Total 512 Others level Maintenance / Repair job vacancies in Fort Defiance, Arizona

• Advise top management, staff, and operating officials on safety matters affecting the medical treatment facility.
• Responsible for correcting deficiencies found during inspections by representatives of the various organizations for the development and implementation of national safety standards.
• Develop local safety directives and procedures.
• Evaluate the local safety program to assure accomplishment of goals and objectives.
• Prepare reports of findings and follows up with appropriate staff to ensure that hazardous situations have been corrected.
• Interpret safety and occupational health standards as they relate to the health care facilities for military and civilian personnel.
• Train staff in safety and occupational health requirements and safe work practices sufficient to ensure a safe work environment.

• Perform a full range of supply technician duties with responsibility for obtaining medical/dental material, equipment and services from commercial sources.
• Serve as a point of contact for review, correction and submission of all prime vendor summary receipts for both medical/surgical and pharmaceutical Class VIII supplies.
• Work with the Defense Supply Center Program (DSCP) in order to review outstanding orders.
• Reconcile vendor invoices with automated system and make changes accordingly to ensure proper payment is made.
• Serve as a medical commodity manger performing duties in the documentary control and management of the Federal Supply Class or Classes assigned.
• Work directly with the contractual prime vendor to determine the best course of action to correct discrepancies either orally or in writing.

• Provides training on proper test score data entry.
• Oversees test material security, control, and storage procedures.
• Resolves test scoring automation issues.

• Serve as Physician in the Neurology Clinic and as Neurology consultant to the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) clinic.
• Responsible for the examination, diagnosis and treatment of the full range of outpatients seen in the clinics.
• Supervise (clinically), teaches and provides consultation to other health care providers such as nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical students, interns, residents, and fellows.
• Assist with on-call coverage.
• Provide recommendations or definitive evaluation for neurology problems in the referral region through phone consultation, telemedicine, and authorization and evaluation of air evacuation patients as appropriate.

• 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.

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

• Advise top management, staff, and operating officials on safety matters affecting the medical treatment facility.
• Responsible for correcting deficiencies found during inspections by representatives of the various organizations for the development and implementation of national safety standards.
• Develop local safety directives and procedures.
• Evaluate the local safety program to assure accomplishment of goals and objectives.
• Prepare reports of findings and follows up with appropriate staff to ensure that hazardous situations have been corrected.
• Interpret safety and occupational health standards as they relate to the health care facilities for military and civilian personnel.
• Train staff in safety and occupational health requirements and safe work practices sufficient to ensure a safe work environment.

• 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.

• Conduct psychological assessments of patients with a wide variety of psychological disorders that affect intellectual, cognitive, behavioral or emotional function.
• Develop, monitor, approve, and document clinical treatment plans and clinical records in a timely fashion.
• Oversee, administer and interpret psychological testing to include maintaining and securing test instruments and raw testing data.
• Conduct individual and group therapy, psychoeducational sessions, and psychotherapeutic interventions.
• Provide expert oversight of training in diagnosis and treatment to certified and intern counselors.
• Experience working with functional restoration programs, acceptance and commitment therapy, or interdisciplinary programs is a plus.

• Provide direct surgical support of a highly specialized nature to patients undergoing surgery including the newest and most complex, state-of-the-art procedures in multi-specialties.
• Select, assemble, and organize required supplies (setup, connect, test, operate drills, saws, etc.) and instruments for specific surgical procedures.
• Pass instruments and equipment to the surgeon during surgical procedures by anticipating the surgeon’s needs.
• Verify whether the counts are correct or incorrect and communicate with the circulating nurse throughout the case to insure no items are retained in the surgical wound.
• Clean or terminate operating room after surgical procedures. Remove and properly dispose of soiled and/or contaminated linens/materials.

• Perform daily quality assurance testing on all equipment used in the cleaning and sterilization of surgical instruments.
• Select appropriate chemical or washing agent necessary for decontaminating or cleaning surgical instruments.
• Assemble, inspect and package instrumentation appropriately by their instruction of use.
• Sterile storage of instrumentation, pulling case carts, inventory stock, removing or replacing damaged supplies/sets.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures of the Department of Health, The Joint Commission, OSHA and other industry standards and regulations, as well as those of medical treatment facility.
• Check the expiration date on all sterile supply items, removes all outdated items, and rotate the stock.
• Inventory emergency procedural carts, scanned into instrument tracking system and lock with proper lock.
• Replenish case carts to retain the established quota level for each item on the cart.
• Interpret test results, take appropriate action based on results and log all results.

• Respond to on-site to accidents and other emergencies involving injury and illnesses; sometimes encounters situations which may be life threatening.
• Conduct a complete examination of the patient to determine the nature, extent, and seriousness of his condition and searches for medical alert symbols.
• Prioritize treatments for patient having multiple problems and employs a variety of established emergency medicine techniques, methods and equipment to the appropriate medical facility.
• Document procedures or treatment rendered.
• Perform thorough safety and maintenance inspections and minor repairs on emergency and patient transport vehicles and a variety of medical equipment.

• Work highly complex cases in which individuals are severely impacted by moderate to severe psychiatric diagnoses.
• Provide individual, family, and group clinical counseling services.
• Analyze information collected to determine psychiatric diagnosis, treatment plan and/or advisability of counseling or referral to other specialists or institutions.
• Evaluate results of counseling methods to determine the effectiveness of treatment used.
• Provide case management services to effectively manage patients enrolled in behavioral intensive outpatient behavioral programs.
• Execute performance initiatives through revision of clinical standards and procedures.

• Applies extensive knowledge of industrial engineering processes to perform long-range pre-production planning for prime and support workload requirements relevant to depot maintenance.
• Develops/revises standards including labor, material, equipment and facilities for operations cards, labor, and material standards necessary for documentation of work requirements on engine workload and subsequent analysis for refinement.
• Determines the impact of proposed workload changes by planning acceleration or deceleration of production schedules.
• Attends provisioning conferences for material and equipment.