Total 317 Customer Service job vacancies in fort johnson louisiana

Current permanent VA employees and Federal employees from other federal agencies should apply under 12599594.

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Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide comfort measures and activities of daily living during clinic visits.
• Perform the following procedures: takes digital photos, performs complex- dressing changes, wound management, urostomy, ileostomy, and colostomy care, tracheal and nasopharyngeal suction, suprapubic catheter care, designated urological procedures, and specialized dermatological procedures.
• Insertion of indwelling/intermittent catheters.
• Collection of laboratory specimens (urine, blood, culture and sensitivity).
• Assist with specialized outpatient exams during gynecological, otolaryngeal and ophthalmology visits.
• Perform tonometry and visual screening acuity measurements.
• Maintain and determine an adequate supply of medications and supplies
• Administer Vaccine according to directives and facility policy. Complete request for Lipid Blood work.
• Verbalize knowledge of and demonstrate sufficient interviewing skills to elicit response from patient, identify physical needs, problems or emotional concerns that may interfere with the therapeutic treatment plan.
• Enter annual request for hemoglobin AIC level for diabetic patients Follow policies related to special screenings (suicide risk screening, and alcohol, smoking screening) as required.
• Order urine microalbumin for diabetics.
• Duties include participation in complex Mental Health procedures common to the Mental Health.
• Recognize and respond to emergency situations, anticipating emergent protocol and implementation of it and seeks assistance of the RN and or MD/NP to initiate appropriate emergency intervention as directed.
• Observe, identify and respond to the patient's needs based upon subjective symptoms reported or observed.
• Provide intense observation and reports alteration in symptoms and or conduct identified as disturbed behavior.
• Communicate effectively via phone or in person considering the veteran's mental status and receptiveness to instructions provided.
• Utilize motivational interviewing strategies when engaging in face to face or non-face to face encounters.
• Perform clinical intake, preventive medicine screening, pain education and allergy screening and document adverse react.
• Assist with patient teaching, using approved guidelines. Document on appropriate forms and/or in CPRS and refer veterans or caregiver to the social worker, dietician or other members of the team as requested.
• Determine subjective and objective symptoms the require referral to the RN or provider for intervention.

• Perform basic account maintenance procedures to ensure files, logs, and reports are complete.
• Ensure adequate stock and operating supplies are maintained.
• Operate computer systems to input or correct data, and produce documents, reports, shelf labels and signs.
• Verify receipts against invoices.

Functions or Scope of Assigned Duties:
The NP is a licensed independent practitioner with advanced education and national certification who provides evidence-based care for a population of patients.-

1. Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice.-
2. Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management.- Demonstrates leadership and works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team
3. Orders and interprets labs, tests, and diagnostic studies.-
4. Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.-
5. Initiates referrals and consults to specialty services.-
6. Provides education to patients and their families.-
7. Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes.-
8. Exemplifies the ICARE core values of- Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.

Duties included:
(1) Provides quality patient-centered care to adults age 18-65 and older adults age 65+, as assigned by ACOS of Primary Care.
(2) Assesses Veterans by utilizing advanced clinical judgment and physical assessment skills. Identifies acute/non-acute/chronic health problems.
(3) Ensures that safe, efficient, and high quality healthcare is delivered within the department.
(4) Ensures appropriate initial evaluation, treatment, and consultation, as well as documentation, consistent with current VHA Directive
(5) For admissions to the inpatient units, will ensure a physician-to-physician conversation regarding the need for admission, including diagnoses, assessment and recommendations.
(6) Demonstrate sound decision making skills, both clinical and administrative, which bring credit to the profession and serve to enhance the distinctive and contributory role of physicians.
(7) Daily care of patients also entails regular interaction with nursing, coordination of consultations and care and facilitation of diagnostic studies and therapeutic procedures.
(8) Other vital roles include: communication with patients and their families, patient education, discharge planning and communication with outpatient providers, arranging follow up, preparing discharge instructions, medication reconciliation, and ensuring communication during hand-offs of care.
(9) Ensures a sign-out to the oncoming physician to ensure an informed transition of care; coordinate with the admitting physician and consultants to organize diagnostic and treatment plans for all patients pending admission.
(10) Maintain appropriate clinical privileges in order to fulfill the duties of assignment within Primary Care Service.

Hours: Mon-Friday 0800-430 pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized.
Compressed/Flexible: Available- Per supervisor approval
Telework: Approved - per supervisor approval- AD-HOC
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized.
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

• Abstracts all necessary information and assigns codes (ICD-10, CPT, & HCPCS). Determines the final diagnosis and procedures stated by the physician are valid. Works with automated records systems. Assist with the review, analysis, technical evaluation of the Patient Component Encounter (PCC) form in relation to the completeness of diagnoses, procedures, and provider signatures.
• Conducts quality control and improvement tracking and identifying inadequate documentation. Communicating program software and hardware programs and maintaining workload logs. Generates daily error reports, performs error resolution activities, manages monthly database activities, ensures transmission are complete, and submits monthly data quality improvement reports.
• Manages and provides oversight of clinical documentation improvement program, manages the charge master system, works with the meaningful use coordinator to ensure data capture occurs, maintains comprehensive audit trails and logs for all processes performed, generation of various transmission reports, visit summaries, completes coders accuracy audits, and provides feedback to coders and clinical staff as required.

• Performs a variety of administrative and support type duties in such areas as personnel management, technical reporting, timekeeping, security, travel, training, procurement, and files management.
• Produces varied administrative reports, technical papers, correspondence or written documents which may require incumbent to modify existing or to devise new methods to integrate data from different types of software into a single document.
• Manages the departmental databases for assigned areas within clinical services of responsibility.
• Maintains knowledge of pending conferences, appointments, briefings, telephone calls to remind senior administrative staff of such commitments.
• Prepares correspondence ensuring documents have grammatical correctness, clarity of thought, and proper format.

WHAT IS THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT & SECURITY SERVICES (FMSS) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Facilities Management and Security Services Operations East, Facilities Management and Security Services Operations West

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• Incumbent serves as project leader for the planning, development, coordination, and implementation of real estate projects that impacts multiple IRS locations and/or organizations. In this role, he/she typically directs at least three (3) project teams responsible for implementing real estate projects impacting from 10,000 to 50,000 square feet of space, involving a project budget of up to $2 million, and generally lasting one (1) year. However, larger, build-to-suit locations, projects could last up to 24 months. The incumbent provides key oversight to team members and ensures all project tracking and documentation aspects are completed accurately, thoroughly and timely.
• Incumbent is responsible for managing the initial design and construction projects awarded under the IRS FMSS Internal Leasing Program, the General Services Administration (GSA) leasing rules and regulations and by interfacing with the Lessor and their contractors in support of the IRS lease award. The incumbent provides general oversight of the project along with cooperation from GSA representation by managing IRS lease projects for both build-to-suit and existing building alterations from the development of the Solicitation for Offer (SFO) to final acceptance of the site.
• Incumbent is also responsible for administering an IRS lease following occupancy of the facility and may be designated as the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR). In this capacity, the incumbent is a lease administrator, who handles any lease issues that arise and enforces the lease provisions short of taking any action required of a contracting officer. This may include sending reminder notices of work to be done, requests for corrective action of lease deficiencies, development of "cure" letters for the C.O.'s signature, etc. This person would also coordinate the background investigations with the Lessor to ensure compliance with Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12 (HSPD-12) requirements.
• Incumbent is responsible for monitoring the progress of projects and updating the project control system for all space projects assigned to the office(s) being serviced. As needed, conducts technical reviews of assigned projects to ascertain compliance with all statutory, regulatory, and customer requirements. Provides OJI (on-the-job-instruction) to other specialists and less senior project managers based on review results for any particular office location.
• Incumbent utilizes the full range of project management skills in the accomplishment of work assignments. This include addressing such areas as compliance/integration with organizational goals and objectives; workload and workflow issues; impact to staffing levels; layout options; timelines; furniture and equipment needs; coordination with IT (Information Technology), GSA (General Services Administration), other contractors; and identification and coordination with all other program specialties involved in the implementation, execution, and tracking phases. Resolves all problems encountered pertaining to resource, space, funding, and/or project requirement issues.

• Advises Agency leadership on forecasted and changing workforce needs and works with the Agency’s financial manager to determine the overall availability of funds.
• Strategizes with Agency leadership team by using workforce data and forecasted workforce trends to establish the overall annual bandwidth for hiring.
• Develops the Agency’s strategy for university partnerships to maximize student Agency outreach, and partners with other Agency’s Workforce Strategists to coordinate college/university recruitment events and job fairs.
• Represents the Agency and its strategic workforce development plan to ensure efficient hiring within the Agency.
• Identifies the most critical positions for the Agency’s current and future needs and analyzes the position attrition risk to help set knowledge management priorities.

As a Social Scientist your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

• Provides leadership and expert advice on conservation social science in addressing the human dimensions of wildlife and other natural resource conservation.
• Brings innovative social science approaches and supports the development of strategies and activities aimed at achieving improved conservation outcomes for regional, Program, and Service priorities.
• Represents program in agency-wide strategic planning for mainstreaming social science in conservation planning, implementation and evaluation as standard practice in the Service.
• Assists work unit and program in building capacity and integrating social science to better understand conservation issues and priorities, and, in turn, develop and implement more effective conservation policies and actions.
• Communicates formally (group presentations, webinars, technical write-ups) and informally (one-on-one discussion, less technical blogs for wider audiences) on the use of conservation social science tools, resources, and research to address natural resources management challenges/questions and/or to increase conservation knowledge of laypersons.

• Serves as Army Community Service (ACS) Multi-Functional Specialist at the installation level.
• Provides comprehensive and responsive ACS services to the population to include client intake, information and referral, crisis intervention, life skills, and transition service.
• Provides individual and Family consultation services, education, referrals and followup.
• Designs, develops and manages a variety of educational forums and briefings.
• Identifies, advises and consults with leaders on positive sustainable efforts that foster an environment of trust and responsiveness to various organizational quality of life issues.
• Designs and establishes marketing and public relations strategies to ensure target populations are informed of available services and activities.

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Maintains involvement with the Rabies Project and the Mesocarnivore Genetic Archive to help understand the evolution of wildlife rabies and mesocarnivore populations in North America.
• Develops methodologies to assign emerging wildlife rabies cases to population or region of origin.
• Coordinates submission, receipt, and management of hair, blood, and tissue samples from mesocarnivores that are collected from across North America for the Mesocarnivore Genetic Archive.
• Develops standards for loaning of samples to other research institutions/individuals.
• Archives samples and the maintenance and disbursement of supplies and sampling strategy to field crews collecting mesocarnivore samples.
• Gathers and analyzes relevant genetic data from the archive; using sophisticated genetic statistical techniques, technologies, and equipment for research.
• Provide technical direction and instruction to temporary employees, volunteers, students, etc., particularly when conducting laboratory studies.
• Procure equipment and supplies necessary to conduct studies and manage genetic archive. Manage budget assigned to duties.
• Prepare brief technical reports describing study progress, present at professional conferences and to non-technical audiences, and write peer-review publications.

• Responsible for developing and accomplishing fire prevention inspections and developing an education program in assigned areas of responsibility at the installation.
• Conducts physical inspections of large, complex, and highly fire prone post and range facilities including mission related facilities.
• Determines potential fire hazards, existing fire hazards, and works with operating officials, project officers, etc., to eliminate, prevent, or reduce the hazards.
• Incumbent inspect fire protection systems that include automatic heat detection, automatic smoke detection, and dry chemical extinguishers, wet pipe sprinklers, dry pipe sprinklers, pre-action sprinklers, and deluge systems.
• Reviews work requests involving alteration and extension of existing facilities.
• Develops special educational materials and programs for the building coordinators required.
• Serves as a fully trained member of a firefighting crew engaged in the protection of life and property.
• Serves as certified Hazardous Material Technician, responding to hazardous chemical spills on the Installation.

• Assists Farm Loan Program (FLP) staff on farm loan program procedural matters.
• Provides guidance and support on the technical aspects of FSA administered farm loan programs.
• Conducts farm loan program reviews in county offices.
• Perform and/or review legal servicing for farm loan programs.
• Provides technical support on farm loan program systems.
• Identifies training or remedial training needs, prepares training curriculums and conducts training.

• Provides basic personal care to patients; obtain and records physiological measurements (chief complaint, vital signs, and to screen for tobacco use, domestic violence, and other required screening questions .
• Assists with activities of daily living, ambulation, bed making, managing wheelchair patients, lifting, diagnostic test preps, specimen collection and patient teaching. Also assists in the feeding of patients, bathing elimination, and emptying catheter bags.
• Assists the physician and/or nurse in the examination and care of patients by: obtaining supplies and equipment setting up for exams and cleaning up after patient examinations.
• Responds to all patient requests promptly; recognizes changes in patient conditions and re orts to the charge nurse.
• Maintains record confidentiality and safeguards medical information and keeps work area neat and orderly.

• Serves member of a firefighting crew when engaged in the protection of life and property. Participates as a firefighter member to control and extinguish fires.
• Assistsin the performance of fire prevention inspections to identify potential fire hazards.
• Responds as a member of a firefighting crew to all types of fires and emergencies.
• Drives and operates firefighting vehicles to reported incidents.
• Fights structural fires based on knowledge of building layout, potentially hazardous materials, and fixed fire protection systems.
• Responds to on-site accidents and other emergencies involving injuries and illnesses.
• Determines the seriousness of a patient's condition by conducting a complete examination.
• Utilizes emergency medicine techniques to stabilize patients for transport to health care facilities.
• Determines the best method to prevent fire from spreading.
• Performs maintenance of equipment to ensure it is in usable condition.
• Provides appropriate management of mentally disturbed patients.