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• Establishes, maintains, reviews, determines processes, and closes payroll accounts for retired armed forces personnel and their annuitants.
• Under general supervision, resolves difficult and complicated retired pay actions.
• Resolves questions of entitlement to additional retired pay compensation.
• Corrects and adjusts retired pay due to retroactive legislative adjustments which affect benefits due from other agencies.
• Determines applicability of payments, and initiates collection of overpayments as necessary.
• Duties will be developmental in nature when the position is filled below the full performance level.

Collect and labels specimens (blood, urine, sputum, stool) for testing.Operate guidelines to determine technical factors, sets controls, calibrates, and operates equipment and instruments such as electrocardiogram (EKG) machine, cortisol-binding globulin (CBG) monitor, ankle-brachial index (ABI) doppler, bladder scan, etc.Independently cleans exam rooms and re-stocks supplies as indicated by the needs of the patient or health care professional. Orders and maintains all supplies utilized in the clinic.Perform direct patient support to include gathering information from patients, providing personal patient care and patient education on home use of medical equipment such as glucometers, blood pressure monitors, peak flow meters, etc.Provide clerical and administrative support to relieve health care professionals in the Primary Care by scrubbing the schedule for appropriate appointments, entering requests for labs as generated by clinical reminder fields, into Computer Patient Record System (CPRS) Graphic User Interface (GUI), utilizes electronic Quality Measures (eQM) to meet Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL) and Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures.Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 07:30 AM - 04:00 PMPosition Description Title/PD#: Health Technician/PD12810APhysical Requirements: The work requires frequent walking, standing, stooping, lifting, bending, stretching, pushing, turning and at times lifting heavy equipment and/or patients. Good vision and hearing are required to collect patient data.

As a SUPPLY TECHNICIAN (TITLE 32), GS-2005-7, you will perform routine and nonroutine material coordination duties for special programs, maintenance, or production shops; be responsible for local management of decentralized and decontrolled items which require technical intervention to assure effective supply support and economy; plan requirements, both quantitative and monetary, to satisfy customer needs; authorize procurement and be responsible for funds management; be responsible for limited aspects of storage management; develop and install local procedures and techniques to achieve and maintain smooth, effective, and coordination storage operations.

• Transport patients from hospital units to the operating room.
• Position patient for the specific surgical procedures according to established guidelines.
• Hand instruments to the surgeon during the procedure by anticipating the surgeon's needs.
• Select, assemble, and organize required supplies, equipment, and instruments for specific surgical procedures.
• Obtain supplies needed during surgery such as blood, drugs, solutions, instruments, and additional sterile supplies.
• Wash, disassemble, sterilize, and reassemble instruments after surgical procedure is complete.
• Assemble operating room carts according to scheduled surgical procedures.
• Clean operating room after surgical procedures.

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until December 12, 2024. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be November 19, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates on Tuesday of each remaining week. This announcement may be extended or removed from USAJobs.gov at any time.

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The VA Bronx Healthcare System provides outstanding health care, trains America's future health care providers, and conducts important medical research. We provide health care services at 4 locations in Bronx, northern Queens, and Westchester counties. Facilities include our James J. Peters VA Medical Center and 3 community-based outpatient clinics in Queens, White Plains, and Yonkers.

The VA Bronx Healthcare System is one of the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the New York/New Jersey VA Health Care Network. We're an innovative care center within the Veterans Integrated Service Network 2 (VISN 2), which includes medical centers and clinics in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

The Medical Supply Technician (Sterile Processing) - QA serves as the monitoring/Tracking specialist for all activities of SPS, which includes the operating room case cart management system. The major duties and responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:

• Monitors the process of cleaning/decontamination, sterilization, reprocessing, and distribution of critical, semi-critical and non-critical Reusable Medical Devices (RMD). This includes following the use of bacteriological controls, principles and methods of sterilization, packaging, and assembly of simple to more complex items for therapeutic and surgical procedures.
• Develops procedures to evaluate the quality of work performance and outcomes as it relates to the quality assurance program.
• Maintains a system of internal and external reviews ensuring overall compliance of all critical, semi- critical and non-critical RMD used within the medical center.
• Tracks and analyzes required documentation pertaining to critical, semi-critical and non-critical RMD within the scope of SPS for quality control purposes.
• Utilizes qualitative analysis tools to prepare reports for trending, evaluate operations and facilitate improvements in workflow and quality processes.
• Troubleshoots computer programs related to SPS operations and trains staff on the inputting of data associated with the cleaning and sterilization of equipment, biological processing, and quality assurance programs.
• Collaborates with SPS management when deviations occur.
• Validates SPS policies on cleaning and sterilization as it relates to manufacturer information for use, standards, and mandates.
• Updates the quality assurance program annually or when manufacturer information and guidelines are changed.
• Uses instrument marking techniques for the proper identification and tracking of surgical instrumentation after sterilization. Marks existing and new instruments and uploads to CensiTrac
• Maintains records produced by automated equipment tracking systems.
• Demonstrates high proficiency in computer programs as they are responsible for providing expertise, guidance, and training, when necessary, for and to the staff and management of the Sterile Processing Service on the automated equipment tracking system and its interconnection with the Case Cart, Decontamination and Preparation areas.
• Demonstrates competency in and uses automated equipment tracking systems to plan for and determine current and future supply and instrument requirements to meet the needs of the facility.
• Utilizes and is proficient in electronic equipment tracking systems and data communication systems and is required to remain up to date as technology changes and improvements to systems are made.
• Reviews data and validates information, develops templates for reporting purposes, analyzes data for performance improvement.
• Monitors the quality of input and output of automated inventory management systems, recommends system and program changes to improve timeliness, accuracy, and utility of inventory information for users.
• Participates in the installation of automated instrument tracking systems in SPS by defining the nature of information required, organizational responsibilities, computer network requirements, and the nature of output from the service.
• Demonstrates competency in and uses various instrument marking techniques for the identification of instrumentation and utilizes the appropriate technique for the instrument composition and use.

• You will formulate recommendations for corrective action when deficiencies and unsatisfactory conditions are encountered.
• You will evaluate functions using the Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan and organization's checklists.
• You will provide assistance through oral and written guidance prior to and during data collection.
• You will analyze data, draw conclusions, and present findings.
• You will analyze and evaluate the supply operation performance to determine if performance complies with established procedures.

This recruitment is for 1 vacancy that will be filled at either the White Plains or Queens location.

The incumbent performs a full range of duties and is responsible for day-to-day operation of telehealth services at the assigned location and between the assigned location and remote sites of care. Duties includes but not limited to:

Telehealth Coordination - Assignments include, but are not limited to, screening patients for Telehealth modality and referring patients that do not meet established criteria to appropriate care; preparing the clinical environment, which may include preparing medical and telecommunications equipment to be used for clinical examination and treatment; serving as a telepresenter within scope of practice during clinical video telehealth (CVT) and VA Video Connect (WC) encounters including tasks such as establishing and maintaining video conferencing connections, making introductions between patient site and provider site, following instructions of a clinician to facilitate an effective clinical encounter; serving as an imager and clinical data manager for store and forward telehealth SFT clinical encounters including tasks such as capturing images, collecting data and transmitting them electronically for clinical review in accordance with VHA national guidelines; taking measures to ensure patient care is delivered safely by following appropriate procedures for inventory management; cleaning of clinical equipment and the care environment while following all patient safety guidelines, protocols, and procedures; monitoring and maintaining schedules of rooms, patients, technologies, clinical providers and presenters as needed to ensure efficient telehealth operations; communicating effectively with clinical and administrative staff at the assigned local site and those located at remote sites of care; configuring, installing, troubleshooting, cleaning, and performing minor routine maintenance of assigned telehealth technology; ensuring assigned telehealth technologies are managed appropriately to include inventory, secure, ready for use, and accounted for by preparing and tracking maintenance work orders, information systems, inventory records, and communicating with the National Telehealth Technology Help Desk to facilitate troubleshooting, repair, and coordination of replacement equipment as necessary; maintaining knowledge of and skill in applying an extensive body of rules, procedures, and operations in telehealth-related technologies and a variety of computer hardware and software used for telecommunications, data entry and retrieval, record maintenance, document and report generation; maintaining regular contact with other staff members and the Facility Telehealth Coordinator to work out process issues, equipment needs, problems, data collection and any other logistical issues; arranging and completing test video calls with Veterans to prepare the Veterans for clinical encounters using telehealth technologies.

Administrative Support - Assignments include providing established education and training to Veterans, staff and providers on the use of telehealth technologies and serving as a point of contact to answer questions and address concerns related to these technologies; providing patient education via approved materials completing standardized clinical questionnaires and templates within scope of training and applicable guidelines; ensuring that patient privacy is protected by complying with all information security and patient privacy regulations; receiving and scheduling requests for simple and complex intra-facility, and inter-facility telehealth appointments using an electronic resource-based scheduling system; supporting the Veteran in completing patient satisfaction surveys; ensuring information and resources are maintained for local and remote telehealth providers so they can effectively execute contingency and emergency plans.

Clinical Support - The TCT assists in patient care under the direct supervision of an independent licensed healthcare provider. The TCT can be crossed-trained to perform a range of direct care duties that may include, but are not limited to such things as performing temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation measurements, measuring height and weight, downloading pictures for any Store n Forward clinic and for the Dermatology clinic, phlebotomy (blood draws), EKG's and patient transfers in support of the primary care, specialty, urgent care clinics etc .. The TCT follows established procedures using manual or instrument techniques in accordance with established protocols, and reports results to appropriate individuals.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 21N80-A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Duties include, but not limited to:
Leads three or more employees in the distribution area of Logistics:

• Distributes and balances the workload among employees in accordance with established workflow or job specialization and assures timely accomplishment of assigned workload.
• Monitors status and progress of work, makes day-to-day adjustments in accordance with established priorities. Obtains assistance from the supervisor on problems that may arise, such as backlogs which cannot be disposed of promptly.
• Estimates and reports on expected time of completion of work.
• Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques and make available written instructions, reference materials and supplies.
• Gives on the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices.
• Maintains current knowledge and answers questions of other employees on procedures, policies, directives, or other guidelines as necessary and obtains needed information or decisions from supervisor on problems that come up.
• Checks on work in progress or spot checks work not requiring review. Reviews completed work to see that supervisor instructions on work sequence, procedures, methods and deadlines have been met.
• Resolves simple, informal complaints of employees and refers others to supervisor.
• Reports to supervisor on performance, progress and training needs of employees, and on behavior problems or issues.
• Provides information to supervisor as requested.

• Maintains stock at primary and secondary inventory locations for all clinical and administrative services. This involves pulling stock inventory and material from main inventory for delivery; replenishing stock inventory; interacting 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; maintaining records on stock levels; recommending revisions in stock levels as needed to supply changes to Inventory Management Specialists; communicating to the 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; communicating with customers and vendors to obtain information regarding medical supplies.
• Monitors expiration dates, rotates stock to limit outdates and removes items from use as required by outdates. Supports managers in checking inventory for stock identified for recalled items and hazard alerts; assists managers and customers complete work orders for needed equipment.
• Ensures critical supplies are appropriately monitored and controlled, resolving deviations when possible, and escalating significant deviations to the Inventory Management Specialists.
• Performs daily inventory of primary and secondary inventory points using bar coding equipment on a predetermined schedule that will allow for timely replenishment orders. Resolves differences between records and physical count of stock.
• Distributes items according to established or ad hoc requirements in computerized inventory management systems such as GIP. Utilizes a pager or similar device to expedite the pick/delivery of items needed in user areas throughout the facility. Fills requests for items based on daily schedules of need or on an emergent basis as appropriate.
• Delivers supplies in a timely and accurate manner, ensuring that supplies and material delivered are in sterile and operational condition.
• Deliveries will be to wards, clinics and other secondary locations that may be in remote sites. Delivery by motor vehicle may be required.
• Completes specialty cart preparation and stocking.
• Cleans assigned secondary areas in accordance with aseptic principles as published in infection control guidelines, local Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Joint Commission standards as scheduled.

• Receives supplies and material into the VA Health Care System and supported catchment area. Unpacks/uncrates supplies from shipping cartons; properly stores supplies and material in main/primary inventory areas. Stores items in accordance with established guidelines, utilizing a computerized inventory system, to ensure sterility and integrity of the supplies and material and the data integrity of the inventory management system. Through periodic inventory and discussion with ward and clinical personnel, maintains stock levels, returns reusable supplies to the distribution area, and informs clinic and ward personnel on new or changed items and supplies, current medical supply resources, and shelf life.

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.

As a Surface Maintenance Repairer, you will perform maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, inspection, diagnosis, and/or overhaul of a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, and special purpose vehicles, and equipment.

• Perform diagnosis, routine repairs, and maintenance on combat, tactical, commercial. and special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
• Perform maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, inspection, and/or overhaul of a variety of combat, tactical, commercial, and special purpose vehicles, and equipment.
• Assists in the maintenance of production reports and records and makes recommendations to the supervisor.
• May maintain and repair electronics communication equipment by removing and replacing components and elements.
• Conducts readiness and repair inspections on vehicles and associated equipment supported by the activity.

• Assign work, daily, weekly or monthly to employees, providing special instructions as necessary for new or unusual assignments.
• Review and resolve complaints from subordinates.
• Evaluate work performance of employees and prepare work performance appraisals.
• Merge individual health care provider (HCP) templates into a Master Schedule system, and schedules daily appointments as the Patient Appointment System Master Scheduler
• Briefs Unit Commanders, soldiers, family members and groups on clinic policies, procedures, and issues.
• Coordinate with clinic chiefs and the supervisor to prepare, maintain, and update appropriate access codes and appointment menus.
• Operate Office Automation equipment (i.e., electronic typewriter, word processor, and personal computer) and systems such as MHS Genesis, DMHRSi, and ATAAPS to prepare a variety of office documents and functions.

• Test, troubleshoot, modify, analyze, and restore electronic equipment used in voice and data circuits
• Work with other Information Management Division personnel in developing policies and standards which are related directly or peripherally to automated communications systems support.
• Repair malfunctions outside plant network including locating, replacing and shipment for repair of various digital printed circuit boards utilized in the switch and programming of the switch to add, delete and modify voice and data circuits.

As a SURFACE MAINTENANCE MECHANIC INSPECTOR, WG-5801-12, you will inspect a large variety of heavy-duty mobile equipment, combat, tactical and automotive vehicles such as attack tanks, large cranes, tank retrievers, fire trucks, bridge transporters, armored vehicle launched bridges, bulldozers, road graders, crawler tractors, power shovels, self-propelled earth compacting equipment, self-propelled artillery, etc.; may also inspect heavy artillery, small arms, powered support and other equipment or components of equal or lesser complexity; inspect complex, interrelated mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electronic and electrical systems, equipment and their components while in operation or in a standby condition; inspect equipment to determine repairs needed; inspect the full range of equipment as described above at remote worksites in support of field organizations, field units during field exercise training periods, or before major pieces of equipment are sent for repair to a supporting maintenance facility; serve as inspector on Command Maintenance Evaluation Teams (COMET) and/or as a member of Maintenance Assistance and Instruction Teams (MAIT).