Total 29 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Surat Thani, Mueang Surat Thani District

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Exercises a practical knowledge of one or more functions in information processing as well as considerable subject-matter knowledge, in a recognized discipline such as statistics, or in a broader subject field such as Veteran populations, database systems, and information technologies.
• Applies knowledge of a wide range of techniques, methods, sources and procedures within the functional information area and subject matter knowledge requiring extended specialized experience.
• Uses a variety of automated and manual processes to organize and analyze information concerning the health consequences of Veterans' military service.
• Develops new methods and techniques when necessary utilizing various analytic methodologies.
• Carries out electronic data processing in support of data acquisition, validation, and management.
• Utilizes appropriate computer program (i.e. SQL, SAS) commands and procedures to identify and compile lists of specific Veterans who meet criteria for inclusion in specialized studies and reports.
• Responds to specific inquiries for technical information from a variety of individuals and organizations including the VA Secretary, other VA Central Office leadership, members of Congress, GAO and other federal agencies, and independent researchers.
• Gathers information from a wide variety of sources, both automated (e.g. automated VA patient records and databases) and in print and other media, analyzes information, and disseminates it in answer to specific inquiries from a variety of sources.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Provides input into the development, standardization, and evaluation of new and improved procedures, techniques, and reagents used in the diagnosis of animal disease.
• Oversees the preparation and approval of administrative reports, briefings, position papers, and other written materials related to program scientific matters.
• Develops relationships with officials, diagnostic labs, biologics manufacturers, veterinary practitioners, universities, and others concerned with the administration of animal health programs.
• Engages in a variety of initiatives to enhance the distribution and presentation of technical information and professional advice concerning animal agriculture and health issues.
• Reviews and evaluates the effectiveness of program operations and accomplishments, initiating necessary modifications.
• Collaborates with leadership to recommend funding and budget plans, develop operating plans and emergency response strategies, and collect/provide information to integrate programs within programs.
• Collaborates and coordinates with directors to ensure consistency of program operations and continuity of issues across program units.
• Participates in development and maintenance of national foreign animal disease prevention, detection, and response system for establishing methods, strategies, logistics, controls, and resource needs.
• Directs the initiation, including conceptualization, needs assessment, and planning; funding; monitoring from a scientific perspective; and performance and evaluation of pilot programs and projects.

As a/an Nurse, you will:

• Plan and provide comprehensive nursing care to residents based on history, physician's medical care plan, and the physical, mental, and emotional needs.
• Administer oral, subcutaneous and intramuscular medications routinely and instructs patients in the side effects of medications when appropriate.
• Document resident care information in patients' chart to reflect nursing care, planned monthly summary, changes in the condition of the resident, and current condition of the resident in accordance with established documentation guidelines.
• Stay informed on current nursing practices through journal readings, attendance of continuing education programs, unit in-services, conferences, etc. Assumes responsibility for on-going unit programs such as quality assurance, patient education, discharge planning, and unit in-service education. Assumes responsibility for on-going self-learning and maintenance of clinical skills.

***THIS POSITION IS A VIRTUAL POSITION. THE EMPLOYEE MAY WORK AT A VA FACILITY OR OTHER VA-LEASED SPACE OTHER THAN THE FACILITY THAT IS HIRING THE EMPLOYEE***

• Designs, oversees, implements and/or participates in scientific studies, surveys, investigations, or projects, to develop information in areas as cause and methods of disease prevention, control, and treatment;
• Identifies and analyzes public health issues and their impact on public policies or scientific studies/surveys;
• Consults on, monitors, and measures the outcome of assigned programs through studies;
• Serves as a recognized authority or consultant for scientific programs, studies or issues which are considered most difficult, complex nature in terms of their scientific or technical implications;
• Develops and coordinates the sharing of health related educational or informational materials;
• Administers screening, advisory and approval processes for the organization's health science research program;
• Develops and coordinates implementation of research method and design standards, criteria and guidelines for the scientific and technical activities of the organization;
• Develops policies procedures and criteria for administration of the organization's health science research program;
• Performs contract management to include preparing procurement request rationale documents, monitors cost, management and overall technical performance of the contract;
• Manages long-term, significantly complex, public health related contracts;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Providing direct technical and administrative supervision to employees.
• Responsible for ensuring that employees are efficiently and effectively accomplishing quality work that is compliant with regulatory requirements and procedures, TJC standards, laws, and VHA C&P policies and requirements, as well as assuring implementation and accomplishment of the goals and objectives of the C&P Program.
• Identifying and presenting to leadership the resources necessary for accomplishing the mission and function of the facility's C&P program.
• Providing guidance to local leadership and C&P employees on all matters pertaining to the facility's C&P program.
• Attending committee meetings and presents providers' credentials, clinical practice histories and red flags.
• Serving as the primary consultant for the facility's C&P program; analyzes program audit results; interprets facility quarterly report card data; researches provider credentialing requirements; and identifies potential privileging issues.
• Coordinating with Service Chiefs and service level administrative teams for annual Committee(s) review of clinical privileges and scope of practice.
• Serving as the Point of Contact (POC) and SME (Subject Matter Expert) for credentialing updates,
• Human Resources, providers and hiring services.
• Monitoring and auditing the VAMC C&P program utilizing VetPro reports, mandatory auditing and reporting tools.
• Ensuring national level reporting requirements are accurately completed including, but not limited to, quarterly security reports, quarterly accuracy certification of the Our Provider's website, and accuracy of the VA/DoD shared provider registry.
• Monitoring C&P program resources to ensure programs are appropriately staffed.
• Serving as a liaison and partner with Human Resources Service programs for common program goals and issues including, but not limited to, provider onboarding, provider exit reviews and assessments, privileging actions, and guidance related to clinical performance concerns.
• Responsible for ensuring quality assurance in the facility's C&P program; applying organizational and system-wide strategies for continuous quality improvement as they relate to C&P processes and procedures.
• Serves as the administrator for the National Practitioner Data Bank, Federation of Medical Boards, and Our Providers Database.

The Management and Program Analyst (Acquisition Data Analytics) performs the following duties:

• Provides support for the analysis of federal procurement data to track Small Business (SB) performance towards statutory goals and receives guidance on how to look for industries and sectors for SB performance improvement.
• Performs data analytics of programmatic, financial, and administrative data.
• Engages with stakeholders to understand changing needs and requirements and to determine questions for research studies.

The Public Health Program Specialist performs the following major duties:

• Serves as health programming resource in the identification of critical global issues and problems related to project design and implementation.
• Provides advice and guidance to OGHH, PC posts and PC headquarters around community health programs. Gathers technical resources and data to assist on a broad range of projects, activities and programs. Establishes and promotes an understanding of technical issues, as well as associated organizational and community development approaches for the health programs.
• Assists in the development of high quality project / program concepts, proposals and designs. Serves as Agency resource for both headquarters and regional Posts, in the identification of critical public health issues affecting project design, program implementation and monitoring and evaluation.
• Conducts program studies where systems, and processes, definitions, methods, and/or data are incomplete, controversial, or uncertain, or where boundaries of the studies are extremely broad and difficult to determine in advance.
• Works collaboratively with M&E Specialists in OGHH to support programmatic M&E to evaluate program/activity progress and results according to the performance monitoring framework, document results and apply lessons learned to adjust the project framework.
• Coordinates and consults with key stakeholders to facilitate M&E efforts and establish quantitative and qualitative M&E mechanism to measure results and impact of public health programs.
• Presents public health information on M&E results to stakeholders and other consultative forums.
• Designs, develops, and delivers training related to public health. Designs and delivers courses, workshops, and other staff development activities. Plans and develops full-length courses in well-established areas of the subject matter field. Incorporates creativity, innovation, and responsiveness to emerging needs in developing trainings and other knowledge products.
• Consults on original course plan and design for basic course concepts. Responsible for knowledge creation and dissemination of information to develop public health related technical know-how at headquarter and regional posts. Coordinates with program managers and training managers both within the Agency and other external organizations working on this field to develop trainings and course material.
• Designs need assessments to determine content and methodology for workshops or courses for face-to-face or online events.

