Total 255 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Lake Charles, Louisiana

The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations. Duties include, but not limited to the following:

• Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
• Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
• Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
• Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
• Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
• Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
• Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
• Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
• Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
• Provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement.
• Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
• Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and/or Community Care.
• Serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.

Major Duties:

• Employs a multimedia and multi- level communication approach and continuously monitors, reassesses and fine-tunes existing communication tools while seeking additional approaches.
• Serves as one of the agency spokespersons for the facility, including responding in writing and orally to questions about criticisms of the agency's activities or policies and explaining the VA point of view.
• Prepares scripts, audiovisual materials and brochures for ceremonies, briefings and orientations.
• Establishes and directs policies and procedures for visits and tours of distinguished personnel, administrative management of conferences, events and ceremonies.
• Manages a highly technical complex and sensitive public affairs program.
• Develops budgets, writes statements of work and directs, coordinates high profile visits, and directs, coordinates and supervises activities of supporting staff and contractors.

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

This is a term appointment not to exceed 1 year 1 day. Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration of more than 1 year, but not more than 4 years and are subject to a 1 year trial period. Should the need warrant, term appointments may be extended without further competition up to a maximum of the 4 year limitation. The appointment to a term position does not confer eligibility for promotion, reassignment, or transfer to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

This position involves a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-11. At the GS-09 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-11. Promotion is at the discretion of the supervisor and is contingent upon satisfactory performance, availability of higher-level work, and availability of funds.

Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

Manages Clinical Tests and Collects Data

Managing implementation, control and reporting on clinical tests and data collection for difficult clinical research studies
Recording data from samples and specimens to ensure that all tracking data is organized and is monitored during the progress of the study
Coordinating the accomplishment of the scientific review and evaluation of research programs
Participating in initial classification and coding of qualitative/quantitative data and entering coding data into qualitative/quantitative software
Assisting with data analysis from a variety of sources, including databases and spreadsheets, and conceive and write reports
Respond to inquiries from a sponsor, clinical research coordinating center and/orsite Pl on matters related to data, data compliance, and subject complaints related to data collection
Creating and maintaining complex research databases, working with existing VA administrative databases, and managing spreadsheet files for data tracking, budget tracking, and other project management tracking tasks
Recording and maintaining results and records of all tests or assessments as per protocol and in a manner complying with research regulations
Developing and maintaining/updating study database in accordance to sponsor and/or Pl's specifications. Assist Pl with data analyses and interpretation

Recruits and Manages Candidates for Clinical Trials

Overseeing, screening, and evaluating recruitment of candidates for clinical research studies via telephone and/or in person
Using objective rating techniques to identify potential candidates for participation in study where project design is complex
Overseeing recruitment and enrollment of participants, providing information on study objectives and constraints
Performing informed consent process throughout the study and continuously educate participants on study processes and procedures
Obtaining verbal and/or written informed consent, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) authorization, and background demographic information from patients
Performing day-to-day activities related to conducting and overseeing participant interviews and follow-up
Coordinating study participant randomization to treatment, works closely with the Research Pharmacy on study drug provision
Identifying study adverse events and side effects, symptoms which might require intervention or referrals

Research Project Support

Assisting supervisor with managing the routine, day-to-day activities, and administration of the project
Analyzing processes and documentation to ensure compliance with all technical, regulatory requirements, and information safety regulations
Conducting quality assurance evaluations for project data and clinical research instruments
Providing technical guidance to research staff regarding regulations, policies, and procedures applicable
Responding to general inquiries from program participants, staff, and other stakeholders
Managing participant compensation, maintain compensation records, and prepare invoices or electronic funds transfer for reimbursement of participants
Assisting in the development of clinical research standard operating procedures/policies and implementation of administrative procedures
Organizing and maintaining all study documents for management, data, record keeping and/or compliance purpose
Administering screening, advisory and approval processes for the organization's health science research program
Performing a variety of duties to maintain specialized data and implement study design.

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday; 08:00 a.m. to 04:30 p.m.
Recruitment & Relocation Incentives: Not authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

This Food Service Worker position is located within the Nutrition & Food Service at the VA Medical Center in Shreveport La.

Major duties and responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Sets up and breaks down assigned station with the correct supplies and food items;
• Portions food items into standard serving sizes using the proper utensils and specified dishware
• Selects and places correct items on patient trays
• Decides what food items to serve for the most common diets
• Identifies obvious discrepancies between the prescribed diets and the food items
• designated by the menu
• Sets up dining room tables for service, place food and beverages on tables, and replenish items as necessary;
• Delivers meal trays to the patients' bedsides; reporting the patients' comments and complaints to the supervisor or dietitian;
• Provides assistance to cooks in the food preparation area, such as weigh, measure and assemble ingredients according to standardized recipes;
• Prepares fresh fruit/cold salads/dressings/sandwich fillings and cold sandwiches and simple cold desserts;
• Reads and interprets regular or modified menus, individual diet cards, tray tickets or patient selections
• Performs heavy-duty cleaning tasks throughout the food service and related areas;
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Duties include:

• Developing, organizing and directing the primary care program to provide the most effective patient care within available resources consistent with policies and guidelines of the Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 16 and medical center's mission, vision, values and policies.
• Plans the delivery of patient care provided by Primary Care Service to ensure it is consistent with VHA policy and external agencies such as the Joint Commission and Office of Inspector General Combined Assessment Program (OIG CAP).
• Ensures appropriate measures are taken to any adverse impacts on patient care when projects in the Primary Care Clinics are considered and planned for that result in interruption of patient care services, utility shutdowns, computer shutdown, changes in employee working conditions, etc.
• Implements policies and decision-making processes that enhances accessibility for the veteran patient. Monitors access and makes changes and implements changes to improve access.
• Facilitates development, implementation, and analysis of primary care cost containment program. Develops annual budget within the limitations set by budgetary allocation, for approval by management. Develops the Annual Management Briefing and prepares and incorporates the proposed budget for Primary Care Service.
• Develops new program areas and extends existing programs including writing necessary proposals/justifications necessary for funding staff, physical facilities, supplies, and equipment for short or long range program planning and development for effective delivery of health care service.
• Assesses patient satisfaction and performance improvement activities and does so by fostering a patient focused environment resulting in demonstrable improvements in patient service outcomes.

The incumbent serves in a developmental capacity at the GS-11 level. Key functions will be similar to those described at the full performance level of the target position. However, during the developmental assignment, full performance range and level of selected functions will not be completely delegated to the employee until proper orientation and training have been completed and the incumbent has demonstrated the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to accomplish the work at the full performance level.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Serves as Scheduling Manager by advising the Deputy Chief of Health Administration Service (HAS), The Chief HAS, and others concerning patient processing, all outpatient scheduling oversight, and auditing within the Salt Lake City Health Care System.
• Provides technical advice and expertise concerning patient processing and scheduling activities for the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center and ten CBOCS in Utah.
• Serves as point-of-contact for supervisors and staff scheduling outpatient services to assist in answering inquiries related to patient scheduling activities, and ensure compliance with all VHA directives, handbooks, guidelines, and/or policies related to patient scheduling activities.
• Analyzes data generated from a variety of sources to identify and report by section, clinic or other location implementation of significant process changes and adherence to the systems re-design principles.
• Serves as liaison between HAS leadership, medical center management, service chiefs and front-line employees in identifying and initiating corrective actions, such as training, to achieve improved clinic access. More complex issues that arise will be researched with recommendations supported with data, forwarded to the appropriate stakeholders and/or leadership for final decisions.
• Responsible for the daily program planning, future planning and administration for all outpatient scheduling HAS operations within the SLCHCS. The incumbent is delegated authority under the Deputy Chief HAS and the HAS Chief to make procedural changes, decisions, workload assignments and commitments within the section.
• Responsible for the recruitment of supervisory personnel within the section assigned at SLCHCS and will directly mentor and ensure leadership and supervisory training development of these staff occurs during each fiscal year.
• Maintains overall administrative management for the section including interpreting administrative policies, developing or implementing local policies, defining administrative requirements, and/or providing advice to management on related issues.
• Develops performance standards and evaluate work performance of subordinates

