Total 265 job vacancies by Veterans Health Administration

Duties include but not limited to:

• Reviews existing stock and manufactures' catalogs. manuals and listing to obtain substitute or interchangeable items to supply in lieu of items questioned.
• Communicates with customers and vendors to obtain information regarding availability and functionality of non-expandable equipment and supplies.
• Provides guidance to customers on identification of material through research of original equipment manufacturers part catalog for part numbers, descriptions, and size of parts needed.
• Processes applicable catalog update transactions in accordance with current published procedures.
• Periodically, reviews assigned manufacturers code and part numbers for continued validity and takes necessary action to update, delete, or dispose of in accordance with published guidelines.
• Interacts with clinical and administrative customers to ensure issues and needs are identified and either resolved or escalated to supervisors or Inventory Management Specialists as needed.
• Communicates to the lead or supervisor any concerns related to supplies, equipment and procedures, providing information as needed orally or in writing regarding customer or external stakeholder issues, general telephone inquiries and visitor referrals.
• Coordinates drop-off of new or transferred equipment and pick up of turn in equipment; scanner pick up and drop off for annual Electronic Inventory Listing (EIL) inventory; and delivery times and area with contractors and vendors with other VA activities, contractors or manufacturers through personal transactions.
• Reviews numerous computer output listings in the performance of research and identification of supplies as well as prepares system inquires and interpret the responses.

• Reviews guidance to develop Standard Operating Procedures that outline research compliance program operations.
• Prepares and submits research audit findings reports to researchers and presents findings at research review committee meetings.
• Conduct compliance audits and provide compliance training to study teams as indicated based on the audit findings.
• Participates in the planning and delivery of educational and informational research workshops/seminars for the purpose of informing, educating, and stimulating others concerning safe and compliant conduct of research.
• Acts as a compliance resource for researchers during pre- and post-approval process of their research projects to ensure adherence to compliance requirements.
• Acts as a resource during review and discussion of research proposals submitted from staff investigators, and reviewed by research review committees.
• Provides training to study teams with regard to IT systems used to enter project data to ensure compliance.
• Monitors quality of data and procedures and assures that human research subjects' rights are protected.

VA Careers - Physical Therapy: https://youtube.com/embed/Gi2hoFqIoqY

Clinical Duties

The Physical Therapist (PT) is responsible for independently providing assessment and treatment interventions to inpatients and outpatients received through healthcare providers and patient self-referrals. The incumbent establishes a diagnosis within the scope of physical therapy, identifies appropriate rehabilitation intervention including referral to another provider for further consultation as clinically indicated. Incumbent formulates a treatment plan and goals, and is responsible for implementation, modification, and documentation of treatment. Incumbent exhibits complex clinical skills.

Incumbent schedules the patient for treatment in order to establish and achieve the maximum goal(s) for the patient. Incumbent frequently interprets and reports to healthcare providers the reaction to treatment, which have medical significance and diagnostic value.

Incumbent functions as a core team member of clinical and or multi-disciplinary team(s) for the purpose of providing total health care delivery to the patient and continuity of care by sharing ideas and exchanging pertinent information. As a member of the treatment team, the incumbent is responsible for the development and maintenance of professional standards of physical therapy. Incumbent maintains a close working relationship with medical and allied health care specialists to assess patient conditions and progress and coordinate patient treatment to effect maximum rehabilitation potential.

Incumbent demonstrates a full professional understanding of the theories of treatment in physical therapy and their proper application through the use of therapeutic rehabilitation procedures.

Incumbent follows established guidelines, ethics and protocol of the Physical Therapy Section, the PM&R Section, the department of Veterans Affairs and the profession. Incumbent exercises initiative, discretion, adaptability and sound professional judgment at all times.

Incumbent demonstrates competency in assigning, treating, advancing, and establishing goals.

Incumbent frequently selects, adapts, and/or adjusts modalities in accordance with rehabilitation goals. Modifies techniques and develops new approaches as necessary to ensure the realization of patient treatment goals. The incumbent uses both standard and non-standard methods and techniques for evaluating and interpreting a wide variety of patient physical and psychosocial functional levels for providing progressive treatment rationales.