This is a 4-Year Term Appointment.

Work schedule: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Relocation Expenses: Not Authorized

This Veterans Health Administration (VHA) senior leadership position is responsible for oversight and management of the agenda to advance VHA direct and community care access. The Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) is the accountable office for access to care and advises Senior VHA Leadership on all access to care items including oversight, governance, expertise, and leadership related to the Veterans Community Care Program, direct care access initiatives, and financial health. IVC provides oversight and guidance to VHA's network of 1.3 million community providers and to the 6,000 sites of care that are critical to providing Veterans with direct care access. In addition, IVC manages a set of programs that support over 800,000 Veteran family members in reimbursing over $2.5 billion per year for their care.

The Assistant Under Secretary for Health (AUSH) for IVC supports strategies to achieve the three organizational goals: seamless care to Veterans, financial sustainability, and high reliability. This position monitors all IVC budget and productivity improvements and is responsible for strategic and long-range planning of its operational areas and of meeting organizational needs related to access. The AUSH has three direct reports who are T38 senior executives and oversees a team of over 1,100 staff and direct budget of $1.5 billion annually. The AUSH ensures the development, implementation and evaluation of programs, policies, and activities that are national in scope and that influence the overall organizational mission and strategy. S/he initiates, designs, and completes high-visibility national projects to advance VHA's goals. Indirectly, the incumbent advises on strategy and policy that impacts community care spending of approximately $30 billion annually and oversees quality, utilization management, and network adequacy for the community program. As VHA's accountable owner for access to care, the incumbent is responsible for overseeing access to care and scheduling policy, practices, and technologies.

The AUSH for IVC is a Title 38 senior executive who uses extensive leadership skills, communication skills, healthcare/managed care knowledge, healthcare ethics expertise, and knowledge of VA and national healthcare policy to advise, support, and collaborate with the senior executives in VHA.

• Plans, organizes, directs and controls the safety and occupational health program covering an extensive geographic area and involving a large variety of regional operations.
• Evaluates the health and safety program’s progress, which includes assessment of current guidelines, procedures, policies, and the training program.
• Plans, organizes and conducts a regional inspection activity.
• Investigates mishaps and fatalities and prepares a chronological narrative of factors contributing to the incident.
• Tests and modifies, as appropriate, various types of protective equipment such as life vests, safety ropes, and safety nets to ensure compliance with applicable safety criteria.

• Engages mission partners across VHA as necessary to address and resolve scheduling conflicts, priorities, funding questions and other issues, with minimal guidance from management.
• Outlines and maintains a management plan for assigned career field programs. Employs project management tools and techniques to define and document key program actions, priorities, timelines, and milestones.
• Establishes processes to continuously assess the effectiveness and efficiency of career field development programs against the core competencies each program is meant to enhance.
• Collaborates and partners with VA and VHA functional program offices such as Workforce Management and Consulting, Healthcare Leadership Talent Institute, Technical Career Field (TCF) Program, Employee Education System, National Center for Organizational Development, VA Acquisition Academy, and the VA Learning University, in developing curriculum, selection/evaluation measures, and related materials.
• Conducts outreach to other VA and federal agencies (e.g., the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)), for insights and recommendations in structuring career field program's learning framework to maximize achievement of program goals.
• Works with VHA/HEFP Program Directors, Networks, and facilities, to develop program budget. Monitors spending and assure that federal guidelines are followed.
• Tracks and reports compliance with statutory and regulatory guidance and progress against the strategic plans, initiatives or direction from senior leadership and program oversight committees.
• Facilitates collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, to include surveys, interviews, focus groups, performance measures and other techniques.
• Ensures program guidance and actions are thoroughly coordinated with appropriate offices throughout the country and receive the necessary concurrence from senior VHA leadership and program offices.
• Identifies internal and external dependencies and constraints impacting effective program execution.
• Coordinates and resolves complex logistical issues to maximize participation and minimize costs. Closely monitors program participation.

