Total 551 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Jackson, MS - Main Campus

The Transportation Assistant will serve as a primary contact for Veterans, doctors, nurses and administrative staff to arrange travel for eligible Veterans to appointments and residence when appropriate, using laws and regulations to distinguish/ensure reimbursements are legitimate or if fraudulent activity is being conducted by the beneficiary. The Transportation Assistant must also possess some knowledge of clinical services, related software, and programs as they relate to computing and office automation.
Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Independently manages the Beneficiary Travel Program.
• Correctly determines eligibility for the Beneficiary Travel Program and process requests.
• Correctly determines which of several fund control points to utilize.
• Maintaining manual and electronic accounting records.
• Responsible for determining method of payment for authorized and unauthorized ambulance claims submitted for consideration.
• Reconciling vouchers against authorizations for accuracy prior to preparing certifications for payment.
• Receiving invoices for payment of transportation services and submitting documents for payment.
• Assisting fellow team members during peak workload times and when there are staffing shortages.
• Assigned to different work areas to maximize customer service.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

**If you are a current, permanent VA Nationwide employees and Federal employees of other Agencies, you should apply to CBST-12604066-25-RC**

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Duties of the Medical Instrument Technician (Diagnostic Ultrasound) include, but are not limited to the following:

• Advises radiologists or referring physician of significant abnormalities that would require their immediate attention and visualization while the patient is undergoing examination.
• Performs ultrasound examinations of the abdomen, neck, chest, and extremities, retro- peritoneal space for the purpose of acquiring high quality examinations that assist in the diagnosis and treatment of patient medical disorders.
• Participates in the training of physicians, students, and radiology technologist so that these individuals may acquire understanding of the principles of ultrasound and how it relates to other diagnostic exams.
• Performs routine clerical procedures for the purpose of maintaining accurate ultrasound records so that easy recall patient examinations may be achieved. This requires maintaining a diagnostic log, patient schedule log, and procedure log, editing and when necessary, registering patients in the Radiology Information System (RIS).
• Makes multiple simultaneous settings and adjustments in operation of equipment to insure accurate results. Based on radiologic findings, determines necessary ultrasonic procedures to yield definitive diagnostic findings. Reviews new developments in the field and recommends to supervisor those that would improve the operation of the section.
• Maintains adequate supplies so that examinations are not delayed due to the lack of necessary equipment and supplies.
• Develops and maintains patient prep procedures so that patients and wards understand the proper preparations for ultrasound examinations in an effort to minimize delays of examinations. These preps are disseminated either by written preparation information or by telephone conversation.
• Explains examinations to be performed to the patients so that an understanding of the purpose of the study as well do any requirements of the patients is thoroughly understood. This is done so that an adequate ultrasound study may be obtained in an effort to get diagnostic examinations for the purpose of treatment and diagnosis of disorders.
• Gathers related information such as electronic medical record in CPRS, previous imaging exams out of Vista imaging so that correlation of examinations to other studies may be made by the radiologist in diagnosis and recommendation of treatment for medical disorders.
• Distributes ultrasound examinations and related information to the radiologist responsible for the interpretation often exams.
• This is done so that treatment based on diagnosis may be effectuated in a timely manner.
• Assists quality assurance technologists in performing quality assurance testing on the ultrasound unit using phantoms, test tools, test check lists, etc. for the purpose of assuring peak performance of the ultrasound equipment.
• Maintains records of the quality assurance testing so that easy reference is available should servicing be necessary on a weekly basis.
• Performs or supervises routine housekeeping duties to assure that the ultrasound area is clean and sanitary. This is done so that when sterile procedures are required in the ultrasound area, there is minimal possibility of cross contamination due to unsanitary conditions.

**If you are not a current, permanent VA Nationwide employees and Federal employees of other Agencies, you should apply to CBST-12601638-25-RC**

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Duties of the Medical Instrument Technician (Diagnostic Ultrasound) include, but are not limited to the following:

