendations to the methods or means for accomplishment or provides all required information, such as scope of work and costs, to other authorities for their decision. Ensures that work requests are processed in accordance with established operating procedures, that they are checked for duplication, and they are processed in accordance with approved priorities. Provides technical assistance to other parties as may be required to improve work management and productivity.
• Technical reviews: Reviews and checks technical aspects such as drawings, specifications, quantities, costs, accuracy, completeness and conformity with requirements for planned projects where precedence has already been established. Participates in the preparation of input to procurement packages to ensure correct content and format of technical data. Monitors drawings and the methods used in their preparation. Attends meetings with pertinent personnel to evaluate progress and reviews completed work. Verifies data presented by contractors or other personnel and discusses any special requirements for specification control and source control drawings.
• Long-term planning: As a team member, participates in projects of a broad and complex nature requiring approval of advanced engineering concepts by senior staff members. Assignments are routine in nature and guidance is generally available. To address long-term needs, participates in group meetings with stakeholders to discuss complex engineering and technical problem areas and proposed approaches. Maintains contact with design engineers, technical personnel of other government activities and private contractors to resolve common problems, such as exchanging information. Participates in studies to address problems in healthcare quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency. Utilizes a range of analytical techniques, statistical methods, and industrial and quality engineering tools, to collect baseline information that identifies limitations or potential improvements.

* Small group,easy to work together as a team

* Does not require to work on Sundays and Public Holidays

* Candidates must possess at lease O, N , A level or ITE certificate

* Preferred 1 year (s) of working experience in the related field. Candidate without relevant experience but with good interpersonal skill will be considered(Training will be provided). A level student waiting for result will also be considered for temp job

* Assist dentist on the chairside

* Disinfect room, instructment, equipment after each use.

* Maintenance the cleanliness of the room at all time.

* Check and keep track of the inventory of products and material shelf life.

* Answer to enquiry from patients handle invoices and payment.

* Registration of patients

* Prepare material for use in treatment and autoclaving.

* Any other tasks assigned by the dentist or manager

* Only Singaporean or PR will be considered.

Interest candidate, pls email to leewp@fusiondental.com.sg or whatapp to 96181768, attention Mr Lee.

We are expanding!

Looking for a full registered Occupational Therapist for our nursing home at West Coast Crescent.

Responsibilities

1. Clinical

• Ensure compliance with SOPs and regulations of all relevant authorities
• Conduct admission / routine assessment on residents/clients
• Develop treatment plans
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary team for the conduct of OT programmes and activities for residents/clients
• Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings
• Keep proper records of all services performed
• Perform home services or services at other designated locations as and when assigned

2. Supervisory & Management

• Supervise & provide training to junior support care staff for OT related activities
• Proper management of resources to ensure cost effective, meet quality and productivity
• Maintain and upkeep a proper equipment & inventory control with regular inspection and audits. Report faulty equipment timely.
• Review and provide suggestions to improve work processes
• Lead and implement quality improvement project(s)
• Ensure proper documentation and billing for residents/clients

3. Others

• Assume any other additional responsibilities as assigned by Supervisor or the Management.

Requirements

• Full registration with AHPC Singapore, must possess a recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy.
• At least 3 years of relevant working experience in healthcare setting.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills are required.
• Willing to travel across Singapore

Salary will commensurate with relevant working experience.

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

1. Company Background

Kosmode Health is a deep-tech spin-off from Food Science & Technology Department, at National University of Singapore. Driven by a mission to expand access to health from nature, Kosmode Health enables repurposing of food processing wastes for human nutrition; as demonstrated by repurposing of Barley Spent Grains, a by-product of beer and malt production, into W0W®noodle.

Having demonstrated the feasibility of repurposing Barley Spent Grains, into W0W®noodle -the world’s only functional food clinically proven to have 0 Glycemic Response (i.e. 0 blood sugar response), Kosmode Health continues to set the standard in Sustainable Functional Food by repurposing other Food Processing Wastes into variety of functional food for human nutrition. Kosmode Health’s vision is to be a Thought Leader and Enabler in sustainable functional food that is good for both people and the earth, leveraging our extraction technology/food formulation expertise and repurposed functional ingredients.

As KosmodeHealth is poised for commercial expansion, we seek health & sustainable mission-driven individuals to support factory and ops efficiency.

1. Overall Job Scope and responsibilities

The production/operations intern reports to the Factory Manager and is responsible for efficiency of manufacturing and overall factory management. Successful candidate will be exposed to factory management & operations; functional ingredients production and formulations; supply chain/logistics planning to ensure streamline production and timely fulfilment of order.

Specific tasks include:

Factory Production

• Manufacturing of functional ingredients, premixes and functional food.
• Factory equipment production process optimization
• Facility and equipment management, arranging for certification and licences
• Planning of production schedule through coordinating equipment, labour, and material availability.
• Support development of streamlined supply, manufacturing, ordering & delivering process to achieve maximum efficiency when fulfilling customers' orders.
• Troubleshooting of production issues to minimize delays in production.
• Upkeeping of production records for traceability
• Implement strict sanitization and cleaning procedures after each production while monitoring the production area hygiene and cleanliness
• Setting up cleaning and the maintenance schedule to ensure machinery/equipment are in working condition.
• Establish of any new processing Standard Operating Procedure
• Provide support and coordinate logistic activities of product goods
• Co-ordinate activities and stakeholders to ensure satisfactory delivery of contract services and in-house development projects.

Sales Operations

• Packing of products, arrangement of logistic for orders fulfilment.
• Support sales operation, logistic Participate in business development, marketing and customers’ acquisition activities.
• Operate business processes and systems (eg. HR, finance, admin) to ensure operational efficiency.

C. DESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE

Academic Qualifications and Availability

• 3rd or Final year diploma in Food Science & Technology/Chemical Engineering/Bioengineering/Chemistry/BioChemistry/or any other engineering discipline.
• Relevant internship/working experience can be considered.

Skills and Experience

• Good commandment of English.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Problem Solving
• A resourceful, self-driven team player who is able to work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional working environment.
• Good personality with can do attitude.
• Possess experience in machinery maintenance and ability to trouble electrical issues

The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations. Duties include, but not limited to the following:

• Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
• Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
• Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and/or Community Care.
• Serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.

Major Duties:

• Employs a multimedia and multi- level communication approach and continuously monitors, reassesses and fine-tunes existing communication tools while seeking additional approaches.
• Serves as one of the agency spokespersons for the facility, including responding in writing and orally to questions about criticisms of the agency's activities or policies and explaining the VA point of view.
• Prepares scripts, audiovisual materials and brochures for ceremonies, briefings and orientations.
• Establishes and directs policies and procedures for visits and tours of distinguished personnel, administrative management of conferences, events and ceremonies.
• Manages a highly technical complex and sensitive public affairs program.
• Develops budgets, writes statements of work and directs, coordinates high profile visits, and directs, coordinates and supervises activities of supporting staff and contractors.

A. COMPANY BACKGROUND

Kosmode Health is a deep-tech spin-off from Food Science & Technology Department, at National University of Singapore. Driven by a mission to expand access to health from nature, Kosmode Health enables repurposing of food processing wastes for human nutrition; as demonstrated by repurposing of Barley Spent Grains, a by-product of beer and malt production, into W0W®noodle.

Having demonstrated the feasibility of repurposing Barley Spent Grains, into W0W®noodle -the world’s only functional food clinically proven to have 0 Glycemic Response (i.e. 0 blood sugar response), Kosmode Health continues to set the standard in Sustainable Functional Food by repurposing other Food Processing Wastes into variety of functional food for human nutrition. Kosmode Health’s vision is to be a Thought Leader and Enabler in sustainable functional food that is good for both people and the earth, leveraging our extraction technology/food formulation expertise and repurposed functional ingredients.

As KosmodeHealth is poised for commercial expansion, we seek talented individuals who thrive on solving industry problems, are resourceful multi-taskers with the resilience and perseverance to drive success in a people-centric culture where integrity is the core value, and quality a given.

B. OVERALL JOB SCOPE & RESPONSIBILITIES Role & Responsibilities

The successful applicant supports the Marketing Manager in the planning and execution of business development & marketing activities. In addition to development & implementation of online & offline marketing programs, the successful candidate will be involved in planning & execution of new product launches.

This position requires a deep passion in creating market impact with the science & technology Kosmode developed. The ideal candidate should therefore have a science foundation with a creative flair to create layman friendly content and blogs; and develops online and offline marketing campaigns and activities

Specific tasks include:

• Generate & develop leads for Business Development

• Acquire, keep, grow subscribers and customer base through good subscribers/customers management, engagement and communication.

• Participate in business development activities & customer relations management

• Conduct Market and competitors’ intelligence research

• Develop marketing decks, videos and marketing collaterals for corporate & product branding and awareness

• Craft, implement online & offline marketing campaigns to drive market share and the sale of W0W® noodles

• Organize both online and offline marketing events

• Monitor and track progress of events/campaigns using various metrics and report event ROI based on key objectives and metrics.

• Support development of branding & marcom strategies

• Manage and update corporate & W0W® noodle websites

• Prepare/edit video for social media post

• Design and develop corporate and product collateral that is consistent with corporate and brand positioning

• Design product packaging

• Perform other duties and assist with special projects as assigned.

C. DESIRED CANDIDATE PROFILE Academic Qualifications & Experience

• Final year diploma student in Business Administration/ marketing, or equivalent, Mass Communication, New Media.

• Relevant knowledge in biology and chemistry is a strong advantage

Skills and Experience

• Excellent communicator, skilled in written and verbal communication.

• Experience in basic data analytics.

• Social Media Marketing skills (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram) and up-to-date with trends in social media use.

• Strong research and writing skills; explore creating social media contents and writing of blogs, from research articles and publications.

• Ability to create engaging, impactful marketing collaterals and social media posts.

• Graphic design, photography, programming skills and video editing/creation are strong advantages

• Self-driven resourceful individual with demonstrated ability to work within resource constrain

Overview

Reporting to the Director, Centre for Functional Movement & Enabling Technologies, this role will be to provide research, technical and administrative support to the investigators.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct clinical trials, design experiments, collect and analyze data from projects / research studies
• Assist in 3D printing service to meet research and clinical needs, including working with clinicians and allied health professionals to innovate and provide clinical applications and solutions
• Assist in data analysis of MRI, EEG, EMG, and motion analysis data
• Source for, design, or modify mechanical parts for experiments
• Write and publish research papers in journals and conferences
• Present research findings at international workshops, conferences and internal project meetings
• Assist in writing grant proposals for funding
• Liaise with other team members, collaborators of projects and external vendors to realize the overall goal of the project
• Coordinate the submission of new IRB applications, study amendments and annual reports.
• Maintain the highest standard of professional conduct and record keeping in accordance with hospital policies, ethics requirements and local regulations.
• Assist with any other duties that are delegated by the PI.

Job Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor Degree in engineering or a related field
• Relevant previous experiences include 3D printing, rehabilitation engineering, neurophysiological signal processing and/or motion analysis
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Leadership and accountability to tasks is very desirable.
• Strong analytical, technical and problem solving skills
• Self-motivated individual who can work independently and also collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment
• Able to adapt in a fast-paced environment, with a strong focus to meet research deliverables and targets.
• Willing to travel between the Hospitals and external study sites as part of his / her work.

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Duties include but not limited to:

• Guide and direct patient treatment to assist veterans in obtaining optimal levels of functioning and improving overall quality of life within the MFH environment.
• Provide direct 1:1 treatment and services that require the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical skills.
• Provide information and referral services to various community services, as appropriate.
• Maintain records of work accomplishments, tabulates statistics related to patient treatment outcomes, and submits reports on event capture, trends and issues.
• Make independent assessment of the psychological, healthcare, and financial needs for each veteran and formulates a therapeutic treatment plan.
• Plan, organize, conduct and supervise a comprehensive and complex therapeutic/self-directed Recreation Therapy program.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Guide and direct patient treatment to assist veterans in obtaining optimal levels of functioning and improving overall quality of life within the MFH environment.
• Provide direct 1:1 treatment and services that require the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical skills.
• Provide information and referral services to various community services, as appropriate.
• Maintain records of work accomplishments, tabulates statistics related to patient treatment outcomes, and submits reports on event capture, trends and issues.
• Make independent assessment of the psychological, healthcare, and financial needs for each veteran and formulates a therapeutic treatment plan.
• Plan, organize, conduct and supervise a comprehensive and complex therapeutic/self-directed Recreation Therapy program

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***

These positions involve a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-6. At the GS-5 level, the employee performs assignments of a more limited scope and with less independence. You will progressively acquire the background necessary to perform at the full performance level of GS-6. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher-level work, and availability of funds.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for complex purchasing that requires irregular research, analysis, collaboration, and many other steps to ensure both best value and the most appropriate devices are purchased for the Veterans.
• Responsible for routine purchasing that includes routine purchase orders on established contracts or through established vendor resources using regular significant research, analysis, or collaboration.
• Performs technical level purchasing support adhering to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Veteran Affairs Acquisition Regulations (VAAR), Veteran Health Administration (VHA), and Prosthetics directives and handbooks, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) policy and station memorandums to acquire patient specific medical equipment, supplies and services based on a medical provider's clinical assessment and evaluation of the Veteran's medical condition.
• Submits Acquisition Plans and Procurement Packages for stock and veteran specific needs to the Network Contracting Office and uploads quotes, bids, invoices, consults, and other important documents to Electronic Contract Management System (eCMS).
• Utilizes Unique Entity Identifier number (UEI) information and ensures each vendor is in the System for Award Management (SAM) and in good standing to do business with the government.
• Verifies accountability of all prosthetics expenditures in both the purchase menu and the prosthetics program and associate all obligations to the individual veteran.
• Quickly deduce from written prescriptions or oral requests what items or services are needed and/or conduct follow up information requests to the initiator to clarify the medical need or device specifications.
• Independently monitors, receives, tracks, interprets, and analyzes Prosthetic Consults, and prescriptions (VAF 10-2431) for items, services and home medical equipment from physicians, therapists, medical center personnel, patients, or their representatives.
• Ensure consults are competed and appropriately closed within guidelines and follows-up on all pending consults to ensure services are rendered as quickly as possible or as indicated on the prescription/consult.
• Ensure pending requests are posted to the suspense log and enters data to verify the workload statistics used to determine facility funding for Prosthetic activities.
• Independently responsible for successfully completing the mandatory purchase card training, allowing the incumbent to be a government purchase card holder and obligate funds on behalf of the government.
• Performs other duties as assigned.