Total 150 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Annapolis Junction, Maryland

• Perform data studies that identify complex trends and outlines the potential impact to CMS programs.
• Maintain various reports for data capture and data quality improvement activities relating to a wide range of source data collection and information systems.
• Review the legal background, legislative history, administrative case law, and court decisions that interpret the policies and regulations for the CMS programs.
• Develop programs and techniques to improve data quality and business practices for the Group and Division.

• You will identify, collect, document, preserve, and transport evidence to ensure integrity for forensic analysis and judicial proceedings.
• You will enter, upload, maintain, review, and/or update health care records (e.g., patient data, patient identifiers).
• You will receive batch folder, containing chain of custody documents, which serves as the initial source material for data entry purposes.
• You will receive bulk mail deliveries of urine specimens from U.S. Postal Service, other commercial couriers, and in person.
• You will Inventory each shipping container to determine if the specimens, within, are accompanied by the appropriate forms and documentation.
• You will recognize, identify, and annotate discrepancy codes as they apply to box, form, or urine specimen bottle, requiring significant attention to detail and independent judgment.

• Oversee a communication program that conveys the NCI’s leadership role in cancer research, diagnosis, prevention and treatment through the application of state-of-the-art and unified public affairs and media relations activities.
• Advise CEA and NCI Directors, providing leadership to a complex communications program which is highly visible both nationally and internationally and has an extensive impact on a broad range of constituencies in the public and private sectors.
• Provide strategic advice on handling sensitive issues and the release of information for highly visible and publicized studies, projects, and events that receive intense scrutiny by the public, the media, and Congress.
• Coordinate with NIH, HHS and the White House on the handing of these issues and represents the NCI Director in related interactions.
• Articulate and defend NCI position orally and in writing to international, national, regional, and local media as well as other federal agencies and citizens groups.
• Represent the NCI at public meetings and hearings on a wide range of controversial and highly visible issues.

• Provide administrative and technical support for an organization.
• Develop routine plans or schedules using standard references and existing information.
• Implement the records management system for the office to ensure proper filing, accountability, storage and retrieval of files.
• Manage and prepare responses to a wide variety of internal and external correspondence for the office.
• Coordinate information and responses with appropriate staff and offices to ensure consistency and conformance with program policies, regulations, and formats.
• Provide assistance to staff to assure that routine responses to public inquiries on standard matters are appropriate and in compliance with executive preferences and policies.

• You will serve as a nuclear engineer on the staff of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute (AFRRI) research reactor facility.
• You will provide subordinates with direction, scientific knowledge, and training concerning reactor operations and neutron interactions with matter.
• You will perform and direct nuclear operations including reactor startup, k-excess evaluations, calibrations of nuclear safety systems, instrumentation systems, and radiation detection systems.
• You will perform and/or review design changes to nuclear and other reactor systems, prepares analyses and writes supporting documentation for appropriate approval of modifications.
• You will perform neutronic and thermohydraulic calculations and/or computer simulations in support of the TRIGA reactor safety analysis report and support in new or existing experiments.
• You will provide support for dosimetry of experiments in the reactor and other department radiation facilities.

• Perform experiments in accordance with protocols. Critically analyze results to determine whether data generated is accurate and meets the goals of the experiments.
• Investigate research objectives relevant to the overall goals of the laboratory. Locate and review the literature pertinent to the project to identify the most applicable protocols and methods.
• Assume major responsibility for the planning and development of experiments and experimental protocols.
• Select and order specific experiment materials, including specific kinds and amounts of animals, media, buffers, reagents, and tissue samples.
• Collect, organize, and record experimental data in a form suitable for publication.
• Carry out complete analyses of data, applying standard statistical methods such dispersion, analysis of variance, and regression and correlation analysis.
• Responsible for the organization and maintenance of research laboratory.
• Ensure that laboratory equipment is available when needed, is properly calibrated and in working order. Performs routine, and in some cases sophisticated, maintenance and repair of equipment.

Major Duties Include:

• Coordinates and facilitates with service line SME's in the development, evaluation, facilitation, documentation, analysis and coordination of short term, mid-term, and long-range plans, programs, and performance improvement projects within VAMHCS to ensure compliance with regulatory standards associated with national accrediting organizations including but not limited to OIG, TJC and LTCI as well as compliance with National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Life Safety Code, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and other regulations required and enforced by federal, state and local levels.
• The incumbent is responsible for providing consultation, recommendations, compliance information and data to their assigned services as well other services on an as needed basis. The services for which the incumbent is responsible include but are not limited to Facilities and Engineering, Human Resources Management, Acquisition & Materiel Management, Finance and Accounting, Police & Security, Public Affairs and Voluntary Service, Information Resource Management, Environmental Management Services, and Medical Administration Services.
• The incumbent will routinely perform administrative support Compliance Tracers using standard Tracer methodology, as directed by the Q, PI&A Director Tracers will be conducted to assess continuous survey/accreditation/regulatory body readiness. Findings will be documented and submitted, as required, to the Q, PI&A Director, the QSI Director, and any required committees or councils.
• . In this role, the incumbent works with various leaders and service line SME's to ensure continuous survey/accreditation readiness for all supported organizations.
• The incumbent will be required to attend council, committee meetings, and work group meeting/discussions, concerned with the monitoring and evaluation of one or more aspects of Quality, Performance Improvement and Accreditation, as well as other organizational committees, councils, or WGs that are responsible for ensuring quality and appropriateness of VAMHCS healthcare operations for assigned Administrative type service lines.
• The incumbent serves as a technical and administrative Liaison, guide, and SME for preparations leading to and the actual conduct of surveys and accreditation/regulatory agency visits and inspections, assisting the Q, PI&A Director in overseeing the management and conduct of these visits and inspections.
• Provides guidance and technical assistance in overseeing or assisting in the development, implementation and maintenance of the PI program to evaluating the quality of care/service delivery, customer satisfaction with same and achievement of stated/defined performance measures/expectations/goals for the area or function to which they are assigned. Primary responsibility lies with the Administration SME's and/or Service Chief for the area in which the Specialist functions as advisor.
• The Administrative PI Specialist provides first line technical and administrative supervision to various VAMHCS personnel supported by the QSI Office. The incumbent is responsible for keeping employees informed regarding policies, procedures and management goals as they relate to the work of VAMHCS. The Administrative PI Specialist assists in the development and evaluation of the goals, priorities, and work of supported care centers, services, and departments in accordance with organizational goals. The Specialist assists supported leaders in understanding the requirements of the accreditation manuals relevant to their service/care center/department, and will assist in the development, direction and implementation of policies pertaining to the requirements of the various services/care centers/departments.

• Greet patients and take necessary action to expedite a smooth and effective visit.
• Schedule patient appointments.
• Receive all telephone calls and visitors to the department, and answers inquires such as obtaining medical assistance; directions for contacting different clinics; resolving requests for changes in scheduled appointment; and test preparation.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of office automation and printing equipment to create, copy, edit, store, retrieve and print various reports that contain medical terminology.
• Establish, organize, and maintain medical records, in the proper sequence, ensuring all necessary forms and documents are present, accurate, and complete.
• Train new staff on departmental guidelines to include, but not limited to, department standard operating procedures, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

• Serves as an Information Security Specialist and is responsible for a wide range of complex assignments and projects relative to information systems and security matters.
• Advises management on matters related to security architecture.
• Manages and oversees projects to implement new and/or updated enterprise security architecture or system components.
• Formulates and implements specific security policies and procedures.
• Performs comprehensive and in-depth risk and vulnerability analyses on all systems.
• Works with various internal and external technical experts to run system vulnerability assessments

ABOUT THE POSITION
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health provides executive leadership, guidance, and oversight on a range of processes and functions across DHHS that relate to minority health. These processes and functions include review, analysis, and evaluation of policies, programs, and activities addressing minority health. Provides executive leadership, management, and direction of procedures, programs, activities, and resources across DHHS relating to minority health.