Incumbent functions as a clinical preceptor for affiliating, technical and professional level students in conjunction with the Clinical Coordinator and/or Program Coordinator. Incumbent serves as mentor for volunteer or observation students. Incumbent provides clinical oversight of Physical therapy assistants. Ability to make autonomous clinical decisions in a Direct Access environment that includes the ability to independently evaluate and treat patients who seek physical therapy services.

Administrative Duties

Complete Encounter information in accordance with Stratton VA Medical Center guidelines.

Using the computer system for storing and retrieving electronic documents and files, transmitting and receiving e-mail, activating printers, requesting leave, and accessing the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS)

Communicate and coordinate coverage for anticipated leave and communicate unanticipated leave in accordance with PM&R Service policies.

Perform other tasks as assigned by the Coordinator that are consistent with the mission of the section, care line and facility.

Performs competent written documentation of initial examinations, progress notes, and discharge summaries.

Demonstrates advanced competency in knowledge of electronic documentation and computer skills.

Entering consults within the PM&RS Service or to the Prosthetics service for rehabilitation equipment in accordance with PM&RS and medical center policies.

Reviews and co-signs notes written by the PTA to whom the PT has delegated patient care.

Incumbent participates on patient care and hospital committees to establish continuity and collaboration of principle/care.

Incumbent will assist the quality assurance effort and prepares monthly reports as required to accomplish goals.

Educational Duties

Complete all VAMC mandatory training in a timely manner.

Incumbent will continually seek to improve knowledge and skill by review of current literature, participation in in-service training, and attendance at continuing education programs especially in their area of expertise.

Continuing education and training will be focused on maintaining and improving competency in all general clinical functions including coursework directed toward improving PM&R patient services.

Performs other duties as assigned

Work Schedule: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Telework: Not Available
Functional Statement #: 24667-F

• Serve and protect Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors and others who frequent VA facilities;
• Ensures a safe and secure environment;
• Takes charge of significant and catastrophic events;
• Providing training and education to Veterans Health Administration Police Officers.
• Conducts classroom lectures, presentations and skills demonstrations;
• Develops, presents, delivers, and coordinates for training programs;
• Prepares lesson plans and training material for class participants;
• Modifies training curriculum as needed;
• Establishes and maintains statistical database of training requirements, schedules, rosters, training records and training results;
• Conducts research to assess training needs and programs;
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Monitoring, for compliance and timely update, of expiration of time-limited credentials.
• Serving as subject matter expert (SME) in the field of credentialing.
• Receiving and reviews VetPro reports detecting problem areas requiring further investigation.
• Managing provider applications (initial) for Non-LIPs credentialing within the VAMC.
• Assuring application packages and other documents meet technical requirements per specialty of provider and assures application folder and database account (VetPro or other internal databases and spreadsheets) meet technical requirements.
• Determining processes for coordination of incoming data and documents from a variety of sources.
• Analyzing and managing issues related to documents that do not meet expected requirements, regulations or guidelines such as adverse actions against licensures, certifications, and NPDB) CQ reports.
• Conducting final appointment into the VetPro database, after thoroughly researching, analyzing and validating all data, information, documents and signature authorities.
• Developing and providing routine and special reports as requested by the C&P manager/Analyst.
• Possessing a credit card and is responsible for maintaining records, reconciling monthly charge statements and verifying legitimacy of requests for NPDB Single and CQ enrollments/ renewals, licensure verification (if applicable), National Student Clearing House, Work Number and certifications (if applicable).
• Reconciling transactions and resolving discrepancies with Fiscal Service.
• Performing other credentialing duties as assigned.

