Total 80 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Winterhaven, California

• Scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient's appointments and/or consults
• Entering no-show information
• Monitoring electronic wait lists
• Preparing for clinic visits
• Establishing and maintaining medical outpatient and inpatient charts as well as administrative records
• Monitoring both inpatient and outpatient appointments for areas of responsibility
• Obtaining medical information from patients
• Coordinating information and actions related to patient care and services
• Ensuring encounter forms are completed in order to obtain appropriate workload credit
• Verifying and updating demographics and insurance information
• Ensures that the Interdisciplinary Team setup (including consult category of care) is closely monitored to effectively support the needs of the VA clinics, and make any necessary adjustments.
• Work with the team to reinforce the plan of care and self-help solutions
• Managing consult metrics to verify and validate accuracy and resolve issues
• Participates and provides input in problem solving on operational issues or procedures in team meetings
• Other duties as assigned

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Uses knowledge of principles and techniques in speech-language pathology, ability to interpret data.
• Communicates effectively with patients and significant others.
• Communicates effectively verbally and in writing.
• Functions as a constructive member of a team.
• Identifying and treatment of individuals with diagnosis of dysphagia.
• Develops, and implement comprehensive treatment plans.
• Performs evaluation and treatment of patients.
• Exercises limited clinical judgment and adapts clinical procedures and techniques to accommodate age-specific and unique patient conditions, needs, and expectations.
• Consults with physicians and other health care practitioners related to diagnostic evaluation and treatment.
• Documents in the medical record: evaluates, diagnosis and clinical opinion, treatment plans, outcomes of treatment, changes in functional status, and patient/family education.
• Attends interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Participates with other health care practitioners to address the global needs of the patient advises on diagnosis and treatment.
• Assists in orientation/training of medical staff.
• Assists in the training and supervision of students, trainees, and fellows, providing feedback on progress toward established educational goals.
• Keeps current with theory and practice through continuing education programs, journals, textbooks, and other literature, and in-service programs.
• Provides patient and family education including informed consent.
• Follows applicable informed consent, HIPAA rules on privacy and protecting patient rights.
• Participates in developing guidelines and protocols, new patient programs, and evaluation of existing programs.
• Maintains patient records and other data required by the clinic, service, and medical center.
• Maintains, supplies, equipment and clinical areas to optimize safety and efficiency.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Uses knowledge of principles and techniques in speech-language pathology, ability to interpret data.
• Communicates effectively with patients and significant others.
• Communicates effectively verbally and in writing.
• Functions as a constructive member of a team.
• Identifying and treatment of individuals with diagnosis of dysphagia.
• Develops, and implement comprehensive treatment plans.
• Performs evaluation and treatment of patients.
• Exercises limited clinical judgment and adapts clinical procedures and techniques to accommodate age-specific and unique patient conditions, needs, and expectations.
• Consults with physicians and other health care practitioners related to diagnostic evaluation and treatment.
• Documents in the medical record: evaluates, diagnosis and clinical opinion, treatment plans, outcomes of treatment, changes in functional status, and patient/family education.
• Attends interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Participates with other health care practitioners to address the global needs of the patient advises on diagnosis and treatment.
• Assists in orientation/training of medical staff.
• Assists in the training and supervision of students, trainees, and fellows, providing feedback on progress toward established educational goals.
• Keeps current with theory and practice through continuing education programs, journals, textbooks, and other literature, and in-service programs.
• Provides patient and family education including informed consent.
• Follows applicable informed consent, HIPAA rules on privacy and protecting patient rights.
• Participates in developing guidelines and protocols, new patient programs, and evaluation of existing programs.
• Maintains patient records and other data required by the clinic, service, and medical center.
• Maintains, supplies, equipment and clinical areas to optimize safety and efficiency.

• Participate with the District Manager and Deputy District Managers in the formulation of operational policies, procedures and programs including long-range goals and priorities for program activities within the assigned area.
• On an ongoing basis, determine the adequacy and accessibility of resources and information to enable subordinates to function together as part of a cohesive food safety team.
• Adjust work activities and schedules based on changing priorities.
• Oversee and coordinate review, implementation, and ongoing assessment of inspection and enforcement activities at meat, poultry, and egg products establishments in a defined geographic area.
• Identify public health or food safety issues, and direct activities of front line personnel to conduct inquiries or assessments, document findings, and take or recommend appropriate action.
• Supervise and coordinate the work activities of individuals or cross-functional teams of FSIS Food Inspectors, Consumer Safety Inspectors, Veterinary Medical Officers, and Consumer Safety Officers in an assigned area.
• Manage the workforce, conduct performance reviews, develop and mentor your team members, and address employee and labor relations issues.
• Provide leadership to employees relative to long and short-term tasks, duties and responsibilities.
• Utilize Agency information systems, reports, and analytical tools to oversee plant's compliance with HACCP and other regulatory requirements, and to ensure that inspection resources are appropriately focused on food safety priorities.
• Ensure proper implementation and maintenance of Agency sampling initiatives within your assigned area of responsibility.
• You will also review and render decisions on plant management appeals of in-plant level decisions and actions.

**This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCMENT and will remain open until December 30th, 2024. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be November 21st, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates every 2 weeks. Eligible applications received after that date will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available.**

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Make oral and radiographic examinations of the oral cavity and its adjacent tissues and structures.
• Diagnose and manage pathological or irregular oral conditions.
• Assess medical history and apply knowledge to the management of patients.
• Administer local and regional anesthesia, anxiolysis, and IV sedation procedures, as required by the clinical setting.
• Accomplish admissions, work-up and performance of surgical procedures of patients presenting with illnesses, injuries, and disorders of both the functional and aesthetic aspects of the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial regions.
• Accomplish dental-alveolar surgical procedures, dental implant surgery, pre-prosthetic surgery, reduction of facial fractures, reconstructive surgery, management of localized and deep space infections, orthognathic surgery, temporomandibular joint surgery, placement of dental implants, minor and major bone grafting, and biopsy procedures and management of oral pathologic conditions, as required by the clinical setting.

• The nurse consultant applies expert clinical knowledge to guide patient safety/clinical risk management practices with the goal of enhancing health care delivery and decreasing the risk-of adverse events.
• Utilize statistical and epidemiological tools to assist staff in the analysis of data from adverse/sentinel events, close calls/near misses, or project findings.
• Serve as a facilitator and guides patient safety review teams in the identification of the causes of adverse events as well as identifying and implementing practical, measurable, and sustainable corrective actions.
• Participate in continuous readiness projects and conducts site visits to assess organizational processes for compliance with regulatory agency and accreditation standards requirements.
• The incumbent utilizes a combination of patient safety tools and evidence-based practices to improve measures of quality and patient safety.

• Assist providers with maintaining patient flow though the clinic and with invasive and non-invasive examinations and procedures.
• Record and administer oral, intradermal, subcutaneous and or intramuscular medications, with the dosage ordered and verified by a licensed, credentialed provider and reports and adverse reactions.
• Instruct patients and families on various subjects, such as the proper procedure or following receipt of immunization in accordance with established protocols.
• Maintain medical equipment and a clean and safe patient care environment,
• Gather, update, and maintains patient health records.

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-8. At the GS-5, GS-6, and GS-7 grade level, you will perform 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-8. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher level work, and availability of fund.

Major duties include but are not limited to the following:

• Check and perform calibration of technical ophthalmology screening instruments.
• Obtain patient physical history to include chief complaint reason for visit, pertinent signs and symptoms, current medication allergies, past ocular and general medical history, both ocular and general family history, both ocular and general social history, and review of medications and allergies including current ocular prescriptions and non-prescription medications.
• Accurately test visual acuity at distance and near with and without correction or with and without a pinhole.
• Measure eyeglass prescriptions using a manual or automated lensometer, recording sphere, cylinder, axis, and prism in both plus and minus cylinder.
• Perform pupil evaluation recording pupil size, shape, symmetry, reaction to light and accommodation.
• Perform swinging flashlight test to detect a relative afferent pupillary defect.
• Instill eye medications.
• Measure intraocular pressure with standard techniques.
• Perform pachymetry to determine corneal thickness and manual keratometry or automated topography to determine corneal curvature.
• Perform intraocular lens calculation.
• Perform automated visual field testing using various perimetry machines.
• Perform external photographs and fundus photography.
• Perform optical coherence tomography.
• Perform patient screening and triage of potentially urgent ocular conditions.
• Assist during clinic based ophthalmic surgery, including revision of wounds, biopsies of eyelid lesions, culture of conjunctiva or cornea, reformation of anterior chamber, evacuation of hyphema, repositioning of corneal endothelial grafts, intra-vitreous injections, and laser surgical procedures.
• Schedule patient appointments, testing, procedures, and consults.
• Complete appropriate paperwork and computer entries.
• Ensure availability of medications, supplies, and equipment in a clinic area.
• Other duties as assigned.

