Total 766 Others level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in BUMC Tucson (1625 N Campbell Ave)

Duties include but not limited to:
Operate telephone switchboard to provide telephone communications for the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System (SAVAHCS) including all off site community based outpatient clinic locations. The work requires:

• Knowledge and practice of telephone courtesy techniques;
• Skill in questioning callers, who often can provide only sketchy information, in order to direct them to the proper organizational component;
• Knowledge and practice of telephone procedures to operate telephone switchboard consoles, answer recurring kinds of telephone calls, use printed or computerized directories, and connect local calls and regular or special long-distance calls to their proper destinations;
• Knowledge and practice of proper login and testing at the beginning of the duty tour to ensure continuity of telephone service;
• Knowledge and practice of the organization served to connect incoming calls to the appropriate office or individual;
• Skill in dealing politely with people who are emotional or discourteous and at times irate;
• Skill in using standard procedures to place outgoing calls through various circuits and networks;
• Skill in placing and receiving conference and collect calls;
• Provides telephone directory assistance for internal and external callers requires thorough knowledge of the large, frequently changing SAVAHCS organization;

The Clinical Nurse Manager Educator Supervises the Nurse Educators, RQI and Simulation Coordinator, and others as assigned. Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising staff education. Delivers a fundamental understanding of adult learning principles and a lifelong learner that can practice with flexibility to adapt or change learning strategies based on the assessment of learning needs within the healthcare organization. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates educational needs to facilitate learner development and skill training of clinical staff. Utilizes innovative teaching strategies, assessment skills, and evaluation of outcomes. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of education focused on staff education, self-management, and customer satisfaction throughout the healthcare continuum. Follows procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team. Core elements of performance include knowledge and active participation in quality improvement process and initiatives as well as customer service programs. Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex situations. Develops expert level coaching and mentoring skills.

Systematically evaluates current practice, formulate outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise. Collaborates with Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills. Oversees the Resuscitation Education Initiative (Redi) Program. Monitors and tracks BLS/Advanced Life Support (ALS) compliance within the organization. Collaborates with interdisciplinary team to support and evaluate responses to emergency responses in the facility to include BLS and ALS. Organizes, participates, and evaluates mock codes. Oversees collaboration between other Clinical Nurse Educators and interprofessional healthcare teams in the ongoing clinical education activities including in-services, training, competency assessment, and evaluations of both current and new staff nursing skills. Reviews current nursing literature for new trends and changes based on evidence-based research with the ability to propose practice and documentation revisions based on evaluation of outcomes. Collaborates with leadership and unit managers to identify educational training needs for staff, while supporting activities that foster competence, critical thinking, and decision making. Provides consultation and collaboration through the participation within organizational committees. Ability to analyze, interpret, utilize, and evaluate data to develop programs, and determine outcomes and process improvements related to educational programs.



Work Schedule: 08:00am - 16:30pm
Telework: Ad Hoc ( means approved telework performed at an alternative worksite on an occasional, one-time, or irregular basis)
Travel: Occasional travel to CBOCs to provide education/training and program oversight
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

• Set up, clean, calibrate and monitor respiratory equipment to ensure proper functionality.
• Administer a variety of tests and analyze results to assess respiratory patients.
• Develop and monitor treatment plans for patients with a variety of respiratory issues.
• Instruct patients and families in the use of respiratory equipment for home use.
• Monitor and interpret values, such as pulse oximetry, arterial blood gas analysis and expired carbon dioxide.

The GS-5 Entry Level Technician will respond to the needs of the staff ophthalmologists, the supervisory technician or other designated administrative supervisor who will maintain daily supervision and guidance. Limited routine assignments under daily direct supervision are an integral part of the position. Deviations from unanticipated problems and unfamiliar situations are referred to the supervisor for a decision or help.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Obtain basic ophthalmic and medical history following a template.
• Assist patient to examination room.
• Participates in performance of quality assurance activities such as staff meetings, mandatory educational in-services, quality control reports, systems redesign, and team and morale improvement.

• Obtains basic medical and ophthalmic history,
• Measures and records visual acuity,
• Administers anesthetic eye drops,
• Performing basic tonometry (NCT and tonopen),
• Estimates the anterior chamber depth
• Records a simple spectacle reading through automated and manual lensometry.

