Total 3 Director/C-Level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Arlington, Virginia

Management/Administrative:

Establishes organizational structure and guidelines, performance standards, reporting requirements, and defines the lines of authority and supervisory controls..

Provides leadership and guidance.

Oversees the coordination of policy and procedure. Assures that all policies and procedures are in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Assures the menu planning, subsistence purchases, production, and delivery of safe, high-quality, nutritionally adequate meals.

Facilitates the development of service priorities which address the goals and objectives of the medical center, healthcare system, and VISN.

Directs the technical, professional, and administrative functions of the service through the Assistant Chief.

Resource Management:

Develops and administers a human resources management program for all employees that maximize staff performance, job satisfaction, and supports
labor-management cooperation. Develops goals that promote and support food service, clinical nutrition care, and manpower.

Develops and administers a budget management program that provides for the utilization of available financial resources, monetary controls, and budget estimates.

Evaluates opportunities to reduce operating costs without jeopardizing nutritional care.

Provides leadership and oversight to ensure effective management of purchase cards while also ensuring separation of duties.

Is an alternate approving official and complies with all the acquisition regulations. Helps ensure that cardholders adhere to procurement requirements.

Certifies reconciled payment charges in the Integrated Fund Distribution, Control Point Activity, Accounting and Procurement.

Quality Improvement:

Develops a performance program to monitor functions of Nutrition and Food Services (N&FS) for quality and nutritional care.

Assures that the performance improvement program is in compliance with applicable standards.

Modifies the nutrition care program to accommodate changes with administration, science, education, and research. Assures nutrition activities are coordinated with other initiatives VA wide to provide for a quality nutrition care program.

Education/Staff Development:

Assures that available funding for staff education is utilized for the benefit of the medical center and development of N&FS staff.

Recommends training to improve efficiency of work force and increase manpower utilization.

Directs the training for other disciplines and trainees so, they can perform patient care.

Serves as a mentor for Nutrition and Food Services and medical center staff to promote growth and development.

Assures that staff is competent to perform their assigned duties and that they remain abreast of advanced technologies and changes in
nutrition therapy.

Approves in-service training schedule to assist Nutrition and Food Services' supervisory personnel to meet the needs of all employees.

Coordinates and monitors the education and training program in the Service for all levels of employees.

Establishes new educational affiliations and maintains program oversight for any intern, extern, student, or volunteer.

Research:

Facilitates participation in nutrition studies/research projects.

Coordinates formal clinical nutrition-related research and studies.

Assures that information/nutritional advancements are used in daily practices.

Security:

Protects sensitive data from release or loss, alteration, or unauthorized deletion.

Informs and enforces ADP security guidelines and follows regulations.

Develops procedures and provides support to the AIS program by complying with Federal and VHA regulations.

Support:

Provides input for the medical center plan and assists in the development and implementation of a policy.

Maintains effective communication with staff to identify and assist in the resolution of a wide variety of programs.

Participates as a member on committees, special projects, and activities.

Participates in the planning of new construction and modernization projects that impact nutritional care.

Serves as a consultant to the executive leadership and VISN.

Collaborates with other officials to negotiate and/or make decisions on N&FS. Collaborates with VHAs both within and outside the VISN to develop policy, programs, and projects.

Advises other services, programs, and top management officials on agency guidelines that impact N&FS.

Clinical:

Demonstrates ability to perform all duties of subordinate clinical dietitians.

Ensures patients are scheduled in accordance with the VHA scheduling directive.

Ensures clinical workload is closed out timely to ensure maximum reimbursement for the medical center.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30 am to 4:30 pm
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: PD000000
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Major Duties Include:

• Responsible for the administrative management of health records, which includes planning, managing, advising, and directing the health information program in accordance with applicable Federal laws, facility by-laws, VHA policy, The Joint Commission standards, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), and other regulatory and accrediting agencies.
• Responsible for all facets of health records management for the facility ensuring maintenance of complete, accurate, timely, clinically-pertinent, and readily-accessible patient health records, which contain sufficient recorded information to serve as a basis to plan patient care, support diagnoses, warrant treatment, measure outcomes, support education, research, and facilitate performance improvement processes and legal requirements. Develops policies, processes, and procedures that address all VA, Federal, regulatory, and accrediting requirements for HIM.
• The incumbent is a key advisor to the Chief of Staff, Executive Management, and clinicians and is responsible for providing technical guidance on health information issues such as documentation requirements, liability issues, advance directives, informed consent, patient privacy and confidentiality, etc. Recommends improvements in documentation used to provide patient care, to optimize VERA workload, third party reimbursement and to manage resources.
• Responsible for assuring that all patients have a complete, accurate, and timely record of their medical care at the facility. Also must assure that such information is appropriately stored and readily available for the provision of medical services to the patients.
• Incumbent is responsible for leading the automation of all health information systems. Working closely with Information Technology (IT) and Clinical Informatics, the incumbent must guide the automation of health record documentation, health record tracking, and physician incomplete record tracking. The incumbent also must support the information security program and manage much of the patient information database within Vista. Incumbent will work with a variety of hardware and software.
• The CHIM at this level has the full complement of HIM supervisory responsibility including coding, file room, scanning, release of information, and transcription and which consists of a mixture of HT38 (675 and 669) and T5 positions. The incumbent oversees the facility Records Manager / File room Supervisor. Incumbent is responsible for directing the operations of all personnel working within the Health Information program and is regularly involved in labor relations and budget management. Performs the administrative and personnel management functions relative to staff supervised.
• Incumbent is directly responsible to the Chief, Health Administration Service, who gives general objectives. Incumbent exercises independent judgment in carrying out duties and responsibilities and has complete authority to plan, design and direct the HIM program; recommendations and/or technical decisions made by employee are not reviewed. Employee operates within context of overall agency policy and agency goals. Supervision is performed in relation to outcome and accomplishment to policy requirements.

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