Responsible for the oversight of transportation and grounds programs, ensuring that the Medical Center patients using Manchester's shuttle system are transported to other Medical Centers in the safest possible manner, that deliveries/pickups are made daily to internal customers as necessary, and that the Medical Centers grounds are maintained in a safe and aesthetically pleasing state at all times. Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Utilizes and maintains all automobiles, trucks, and special purpose vehicles and equipment.
• Assures that all program responsibilities are adequately met and that all areas assigned are clean, sanitary and aesthetically pleasing and that sidewalks, stairs, and parking lots are shoveled/plowed and sanded/salted.
• Participates with his/her supervisor in the selection, promotion or reassignment of staff and recommends disciplinary actions and incentive awards, plans for improving work performances and training programs.
• Ensures safe and efficient operation of all grounds and snow removal equipment
• Instructs subordinates in the safe and efficient operation of such complex equipment as pay loaders, snowplows, tractors with backhoe, front-end loader and gang-mowers.
• Oversees environmental sanitation, waste management, and basic pest functions.
• Plans and coordinates flow of operations insuring grounds/transportation and environmental management program tasks are completed in assigned areas on a week-to-week basis.

The Supervisory MRT (ROI) must ensure that only the information that the Veteran specified be released, is shared only with those whom the Veteran has authorized, or who have legal authority to receive such information. To perform this task, a MRT (ROI) must possess expertise in all applicable Federal laws, rules, and regulations regarding release of health information.

Incumbent serves as supervisor and technical expert for the Release of Information Unit. Provides guidance and suggestions to the Chief, HIM and Assistant, Chief HIM regarding staffing needs and shortages within the ROI section. Provides effective audits and monitors for all areas of responsibility, assuring that accurate and timely data is processed by all employees. Reviews work accomplished and assesses quality, quantity, accuracy and timeliness of work produced by each employee. Ascertains problems encountered and takes corrective action. Develops performance standards and conducts performance evaluations. Develops and conducts competency assessments. Responsible for carrying out established personnel functions and practices. Keeps employees informed about important aspects of personnel management programs. Formulates and initiates performance standards. Interviews new employees, recommends selection, and carries out training and development of assignments, awards or disciplinary action. Approves leave and establishes work schedules. Implements provisions of EEO programs to ensure fair and equal treatment for all employees.

Prepares formal requests and recommendations for promotions, reassignments, other status changes, or recognition of outstanding performance of assigned employees. Prepares and submits functional statements for new positions, clarification, or updates. Receives formal grievances, resolving those that can be resolved by the first level supervisor. Takes disciplinary action as deemed necessary and proposes to higher authority specific disciplinary action. Keeps employees informed of management goals and objectives and higher levels supervisors informed of employee participation and concerns. Ensures that release of information activities related to the development, implementation, maintenance of and adherence to privacy policies and procedures are performed and coordinated in compliance with applicable federal laws and regulations including the Privacy Act of 1974, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Automated Medical Information Exchange(AMIE).

Ensures that record retrieval and record transfers to other VA facilities for the purposes of continuity of patient care and release of information are timely. Maintains contact with VA Regional Counsel (VARO) in all matters relating to malpractice, subpoena actions and request for preparation of TORT records. Assist in performing 100% quality review of all TORT cases prior to sending records to VARO for litigation. Prepares weekly ROI and TORT record turnaround statistics. Monitors workload and production of staff, taking action where necessary to meet deadlines, monitors/evaluate performance and ensures accuracy of work completed. Assures that the work of staff is at an appropriate quality and productivity level. Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 21J36-O
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

This job is open to current, permanent employees of the Western New York (WNY) VA Medical Centers and WNY affiliated Community Based Outpatient Clinics.

The Deputy Chief of Quality, Safety & Value (QSV) - Registered Nurse demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes. The Deputy Chief of QSV will demonstrate performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. The incumbent will ensure that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks in order to lead performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and act as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.

The Deputy Chief of QSV - RN assumes a leadership role in facilitating regulatory compliance for internal and external oversight bodies (i.e., The Joint Commission (TJC), Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Directives and Handbooks, etc.), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and VHA performance measures, supporting performance improvement work, and supporting and guiding the work of committees.