MAJOR DUTIES:

• Orient to the Substance Abuse Residential Treatment Program for cross-coverage staffing.
• Collaborates with providers, the Access Crisis Team (ACT), and with other areas of the hospital to coordinate patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Acts as a preceptor/mentor to new staff and/or students.
• Provides patient and family education.
• Provides assistance with activities of daily living as needed.
• Uses CPRS/VISTA to document the nursing process.
• Serve as a resource to patients to enhance their knowledge of medication uses, side effects, and dosage.
• RN will verify medication orders and document medications according to policy.
• Uses CPRS, GovTA, Outlook, and TEAMs for timekeeping and communication.
• Performs procedures within his/her/their scope of practice and unit-based competencies.
• Proactive in identifying potential crisis situations and responds appropriately in emergency situations.
• Functions competently as a team leader - assists in making staff assignments to ensure nursing care is delivered safely and that all patients on the unit are receiving appropriate care.
• Transcribes/verifies provider orders according to policy.
• Employ age-related and cultural interventions appropriate to cognitive, physical, and emotional needs will be employed and tailored to the individual patient.
• Care will be provided without discrimination and harassment, regardless of a patient's age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical/medical disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, and gender identify/expression.
• Maintains safety and infection control standards.
• Maintains a professional, healthcare business environment.
• Participates in and can articulate performance improvement data and how it impacts patient care.
• Can articulate standards of care and practice, policies, memorandums, and procedures/SOPs.
• Strictly protects verbal, written, and electronic patient personal and health information.
• Documents completely and timely.
• Demonstrates situational awareness of safety and other environment of care issues.
• Conducts health education classes, therapeutic groups, and community meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring that their/her/his actions contribute to a mode of continued accreditation readiness regarding Joint Commission (TJC), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), VA surveyors, Laboratory College of American Pathologists, and other survey teams.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws
Clinical - Pharmacist functions

• Medication orders are reviewed in context of the patient's past medication and drug use history. This history shall include but not limited to current Rx medications, pertinent past medications, OTC medication use, herbals, allergies and adverse drug reactions, vaccinations, substance misuse, patient knowledge base, compliance, and therapeutic concerns. Resolves all prescription problems or questions with providers prior to dispensing.
• Prescriptions will be reviewed for therapeutic appropriateness in regard to dose, schedule, route, dosage from, indication, duplicate therapy, treatment guidelines, and untreated indications. Therapeutic drug interventions are identified, quickly resolved, and well documented.
• Patients are efficiently and professionally counseled about their medications, including the use of OTC products and herbals. May provide written and/or oral consultation with prescribers and other health-care professionals regarding pharmacotherapeutics. Documentation is added to CPRS.
• Reconciles medication orders to home medications when available via Vista. At time of discharge, reconciles inpatient medication, past outpatient regiments and new regiments in terms of therapy changes and proper prescription utilizing and determine future follow ups with high-risk medications.
• Flagging prescriptions and managing view alerts. Will generate unsigned discontinued orders using "Service Reject" when prescription is duplicate or harmful to patient.
• Documents any adverse reaction related to or possibly related to any medication use.
• Consults with patient's physician to minimize harm to the patient and ensure maximum assessment and treatment of potential problems.
• Communicates effectively with patients and with other health care professionals on drug related matters.
• Develops and maintains a working knowledge of our Pharmacy VISTA/CPRS software package. Verifies and/or accurately enters information into computer system.
• Workload is prioritized to assure that prescription and medication orders reach patient in a timely manner.
• Assures that the preparing and dispensing of medications adheres to current law, regulations, policies and procedures and professional standards of practice.
• Dispenses completed prescriptions with instructions/medication information to the patient or family member.
• Checks the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, and volunteers for accuracy.

VA Careers - Pharmacy: https://youtube.com/embed/Fn_ickNBEws
Clinical - Pharmacist functions

• Medication orders are reviewed in context of the patient's past medication and drug use history. This history shall include but not limited to current Rx medications, pertinent past medications, OTC medication use, herbals, allergies and adverse drug reactions, vaccinations, substance misuse, patient knowledge base, compliance, and therapeutic concerns. Resolves all prescription problems or questions with providers prior to dispensing.
• Prescriptions will be reviewed for therapeutic appropriateness in regard to dose, schedule, route, dosage from, indication, duplicate therapy, treatment guidelines, and untreated indications. Therapeutic drug interventions are identified, quickly resolved, and well documented.
• Patients are efficiently and professionally counseled about their medications, including the use of OTC products and herbals. May provide written and/or oral consultation with prescribers and other health-care professionals regarding pharmacotherapeutics. Documentation is added to CPRS.
• Reconciles medication orders to home medications when available via Vista. At time of discharge, reconciles inpatient medication, past outpatient regiments and new regiments in terms of therapy changes and proper prescription utilizing and determine future follow ups with high-risk medications.
• Flagging prescriptions and managing view alerts. Will generate unsigned discontinued orders using "Service Reject" when prescription is duplicate or harmful to patient.
• Documents any adverse reaction related to or possibly related to any medication use.
• Consults with patient's physician to minimize harm to the patient and ensure maximum assessment and treatment of potential problems.
• Communicates effectively with patients and with other health care professionals on drug related matters.
• Develops and maintains a working knowledge of our Pharmacy VISTA/CPRS software package. Verifies and/or accurately enters information into computer system.
• Workload is prioritized to assure that prescription and medication orders reach patient in a timely manner.
• Assures that the preparing and dispensing of medications adheres to current law, regulations, policies and procedures and professional standards of practice.
• Dispenses completed prescriptions with instructions/medication information to the patient or family member.
• Checks the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy students, and volunteers for accuracy.

• Manage the technical and administrative aspects of the radiology department.
• Receive patients, explains methods of procedures and positions and sets technical factors to attain a high quality radiograph.
• Perform all appropriate x-ray examinations, EKGs and other procedures performed in an outpatient ambulatory facility.
• Perform variety of routine to complex examinations to meet the needs of the medical staff.

• Manage the technical and administrative aspects of the radiology department.
• Receive patients, explains methods of procedures and positions and sets technical factors to attain a high quality radiograph.
• Perform all appropriate x-ray examinations, EKGs and other procedures performed in an outpatient ambulatory facility.
• Perform variety of routine to complex examinations to meet the needs of the medical staff.

Assists the Safety Administrator in performing all duties of the Safety Administrator position.

Develops and implements a comprehensive environmental management program for the institution.

Conducts thorough safety and environmental inspections of the institution and prepare factual reports.

Develops and provides training programs for environmental compliance and environmental management systems.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.

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

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

Below are the current positions recruiting for possible reassignment:

• Hospitalist
• Geriatrics
• Ophthalmology
• Pathology
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry
• Urology
• Anesthesiology
• Cardiology Non-Invasive
• Colon & Rectal Surgery
• Emergency Medicine
• Family Practice
• General Internal Medicine
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Physical Medicine & Rehab
• Radiology-Diagnostic
• Surgery

Duties: This position serves as Supply Technician (Medical) for the Medical Supply Distribution (MSD) areas of Logistics Service within the VA Health Care System. As a Supply Technician, you will provide wards, clinics, operating rooms, secondary storage locations, and other hospital facilities with supplies and material including, but not limited to, sterile and non-sterile medical supplies, instrument sets and equipment.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• 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.
• Receives supplies and material into the medical center's catchment area.

Major Duties Include (but not limited to):

1. Arrange major and minor repairs associated with the chiller and boiler plants.
2. Create documents such as Statement of Work, Independent Government Cost Estimates, Responsible Source Lists, and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans on multiple annual service contracts.
3. Monitor and control the handling and disposal of liquid and solid hazardous materials in coordination with Safety Specialist.
4. Supervise various station level contracts and perform final and progress work inspections on all Operations contracts under $500,000.00.
5. Serve as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) on multiple service contracts (must obtain COR certification within 6 months of employment.
6. Analyze vendor proposals and service contracts.
7. Coordinate service calls for replacement or repairs.