Total 29 job vacancies in Los Angeles

Duties include but are not limited to:

• provide technical advice, planning, and evaluation about health information management issues impacting the overall program on a regular and recurring basis.
• establishes policies, procedures, responsibilities, and requirements for HIMrelated matters, such as health record documentation, coding and clinical documentation improvement, release of information, file room/scanning, records management, transcription and medical speech recognition, as well as the overall management of health information and Veterans health records.
• oversee development, implementation and adherence to HIM industry standards, policies, procedures, laws, regulations, and accrediting bodies.
• ensure the facility is in compliance with applicable standards, by completing HIM audits, developing healthcare data reports, and statistical information, for timely and accurate reporting. The CHIM monitors HIM performance through dashboards, productivity standards, and benchmarking.
• Creates and monitors systems to ensure accurate, timely, and complete health records, in accordance with VHA policy and TJC health information protocols.
• Measures ongoing intradepartmental performance by establishing priorities, collecting data, monitoring and reporting outcomes, using valid and reliable techniques to analyze trends and variation, and taking appropriate action based on findings.
• Responsible for all facets of health records management for the facility ensuring maintenance of complete, accurate, timely, clinically-pertinent, and readily-accessible patient health records, which contain sufficient recorded information to serve as a basis to plan patient care, support diagnoses, warrant treatment, measure outcomes, support education, research, and facilitate performance improvement processes and legal requirements.
• provide detailed technical expertise in health records science and other very technical aspects of HIM.
• Maintains all health information input into the local VistA database and assures timely transmission of that data into all VA centralized databases - most frequently those maintained at the Austin Data Processing Center.
• assure that all health information that is coded and abstracted meets the requirements of the VA and/or TJC and is consistent with professional health records standards.
• Performs the administrative and personnel management functions relative to staff supervised.
• Develops work improvement plans, recommending personnel actions as necessary.

• Analyzes data for routine projects; applies knowledge of the organizational mission, projects, programs and processes to assess products and to streamline processes.
• Performs preliminary analysis of data for complex projects in support of senior analysts.
• Under the guidance of the SIG Chief or senior analysts, works with agency staff to develop briefings for the Command that deliver key mission-related data to stakeholders.
• Receives higher headquarters taskers, action items, and operation orders, analyzes them for applicability, and assigns suspense requirements to agency staff.

The Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) interact with both internal and external customers providing exceptional customer service and ensuring overall customer satisfaction. Candidates will be reviewed for minimum qualifications as outlined in the qualifications section of this announcement and referred to the Greater Los Angeles VA Health Care System AMSA Interview panel. Ideal candidates resumes must be skilled in customer service, identify customer concerns, customer satisfaction and resolution, ability to operate computer programs, and scheduling of appointments. In addition, you will be contacted by various entities within Human Resources to begin all pre-employment processes and must satisfy all condition of employment before a firm offer of employment is made.

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient appointments and/or consults.
• Entering no-show information.
• Monitoring appointment requests from multiple electronic sources.
• Participating in team huddles and team meetings to manage and plan patient care.
• Setting priorities and deadlines.
• Adjusting the flow and sequencing of the work to meet team and patient needs.
• Monitoring pre-appointment requirements to assure readiness for patient visit/procedure (e.g. X-Ray, Lab Work).
• Managing electronic wait list to verify and validate accuracy and resolve issues.
• Participating and providing input in problem solving on operational issues or procedures in team meetings.
• Performing administrative follow up actions.
• Evaluating patient information and clinic schedule lists to determine whether patient is vested.
• Educating providers about shared patients (those who receive their care at multiple VAs or those who have care in the community and bringing to the attention of the provider.