• Engages mission partners across VHA as necessary to address and resolve scheduling conflicts, priorities, funding questions and other issues, with minimal guidance from management.
• Outlines and maintains a management plan for assigned career field programs. Employs project management tools and techniques to define and document key program actions, priorities, timelines, and milestones.
• Establishes processes to continuously assess the effectiveness and efficiency of career field development programs against the core competencies each program is meant to enhance.
• Collaborates and partners with VA and VHA functional program offices such as Workforce Management and Consulting, Healthcare Leadership Talent Institute, Technical Career Field (TCF) Program, Employee Education System, National Center for Organizational Development, VA Acquisition Academy, and the VA Learning University, in developing curriculum, selection/evaluation measures, and related materials.
• Conducts outreach to other VA and federal agencies (e.g., the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)), for insights and recommendations in structuring career field program's learning framework to maximize achievement of program goals.
• Works with VHA/HEFP Program Directors, Networks, and facilities, to develop program budget. Monitors spending and assure that federal guidelines are followed.
• Tracks and reports compliance with statutory and regulatory guidance and progress against the strategic plans, initiatives or direction from senior leadership and program oversight committees.
• Facilitates collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, to include surveys, interviews, focus groups, performance measures and other techniques.
• Ensures program guidance and actions are thoroughly coordinated with appropriate offices throughout the country and receive the necessary concurrence from senior VHA leadership and program offices.
• Identifies internal and external dependencies and constraints impacting effective program execution.
• Coordinates and resolves complex logistical issues to maximize participation and minimize costs. Closely monitors program participation.

• Assists the Program Manager in daily operational oversight of the SDS CIS supporting OSHA mandated VHA HAZCOM programs.
• Oversees access to periodic reports including but not limited to Product Data, Inventory, and Regulatory Compliance for all VHA facilities.
• Supports the VISN and VHA facility leads on management of their chemical inventories and access to Safety Data Sheets.
• Acts as the training technical advisor for the program utilizing Talent Management System (TMS) and live webinars where required.
• Oversees development and support for policies and procedures including federal agency, VHA Directives, Program Standard Operating Procedures and The Joint Commission.
• Supports the development and implementation of policy, guidance and procedures related to management systems and regulatory compliance of the SDS CIS Program.
• Plans, manages, and coordinates products and services needed to achieve and maintain regulatory compliance Agency-wide.
• Resolves difficult and complex technical project management and organizational problems using innovative and original approaches.
• Conducts the annual review of the SDS Chemical Inventory Service Guidebook coordinating updates with the ESS Media Service.
• Provide oversight of the training program intended to support VHA OSHA HACOM compliance, The Joint Commission and Annual Workplace Evaluations.

• Briefs program office and senior leadership on all aspects of assigned projects.
• Provides guidance to all stakeholders during all phases of the project's lifecycle while also creating detailed requirements, plans and processes.
• Obtains business and information technology sponsor approvals and coordinates the resources necessary to successfully advance projects towards completion.
• Identifies and implements project management processes and procedures for project initiation, concept identification, risk management, management reporting, governance, and project closure.
• Oversees the development of data-driven tools and reports to aid in monitoring field compliance and adjusting when necessary to optimize HEFP programs.
• Reviews data and identifies new areas for required content to measure and provide predictive analysis based on the changing business needs.
• Provides expert oversight, direction, guidance, and technical expertise on assigned data management projects.
• Identifies potential areas of deficiencies that are counter-productive to the delivery of quality health care delivery services.
• Performs other tasks as assigned.