• Advises radiologists or referring physician of significant abnormalities that would require their immediate attention and visualization while the patient is undergoing examination.
• Performs ultrasound examinations of the abdomen, neck, chest, and extremities, retro- peritoneal space for the purpose of acquiring high quality examinations that assist in the diagnosis and treatment of patient medical disorders.
• Participates in the training of physicians, students, and radiology technologist so that these individuals may acquire understanding of the principles of ultrasound and how it relates to other diagnostic exams.
• Performs routine clerical procedures for the purpose of maintaining accurate ultrasound records so that easy recall patient examinations may be achieved. This requires maintaining a diagnostic log, patient schedule log, and procedure log, editing and when necessary, registering patients in the Radiology Information System (RIS).
• Makes multiple simultaneous settings and adjustments in operation of equipment to insure accurate results. Based on radiologic findings, determines necessary ultrasonic procedures to yield definitive diagnostic findings. Reviews new developments in the field and recommends to supervisor those that would improve the operation of the section.
• Maintains adequate supplies so that examinations are not delayed due to the lack of necessary equipment and supplies.
• Develops and maintains patient prep procedures so that patients and wards understand the proper preparations for ultrasound examinations in an effort to minimize delays of examinations. These preps are disseminated either by written preparation information or by telephone conversation.
• Explains examinations to be performed to the patients so that an understanding of the purpose of the study as well do any requirements of the patients is thoroughly understood. This is done so that an adequate ultrasound study may be obtained in an effort to get diagnostic examinations for the purpose of treatment and diagnosis of disorders.
• Gathers related information such as electronic medical record in CPRS, previous imaging exams out of Vista imaging so that correlation of examinations to other studies may be made by the radiologist in diagnosis and recommendation of treatment for medical disorders.
• Distributes ultrasound examinations and related information to the radiologist responsible for the interpretation often exams.
• This is done so that treatment based on diagnosis may be effectuated in a timely manner.
• Assists quality assurance technologists in performing quality assurance testing on the ultrasound unit using phantoms, test tools, test check lists, etc. for the purpose of assuring peak performance of the ultrasound equipment.
• Maintains records of the quality assurance testing so that easy reference is available should servicing be necessary on a weekly basis.
• Performs or supervises routine housekeeping duties to assure that the ultrasound area is clean and sanitary. This is done so that when sterile procedures are required in the ultrasound area, there is minimal possibility of cross contamination due to unsanitary conditions.

• Collaborating with services, internal and external to the VA, to facilitate care transition to effectively meet the patient's needs
• Providing patient and family health education
• Working in partnership with assigned provider and panel of patients for effective disease and chronic care management
• Reviewing outstanding consult list daily and assisting with scheduling as needed
• Following up on care in community consults
• Promoting Veteran Health Promotion and Disease Prevention guidelines

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf
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This Medical Support Assistant (Advanced), also referred to as an Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA) position serves as a Consult Coordinator for Community Care. The AMSA works collaboratively with other members of expanded health care teams (i.e., Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT), specialty care) including Community Care providers, pharmacists, social workers, dieticians, behavioral health staff, etc. to provide a robust interdisciplinary approach to care. Important interfaces and collaborations also occur with larger health care system providers including VA and non-VA specialists, hospitals, diagnostic and treating facilities, and community-based programs.

The primary duties of the Medical Support Assistant (Advanced) may include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining appointment schedules for Community Care.
• Communicating with Community Care providers to ensure they accept VA patients and payments.
• Preparing any required pre-appointment documents.
• Scheduling the appropriate level of care and documents the schedule in the appropriate consult.
• Obtaining medical documentation from community providers.
• Scanning the appropriate consult within the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and alerts VA providers for continuity of care.
• Coordinating internal and external care between customers and providers.
• Processing consults following Office of Community Care procedures and guidelines and enters appropriate authorizations, if required, utilizing the correct Fund Control Point (FCP)/Obligation number and correct cost estimations.
• Supporting patient safety standards using the correct Veterans Affairs identification of all patients using two forms of identification, name and Social Security Number.
• Using each interaction with the patient to validate and update patient demographic information, over the phone, to decrease the incidence of returned mail due to incorrect addresses and inability to contact patient by phone due to incorrect number.
• Collecting, scanning, and updating health insurance information.
• Scheduling Veteran appointments with community providers using VistA or other software scheduling options.
• Using established business rules to schedule appointment for Veterans which includes clinic visits, consultations, and entries into the Recall Reminder system and Electronic Wait List (EWL).
• Complying with the mandatory training requirements for the outpatient scheduling processes.
• Ensuring all appointments are scheduled timely and the provider and patient's desired dates are met.
• Consistently communicates and treats customers (patients, visitors, volunteers, and all Medical Center staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
• Providing the customers with consistent information according to established policies and procedures.
• Handling conflicts and problems in dealing with the customer constructively and appropriately.

Duties of this position include:

• Performs duties related to the receipt, intake, scanning, indexing, quality control, destruction, and transfer of health and administrative information.
• Confirms record integrity and reviews the image quality.
• Utilizes a computer to perform a wide variety of record keeping, correspondence, and tracking operations and performs timely filing, retrieval, and clerical duties associated with the retention, maintenance, disposition, guardianship and control of health records in both terminal digit and alphabetic filing system.
• Recalls records when necessary and returns them to correct location after purpose has been accomplished.
• Scans various health information documents.
• Reviews documents for appropriate scanning criteria and ensures that all necessary health/administrative information meeting the criteria.
• Retrieves records using a combination of computer-based patient treatment history and historical record transactions to deduce locations of hard-to-find records.
• Processes health record transfer requests.
• Ensures sensitive health records are maintained in an extra-secure manner and available only to requestors in the scope of their official duties.
• Maintains confidentiality of all electronic records and paper components of the health record.
• Follows appropriate procedures when mailing and destroying health information in paper or electronic format.
• Communicates daily with other administrative and clinical staff members to locate/obtain health records.
• Explains health record documents to medical center staff and assists them in understanding how to recognize which nomenclature and indexing term to use.
• Conducts extensive searches for health records when initial searches have been unsuccessful.
• Maintain accessible records and provide efficient service for direct and indirect patient care by managing the receipt and scanning of health documents in a timely and accurate manner.

**If you are not a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply to CBST-12593917-24-LS

This is an open continuous announcement. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available. Applications will remain on file until March 31, 2025.

Duties performed include but are not limited to the following:

• Identifies and record anomalies of the heart indicative of disease, injury, or other medically significant conditions from ultrasound imaging and simultaneous recordings of the Doppler;
• Incorporate the causes and results of a variety of symptoms and conditions into a plan of ultrasonic diagnostic examination;
• Change and develop sounding techniques to accommodate such variables as limited patient mobility, variation in physical condition or dimension of the patient presence of prosthetics or foreign objects, and ultrasonic response of different body parts;
• Produce diagnostic quality images and doppler and Doppler frequency recordings using M-mode, two-dimensional, and Doppler ultrasound;
• Provides training and supervision of complex examination and treatment procedures and techniques;
• Assists in performing Treadmill stress tests when available;
• Assists with immediate patient management in cases of emergent echocardiographic findings;
• Assists with immediate patient management in cardiology clinic when required per local site policies;
• Teaches basic techniques to cardiology residents, fellows, and students assigned to the laboratory;
• Performs preventive maintenance of the equipment and coordinates service with biomedical engineering including help with researching/obtaining quotes for parts/services needed.
• Assists in writing Policies, Procedures and Protocol development.
• Assists in performance of stress echocardiograms.
• Assists in performance of contrast echocardiograms- Agitated sterile saline, contrast agents.
• Ability of assisting cardiologist in performing transesophageal echocardiograms.
• Performs Holters/Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring when available.
• Assists in maintaining and ordering adequate supplies used in the Echo department.
• Assist Medical Service with all cardiology clinic consultations tracking to include inpatients and outpatients consults.
• Any other duty as assigned by the Cath Lab Supervisors and/or Chief of Cardiology.
• Assists in the transport of patients when transportation services are not available

**If you are not a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply to CBST-12593916-24-LS

This is an open continuous announcement. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available. Applications will remain on file until March 31, 2025.

Duties performed include but are not limited to the following:

• Identifies and record anomalies of the heart indicative of disease, injury, or other medically significant conditions from ultrasound imaging and simultaneous recordings of the Doppler;
• Incorporate the causes and results of a variety of symptoms and conditions into a plan of ultrasonic diagnostic examination;
• Change and develop sounding techniques to accommodate such variables as limited patient mobility, variation in physical condition or dimension of the patient presence of prosthetics or foreign objects, and ultrasonic response of different body parts;
• Produce diagnostic quality images and doppler and Doppler frequency recordings using M-mode, two-dimensional, and Doppler ultrasound;
• Provides training and supervision of complex examination and treatment procedures and techniques;
• Assists in performing Treadmill stress tests when available;
• Assists with immediate patient management in cases of emergent echocardiographic findings;
• Assists with immediate patient management in cardiology clinic when required per local site policies;
• Teaches basic techniques to cardiology residents, fellows, and students assigned to the laboratory;
• Performs preventive maintenance of the equipment and coordinates service with biomedical engineering including help with researching/obtaining quotes for parts/services needed.
• Assists in writing Policies, Procedures and Protocol development.
• Assists in performance of stress echocardiograms.
• Assists in performance of contrast echocardiograms- Agitated sterile saline, contrast agents.
• Ability of assisting cardiologist in performing transesophageal echocardiograms.
• Performs Holters/Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring when available.
• Assists in maintaining and ordering adequate supplies used in the Echo department.
• Assist Medical Service with all cardiology clinic consultations tracking to include inpatients and outpatients consults.
• Any other duty as assigned by the Cath Lab Supervisors and/or Chief of Cardiology.
• Assists in the transport of patients when transportation services are not available