• Triages patient phone calls or urgent walk ins in conjunction with a provider;
• Ensures exam rooms are stocked with adequate supplies;
• Educates and instructs patients on administration of eye drops and post-operative instructions;
• Accurately measures, compares, and evaluates pupillary responses;
• Administers eye drops including drops to dilate the pupils;
• Measures eyeglass prescription using manual or automated lensometer, recording sphere, cylinder, and axis;

• Performs equipment inventory to maintain proper stock of exam room and clinic supplies.
• Obtains patient physical history, to include chief complaint; reason for visit; pertinent signs and symptoms; current medication allergies; past ocular and general medical history; family history both ocular and general; social history; and review of medications and allergies, including current ocular prescription and non-prescription medications.
• Accurately measures visual acuity at distance and near with and without a pinhole.
• Measures eyeglass prescription using manual or automated lensometer, recording sphere, cylinder, axis, and prism in both plus and minus cylinder.
• Performs pupil evaluation recording pupil size, shape, symmetry, reaction to light and accommodation.
• Instills eye medications (drops or ointments, including anesthetic, dye, dilating drops, cycloplegic drops, or antibiotics).
• Measures intraocular pressure with standard techniques, including Goldmann applanation tonometry.
• Performs pachymetry to determine corneal thickness and manual keratometry or corneal topography to determine corneal curvature.
• Performs intra-ocular lens calculations using an IOL Master.
• Performs automated visual field testing using various perimetry machines.
• Performs optical coherence tomography (OCT) of the anterior segment, retina and optic nerve.
• Performs patient screening and triage of potentially urgent ocular conditions.
• Assists during clinic-based ophthalmic surgery, including but not limited to intra-vitreous injections and laser surgical procedures.

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

NOTE: This is a TEMPORARY appointment (not-to-exceed 11/30/2025). This appointment may be renewed for additional service in accordance with Agency needs for 1 additional year. Temporary positions offer health insurance (if the employee is expected to work at least 130 hours per month for at least 90 days) but do not offer life insurance or retirement benefits and may be terminated at any time before the expiration date. The appointment to a Temporary position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

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

• Provides assessment and management of ambulatory patients seen in the Emergency Department.
• Evaluates patients for emergency medical conditions, ordering appropriate diagnostic studies and performing a wide range of treatment procedures under the direction of the supervising physician.
• Assists in behavioral/psychiatric situations to include crisis intervention, management of aggressive or suicidal psychiatric patients, and one-to-one observations.
• Assists Emergency Department Physicians with complex, specialized, and potentially life threatening procedures.
• Performs airway management using Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BIPAP) and advanced airway techniques.
• Operates specialized medical equipment such as defibrillators, electrocardiographs, and oxygen apparatus
• Performs additional duties include dressing changes, wound management, suture removal, repair of simple lacerations, foley catheters insertion, splint, binder and bandage applications, and performance of tracheotomy care.
• Performs specimen collection, preparation and transfer to the lab for processing of blood, tissue, urine, stool and sputum.
• Responds to medical emergencies on the facility grounds, and sometimes encounters situations which may be life threatening as part of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) as assigned.
• Conducts or assists with the training of personnel in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), basic, and advanced emergency medical care techniques if appropriately trained and qualified.
• Conducts or assists with stand-downs, community health programs, blood pressure and glucose screenings, flu immunizations, etc.
• Transports monitored and unmonitored patients to diagnostic procedures and/or inpatient units.
• Performs triage duties as assigned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

The Southern Arizona VA Health Care System is seeking Registered Nurse's for (PACT) in Nursing, Ambulatory Care. The incumbent uses the nursing process and evidence-based practice to collaborate with the Team (Patient, Primary Care Provider, RN Care Manager, Clinical Associate, and Clerical Associate) and expanded Team (family/caregiver, internal, and community -based services involved in providing care to the patient) in developing the patient-driven care plan for life.

Responsibilities:

• The Incumbent is responsible for collaborating with services internal and external to the VA to facilitate care transition in order to effectively meet the patients' needs. The PACT RN provides patient and family health education with a focus on self-management, prevention, and wellness, based on the patient's personalized health plan/goals.
• The PACT RN demonstrates leadership by serving as an advocate for patients, and a team leader with colleagues as she/he continues to enhance his/her own and the team's professional growth, development, and practice.
• The incumbent possesses the knowledge and skills to effectively apply all aspects of the nursing process within a collaborative, interdisciplinary practice setting to facilitate the effective care of patients. Within the framework of the nursing process and through highly developed clinical expertise, the RN is able to assess, monitor and treat patient responses to life-threatening health problems.
• The Incumbent is responsible for collaboration with administrative and clinical staff in actively managing and planning for actual and potential needs of patient population groups.
• Responsible and accountable for all elements of the nursing process when providing and/or supervising direct patient care. Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates care based on age-specific components.
• Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care, patient and family education, patient self-management after discharge, and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction.
• Considers all characteristics of the individual, including age and life stages, state of health, race and culture, values, and previous experiences.
• Administers medications and procedures per established policies and guidelines. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team. Core elements of performance include knowledge and active participation in unit/program level quality improvement processes and initiatives as well as customer service programs.

The Technician will collaborate with Dietitians regarding Food/Drug Interactions, notifying clinical staff of potential issues with meal service and delivery and taking direction regarding management. Duties include, but not limited to:

• Handles patient meal service orders, and enter meal orders into Dietetics Software system
• Provides professional and courteous customer service via telephone, email, and in-person
• Collaborates with dietitians regarding food/drug interactions, notifying clinical staff of potential issues with meal service and delivery
• Interprets and processes diet orders
• Prints, prepares, and reviews meal tickets
• Triages calls from inpatient units or outpatient clinics and procedure areas relating to patient meal trays or nourishments
• Retrieves computerized information/printouts to assist with tray and/or nourishment assembly such as standing orders, nourishment labels, tabulated recipe lists, and other simple information to assist in meal delivery
• Provides basic-level education and information on therapeutic diets
• Correctly interprets diet activity and patient information to ensure meal trays contain food items adhering to patient requests and preferences, and current therapeutic diet order
• Communicates patient concerns with registered dietitian or dietetic technician
• Verifies physician orders for unusual diets, conflicting modifications, tube feeding orders and nutritional supplements
• Uses a computer to record, retrieve and print recipes, menus, and inventory reports
• Performs other related duties as assigned

The Technician will collaborate with Dietitians regarding Food/Drug Interactions, notifying clinical staff of potential issues with meal service and delivery and taking direction regarding management. Duties include, but not limited to:

• Handles patient meal service orders, and enter meal orders into Dietetics Software system
• Provides professional and courteous customer service via telephone, email, and in-person
• Collaborates with dietitians regarding food/drug interactions, notifying clinical staff of potential issues with meal service and delivery
• Interprets and processes diet orders
• Prints, prepares, and reviews meal tickets
• Triages calls from inpatient units or outpatient clinics and procedure areas relating to patient meal trays or nourishments
• Retrieves computerized information/printouts to assist with tray and/or nourishment assembly such as standing orders, nourishment labels, tabulated recipe lists, and other simple information to assist in meal delivery
• Provides basic-level education and information on therapeutic diets
• Correctly interprets diet activity and patient information to ensure meal trays contain food items adhering to patient requests and preferences, and current therapeutic diet order
• Communicates patient concerns with registered dietitian or dietetic technician
• Verifies physician orders for unusual diets, conflicting modifications, tube feeding orders and nutritional supplements
• Uses a computer to record, retrieve and print recipes, menus, and inventory reports
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Work Schedule: Varies to the need of the facility
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Health Technician (Dietetic)/PD99835S
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

The Outpatient Staff Registered Nurse (RN) executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex outpatient care. Assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of patient care, patient and family education, patient self­ management after discharge, and supporting factors that impact customer satisfaction. Collaborates in the development, implementation, evaluation, and revision of policies, procedures, and/or guidelines. Demonstrates performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of outpatients. Provides peers with formal or informal constructive feedback for improvement. Supports colleagues and other nurses through knowledge sharing to provide safe, quality outpatient nursing care. Fosters a safe and supportive environment conducive to the professional development of health care professionals. Evaluates outcomes of evidence-based decisions and practice changes for individuals, groups, and populations. Responsible for the documented outcomes at the program or service level. Program or service level outcomes must be broad and complex and can be demonstrated at any organizational level within a facility.