As Executive Director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis, the incumbent has responsibility for developing and coordinating VHA's national planning guidance, directing VHA's strategic planning efforts, and providing guidance and technical expertise to key VHA officials on matters relating to VA-wide health care facility infrastructure policy and strategies and for capital asset management within VHA. This includes the following duties and responsibilities:

- Leads, manages, directs the formulation and analysis of health care related policy and planning issues; develops, analyzes, implements, and coordinates system-wide planning goals, requirements, and procedures including evaluative tools and planning models to support the Department and VHA operations, program development and policy issues.

- Leads and manages the assessment of key trends in health care and translating them as appropriate into strategic guidance for VHA. Manages strategic issues for policy formulation and resolution by the organization.

-Prepares directives, regulations and other policy documents based on decisions by the National Leadership Council Strategic Directions Committee and the Under Secretary for Health (USH). Assesses, develops, and implements policy and planning information resources and tools.

- Analyzes VISN planning documents to identify policy issues that need further development and resolution. Analyzes national documents such as Congressional bills, OMB guidance, and external reviews to identify policy issues that impact on VISN planning. Leads, directs, coordinates and prepares national analyses and reports related to health care planning.

- Operates with delegated broad authority and responsibility for the administrative coordination, analysis, and review of the studies associated with health care delivery and capital asset planning throughout VHA. Provides expert advice to the ADUSH for Policy and Planning, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Health (PDUSH), Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management and USH in the development and implementation of the strategic plans associated with capital asset planning.

- Conducts program evaluations. Develops information and processes for complying with legislative and congressional requirements for reports and information on VHA's strategic capital asset program. Leads and/or plans research, develops and provides information and tools to be used by VHA headquarters and field managers in support of strategic planning and strategic capital asset program planning.

- Provides policy direction, expert advice and guidance to VHA managers on aligning and integrating capital

Functions or Scope of Assigned Duties

1. Using state of the art equipment the incumbent obtains polysomnograms on patients with life threatening sleep disorders. The incumbent obtains multiple sleep latency tests on patients with possible narcolepsy or other disorders of excess sleepiness. All of the testing performed requires on line analysis by the technologist to obtain the necessary data for correct diagnosis and therapy for the patient. The incumbent must make decisions about therapy in the case of patients with sleep apnea who are undergoing split night studies. This requires both obtaining studies that are representative and making decisions during the study if the patient is appropriate that night to undergo therapy, and determining that the therapy is optimal.
2. The incumbent is able to stage and score sleep studies.
3. The incumbent is comfortable with troubleshooting CPAP equipment and assisting in the optimization of this treatment in patients already on CPAP or BiPAP or variants.
4. The incumbent assists in the education of students (medical students, polysomnography students) and residents and fellows.
5. Based on experience and knowledge the incumbent provides oxygen therapy, and or nasal CPAP and or nasal BiPAP and or nasal autopap therapy, determining the proper levels to be administered.
6. The incumbent is able to determine the appropriate settings of BiPAP ST as well as Servopap. The incumbent recognizes various cardiac arrythmias and independently decides when to call for professional intervention. The incumbent recognizes and describes seizures and other behavior during the sleep study that may require intervention.
7. The incumbent is able to utilize the sophisticated equipment to obtain studies with an extended montage to allow for seizure monitoring. This is performed much more frequently than in most other labs and speaks to the complexity of our referred patients.
8. The incumbent is also able to utilize the more limited equipment that allows monitoring of respiratory parameters in sleep.
9. The incumbent maintains the guidelines on infection control for our laboratory and interfaces with manufacturers to determine appropriate specifications and with our infectious control group and SPD to insure that we are following safe and appropriate procedures. The incumbent disseminates this information on a regular basis to other staff via in-service presentations and informal teaching to make sure guidelines are followed.
10. Teaching - the technologist will assist in teaching new technologists on use of equipment and newer techniques and insure that they are proficient in these techniques.