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Medical Support Assistant: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-MSA-VA-Career-Flyer.pdf

If you are a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply CBST-12602158-25-TS

The MSA is responsible for screening incoming calls to the Community Care Service and carrying out a variety of administrative and technical duties in support of the department. Primary duties of the Medical Support Assistant include, but are not limited to:

• Performs duties related to the receipt, intake, and indexing of health and administrative information;
• Utilizes a variety of patient data systems to schedule patient for appointments, including interpreting and verifying provider orders in accordance with VHA national scheduling guidelines;
• Responsible for scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient's appointments and annotates patient records;
• Enters no show information and monitors the electronic wait list;
• Perform front desk duties, receives telephone call, and interacts with both internal and external visitors for clinic visits;
• Monitors both inpatient and outpatient appointments for areas of responsibility;
• Ensures that encounter forms are completed in order to obtain appropriate workload credit;
• Verifies and updates demographics and third party insurance; updates information in the Insurance Capture Buffer (ICB) system;
• Coordinates information and actions related to patient care and services;
• Processes all emergency and non-emergency transfers to other VA facilities or private hospitals;
• Performs basic eligibility and travel benefits;
• Responsible for panel management for the assigned Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT);
• Assists with communication to and from the team and patient;
• Communicates with physicians, case managers, and other Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members, or allied health professional staff, using sound interpersonal skills and is constantly aware of the sensitive information.

Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf

Medical Support Assistant: vacareers.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/Total-Rewards-of-a-MSA-VA-Career-Flyer.pdf

If you are not a current, permanent VA employee or Federal employee from another agency, you should apply CBST-12602159-25-TS

The MSA is responsible for screening incoming calls to the Community Care Service and carrying out a variety of administrative and technical duties in support of the department. Primary duties of the Medical Support Assistant include, but are not limited to:

• Performs duties related to the receipt, intake, and indexing of health and administrative information;
• Utilizes a variety of patient data systems to schedule patient for appointments, including interpreting and verifying provider orders in accordance with VHA national scheduling guidelines;
• Responsible for scheduling, canceling, re-scheduling patient's appointments and annotates patient records;
• Enters no show information and monitors the electronic wait list;
• Perform front desk duties, receives telephone call, and interacts with both internal and external visitors for clinic visits;
• Monitors both inpatient and outpatient appointments for areas of responsibility;
• Ensures that encounter forms are completed in order to obtain appropriate workload credit;
• Verifies and updates demographics and third party insurance; updates information in the Insurance Capture Buffer (ICB) system;
• Coordinates information and actions related to patient care and services;
• Processes all emergency and non-emergency transfers to other VA facilities or private hospitals;
• Performs basic eligibility and travel benefits;
• Responsible for panel management for the assigned Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT);
• Assists with communication to and from the team and patient;
• Communicates with physicians, case managers, and other Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members, or allied health professional staff, using sound interpersonal skills and is constantly aware of the sensitive information.

• Serves as a primary care manager and member of a collaborative health care team within a Primary Care (PC) Department in the Directorate of Health Care Services)
• Performs professional medical screening, diagnostic, and treatment services to assigned military personnel and eligible civilian beneficiaries of a DHA aligned Health Clinic
• Determines primary care needs of patients and generates referrals to for specialty care when necessary
• Examines patients and performs initial patient work-up and assessment of patients' care and treatment; and determines the need for and orders laboratory tests, x-rays and other procedures necessary to complete assessment of the patient
• Assesses real and potential health hazards and current health status, discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional or mental problems
• Provides a full range of emergency series or crises interventions including lifesaving emergency procedures in order to stabilize a patient within the scope of practice and approved protocols
• Provides assistance in training of staff personnel
• Participates in the clinic's quality improvement program peer review program

• Ensure that procedures assessments and inspections are implemented, and safety risk assessment codes are assigned to orders.
• Advise management, workers, and unions on safety requirements and potential incident causing situations and methods and techniques for preventing mishaps.
• Monitor effectiveness of safety promotional, educational and seasonal campaigns designed to meet both general and specific goals of reducing mishaps occurrences.
• Assist the Garrison with the development and implementation of Army Safety and Occupational Health Management System.
• Investigate all extensive property damage incidents and mishaps, all temporary or totally disabling injuries, illness and all fatalities.
• Serve as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for the implementation of the USAG Fort Jackson Safety and Occupational Health Management System program integrator.

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

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