Job Duties Include but are not limited to:

• Execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
• Ensures that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
• Leads performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.
• Consult and act as a resource to leadership and staff in standards interpretation implementation, patient safety, infection control, risk management, and re-design of processes and structures to improve care outcomes.
• Develop and implement policy and procedures, collaborates with service departments, and works toward meeting the strategic plan of the organization.
• Monitor corrective actions from survey findings and assists services who are performance outliers.
• Responsible for completing clinical quality reviews, clinical data analysis, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Support all QSV work to include but not limited to Accreditation, System Redesign, Infection Prevention, Patient Safety, Risk Management, High Reliability Organization (HRO), Just Culture, and evidence-based practices.

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Project management: Assist senior staff members in planning, engineering management, operation, and overall coordination; and for providing advice, assistance and information on all matters related to assigned conventional projects of moderate complexity. Work typically requires coordination of project work requirements with other technical and administrative elements within the agency. Applies standardized knowledge of engineering principles, methods, techniques, and criteria to projects that are conventional in nature. Provides engineering services associated with job order contracting and construction to include evaluating tenant requirements; to establish scope of work; design criteria; and estimates of design time and costs; providing technical assistance to support contract administration; accomplishing study/design requirements; and preparing/coordinating design packages for renovations, repairs and or alterations.
• Customer support: Serves as a central point-of-contact for status of all engineering work requests of a short-term nature. Reviews work requests for feasibility, compliance with restrictions imposed by regulatory and statutory directives and the impact of the planned operation and maintenance of the installation. Within the parameters of prior experience, determines which requests the incumbent can approve and have processed, and which require other approving authorities. Based on determinations, makes recommendations to the methods or means for accomplishment or provides all required information, such as scope of work and costs, to other authorities for their decision. Ensures that work requests are processed in accordance with established operating procedures, that they are checked for duplication, and they are processed in accordance with approved priorities. Provides technical assistance to other parties as may be required to improve work management and productivity.
• Technical reviews: Reviews and checks technical aspects such as drawings, specifications, quantities, costs, accuracy, completeness and conformity with requirements for planned projects where precedence has already been established. Participates in the preparation of input to procurement packages to ensure correct content and format of technical data. Monitors drawings and the methods used in their preparation. Attends meetings with pertinent personnel to evaluate progress and reviews completed work. Verifies data presented by contractors or other personnel and discusses any special requirements for specification control and source control drawings.
• Long-term planning: As a team member, participates in projects of a broad and complex nature requiring approval of advanced engineering concepts by senior staff members. Assignments are routine in nature and guidance is generally available. To address long-term needs, participates in group meetings with stakeholders to discuss complex engineering and technical problem areas and proposed approaches. Maintains contact with design engineers, technical personnel of other government activities and private contractors to resolve common problems, such as exchanging information. Participates in studies to address problems in healthcare quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency. Utilizes a range of analytical techniques, statistical methods, and industrial and quality engineering tools, to collect baseline information that identifies limitations or potential improvements.

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.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Guide and direct patient treatment to assist veterans in obtaining optimal levels of functioning and improving overall quality of life within the MFH environment.
• Provide direct 1:1 treatment and services that require the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical skills.
• Provide information and referral services to various community services, as appropriate.
• Maintain records of work accomplishments, tabulates statistics related to patient treatment outcomes, and submits reports on event capture, trends and issues.
• Make independent assessment of the psychological, healthcare, and financial needs for each veteran and formulates a therapeutic treatment plan.
• Plan, organize, conduct and supervise a comprehensive and complex therapeutic/self-directed Recreation Therapy program.

Duties include but not limited to:

• Guide and direct patient treatment to assist veterans in obtaining optimal levels of functioning and improving overall quality of life within the MFH environment.
• Provide direct 1:1 treatment and services that require the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical skills.
• Provide information and referral services to various community services, as appropriate.
• Maintain records of work accomplishments, tabulates statistics related to patient treatment outcomes, and submits reports on event capture, trends and issues.
• Make independent assessment of the psychological, healthcare, and financial needs for each veteran and formulates a therapeutic treatment plan.
• Plan, organize, conduct and supervise a comprehensive and complex therapeutic/self-directed Recreation Therapy program

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

These positions involve a multi-grade career ladder. The major duties listed below represent the full performance level of GS-6. At the GS-5 level, the employee performs 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-6. 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:

• Responsible for complex purchasing that requires irregular research, analysis, collaboration, and many other steps to ensure both best value and the most appropriate devices are purchased for the Veterans.
• Responsible for routine purchasing that includes routine purchase orders on established contracts or through established vendor resources using regular significant research, analysis, or collaboration.
• Performs technical level purchasing support adhering to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Veteran Affairs Acquisition Regulations (VAAR), Veteran Health Administration (VHA), and Prosthetics directives and handbooks, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN) policy and station memorandums to acquire patient specific medical equipment, supplies and services based on a medical provider's clinical assessment and evaluation of the Veteran's medical condition.
• Submits Acquisition Plans and Procurement Packages for stock and veteran specific needs to the Network Contracting Office and uploads quotes, bids, invoices, consults, and other important documents to Electronic Contract Management System (eCMS).
• Utilizes Unique Entity Identifier number (UEI) information and ensures each vendor is in the System for Award Management (SAM) and in good standing to do business with the government.
• Verifies accountability of all prosthetics expenditures in both the purchase menu and the prosthetics program and associate all obligations to the individual veteran.
• Quickly deduce from written prescriptions or oral requests what items or services are needed and/or conduct follow up information requests to the initiator to clarify the medical need or device specifications.
• Independently monitors, receives, tracks, interprets, and analyzes Prosthetic Consults, and prescriptions (VAF 10-2431) for items, services and home medical equipment from physicians, therapists, medical center personnel, patients, or their representatives.
• Ensure consults are competed and appropriately closed within guidelines and follows-up on all pending consults to ensure services are rendered as quickly as possible or as indicated on the prescription/consult.
• Ensure pending requests are posted to the suspense log and enters data to verify the workload statistics used to determine facility funding for Prosthetic activities.
• Independently responsible for successfully completing the mandatory purchase card training, allowing the incumbent to be a government purchase card holder and obligate funds on behalf of the government.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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

The Bronx James J. Peters VA Medical Center is currently recruiting for 1 Full Time RN Manager in Community Living Care (CLC)The Nurse Manager has designated first-line supervisory authority, responsibility, and accountability for the 24/7 operations of their units, ensuring that nursing personnel provide timely nursing care which complies with generally accepted standards of clinical practice.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Functions as a clinical expert and is responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing or supervising direct patient care.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates delivery of care based on age specific components.
• Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the continuum of care.
• Demonstrate sound decision-making and judgment and possess excellent interpersonal skills.
• Self-directed and influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team and leading innovative process improvement initiatives.
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
• The first-line supervisory authority and is responsible and accountable for the 24/7 operation of their assigned units and provides coverage for other NMs as needed.
• Responsible and accountable for the direction and supervision of specific orientation, training, development of staff, and evaluation of individual staff performance.
• Functions as a role model, educator, practitioner, and supervisor providing leadership to the team. They influence care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team to remove barriers and implement new evidence-based cutting-edge programs/processes.
• Engages in professional organizations to enhance leadership and career growth. They adhere to ethical principles in decision-making, fostering accountability at personal, organizational, and staff levels.
• Equip staff with tools for culturally competent care and promotes a culture of accountability for high-quality, cost-effective outcomes.
• Cultivate alliances across the care continuum, building trust through active listening, engagement, and emotional intelligence.
• Contributes to the development of care delivery models and environmental design, ensuring evidence-based, accessible, affordable, and equitable patient care.
• Ensures compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards. Aligns nursing/clinical objectives with organizational strategic outcomes, participating in strategy planning and execution.
• Promote an inclusive workplace valuing diversity to achieve the organizations vision and mission.
• Maintains knowledge and ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements.