Total 148 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in lawrence kansas

• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Overseeing the areas made up of the receiving dock, shipping and warehousing.
• Supervises the day-to-day operations of both the Transshipping/External warehouse, receiving and shipping, animal receiving operations, and biological materials receipt and shipping.
• Oversees domestic and international shipping for select agents, infectious and dangerous goods, sample collection kits, equipment, reagents, etc.
• Plans and coordinates the Unit’s warehouse operations, material handler staff, section-specific contracts, and mail services.
• Approves procurement requests for supplies.
• Coordinates and processes shipping documents ensuring required paperwork accompanies all shipments such as permits, licenses, and import certifies.
• Issues inventory, compressed gas, supplies and materials, uses both manual and/or computerized processes

• Perform duties in inpatient obstetrics Labor, Delivery, Recovery, Postpartum (LDRP) Unit, providing comprehensive specialized nursing care to routine through high risk antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum obstetrical patients and their infants.
• Perform newborn physical assessments.
• Provide nursing care for pregnancy induced hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, gestational diabetes, multiple gestation, postpartum hemorrhage, uterine rupture, amniotic emboli, high/low birth weights, and infants requiring protective isolation.
• Teach patients and family members about disease processes, normal newborn and postpartum care, pre and post-operative cares, pre and post diagnostic procedures; expected and possible adverse reactions to medications and health promotion.
• Set up, operate and maintain a variety of medical equipment in the labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum unit to included fetal-monitors, respiratory and oxygen therapy equipment, intravenous infusion pumps, suctions, infant warmers, delivery tables.
• Serve occasionally as the Charge Nurse while determining patient care assignments based on the qualifications, capabilities, and skills of available staff.

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• Collaborate with primary care providers, clinic nurses, public health nursing, DM care management, social services, and contracted vendors to ensure that the patient's care needs are completed in a timely and cost effective manner to maximize each visit.
• Responsible to manage patient care coordination in delivery of PRC service; will review, determine, and coordinate PRC care for assigned patients with other members of the multidisciplinary team in order to optimize patient care.
• Conducts planning for scheduled patients and communicates the patient needs and recommended treatment to care team members.
• Participates in departmental orientation, on the job training and quality improvement programs/initiatives; documents care appropriately in the electronic health record; and routinely assess client's status and program.
• Manages aspects of the planning progress in anticipation of patient variances and transitions collaborate and communicates with the physician and the rest of the care management multidisciplinary team to facilitate healthcare planning.

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• Collaborate with primary care providers, clinic nurses, public health nursing, DM care management, social services, and contracted vendors to ensure that the patient's care needs are completed in a timely and cost effective manner to maximize each visit.
• Responsible to manage patient care coordination in delivery of PRC service; will review, determine, and coordinate PRC care for assigned patients with other members of the multidisciplinary team in order to optimize patient care.
• Conducts planning for scheduled patients and communicates the patient needs and recommended treatment to care team members.
• Participates in departmental orientation, on the job training and quality improvement programs/initiatives; documents care appropriately in the electronic health record; and routinely assess client's status and program.
• Manages aspects of the planning progress in anticipation of patient variances and transitions collaborate and communicates with the physician and the rest of the care management multidisciplinary team to facilitate healthcare planning.

The incumbent demonstrates the knowledge and ability to successfully perform the following duties within the scope of Respiratory Care. A Respiratory Therapist may perform other duties, both major and minor, that are not mentioned below. Essential functions may change from time to time to reflect the current trends within the field of respiratory therapy, and to meet the cardiopulmonary needs of the patients served.

• Reviews, collects and evaluates relevant clinical data.
• Formulates an appropriate respiratory therapy plan based upon patient assessment.
• Communicates orally and in writing, changes, adjustments and recommendations with other healthcare team members.
• Provides effective education and training to patients, students and co-workers as appropriate.
• Performs both fundamental and advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for adult and geriatric patients. Examples include but not limited to: Arterial puncture, blood gas analysis, pulmonary function testing, bronchoscopy assistance, pulmonary rehabilitation, endotracheal intubation, oxygen administration etc.
• Performs emergency and acute

Eastern Kansas VA Medical Center is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

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ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Responsible for initiating and carrying out a variety of administrative and technical duties in support of community care coordination and consult/referral management.
• Provides administrative coordination of patient care, appointments, and logistical factors associated with patient care, inpatient and outpatient, related to the coordination of care between the VA Medical Center and outside facilities, both VA and non-VA.
• Uses a broad working knowledge of all medical center programs and services and of the varying priorities and complexities of outside care for specialty services.
• The complexity of duties may encompass numerous clerical responsibilities, including but not limited to typing, filing, data entry, scheduling appointments and tests, ensuring transfer of medical records from and to the Medical Center and other facilities, ordering office supplies and necessary forms, scheduling patients' appointments and/or consults, tracking patients' appointment status in the community, data tracking, making regular follow-up calls, completing electronic forms.
• Research and maintain an updated database of community health care services to assist Veterans with locating care in the community.
• Assist with processing emergent and non-emergent consults for health care and services in the community.
• Assists the VA Community Care Supervisory MSA with developing contingency plans for data/input/transmission.
• Provide on-the-job training to new employees and assist Advanced MSAs with difficult and more complex situations, providing accurate instructions and workable solutions.
• Maintain VA Office of Community Care-approved electronic systems to track consult/care coordination management for Community Care services.

• Perform a wide range of complex physical therapy duties.
• Develop and implement complex, goal-oriented treatment plans for patients.
• Apply the use of therapeutic modalities and new integrative techniques and technologies.
• Provide patient/family education on the injury/disease process.
• Develop protocols and standard operating procedures (SOP) for PT programs.

Robert J Dole VAMC is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

Program Support:
Provides support to programmatic matters related to the daily successful operation of Education services in the Medical Center. Participates collaboratively in developing strategies for the service to meet its goals and mandates in efficient and effective ways, ensuring alignment with Medical Center strategic initiatives.

Primary responsibility for the functioning of the Voice Activated Mannequins (VAMs), ensuring maintenance/preventive maintenance occurs as required. Monitors, analyzes, and ensures first line measures are used to maintain, troubleshoot, and prevent disruptions to staff compliance with CPR certification. Performs simple remedies, as allowed by Resuscitation Education Initiative (REdI) program. Supports and educates staff at the medical center and five Community Based Outpatient Clinic on the appropriate use and maintenance of, the VAMs. Maintains Basic Life Support (BLS) Instructor certification to assist staff with successful, quarterly BLS certification. Conducts BLS classes and assists or leads mock codes, twice each month, in various departments throughout the medical center

Training Affiliation Agreements:

Facility expert in all facets of negotiating, initiating, developing, coordinating, reviewing and follows to completion, all inter-service and intra-service federal and nonfederal Training Affiliation Agreements/Memorandum of Understanding (TAA/MOU). Negotiates, initiates, develops and follows to completion, renewals of these agreements and develops amendments thereto as needed. Manages the process from the Education Department perspective for scholarships and tuition reimbursement, which includes completion of appropriate documentation requesting payment; ensuring presence of appropriate supporting documents from requesting staff; submitting for leadership approval and signature; submission to Finance Department for payment; and recording/tracking amount paid and impact on the budget; and providing process education to the applicants each semester.

Administrative Management:
Manages the proficiency process for the registered nurses in the department. Tracks proficiency due dates, notifies staff of pending due date, provides appropriate forms for staff utilization, and ensures data is correct (Grade/Step). Provides communication reminders to staff to ensure leadership has adequate time to contribute/approve before the due date. Creates end of year performance award tracking for reporting to Human Resources. Creates and maintains tracking/reporting system for other human resource utilization reports.

Resource Management:
Serves as the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for programs within the Education Department. Serves as the technical liaison between contractors and the Contracting Officer. Monitors, reviews, and determines whether the contractor's performance follows terms and conditions of the contract specifications and inspects all work for full compliance with contract requirements. Notifies the Contracting Officer of violations of labor standard provisions, work that does not comply with contract requirements, and if contractor fails to remove, correct, or replace rejected work. Assists the contracting officer and Education Chief in matters related to contract requirements and contract administration (i.e., coordinates with the contracting officer on proposals for contractor work not specified in the basic request for negotiations) and provides cost estimates for breakdown to determine the most economical methods to provide services. Resolves disputes, implements changes and interprets regulations and contract specifications.

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.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00-4:30
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Position Description/PD#: Program Specialist/PD094450

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity. The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Designs, executes, interprets and reports on experiments and experimental data associated with development and validation of new or modified diagnostic assays and/or reagents production methods.
• Characterization of laboratory diagnostic samples and biological materials using traditional microbiological techniques, virus isolation and sophisticated molecular biological techniques.
• Performs assays for the detection of antigens, nucleic acids and antibodies indicating the presence of a foreign animal disease.
• Operates sophisticated laboratory equipment including thermocyclers, DNA sequencers, ultracentrifuges, flow cytometers, robotics equipment, and electrophoresis apparatus.
• Assists in the development of new high grade diagnostic reagents for which standard methods are not described in the literature and improves current reagent quality to meet international standards.
• Participates in the development of molecular biological and/or immunological assays that use new and improved techniques for the diagnosis of viral diseases.
• Coordinates quality assurance, lab safety, biosecurity and biosafety activities for the section.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity. The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Supervising subordinates less than 25% of the time including, but not limited to, monitoring work, providing advice, evaluating performance, initiating awards, and authorizing leave approval.
• Develop and revise medical, program, and inspection procedures to safely and securely handle animals exposed to contagious diseases and properly release or quarantine animals with disease risks.
• Inspect animals for evidence of disease conditions, assess health status, diagnose clinical symptoms of suspect animals, advise avenues for seeking treatment, and recommend preventive care.
• Inspect animals, facilities, and records for compliance with federal laws related to animal health and welfare.
• Certify the health of animals and their by-products to be exported to other countries.
• Collaborate with local, state, and federal officials with similar responsibilities involving the oversight of animal health and welfare.
• Evaluate animal health program operations that are experiencing herd or flock disease problems to determine solutions needed to adjust veterinary medical or program procedures.

VAEKHCS is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

Major Duties

Responds to Questions from Customers
Handles inquiries from Customers including patients, staff, Veterans Service Organizations, etc. on behalf of the Assistant Director or the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). Receives schedules, refers and contacts members of the staff, agency, and persons outside the agency ranging from other government agencies to the general public. Greets visitors to the executive offices and answers calls. Formal clearances are required to manage outside contacts and their impact on programs. Provides accurate advice on procedures, reports, requirements, and other matters necessary to implement the Assistant Director's or ELT's policies, directives, and instructions. Provides advisory and technical assistance to patients, administrative staff and professional staff. Receives and handles concerns ensuring that quality service is rendered in a timely, competent and caring manner including coordination of responses in a timely manner. Responds to complex questions involving a range of issues that are posed to the Executive office. Researches problems and/or reviews issues and requests, clarifies issues, and evaluates the need for additional information.

Mail, Correspondence, & Reports
Processes incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other forms of written communication. Handles written
correspondence and telephone inquiries, contacting various ancillary services to ascertain status of interpretation and professional staff for consultation regarding final disposition of patient matters. Manages a wide variety of correspondence from within and outside the agency and decides how to handle. Performs the following types of duties: records and prepares meeting minutes and agendas for a variety of boards and/or workgroups, edits letters, composes letters and reports, reviews correspondence for accuracy and completeness, and develops standard or form letters and replies to inquiries. Maintains the Assistant Director's Share Point site. Uploads Meeting minutes and charters to share point sites and other document repositories as appropriate. Tracks executive team mail and writes appropriate letters and memos as needed. Serves as a timekeeper for the Assistant Director staff and back-up timekeeper for other ELT member staff.

Maintaining Appointments, Calendars, & Schedules
Maintains the Assistant Director's calendar. Schedules appointments, coordinates meetings, and/or schedules conferences. Provides general calendar
maintenance clerical services such as maintaining electronic calendars and recording appointments, arranging for meeting and small conference administrative details, or following up on action items with appropriate staff members independently. Independently determines staff that should attend meetings or represent the organization at conferences. Such decisions are based on knowledge of the manager's views on such issues. Attends meetings, notes commitments made, informs staff of commitments, and arranges for staff to implement commitments during the meetings.
The incumbent arranges for meeting space, speaker, and support arrangements for large conferences. Schedules performance reviews for the Assistant Director staff.

Office Supplies & Equipment
Obtains and monitors the use of services, supplies, or equipment for the executive offices. Provides general office supply and equipment support services such as obtaining standard office supplies and services, procuring or justifying the full range of office services, or answering questions concerning policies and procedures related to support/office services. Consolidates equipment or service requests from the executive
offices. Ascertains the needs of subordinate offices and coordinates the purchase of equipment and services to meet the organization's needs. Studies the various offices to determine usage patterns and merges needs into one recommendation for the organization as a whole.

Performs other duties as assigned.

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.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:30pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Secretary OA/PD02289-0 and PD10305-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

VAEKHCS is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. Together, we strive to create and maintain a working and learning environment that promotes professional growth and teamwork. We offer an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment where we celebrate our individual differences and unite as a team toward a common goal of providing outstanding service to our Nation's Veterans.

Responds to Questions from Customer
Handles inquires from Customers including patients, staff, Veterans Service Organizations, etc. on behalf of the Chief of Staff at the Leavenworth Campus concerning a variety of matters. Receives schedules, refers and contacts members of the staff, agency, and persons outside the agency ranging from other government agencies to the general public. Formal clearances are required to manage outside contacts and their impact on programs. A significant amount of time is spent in public contact work because the program/mission of the organization is so interlocked with other organizations and provides accurate advice on procedures, reports, requirements, and other matters necessary to implement the Chief of Staff's policies, directives, and instructions. Provides advisory and technical assistance to patients, administrative staff and professional staff. Receives and handles concerns ensuring that quality service is rendered in a timely, competent and caring manner including coordination of responses in a timely manner.

Provides Administrative Support
Provides administrative support to the Chief of Staff and in doing so works with the AA to the Chief of staff. Accepts work assignments from the Administrative Assistants to the Executive Staff. Processes incoming and outgoing materials such as correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other forms of written communication. Handles written correspondence and telephone inquiries, contacting various ancillary services to ascertain status of interpretation and professional staff for consultation regarding final disposition of patient matters.

Maintain Appointments, Calendars, & Schedules
Schedules appointments, coordinates meetings, and/or schedules conferences. Provides general calendar maintenance derical services such as maintaining electronic calendars and recording appointments, arranging for meeting and small conference administrative details, or following up on action items with appropriate staff members independently. Independently determines staff that should attend meetings, or represent the organization at conferences. Such decisions are based on knowledge of the manager's views on such issues. Attends meetings, notes commitments made, informs staff of commitments, and arranges for staff to implement commitments during the meetings.

Office Supplies & Equipment
Obtains and monitors the use of services, supplies, or equipment for the Chief of Staff offices. Provides general office supply and equipment support services such as obtaining standard office supplies and services, procuring or justifying the full range of office services, or answering questions concerning policies and procedures related to support/office services. Ascertains the needs of subordinate offices and coordinates the purchase of equipment and services to meet the organization's needs. Studies the various offices to determine usage's and needs and merges needs into one recommendation for the organization as a whole. Subsequently, acquires the equipment and services using procedures to procure, authorize, control, and justify these purchases.

Serves as the ADPAC for staff with direct report to the Executive leaders.

This position functions as the back up to the Secretaries in the Executive Office.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

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.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:30pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Secretary (OA)/PD02477-0 and PD10306-0
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

• Responsible for management of military personnel functions.
• Participate in staff meetings addressing military human resource matter.
• Coordinate administrative documents for in and out-processing and Soldier's order.
• Prepare and reconcile reports and brief management and supervisors.
• Compose correspondence as necessary.
• Review changes in legislation, DoD, and higher-level component policies.

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

Duties include but may not be limited to the following:

Administrative Management:

• Provides for the overall administrative management of the Mental Health Service.
• Advises, plans, develops, implements, and evaluates administrative processes and programs such as contract management, funds management, clinic flow, clinic scheduling,
• staffing efficiency, labor mapping, access, strategic planning, and communication across the Service Line.
• Manages a variety of administrative functions, including the Service appointment calendar, distribution and dissemination of incoming mail, internal controls, records management, publication, and forms management.
• Ensures inquiries, correspondence, and actions are addressed in a timely fashion following established templates, suspense timelines, or other process as appropriate.
• Develops performance metrics and process measurement methods - collecting data from various sources; analyzing data; developing reports; and providing guidance to the Service Chief and other clinical staff.

• Analyzes resource needs and makes recommendations based on staffing needs, approval of individual expenditures for all non-recurring items; approving and preparing all requests for funding, etc.
• Performs analysis of budget requests by employing techniques such as cost-benefit analysis, program tradeoffs, and explorations of alternative methods of funding to ensure that program objectives are met.
• Coordinates equipment needs with internal and external staff, research specific equipment needs, how it will be used, obtains quotes, conducts market research, obtains, and justifies approvals, communicates with contracting and coordinates delivery and installation.
• Serves as the Contracting Officer Representative (COR) for medical service contracts needed for the provision of essential patient care within the Medical Center and CBOCs.

• Administers and oversees all aspects of personnel management within the Service.
• Provides advice on interpretation and application of a variety of human resources policies, practices, and procedures that affect the Mental Health Service Line.
• Directs recruitment and onboarding activities, research and input for market pay development and reviews, and other personnel administrative tasks.
• Reviews and maintains personnel action requests, awards, promotions, and supervisors' disciplinary action documentation.
• Maintains files and documents on all personnel actions, coordinating actions with appropriate staff or supervisor, monitoring current and projected personnel actions, and providing continuous status updates.

• Conducts data research and analysis on specific programs and incentives such as book ability, cost outliers, and contract management items.
• Performs review and analysis of productivity data, developing action plans that lead to improved performance and/or productivity and implementation of improved management controls.
• Develops short- and long-range plans to ensure programs and services support objectives and are synchronized with facility and VHA goals and requirements.
• Develops, conducts, or directs special studies to resolve problems that arise (or could potentially arise) related to new or altered program requirements or resources issues, providing the basis for planning, organizing, and controlling both day-to-day and long-term operations of the Service.

• Plans and directs the activities of subordinates and managing training and support needs to assure an appropriate work environment.
• Provides oversight of the day-to-day work completed by subordinates. Sets and prepares schedules for completion of work.
• Develops performance plans and evaluates the performance of direct reports.
• Provides administrative oversight and guidance (not supervision) over the performance of the clinical subordinates as the direct extension of the Mental Health Service Chief.
• Gives advice, counsel, and instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Hears and resolves minor complaints from employees; refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.