This Public Notice for Attorney Advisor (Direct Hire) position is located Direct Reports (DR), Chief Counsel Office (CCO), Transportation Security Administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provision of on-site legal support for TSA senior executives and management at the nation's Federalized airports on a wide range of issues such as civil and criminal enforcement, labor and employment law, civil rights, ethics, and the interpretation of statutes, regulations and executive branch orders pertaining to transportation, homeland and national security.
• Provides guidance to lower-level staff to address diverse, complex legal issues impacting the transportation industry. Works with managers to advise on the development of legal precedents and case strategies, including the preparation of the TSA view of salient factors impacting the case. Develops approaches to address current or anticipated problems and issues impacting the success of the TSA legal brief. Works with management to jointly solve problems. Provides policy guidance and legal interpretations to others, both internally and externally.
• Often serves as project manager or team leader by planning, coordinating, and developing legal briefs and approaches. Is responsible for developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex legal issues.
• Proposes preventive actions and methods for ensuring TSA policies and practices align with emerging legal interpretations and precedents impacting transportation industry security operations. May participate in the development of recommendations for new and innovative approaches to supplement broad policies and objectives that are only indirectly applicable to emerging transportation legal issues.
• Typically exercises direct responsibility for completing tasking's as part of the management of large, complex legal cases or projects. Identifies applicable precedents or legal theories for use in developing briefs and defending the TSA position.
• Provides advice and guidance to key management officials regarding legal issues and the impact of legal decisions or past/emerging precedents on TSA policies and operations.

WHAT IS THE Taxpayer Advocate Service-(TAS) DIVISION?
A description of the business units can be found at: https://www.jobs.irs.gov/about/who/business-divisions

Vacancies will be filled in the following specialty areas:
Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS), Executive Director Case Advocacy (EDCA), Area 6

The following are the duties of this position at the full working level.

• Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of
  assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Evaluates work performance of subordinates and makes recommendations for outstanding performance
  recognition or disciplinary action.
• Gives advice, counsel, or instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters.
• Interviews candidates for positions in the unit; recommends appointment, promotion, or reassignment to
  such positions.
• Hears and resolves complaints from employees, referring group grievances and more serious unresolved
  complaints to a higher-level supervisor or manager.

The major duties for these positions are:

1. Cultivates partnerships and collaborates with state and local government partners to support the development and expansion of conservation and outdoor recreation areas and opportunities.
2. Identification and analysis of community needs, resources, and problems, and assist local and state officials and citizens to make decisions on goals, policies, priorities, plans, programs, and methods of implementation; Must work through established local, regional, State, and Federal agency policies to develop community assistance goals, and the provision of public outdoor recreation facilities; The preparation of comprehensive, statewide short- and long-range development plans for outdoor recreation facilities and resources based on community needs, program priorities and available funds.
3. Help officials responsible for decisions to obtain a comprehensive view of problems and operations, to be aware of the range of alternative solutions, and understand the relationship and long range impact of present decisions; work with the physical, climatic, economic, social, political, and financial conditions in communities, the process of change, and the policy questions related to guiding that change.
4. Supports program reviews for consistency with applicable laws, regulations, program policy, guidance, and procedures.
5. Coordinate planning activities and programs at and between several jurisdictional levels (local, regional, State, and national); and maintain an overview and evaluate policies and planning documents after initial application to update them or to suggest other approach; Coordinating programs and projects with other Federal, State, and local agencies, public officials, historic preservation offices, local developmental authorities, and other affected non-Federal organizations.

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team in the Criminal Investigations Unit for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Central California that is responsible for planning, conducting and managing complex criminal investigations. Typical work assignments will include:

• Oversees the planning and coordination of complex investigations in one or more of the following areas: national-security related offenses, fraud, bribery and public corruption, money laundering, violent crime, and cyber-crime.
• Develops and authorizes operational plans and procedures for arrests and searches.
• Conducts interviews of victims, witnesses, and subjects.
• Reviews and analyzes data such as telephone records, cell-site data, bank records, credit card records, and email.
• Testifies in the grand jury, trial, and other court proceedings as to facts and to explain in detail how evidence was obtained.
• Manage high-stress and high-profile investigative inventory.
• Document and memorialize reports for investigation.
• Apprehend and arrest persons violating U.S. laws and conduct searches and seizures incident to arrest when appropriate or by warrant.
• Provides advice and assistance to assigned Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) during investigations and prosecutions.
• Authority and experience to carry firearms, arrests, and search and seizure.
  

If selected for this position, you will join a well-respected team in the Criminal Investigations Unit for the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Central California that is responsible for planning, conducting and managing complex criminal investigations. Typical work assignments will include:

• Oversees the planning and coordination of complex investigations in one or more of the following areas: national-security related offenses, fraud, bribery and public corruption, money laundering, violent crime, and cyber-crime.
• Develops and authorizes operational plans and procedures for arrests and searches.
• Conducts interviews of victims, witnesses, and subjects.
• Reviews and analyzes data such as telephone records, cell-site data, bank records, credit card records, and email.
• Testifies in the grand jury, trial, and other court proceedings as to facts and to explain in detail how evidence was obtained.
• Manage high-stress and high-profile investigative inventory.
• Document and memorialize reports for investigation.
• Apprehend and arrest persons violating U.S. laws and conduct searches and seizures incident to arrest when appropriate or by warrant.
• Provides advice and assistance to assigned Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) during investigations and prosecutions.
• Authority and experience to carry firearms, arrests, and search and seizure.

As a General Engineer/ Physical Scientist (Nuclear Safety Specialist) you will:

• Lead safety planning, organization, and DOE/NNSA regulatory compliance review.
• Advocate and secure NNSA and M&O commitment to Safety Strategies.
• Resolve emerging operational safety issues preventing long-term facility and program adverse safety impact.
• Manage and review Safety Basis Documents including Major Modification Determinations, Safety Design Strategy, Conceptual Safety Design Report, Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis, Documented Safety Analysis, Technical Safety Requirements, Evaluation of the Safety of the Situation, Justification for Continued Operations, Safety Basis Addendums, and Temporary Changes to the Safety Basis.
• Provide oversight for nuclear and non-nuclear facilities and accelerator facilities.
• Collaborate with team participants and stakeholders identifying and resolving issues with potential to impact safe mission operations and controls.
• Provide oversight of the Contractor for Nuclear Safety System Operations.

• Conducts complicated searches on multiple databases and systems to locate data and analyze information.
• Determines the significance validity and reliability of data and produces written reports for use within the FBI.
• Utilizes the appropriate methods and techniques to handle difficult conversations telephonically and face to face with the public.
• Prioritizes all incoming emergency and non-emergency communications identifying the appropriate level of response, determining other critical information, and notifying respondents accordingly.
• Maintains constant communication with the on-scene point of contact for an emergency for the duration of the event or until authority is transferred to the appropriate officials.
• Performs crisis intervention with distraught emergency callers during high-risk situations until appropriate emergency field units arrive on scene.

THIS IS A T32 EXCEPTED SERVICE, PERMANENT POSITION

The primary purpose of the SUPERVISORY SUPPLY TECHNICIAN, GS-2005-9, is to serve as Property Book Officer and be responsible for the management of organizational property accounts.

May make additional selections within 90 days of eligible(s) issuance.

As a/an Director CPD (Field), you will:

• Oversee the effective management of a grant portfolio, CPD formula and competitive programs which includes large metropolitan areas and significant financial investments, ensuring the timely processing of grant applications, contract execution, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, as well as HUD guidelines.
• Develop and execute multiyear and annual plans which are aligned with Departmental strategic goals and are responsive to specific needs of the community involving the Field Directors in the process.
• Delegate authority to subordinates supervisors and hold them accountable for the performance of their organizational unit.
• Serve as CPD's primary regional representative over Field Offices jurisdictions, promoting CPD programs and Departmental initiatives.
• Represent HUD and CPD at national, state, local other professional meetings and conferences.

As a/an Director CPD (Field), you will:

• Oversee the effective management of a grant portfolio, CPD formula and competitive programs which includes large metropolitan areas and significant financial investments, ensuring the timely processing of grant applications, contract execution, and compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, as well as HUD guidelines.
• Develop and execute multiyear and annual plans which are aligned with Departmental strategic goals and are responsive to specific needs of the community involving the Field Directors in the process.
• Delegate authority to subordinates supervisors and hold them accountable for the performance of their organizational unit.
• Serve as CPD's primary regional representative over Field Offices jurisdictions, promoting CPD programs and Departmental initiatives.
• Represent HUD and CPD at national, state, local other professional meetings and conferences.

Typical duties include but are not limited to:

• Promotes a Just Culture environment in building a climate for effective performance while allocating available resources to promote safe, efficient, effective, and quality nursing/patient care.
• Observes and evaluates the quality of nursing care provided including interdisciplinary patient rounds, reviewing nursing documentation in clinical records, and collecting, reviewing, and analyzing data related to the delivery of patient care.
• Assure the compliance with all regulatory agencies and standards of practice AORN and implementation of required actions to meet Performance Measures.
• Provides leadership in the application of the nursing process to patient care, organizational processes and systems, and improves outcomes at the program or service level.
• Initiates an educational plan to meet changing program or service needs for self and staff.
• Implements an educational plan to meet changing programs or service needs for self and others.
• Maintains knowledge of current techniques, trends and professional issues.
• Coaches colleagues in team building.
• Contributes to the strategic planning process, day-to-day operations, Logistics Management, Budget, Staffing, Human Resource actions, Hiring and attainment of goals of the organization.
• Ability to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients as needed
• Promote the mission, vision and values of the organization
• Supervise and evaluate staff and budgeting unit expenditures among other responsibilities
• Uses effective conflict resolution techniques
• Pursues professional growth and participates in professional organizations
• Acts as a patient advocate and maintains privacy and confidentiality of all information
• Participate in performance improvement activities
• Applies the nursing process to systems or processes at the unit/team/work group level to improve care.
• Demonstrates leadership by involving others in improving care.
• Establishes and communicates workplace priorities and makes assignments accordingly.
• Skillfully performs in rapidly changing, atypical or crisis situations.
• Communicates and enforces policies and procedures, including nursing guidelines, IT & HIPAA policy.
• Ensures administrative action is completed timely, accurately, consistently, and fairly.
• Treats all patients and families with dignity and respect.
• Listens to and honors patient and family perspectives and choices. Patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.
• Supports and enhances client self-determination.
• Serves as a resource for clients and staff in addressing ethical issues.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing judgments and actions.
• Coaches staff to initiate ethical discussions with multidisciplinary team members, patients, and family.
• Identifies and assesses resource utilization and safety issues, taking appropriate action.
• Effectively directs the flow of patient care.
• Serves as resource to ensure employees follow appropriate standard operating procedures related to the equipment, devices, and work practices that impact or have the potential to impact the environment.
• Monitors staff actions to put broken equipment out of service immediately, tags as broken,
• Seeks opportunities for staff to provide for organization succession planning.
• Participates in facility or VISN-wide educational conferences, through serving on planning committees or making presentations.
• Completes timely performance evaluations.
• Recognizes and rewards employees as appropriate.

As a Wildlife Refuge Manager your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

• Plans, manage, evaluate and carries out the biological program at the assigned refuge. Oversees, reviews, and approves conservation projects; prepares proposals for development projects (to include timeframes and costs) and submits proposals for review/approval during annual budget cycle.
• Remains abreast of current and everchanging natural resources laws, rules and regulations that affect the National Wildlife Refuge System.
• Develops long-range plans, annual work plans, budgets and work schedules. Implements short, medium, and long-range operation plans based on existing or approved plans, and coordinates work schedules for equipment and resources with other Refuges/WMDs within the Complex.
• Supervises a small team of professional, technical, analytical, administrative support staff, and blue collar workers (permanent and seasonal staff), setting a team attitude of adhering to high professional standards and completion of accurate, high quality work. Overall direct supervisory responsibilities include, but are not limited to, planning work to be accomplished by subordinates, setting and adjusting short-term priorities, and preparing schedules for completion of work; assigning work to subordinates; evaluating work performance of subordinates; providing advisory, counsel, or instruction to employees on a variety of matters; interviews candidates for positions in the unit.