Total 611 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Fort Defiance, Arizona

• Responsible for guidance, direction, educating, and monitoring of the NCM activities within Medical Readiness Command-East (MRC, E).
• Responsible for managing all inter- and intra-regional Soldier transfers.
• Incorporates principles of patient administration operations and knowledge of care and utilization management practice in providing appropriate, quality, and cost-effective care across the continuum.
• Performs and documents timely, initial, comprehensive, and follow-up information related to the patient movement process.
• Provide expert guidance to higher level officials, administrators, and healthcare providers on case management plans, development, and implementation of strategies for meeting the complex problems with providing health care to SRU Soldiers.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be eligible for highly qualified candidate.
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off 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 (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Major duties include but not limited to the following:

Requires that the Section Chief to provide appropriate oversight and management of the Dermatology Section, including day-to-day clinical operations, yearly performance evaluations, biannual ongoing professional practice evaluations, and clinical documentation. In collaboration with Program Directors and Associate Program Directors of the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, ensures Fellowship Program, Internal Medicine Residency, and Medical Student Programs are adequately supervised and receive optimal medical education.

Have working knowledge of outpatient and the various consultative services. Responsible for integrating the core values and mission of the facility into outpatient and inpatient care services. Assist the Section and other Service Chiefs in the areas of:

1. Resource Utilization
2. Accomplishment of local, VISN and national goals.
3. Safety

Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

Serves as a physical security consultant to leadership and Police Services staff;
Coordinates physical security programs nationally by coordinating efforts or functions that impact multiple medical centers and sites of care;
Evaluates risk and develops procedures and physical security measures designed to safeguard personnel, property, and operations from unauthorized access, espionage, terrorism, sabotage, damage and theft;
Ensures security requirements and appropriate safeguards, cameras, and panic and intrusion alarms are implemented;
Monitors and evaluating existing and planned security projects to ensure timely and quality service conforms to statutory, contractual, and technical requirements;
Collects information and preparing reports on the facility's compliance with VA operations and regulations;
Conducts system audits and evaluates reports of alleged security violations;
Performs law enforcement assignments to prevent or resolve offenses;
Conducts full investigations over prolonged periods;
Performs search and seizure for evidence to develop case information;
Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with other staff offices;
Attends security meetings to gather and share new/changed security program information with security personnel;
Develops documents, spreadsheets, graphs, reports and presentations using various automated systems and software packages;
Ensures physical security surveys are followed up promptly;
Performs related duties as required.

DESIGNATED DRUG-TESTING POSITION: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received.

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Physical Security Specialist (Uniformed)/PD99797S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

• Functions in a combined ophthalmology/optometry clinic whose services include examination, diagnosis, triage and treatment of injuries and disorders of the eye by surgical and medical means.
• Arranges and maintains scheduling of surgical patients.
• Coordinates with the operating room and same day surgery personnel for the appropriate setup of lighting, equipment, instruments, window coverings, and all other preliminaries for surgery.
• Under the direction of the surgeon, ensures setup of all solutions, medications, and the local anesthesia mixtures by the operating room staff.
• Serves as first surgical assistant and as scrub assistant to the surgeon in surgical procedures.
• During the procedure, is responsible for the setup of equipment used for cataract extraction, vitreous cutting and aspiration, retinal diathermy and cryopexy, tissue cautery, and any other intraoperative equipment setups as directed by the surgeon.
• Assists surgeon with laser vision corrective surgery. Prepare room, equipment, laser, administrative issues, and patients for surgery.
• Performs setup of patient, instruments and other equipment using sterile technique as appropriate.

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At the VA Phoenix Health Care System, we're dedicated to improving the lives of Veterans and their families every day. We proudly serve Veterans in central Arizona at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center and 12 community based outpatient VA clinics. Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide sterilization, preparation, supply items and decontamination support for the medical center.
• Receives contaminated critical and semi-critical RME in decontamination area and may receive noncritical equipment in the decontamination area as well.
• Disassembles the RME and determines the correct cleaning method, such as but not limited to ultrasonic cleaners, mechanical washers, cart washers and chemical cleaning/decontamination agents as determined by manufactures instructions.
• Removes soil, blood, tissue fragments, body fluids and other contaminants by wiping, soaking, rinsing and scrubbing.
• Performs and documents daily operational checks and records for all sterilization equipment.

• Develops and recommends performance management program goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
• Assists in implementation of performance planning, appraisal and incentive systems.
• Provides technical advice and guidance on funding requirements.
• Provide analysis regarding aspects of financial management systems.
• Apply statutory regulatory policies, procedures, standards, and principles for use in budget preparations and operations.
• Provides funding audit trails detailing cost estimates.

• Removes laboratory specimen trays requiring destruction from laboratory storage area and transports trays to destruction area.
• Operates hazardous waste disposal and recycling equipment and transfers waste by-product to dumpster.
• Delivers mail packages to the laboratory, and distributes them from the loading dock to the appropriate location within the laboratory.
• Responsible for coordinating with other laboratory staff and Department of Defense and National Laboratory Certification Program (NLCP) inspectors.
• Performs operator's maintenance on government vehicles, including but not limited to: checking lights, brakes, tires and adding gasoline, oil and water.

• Plans, develops and conducts Initial, Routine, Directed, and Special Food Protection Audits of commercial food establishments for the Activity throughout the states of North Carolina and southern Virginia.
• Performs audit administrative tasks to which includes tasking, tracking, and reviewing reports within the Activity.
• Serves as the team lead with oversight of the Activity Food Protection Program under the supervision of the Activity Food Safety Officer (FSO).

The Housekeeping Aid (HKA) - Environmental Services (EVS) Technicians who maintain VA facilities for Veterans and their families are essential to the patient care experience at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A VA healthcare career as a HKA-EVS Technician means working alongside other Veterans, who make up 85 percent of the housekeeping staff.

As a HKA-EVS Technician, you will perform a full range of light and heavy cleaning duties and routine housekeeping duties. Veterans rely on the skills of these professionals to keep patient areas clean and safe by addressing spills quickly, discarding trash, installing light bulbs in halls and rooms, and vacuuming and polishing floors.

Duties include cleaning wards, patient rooms, storerooms, offices, corridors, restrooms, shower rooms, and other areas. HKA-EVS Technicians sweep, mop, scrub (machine) floors, vacuum carpets and upholstered furniture, empty waste baskets, clean light globes and Venetian blinds, wash walls, windows and ceilings by climbing small ladders, refill toilet tissue and towel dispensers and move furniture. HKA-EVS Technicians carry out assignments with minimal supervision.


Work Schedule: Various shifts, including weekends and holidays
Position Description Title/PD#: Environmental Services Technician OVER-HIRE/PD99909S and PD99909S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized
Remote: This is not a remote position
Telework: Not available

• Obtaining venous and capillary blood specimens from adults and children according to order.
• Collect blood culture specimens utilizing proper protocols.
• Follow universal precautions, and infection control guidelines in the performance of all phlebotomies.
• Receives lab specimens at reception desk.
• Enter all specimen and patient demographics data into computer.
• Receive patients and visitors to the laboratory both in person and on the telephone.
• Distribute all results of shipped laboratory test to appropriate requesting clinic or physician.
• Provide guidance to providers, nurses, and attendants on specimen collection requirements.
• Ensures all supplies needed are stocked and ready for use in the phlebotomy room.

**This position is being re-advertised to solicit additional applications. Applicants who applied previously need not reapply unless submitting updated and/or missing information.

• Serves as the principal advisor to the Area Director, Phoenix Area Executive Leadership and other management officials on all matters pertaining to nursing and nursing program administration for hospitals, ambulatory care, adolescent treatment centers and public health nursing programs.
• Serves as a member of the Area Governing Board for all federal healthcare facilities.
• Collects and analyzes data from a variety of sources, including field visits. Reviews and critiques documents and data resources generated by other federal and state governmental units.
• Facilitates the introduction and utilization of nursing applications of Management Information Systems, i.e., Electronic Health Record (EHR)/Resource Patient Management System (RPMS) packages.
• Oversees and supervises the Knowledge Management Team, Maternal Child Health Nurse Consultant, Employee Health Nurse Consultant, and the Public Health Nurse Consultant.

The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice and determines the appropriate delegation of tasks consistent with the nurse's obligation to provide optimal care. This nurse provides gender-specific direct Veteran care and care coordination, as it pertains, to Veterans and their care within the Primary Care Department. Manages assigned panel(s), utilizes registries, and ensures appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patient panels. This nurse provides health promotion, health education and coaching on wellness, disease prevention, and chronic care management. The focus is on individual growth and development in outpatient PACT nursing practice with increased levels of self-direction. Ability to formulate a plan of care based on nursing assessments. Seeks guidance on how to improve care provided to patients and families. Delegates elements of care to the appropriate individual based upon assessed needs, condition, and safety of the patient. The nurse brings primary care principles and theory with limited application of critical thinking skills.




VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
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

Work Schedule: 4 Ten Hour Tour (M-F)
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

This position is being re-announced to solicit additional candidates; applicants who previously applied to this announcement need not reapply unless submitting updated information and/or missing forms.

• Advise unit personnel on ways to control or eliminate unsafe acts or conditions.
• Direction of a program segment with equipment and safety budget.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees, refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; Serves as the proposing official but approving authority is vested with their supervisor.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, provide or arrange for needed development and training.
• Provide and/or arrange for required training. Refer decisions on training that is non-routine, costly, or controversial to a higher supervisor.
• Approve expenses like within-grade increases. Finds ways to improve production or increase quality of work directed.
• Recommends awards or bonuses for nonsupervisory personnel and changes in position classification, subject to approval by higher level officials, supervisors, or others.
• Develop performance standards following HR procedures.
• Plan a full range of Services from a technical and administrative point of view. Includes: Maintain proper maintenance and functioning of imaging equipment. Assure safety precautions are used to reduce radiation and chemical exposures. Maintain liaison with hospital departments, direct patient care and administration to assure smooth and cooperative functioning of the patient-care team. Serve as an intermediary between the Radiologist and the technologists with quality control, protocol development and implementation; maintains unit needs replenished. Assure proficiency of radiologic technologists with imaging equipment.
• Performs full scope of diagnostic XR, CT and Fluoroscopy exams as required by the service unit involving clinical radiology applicable to a wide range of duties in one or more specialty areas or functions.
• Assure adequate safeguards are maintained, to recognize when changes of equipment or procedures might result in increased exposure, and to adopt methods to prevent such exposure.
• Understands the operation of X-ray equipment, monitors the equipment for proper operation, makes changes to standard procedures to compensate for equipment aging, and determine when maintenance or repair is needed.
• Use of basic nursing practices related to radiography such as emergency cardiac arrest procedures and use of oxygen to assist with breathing difficulties.

This position is being re-announced to solicit additional candidates; applicants who previously applied to this announcement need not reapply unless submitting updated information and/or missing forms.

• Direction of a program segment with equipment and safety budget.
• Hear and resolve complaints from employees, refers group grievances and more serious unresolved complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager; Serves as the proposing official but approving authority is vested with their supervisor.
• Identify developmental and training needs of employees, provide or arrange for needed development and training. Provide and/or arrange for required training. Refer decisions on training that is non-routine, costly, or controversial to a higher supervisor.
• Approve expenses like within-grade increases. Finds ways to improve production or increase quality of work directed. Recommends awards or bonuses for nonsupervisory personnel and changes in position classification, subject to approval by higher level officials, supervisors, or others.
• Develop performance standards following HR procedures.
• Plan a full range of Services from a technical and administrative point of view. Includes: Maintain proper maintenance and functioning of imaging equipment. Assure safety precautions are used to reduce radiation and chemical exposures. Maintain liaison with hospital departments, direct patient care and administration to assure smooth and cooperative functioning of the patient-care team. Serve as an intermediary between the Radiologist and the technologists with quality control, protocol development and implementation; maintains unit needs replenished. Assure proficiency of radiologic technologists with imaging equipment.
• Performs full scope of diagnostic XR, CT and Fluoroscopy exams as required by the service unit involving clinical radiology applicable to a wide range of duties in one or more specialty areas or functions.
• Assure adequate safeguards are maintained, to recognize when changes of equipment or procedures might result in increased exposure, and to adopt methods to prevent such exposure.
• Understands the operation of X-ray equipment, monitors the equipment for proper operation, makes changes to standard procedures to compensate for equipment aging, and determine when maintenance or repair is needed.
• Use of basic nursing practices related to radiography such as emergency cardiac arrest procedures and use of oxygen to assist with breathing difficulties.
• Advise unit personnel on ways to control or eliminate unsafe acts or conditions.

• Provides non-professional counseling and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills coaching for patients.
• Keeps Counselors, the Clinical Director, and the Milieu Charge informed of all clinical and administrative issues.
• Participates in the program's behavior management system.
• Provides guidance and instruction in group activities, personal health and hygiene, courtesy, and etiquette to residents.
• Supervises daily tasks and assignments of residents such as making beds, daily chores, and maintaining living units.