Work Schedule: Varies
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Major duties include but not limited to:

• Provides direct patient care and support services to an adult population of Veterans which is characterized by a very significant number of older male Veterans; reviews of demographic data discloses that the average age of the SWBRC Veteran is 72 years with a distribution of 94% male and 6% female.
• Tailors rehabilitation care and support services to meet the needs of the individual Veteran.
• Responsible for assessments of each Veteran's needs and the delivery of services which are responsive to the concerns of individual Veterans to the extent possible.
• Responsible for intakes, assessing needs, capabilities and limitations, goal setting and treatment planning for individuals experiencing blindness/visual impairment caused by injury or disease.
• Works as part of the inpatient rehabilitation team coordinating care for blind and visually impaired Veterans.
• May serve as Facilitator for one or more assigned Veterans during the Veteran's program. As a Facilitator, the specialist is responsible for developing and coordinating the Veteran's Individualized Treatment Plan under the supervision of the Team Leader, with input from the Veteran and all team members.
• Maintains close communication with all members of the interdisciplinary SWBRC staff, including optometry, psychology, social work, recreation, and nursing, to ensure the needs and goals of the Veteran are being met.
• The essential elements are knowledge of the administration and interpretations of assessments and evaluations, treatment, and management in blind/vision rehabilitation and instruction that teaches Veterans with visual impairments to utilize adaptive skills and techniques necessary to cope with the demands of everyday life. These needs constitute significant physical, emotional, and social disabilities.
• Studies visual and non-visual barriers and related processes that result in activity limitations, participation restrictions, loss of vocational and avocational opportunities, and psychological distress. In providing direct services, the incumbent will use diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and instrumentation to identify and resolve or minimize these problems.
• Some Veterans manifest only blindness/visual impairment as their disabling condition. Others may have multiple medical problems, psychological concerns, substance abuse problems and cognitive problems in addition to visual impairment.
• The BRS must identify the difficulties confronting the Veteran and the barriers to treatment and then develop and provide intervention designed to enhance the blind and vision rehabilitation process.
• Develops a close rapport with assigned Veterans. When assigned the role of Facilitator, the BRS becomes the primary advocate for the Veteran, communicating feelings and concerns to other members of the rehabilitation team.
• Develops an individualized treatment plan in conjunction with an interdisciplinary team to improve the quality of life for blind and visually impaired Veterans through the development of skills and capabilities needed for personal independence, emotional stability and the successful integration into community, family, and environment.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of discipline-specific technology necessary to assist in the Veteran's rehabilitation needs and processes such as electronic travel aids, computer assisted technology, speech output and input devices, large print devices and Braille devices, etc. The BRS determines the need for these devices based on type, nature and severity of the problem, and assessments, and instructs the Veteran in the proper use of the device along with its abilities and limitations. Optical devices, prescribed by an eye care specialist, are incorporated into the Veteran's individualized treatment plan.
• Works with family members and/or significant others to educate and counsel about the ramifications of visual impairment. Family members are taught to recognize and change behaviors and behavior patterns that impede blind and vision rehabilitation progress and how to cope with the psychological and social problems and their own individual stress.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Major duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

The incumbent serves as a Supervisory Mobility Transportation Specialist - Mobility Manager and manages all Veterans Transportation System (VTS) and Beneficiary Travel (BT) Program activities, including patient transport, Special Mode Travel (SMT), mileage reimbursement claims, transportation contracts, 911 ambulance claims, inter-facility transfers, and common carrier transportation.
The position supervises/ensures the VTS and BT processes comply with regulatory guidance, while assuring program effectiveness. They serve as the Contracting Officer Representative for all transportation contracts, including common carrier, Special Mode, ambulance, and air ambulance. The incumbent is also responsible for working with state Veterans and Transportation Agencies and local transportation providers to establish expanded transportation networks to improve Veterans access to care.
Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Manages the Veterans Transportation Program at the facility which provides safe and reliable transportation to Veterans who require assistance traveling to and from VA health care facilities and authorized non-VA health care appointments within the Medical Center's catchment area;
• Orchestrates travel for eligible enrollees through mileage reimbursement and contracted travel modes;
• Plans, develops, evaluates, markets and directs key administrative activities in multiple programs related to transportation system for Veterans, active duty service members, Caregivers and others in metropolitan and rural/remote rural areas, especially those which are disabled, frail, elderly or receiving life dependent treatments (dialysis, chemo therapy, radiation therapy, etc.);
• Conducts complex and special studies for efficiency and productivity and recommends changes or improvements in work methods and procedures;
• Identifies resources (staffing, funding, equipment, facilities) required to support varied level of program operations;
• Manages transportation budget, analyzes organizational budgets, and provides advice and recommendations to Medical Center management, as appropriate, including critical budget areas and all Transportation program matters;
• Serves as Contracting Officer Representative for all transportation contracts, including common carrier, special mode, ambulance, and air ambulance;
• Provides consistent and effective outreach to community transit authorities;
• Coordinates the preparation and submission of recurring monthly, quarterly and annual performance improvement reports, management briefings, summaries, and a wide variety of nonrecurring reports;
• Assures performance measures and standards issued by various accrediting, regulatory, and higher agency authorities;
• Performs the full range of supervisory responsibilities to include but not limited to establishes guidelines and performance expectations for staff; observes and evaluates employees' performance; provides advice, counsel, and instruction to employees on both work and administrative matters; hears and resolves minor complaints and grievances; reviews, approves or disapproves leave requests; adjusts work procedures among staff according to workload, etc.;
• Assures that all transportation staff obtains and maintains appropriate licenses, certifications and training appropriate for each position; and,
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Develops a thorough, administrative and strategic operational initiatives of the health care groups within the organization that enables the specialist to identify problems, analyze data, and recommend resolutions based on specific knowledge of the organization's objectives and priorities, resources, and catchment area.
• Plans, organizes trends and review requests for clinical program resources within their assigned executive's chain of command and makes recommendations, based upon the relative needs while considering their ability to utilize the resources requested.
• Reviews policies and procedures that are in conformance with the overall philosophy of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) related to all aspects of healthcare programs.
• Provides guidance and advice on program specific matters such as handling legislative issues, the development and implementation of policy or program initiatives, protocol issues, and other important correspondence or VISN/VACO related matters.
• Coordinates and participates in strategic planning for clinical programs throughout the healthcare system, and with subordinate services and programs within their ELT members chain and scope of command, to produce decisions and actions that shape and guide the organization's purpose and activities, particularly with regard to the future - a fundamental component of organizational management and decision making.
• Makes recommendations regarding necessity of the project, and what elements are to be included in the scope of the project based on local, VISN, or national strategic initiatives and alignment.
• Reviews audits and evaluations which are conducted at the facility. This includes reviews by the Joint Commission, Medical Inspector, and Inspector General, and program evaluations which requires monitoring progress.
• Deals with problems arising from quality-of-care issues and consumer complaints arising from individual patients, Veterans groups, Congressional offices, and other stakeholders. He/she/they obtain data and prepares replies to correspondence.
• Serves as the primary liaison on behalf of all elements of the healthcare system between the VISN and headquarters.
• Resolves problems through personal contacts, obtains expedited decisions on urgent matters, and otherwise assists services/programs in obtaining responsive action for their requests.
• Maintains a broad knowledge of improved clinical healthcare operations issues, updates equipment, construction techniques, etc., that may be helpful to senior management.
• Participate and lead fact-finding and administrative board of investigations for useful, effective evidence-gathering and reliable, efficient fact-finding in a wide array of circumstances, as charged by the Medical Center Director.
• Conducts analytical studies on operational processes, issue topics, or related special projects. Studies and projects addressed are commonly so diverse and complex that they often require input and assistance from departmental or program offices.

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

Major Duties:

• Maintains the laboratory facilities and equipment, and controls supplies.
• Sets up equipment for all phlebotomy procedures.
• Maintains laboratory stock and orders materials as needed.
• Keeps laboratory in a clean and safe condition.
• Calibrates and maintains instrumentation on timely intervals in order to minimize breakdown and delay of procedures.
• Maintains and controls records.
• Presents data to the supervisor in a logical and systematic fashion.
• Records information pertaining to the storage of specimens or reagents and completes appropriate tracking/inventory system information.
• Performs venipunctures in accordance with facility and laboratory policies and procedures.
• Assures all test tubes are labeled accurately when performing venipunctures using designated patient identifiers.
• Verifies correct patient identification.
• Performs proper specimen handling and labeling, accessions specimens, checks that lab test requests are consistent with physician orders, generates labels, and sorts labeled specimens to be distributed to specific laboratory sections.
• Works closely with computers and medical records systems to accession specimens and retrieve results
• Performs urine drug testing.
• Ensures sand and non-traumatic processes are used with critical concern for the donor and for the quality of the specimen while using standard aseptic procedures and safeguards.
• Controls contaminated or potentially dangerous specimens in accordance to accreditation agency requirements.
• Utilizes phone and face to face communication with all levels of clinical, clerical, and administrative staff as well as patients and families.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Major duties include:

• Provides clinical duties to include a full range of social work within commonly accepted standards of social work practice that include comprehensive biopsychosocial spiritual assessments, social determinants of health screenings, Advance Directives, Goals of Care, case management, crisis intervention, risk/suicide assessments, documentation, safety planning, abuse/neglect/exploitation reporting, psychoeducation, discharge, and other services as appropriate.
• Assesses and reports any patient safety concerns in a timely manner to appropriate entities to include suicide safety planning and abuse/neglect reporting.
• Implements timely, safe, and clinically appropriate discharge care planning through methods of casework, referrals, collaboration with the patient and/or their decision maker, their multidisciplinary team and other modes of intervention.
• Facilitates patient's self-determination and self-management through tenants of advocacy, shared and informed decision making, counseling, and health education.
• Arranges discharge home, or to necessary placements (e.g., skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult care homes, etc.) and engages other VHA and community services as needed and ensures that adequate follow-up care has been brokered, when appropriate.
• Provides education related to coping with health conditions, VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives and Life Sustaining Treatment options, guardianship, insurance, and co-pay(s) information, etc.
• Refers Veterans/families to the appropriate VA staff, programs, and community resources.
• Maintains effective professional working relationships with medical center staff, subject matter experts, veteran's support systems, leadership, and community agencies in the provision of safe, appropriate, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care and services.
• Uses and maintains current knowledge on patient-centered whole health and a collaborative partnership approach, that is responsive to the patient's culture, linguistic sensitivity, preferences, needs and values.
• Implements evidence-base care guidelines in the care of the patient, as available and applicable to the practice setting and/or patient population served.
• Adheres to national and local policies on clinical documentation practices and documents social work activity in medical record comprehensively, timely, promptly, accurately, and concisely.
• Provides consultation, training, and education to VA staff on the role of social work, social work practices, psychosocial resources at the VA and in the community, and research pertaining to their scope of practice.
• Adheres to and maintains compliance with federal, state, and local directives, policies, operating procedures, rules and regulations, accreditation, and certification standards.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development, attends social work staff meetings and daily huddles.
• Supervises the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker.
• Serves the Medical Center and social work profession in a variety of capacities, such as committee, unit councils, workgroups, special assignments, or other duties as assigned that are necessary to meet program goals and VA Mission.

Major duties include:

• Provides clinical duties to include a full range of social work within commonly accepted standards of social work practice that include comprehensive biopsychosocial spiritual assessments, social determinants of health screenings, Advance Directives, Goals of Care, case management, crisis intervention, risk/suicide assessments, documentation, safety planning, abuse/neglect/exploitation reporting, psychoeducation, discharge, and other services as appropriate.
• Assesses and reports any patient safety concerns in a timely manner to appropriate entities to include suicide safety planning and abuse/neglect reporting.
• Implements timely, safe, and clinically appropriate discharge care planning through methods of casework, referrals, collaboration with the patient and/or their decision maker, their multidisciplinary team and other modes of intervention.
• Facilitates patient's self-determination and self-management through tenants of advocacy, shared and informed decision making, counseling, and health education.
• Arranges discharge home, or to necessary placements (e.g., skilled nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult care homes, etc.) and engages other VHA and community services as needed and ensures that adequate follow-up care has been brokered, when appropriate.
• Provides education related to coping with health conditions, VA and community resources, entitlements, Advance Directives and Life Sustaining Treatment options, guardianship, insurance, and co-pay(s) information, etc.
• Refers Veterans/families to the appropriate VA staff, programs, and community resources.
• Maintains effective professional working relationships with medical center staff, subject matter experts, veteran's support systems, leadership, and community agencies in the provision of safe, appropriate, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care and services.
• Uses and maintains current knowledge on patient-centered whole health and a collaborative partnership approach, that is responsive to the patient's culture, linguistic sensitivity, preferences, needs and values.
• Implements evidence-base care guidelines in the care of the patient, as available and applicable to the practice setting and/or patient population served.
• Adheres to national and local policies on clinical documentation practices and documents social work activity in medical record comprehensively, timely, promptly, accurately, and concisely.
• Provides consultation, training, and education to VA staff on the role of social work, social work practices, psychosocial resources at the VA and in the community, and research pertaining to their scope of practice.
• Adheres to and maintains compliance with federal, state, and local directives, policies, operating procedures, rules and regulations, accreditation, and certification standards.
• Assumes responsibility for professional development, attends social work staff meetings and daily huddles.
• Supervises the practice of social work students, or a less experienced social worker.
• Serves the Medical Center and social work profession in a variety of capacities, such as committee, unit councils, workgroups, special assignments, or other duties as assigned that are necessary to meet program goals and VA Mission.