Serves as the principal advisor to the Secretary and ASH and serves as a spokesperson on minority health issues. Advises on activities, programs, and policies across DHHS. Directs, influences, and assists in evidence-based policy development related to minority health. Stays informed about advancements in biomedical, behavioral, and public health sciences and health policy, reporting to the Secretary and ASH on developments that may be long-range but of potential interest and applicability to minority health.

Maintains ongoing, close, and effective liaison and communications with the heads of appropriate minority serving organizations and individuals in the public and private sectors, with the goals of both communicating DHHS policies, goals, priorities, and programs, as well as conveying to the Secretary and ASH feedback and insights from these sectors. Ensures adherence to DHHS guidelines by all OMH communications tools, including print and electronic media.

Participates with DHHS-wide efforts such as Healthy People to ensure representation, measurement, and communication of racial, ethnic, and Tribal disparities in health status and other indicators of well-being. Oversees Federal task forces and advisory committees (e.g., the Advisory Committee on Minority Health) and actively engages in Tribal consultations and listening sessions. Serves as the DHHS representative for multiple working groups related to the health of racial and ethnic minority and AI/AN populations, including the Secretarial Tribal Advisory Committee.

Leads in a proactive, customer-responsive manner consistent with DHHS vision and values, effectively communicating program issues to external audiences. Ensures financial and managerial accountability by acting with prudence when executing fiduciary responsibilities. Demonstrates high integrity and adheres to the highest ethical standards of public service. Uses effective business practices including balanced measures of results, values, and invests in each employee; emphasizes empowerment and two-way communication.

Fosters collaboration within OMH and the Department and demonstrates a commitment to Departmental initiatives. Takes a leadership role in advocating for and advancing the priorities of the Department. Serves as a role model for leadership by encouraging teamwork and a collaborative approach. Timely notifies Agency officials of all significant actions and developments, including but not limited to those related to regulatory matters, legislative matters, budget matters, reports, initiatives, and events and ensures subordinate managers do the same.

Exercises leadership to ensure that all programs under their direction reflect the principles of workforce diversity in their management and operation in such areas as recruitment and staffing, employee development, staff assignments, and communications. In addition to demonstrating personal commitment to the objectives of workforce diversity, the executive ensures that subordinate supervisors and managers recognize the importance of their diversity enhancement responsibilities and applies principles that will result in an inclusive and diverse workforce. Provides reasonable accommodations needed to best utilize qualified people with disabilities.

The incumbent serves as the Chief of the Quality Assurance Unit. To carry out this responsibility, the incumbent performs the following duties and responsibilities:

• Assesses, develops, implements, and manages the Unit's programs, policies and services and assures they are consistent with DTM organizational goals, priorities and practices.
• Formulates and carries out program plans.
• Analyzes new and emerging issues while developing strategies and solutions to respond to these in the form of new procedures and methods.
• Ensures the program is administered in accordance with pertinent regulations, policies and procedures.
• Evaluates staff and organizational effectiveness in accomplishing assigned goals and tasks and trouble-shoots problems that arise in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the Unit.
• Oversees the development and implementation of more efficient and streamlined methods and procedures to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Unit.
• Collaborates with appropriate NIH departments to ensure that the programs and activities meet the needs of the Clinical Center and NIH.

The incumbent serves as the Chief of the Quality Assurance Unit. To carry out this responsibility, the incumbent performs the following duties and responsibilities:

• Assesses, develops, implements, and manages the Unit's programs, policies and services and assures they are consistent with DTM organizational goals, priorities and practices;
• Formulates and carries out program plans;
• Analyzes new and emerging issues while developing strategies and solutions to respond to these in the form of new procedures and methods;
• Ensures the program is administered in accordance with pertinent regulations, policies and procedures;
• Evaluates staff and organizational effectiveness in accomplishing assigned goals and tasks and trouble-shoots problems that arise in accomplishing the goals and objectives of the Unit;
• Oversees the development and implementation of more efficient and streamlined methods and procedures to accomplish the goals and objectives of the Unit; and
• Collaborates with appropriate NIH departments to ensure that the programs and activities meet the needs of the Clinical Center and NIH.

If selected for this position as a Biologist (Safety), GS-0401-12/13 your duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Serves as Program Manager and responsible for leading operations of the NIH Quarantine Permit Service Office (QPSO).
• Ensures that NIH research staff are aware of federal requirements (USDA, CDC, DOC, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, etc.) for import and export of etiological agents and vectors of human disease and animals or products from endangered or threatened species.
• Serves as a subject matter expert for dealing with the use, handling, and storage of microbiological materials to include pathogenic bacteria, toxins, viruses, and recombinant DNA components.
• Performs periodic and unscheduled inspections of registered laboratories and biological toxins facilities and operations and evaluates compliance with applicable regulations.
• Serves as the Alternate Responsible Official (ARO) for the Select Agent Program and ensures compliance with Federal Select Agent Program requirements codified in 42 CFR Part 73, 7 CFR Part 331, and 9 CFR Part 121.

Nursing Assistants (NA) functions as a member in the Nursing Service at the White River Junction VA Medical Center. The purpose of this position is to improve the quality and timeliness by which basic services are delivered to our patients to relieve clinicians of the demands of providing routine non-professional services.

Duties of this occupation will include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain positive therapeutic relationships by displaying respect for human dignity with patient, families and/or significant others utilizing learned communication skills
• Report and record patient/resident observations
• Observe patients physical or emotional status and refer deviations and/or problems to a supervisor in a timely manner.
• Properly use equipment, materials and supplies in simple diagnostic and treatment procedures such as continuous passive motion device, blood glucose monitoring machine, specimen collection and pulse oximetry, etc.
• Stocking all supplies in patient rooms
• Transporting patients as necessary
• Communicate effectively with patients, their families and other health professionals
• Obtaining medical information from patients
• Providing educational materials to patients
• Coordinating information/consults and actions related to patient care and services
• Takes all vital signs, weight, blood pressures, temperatures
• Performs routine standardized diagnostic procedures such as EKG's, Glucometry and Pulse Oximetry
• Collects lab specimens
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• This position is in the Excepted Service.
• This position is a AFGE Bargaining Unit position..
• Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• This position is covered by a special rate.

Nursing Assistants (NA) functions as a member in the Nursing Service at the White River Junction VA Medical Center. The purpose of this position is to improve the quality and timeliness by which basic services are delivered to our patients to relieve clinicians of the demands of providing routine non-professional services.

Depending on grade and assignment duties may include but are not limited to:

• Maintain positive therapeutic relationships by displaying respect for human dignity with patient, families and/or significant others utilizing learned communication skills
• Report and record patient/resident observations
• Observe patients physical or emotional status and refer deviations and/or problems to a supervisor in a timely manner.
• Properly use equipment, materials and supplies in simple diagnostic and treatment procedures such as continuous passive motion device, blood glucose monitoring machine, specimen collection and pulse oximetry, etc.
• Stocking all supplies in patient rooms
• Transporting patients as necessary
• Communicate effectively with patients, their families and other health professionals
• Obtaining medical information from patients
• Providing educational materials to patients
• Coordinating information/consults and actions related to patient care and services
• Takes all vital signs, weight, blood pressures, temperatures
• Performs routine standardized diagnostic procedures such as EKG's, Glucometry and Pulse Oximetry
• Collects lab specimens
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• This position is in the Excepted Service.
• This position is a AFGE Bargaining Unit position.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• Narrative responses to the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) may be required from the selectee in order to proceed with the appointment.
• Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees.
• This position is covered by a special rate.