Total 631 job vacancies in Sheppard AFB, Texas

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Work Schedule: Monday to Friday; 7:30am to 4:00pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more.
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
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

This position reports directly to the Assistant Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the VA Northern California Healthcare System. The Pain Section Chief, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Service (PM&R), is responsible for the administrative supervision, management, and direction of the PM&R Pain programs, including the Interventional Pain and Chronic Pain programs.

The principal duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Administration:

• Leadership responsibilities: Organizing Pain section staff meetings, communication both down to staff, across to other Section Chiefs, and up to PM&R Leadership, as well as crafting congressional responses, heads up and issue briefs, when requested to do so by VHA PM&R Leadership.
• HR Management: Recruitment; updates on Functional Statements and Position Descriptions; physician salary management and pay panel documentation; and Focused and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) on privileged staff.
• Staff Management: Retention to include performance appraisal (mid-year and yearend) OPPE (twice a year on each provider); rewards and recognition; promotions; disciplinary actions and grievances; training requirements (including Talent Management System capability); employee health requirements and Protected and Administrative Peer Reviews.
• Time and Leave Management: Tour of Duty assignment and documentation, including VISTA/VATAS approvals of leave, timecard certification, and approvals of clinic cancellations.
• Business Planning: Systems redesign; manage service DSS mapping (workload); staffing needs; capacity and demand analysis resource needs (i.e., equipment, IT, supplies, space, etc.) followed by oversight of preparation of the annual Service Business Plan to be presented to Senior Leadership.
• Clinical Management (direct and indirect patient care): Open encounter and consult management, provider productivity, CPRS documentation requirements, oversight of clinic scheduling and access, ensuring staff productivity, oversight of relevant performance measures, and development of the new focus on the IDES Program and Department of Defense Collaboration, Utilization, Quality, and Patient Safety oversight through process improvement (system redesign).
• Other duties as assigned by the Chief of PM&R.

• Patient Care: Practitioners are expected to provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the promotion of health, prevention of illness, treatment of disease, and care at the end of life.
• Medical/Clinical Knowledge: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate knowledge of established and evolving biomedical, clinical and social sciences, and the application of their knowledge to patient care and the education of others.
• Clinical Judgment: To ensure practice-based learning and improvement, practitioners are expected to be able to use scientific evidence and methods to investigate, evaluate, and improve patient care.
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate skills that enable them to establish and maintain professional relationships with patients, families, and other members of the health care team.
• Professionalism: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate behaviors that reflect a commitment to continuous professional development, ethical practice, understanding, and sensitivity to diversity, as well as a responsible attitude toward their patients and their profession.
• Systems-Based Practice: Practitioners are expected to demonstrate both an understanding of the contexts and systems in which health care is provided, and the ability to apply this knowledge to improve optimizing health care.

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

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday; 8:00am to 4:30pm
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not authorized
Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more.
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact V21CCOEEDRP@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance
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

The PM&R Pain is responsible for delivery of pain and rehabilitative care for outpatient PM&R Pain clinics including medication management and interventional management. This position is Pain Management, Opioid Safety and Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PMOP) funded position.

The principal duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provides comprehensive pain and rehabilitation care to veterans through clinical evaluation and treatment within the outpatient Pain Program, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) clinics and inpatient care as needed.
• Performs medication management including opioids, spine and other pain procedures, ultrasounds, non-medication management of pain including physical therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic, etc. and conducts Pain and PM&R clinics as needed and comply by all PMOP requirements.
• Supports the Opioid Safety Initiative (OSI) and opioid stewardship efforts in compliance with the Government Accountability Office, Office of Inspector General and Office of National Drug Control Policy.
• Ensures clinical appropriateness of the treatment of patients served, including timely and appropriate transition to other levels of care, notation of contraindications and precautions of care.
• Supervises and educates/trains PM&R residents in clinical activities relevant to PM&R and Pain Management.
• Coordinates Pain and PM&R clinics for meeting patient care needs, implementing Stepped Care Model for Pain Management (SCM-PM) and educates primary care physicians and other providers about referrals to the Pain Program.
• Development and expansion of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation programs and clinics for comprehensive pain care with Primary Care, Mental Health, Physical Therapy, Pharmacy, Nursing, and other disciplines as appropriate.
• Communicates with Pain Management and PM&R physicians, nursing, pharmacists, mental health care providers, primary care providers and other members of the interdisciplinary team and communicates/interacts daily with the team as needed.
• Collaborates with other services to ensure appropriate and timely pain related consultation and coordination of care.
• Assists in the identification of training and education needs for the Pain program staff and provides education and training for all members of the clinical staff as needed.
• Assists in the timely processing of referrals of patients in the Pain program and pain related PM&R clinics following timeliness metrics.
• Participates in telehealth for Pain Program and PM&R clinics as needed.
• Performs Pain and PM&R consultations as directed by the Chief of PM&R/Assistant Chief of PM&R/Pain Section Chief.
• Ensures the ongoing provision of care that complies with the "Organization Code of Ethics" for VA. 1
• Participates in performance improvement activities for the Pain Program and pain related PM&R department activities.

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• Performs professional aerospace engineering work involved in the application of advanced theories, concepts, principles, and processes to the acquisition, development, or sustainment of weapon systems, subsystems, and/or support equipment.
• Functions as the organization's technical specialist in design and development engineering for critical systems and subsystems through the evaluating technological trends and formulates overall design concepts and criteria to establish the baseline for state-of-the-art engineering developments.
• Performs complex and comprehensive analysis, disciplined, quantifiable approaches to implement, develop, and document projects.
• Serves as a consultant and technical expert to senior subject matter specialists, agency and/or Department of Defense (DoD) officials responsible for broad program operations.
• Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities at least 25% of the time to include planning work for subordinates, setting and adjusting short/long-term priorities, prepares schedules for completion of work, and evaluates employee performance.

• Serve as the Communications Security (COMSEC) Manager for all cryptographic activities including managing the Cryptographic Access Program; manages, audits and inventories base and tenant units COMSEC users material holdings at required intervals.
• Develop and implements communications security criteria and requirements for inclusion in mobility, contingency, and exercise plans for the warfighter.
• Implement and manages the AirForce Key Management Infrastructure (KMI) program.
• Establish and manages the KMI transition process and services fielding concepts to ensure an accurate and smooth migration from the legacy Electronic Key Management System (EKMS) to KMI.
• Perform EMSEC countermeasures assessments on Base facilities that process classified information; conducts EMSEC inspections, reporting, and customer education for the installation (all assigned and subordinate organizations to include tenants).

• 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.

• Provide project management support which includes project planning, control, reporting, risk management, scheduling, tracking, variance analysis and administrative support throughout the life cycle.
• Plan actions to evaluate, coordinate, document, and obtain approval or disapproval, and implementation of project actions in support of the Acquisition Management Project Director to extend and relieve him/her of responsibilities.
• Perform cost benefit studies of new or modified systems and the actions necessary for their development to ensure that the enterprise captures the total cost of all actions necessary for systems development or modification.
• Perform configuration management to include planning, change control, Configuration Control Board coordination and support and documentation.
• Document project activities and associated dates and resources, dependencies among activities, with indication of deliverable due dates and project milestones.
• Conduct IT project feasibility and scope analysis using as input a customer supplied functional requirement or equivalent.

• Performs various financial management/budget functions for the development of operation targets, sales rates and prices, budgets, and exhibits and in support of the execution of funds, capital investments, measurement of financial and/or program performance and provides management advisory services.
• Uses automated financial management systems and computer-generated products in accomplishing financial and/or program management assignments.
• Provides advisory services regarding proper methods, techniques, and factors for decision support.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to complex processes in the areas of expense, capital investment and commodity budget development, workload and resource projections, equipment life cycle management and execution analysis.

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• Exercises supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets, and adjusts short/long-term priorities, and prepares schedules for completion of work. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and requirements of assignments, and the capabilities of employees.
• Identifies developmental and training needs of employees, providing or arranging for needed development and training. Finds ways to improve production or increase the quality of the work directed. Providing planning, directing, organizing, and exercising control over nonsupervisory employees.
• The incumbent works with the test teams to assure an integrated approach to test activities. This includes the identification and appropriation of test requirements and resources including modeling and simulation capabilities, system integration Laboratory support, flight and ground instrumentation support, data analysis systems, ground based test facilities, integration of weapon systems and subsystems including command, control communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (C5ISR), offensive and defensive avionics systems and related support systems test.
• Serves as a consultant and expert in electronics engineering, computer engineering or computer science work involved in the application of advanced theories, concepts, and principles related to development or sustainment of systems.

• Responsible and accountable for all elements of the discharge process including patient teaching.
• Collaborates with the nurse and other team members to assure effective, timely discharge of patients throughout the continuum of inpatient care.
• Monitors admissions for anticipated length of stay (LOS) and discharge date.
• Identifies and anticipates needs for teaching, caregiving support, and details regarding discharge prescriptions and or transportation needs on the day of discharge, initiates and helps to complete all discharge related paperwork and documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR), participates in the daily interdisciplinary team (IDT) huddles and facilitates discussion of patient and family needs, ensuring frequent contact with case manager and social worker and other disciplines with identified needs requiring intervention, i.e. housing, transportation, medications, nutrition, prosthetics.

• Serves as Senior Paralegal and Administrative assistance providing independent professional legal assistance directly to the Chief and contracts attorney, Acquisition Management and Integration Center (AMIC), who in turns supports the ACC/AMIC Director by providing advice and guidance on matters relating to acquisition law at the Headquarters Air Combat Command level; to act as a primary contact regarding divers legal issues and administrative operations with senior management, program managers, contracting officers, and individual attorneys; and to work with counterparts at ACC, The Judge Advocate General's Corps ("JAG Corps"), Air Force Legal Operations Agency ("AFLOA"), Department of Defense ("DoD"), and other Executive agencies regarding same issues.
• Provides correct and practical administrative, management and procedural advice and services to Chief of DRJ and other attorneys in a timely manner.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative, productive professional relations with various government and non-government organizations at all levels.
• Mastery of the principles of government contract and fiscal law, including federal statutes related to government contract law, federal court and administrative case law relating to government contract law, the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement, the Department of Air Force Acquisition Regulation Supplement, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Executive Orders, rules issued by the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals, rules issued by the Government Accountability Office for bid protests, and policy guidance issued by the Office of Procurement Policy, the Department of Defense, and the Air Force.

• Utilizes office policies and procedures to effectively perform administrative duties.
• Tracks legal cases concerning improper recruiting practices and adverse personnel actions.
• Prepare information for distribution to staff within assigned Brigade.
• Monitors progress of legal cases and actions throughout the Brigade.
• Conduct follow-ups to ensure timely movement on legal actions.
• Review actions to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Composes routine correspondence on behalf of the Command Judge Advocate Office.
• Reviewing outgoing correspondence for grammatical accuracy.

• Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, specifications, and work orders in manufacturing aircraft sheet metal structures which have combined straight and curved edges, and irregular angles, planes, and curves.
• Examines aircraft sheet metal structures to locate cracks, breaks, holes, bulges, dents, and loose or missing rivets.
• Prepares various surfaces of interior and exterior aircraft sheet metal structures by mechanically and chemically removing old paint and rust, filling cracks, sanding, and applying fillers and base coats.
• Uses and maintains tools.
• Utilizes safety practices and procedures following established safety rules and regulations and maintains a safe and clean work environment.

The primary purpose of this position is: as an Air Reserve Technician (ART), to perform pilot and pilot in command duties in assigned aircraft. Position also accomplishes a variety of administrative duties related to flight and mission accomplishment such as scheduling, squadron operations management, combat mission planning, and training. Provides training to reservists in the accomplishment of tasks set forth herein.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Accomplishes a variety of administrative duties related to flight instruction and mission accomplishments such as scheduling, squadron operations management, combat mission planning, and training.
2. Analyzes and interprets unit goals, mission, metrics, policies and objectives.
3. Ensure that the unit meets or exceeds readiness requirements and is capable of supporting upgraded/modified/new aircraft as indicated, recommending new or changed programs to maintain wartime capability.
4. Performs pilot and pilot in command duties in assigned aircraft and provides a full range of ground and airborne flight instruction to Reservist, instructors, flight examiners, and assigned personnel in unit type aircraft.
5. Reviews mission tasking, intelligence, and weather information.
6. Performs mission planning, preparation and filing of flight plan, and crew briefing.
7. Pilot's aircraft and commands crew, operates aircraft controls and equipment.
8. Performs or directs navigation, in-flight refueling and weapons delivery.
9. Ensures operational readiness of crew by conducting mission specific training.
10. Develops plans and policies, monitors operations, and advises commanders.
11. Assists commanders and performs staff functions related to their aircraft specialty.
12. Interviews pilots assigned or attached to determine backgrounds and training in various types of aircraft, especially in the type of aircraft assigned to the unit.
13. Schedules pilots as to type, phase and degree of flying training required and scheduling individual pilots for extra flying hours when determined necessary.
14. Conducts a continuous and aggressive flying safety program and maintains a complete file on flying safety matters for the education of all assigned aircrew.

• Advise depot organizations of control points such as financial budget matters, stock fund, and issuing of stock.
• Provide supply organizations support for activities that are unique to the organization’s mission.
• Prepare cost justification on requirement objectives, anticipated needs, etc.
• Adapt policies and procedures for application to specific cases or problems.
• Evaluate procurement actions to determine supply demand.