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

• Pulls stock inventory and material for delivery; replenishes stock inventory; interacts with clinical and administrative customers and maintains records on stock levels;
• Communicates to the Lead or Supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures.
• Provides information to customers regarding medical supplies;
• Monitors expiration dates, rotates stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates;
• Monitors and controls critical supplies;
• Performs daily inventory using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment;
• Resolves differences between records and physical count of stock;
• Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems;
• Delivers supplies in a timely manner and ensures supplies and material delivered are in sterile and operational condition;
• Completes specialty cart preparation;
• Cleans assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles; and
• Receives supplies and material into the medical center's catchment area.

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

This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-07. At the GS-06 grade level, you will perform 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-07. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher-level work, and availability of funds.

Duties include but may not be limited to the following:

• Provides accurate and timely billing and collection activities to be completed in accordance with national policies, VHA regulations and healthcare laws.
• Performs a wide variety of activities common to the segment of the program or function for which the employee is responsible.
• Makes decisions or recommendations based on the development and evaluation of information that comes from various sources.
• Identifies and studies factors or conditions and determining their interrelationships as appropriate to the defined area of work.
• Uses independent analytical techniques and theories to apply and interpret requirements, regulations, and procedures that identify and capture the applicable revenue activities from the affected assigned areas at the VAMCs to the CPAC.
• Serves as a financial ambassador/educator by providing Veterans, their families, VAMC teams and other internal and external agencies, guidance on repayment plans, waivers, interpreting insurance and eligibility benefits, and other factors that impact the Veteran's accounts for both First Party (FP) and Third Party (TP) billing.
• Independently evaluates the significance of actions within their span of responsibility, assigns disposition instructions, and implements the most responsive and cost-effective means for managing them.
• Independently researches, analyzes, generates, and corrects Veteran's FP co-payments for care as it pertains to a variety of complex VA programs, for VAMC provided services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Assess newly admitted patients and initiate a plan of care based on the nursing assessment.
• Monitor and formulate an individualized patient plan of care.
• Administer complex medications by any route as ordered within the guidelines of nursing practice.
• Identify, document and implement nursing orders appropriate to patient care problems.
• Complete a full psychosocial/physiological nursing assessment on all newly admitted patients.

This is a Temporary Promotion NTE 120 days. May be extended based on facility need.

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 0800 - 1630
Telework: Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 04984F
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Major Duties include but are not limited to:

At least 95% of the incumbent's time is spent performing duties of significant scope, complexity, and variety. Collaborates with rehabilitation services administrative staff, including the business manager, administrative officer, and program/medical support assistants, to achieve program objectives.

1. Effectively supervises, directs, and assigns work to 23 permanent employees, students/interns, and volunteers in eight distinct clinical settings and one administrative area. Clinical settings include inpatient, acute, outpatient orthopedics, outpatient neurology, pain clinic, community living center, Santa Rosa community-based outpatient clinic, home-based primary care, and integrative health service. Also oversees the physical therapy utilization review program in the office of community care and coordinates delivery of care across multiple practice settings.
2. Performs human resource management functions including recruitment, interview, and selection processes; performance management/monitoring (including promotions and disciplinary actions); and monitoring clinical privileges.
3. Demonstrates skill in managing interpersonal relationships and conflict resolution with a diverse workforce.
4. Continuously monitors section workload and productivity as well as clinic and consult metrics data to optimize practice and maximize efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

1. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of evidence-based practices and clinical practice guidelines across multiple professional areas.
2. Demonstrates the ability to make autonomous clinical decisions in a direct access environment with consideration for local scope of practice guidelines. This includes the ability to independently evaluate and treat patients seeking physical therapy services.
3. Provides guidance and structure to staff therapists by applying current knowledge to individual practice settings.
4. Regularly reviews the section's clinical programs to ensure that current methodologies are practiced.

1. Organizes and conducts medical center and departmental orientation for new employees.
2. Develops and maintains position-specific competencies as required and identifies employees' education and training needs.
3. Organizes and implements the section's ongoing in-service training programs through lecture format and workshop/lab classes.
4. Organizes vendor in-services to educate therapy staff on state-of-the-art rehabilitation technologies.

• Collaborates in a team-oriented professional environment to develop new models of care that improve access and coordination of care; educates and empowers Veterans and their families; enhances the quality of human interactions and therapeutic alliances; and promotes the coordination, continuity and integration of care. Demonstrates flexibility, integrity and accountability in a work ethic that emphasizes excellence and quality.
• Directs health care programs, delegating authority and responsibility to meet both VALBHS and Medicine Healthcare Group (HCG) goals
• Supervises the clinical Section Chiefs in addition to assigned Medicine Service administrative staff, and responsible for assigning duties to staff within Medicine Service.
• Collaborates with hospital leadership in identifying strategic opportunities and initiatives; Develops, as appropriate, key performance metrics (KPIs).
• Responsible for meeting clinical performance measures related to Medicine HCG and assisting hospital leadership, when possible, in meeting facility-wide measures.
• Participates in wide-ranging and higher-level management functions for Medicine HCG through participation and planning in operational boards, councils and committees within VALBHS, VISN22 and VHA.
• Serves as primary liaison for common interests between VALBHS and UC Irvine, and specifically, the Department of Medicine and its Subspecialty Divisions.
• Provide direct clinical and administrative oversight for medical students and Internal Medicine residents.
• Determines goals, priorities and direction for the Medicine Service and its clinical operations and administrative functions, reflecting and demonstrating support of the Medical Service, Chief of Staff, Medical Center Director's, VISN Network and National goals.
• Provide direct patient care in are of specialty approximately 30% of the time.
• Oversees all personnel management aspects of Medicine Service, including credentialing and privileging, defining scope of practice/privileges for medicine personnel, focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations, ongoing performance evaluations and assures the maintenance of continuing education for staff physicians.
• Serves on hospital committees and task forces, both standing and ad hoc, as appropriate
• Facilitates and encourages academic physicians to pursue education and research opportunities. Collaborates with the Chair, Department of Medicine, UC Irvine and oversees time allocation and activities of physicians involved in VA-approved and VA-funded research.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Tour of duty subject to change to meet the needs of the Agency
Telework: Not Authorized; Position not suitable for telework
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Health Systems Specialist/03918-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

MAJOR DUTIES:
Serves as advisor to the Medical Center Director exercising independent responsibility
and accountability for the full scope of roles and responsibilities in 3 functional areas
Controlled Substance Inspection Program, Veteran Experience, and Administration.
Supports the delivery of health services at the VA Central California Health Care
System (VACCHCS) and Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) to Veterans. Acts
as Principal Health System Specialist (HSS).

Incumbent will conduct studies and continuing analysis of internal and external
programs or projects by:
- Conducting business case analysis for a variety of programs and services within the Health Care System to determine to identify improvements opportunities, recommended system, and procedural changes, evaluate outcomes and make recommendations to top management.
- Determining the kind of information needed to show whether programs or other
projects do or will accomplish their objectives effectively.
- Devising appropriate methods of securing required information and developing data
from such sources as discussions with staff, outside contacts, records, and similar
materials.
- Responds to inquiries for information as necessary on a variety of special interest
topics.
- Stays abreast of key areas of VISN interest and briefs top management
accordingly.
- Collaborates with staff from other facilities in VISN 21 in the development of mutual
policies, procedures, systems, business analysis and initiatives; and
- Analyzes administrative and clinical delivery systems to develop strategic focus for
management team decisions.
- Develops, evaluates, and adjusts organizational structures and management
systems to accomplish implementing a comprehensive health care delivery system.

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

DUTIES:

• Follows procedures for patient identification, sample procurement, and specimen labeling

• Performs routine venipuncture specimen collections from patients

• Follows laboratory procedures for collecting specimens in the appropriate container

• Controls the physical condition of samples and responds to time factors to ensure that the physiologic state of the specimen is maintained

• Provides education to patients for proper collection techniques

• Prepares samples for testing to include labeling, centrifugation, decanting and aliquoting, etc.

• Maintains adequate supplies for all phlebotomy and specimen procurement procedures

• Answers incoming calls for the laboratory service - finding and relaying accurate information or referring the caller to technical personnel

• Performs standard diagnostic tests/procedures such as bleeding time, occult blood, urine dipstick, pregnancy test, fingerstick glucose

• Performs sterilization on the autoclave, and cleans glassware and other reusable items

• Identifies and appropriately responds to adverse reactions such as fainting, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and arrests

• Perform other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7am until 4:00pm
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved