Total 34 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Leeds, Massachusetts

THIS ROLE IS AVAILABLE FOR QUALIFIED NURSES ONLY

About the Role

Join us as a Registered Nurse at Maria Mallaband Care Group, where you will be empowered to be your best self every day and experience firsthand the transformative power of your care.

As an advocate for our residents, you will play a crucial role in planning daily activities, creating tailored care plans, and ensuring individualised needs and choices are met. Your skills will shine as you champion dignity and safety, serve as a role model to your colleagues, and provide a true sense of purpose to those living with us.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Medication administration and care planning
• Providing physical, emotional, and spiritual support to our residents
• Ensuring principles of safeguarding are maintained
• Taking responsibility of shifts as Nurse in charge
• Team management and shift planning
• Infection prevention and control
• Liaising with General Practitioners and Multi-Disciplinary Teams
• Upholding clinical governance standards

About you

Being one of our Registered Nurses means demonstrating compassion, dedication, and commitment towards enhancing the quality of life for others. Your communication skills and attention to detail set you apart, and you continuously seek opportunities to learn and develop your clinical skills. You take every challenge in your stride and your goal is to always achieve the best outcomes.

Previous experience in the role is ideal but not required, and whether you’re a newly qualified nurse or an experienced professional, we are ready to stand by you and support you reach your career goals through tailored training and development.

A few things will be essential to be successful in this role, and these are:

• A Nursing qualification recognised by the UK NMC.
• A valid UK NMC PIN and registration to practice as Registered General Nurse(RGN)/Learning & Disability Nurse (RNLD)/Mental Health Nurse (RMN)
• Ability to perform physical tasks such as assisting residents with their mobility

To ensure we make safe recruitment choices for those in our care, the role will also be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

What we offer

Join us in our journey to become the best care provider in the UK and your employer of choice! You will be rewarded for everything you do and have access to some fantastic benefits, including:

• Simply Health – company funded, providing cashback for prescriptions, optical and dental costs 24/7 virtual GP access plus more for you and up to 4 children*
• Early Pay – Access to earned pay prior to payday
• Benefits platform – discounts across multiple retailers, leisure providers, hospitality etc.
• An exclusive discount on Tastecard - dine out with up to 50% off total food bill
• Free criminal record checks
• Pension Scheme with Nest
• Paid annual NMC renewal fee
• Flexible working patterns to suit your lifestyle
• Cycle to work scheme**
• Service recognition rewards
• Training support and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme and Wellbeing support
• Discounted gym membership

To find our more about our rewards and what makes us great, visit Careers - Maria Mallaband (mmcgcarehomes.co.uk)

*Benefits require completion of a 12-week probationary period before they can be accessed.

**Benefit subject to deduction not taking colleague below National Living Wage

Our commitment to ED&I

We believe in fostering an environment that celebrates diversity, values, inclusivity, and equity, where everyone’s unique perspective is respected and appreciated. We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all, irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or background.

Next steps

Ready to embark on a truly fulfilling career or to re-discover your passion? Apply today and become an essential part of our team, creating happier futures together for you and those in our care.

Willow Bank Nursing Home

Willow Bank Nursing Home is located just off junction 46 of the M1, east of Leeds. Local shops, library, hairdressers, surgery, pharmacy and public house are all within walking distance. Willow Bank is a large 1950s property that provides accommodation for residents with both double and single rooms all of which have en-suite facilities. All rooms are fully carpeted and decorated to a high standard. Residents can enjoy a well maintained garden and two sun lounges during summer months. There is a large dining room leading out to a terraced garden area and a quiet lounge with a dining area and kitchenette. There is a large car park which provides space for up to 14 cars.

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Medical Technologist (Ancillary Testing Coordinator), GS-12

Duties include but are not limited to the following description:

The incumbent is a qualified, experienced Medical Technologist who serves as the Ancillary Testing Coordinator for the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Service. Ancillary testing is defined as laboratory testing or services within a VA Medical Center or its outreach functions at CBOCs that is performed outside the physical facilities of the main clinical laboratory. The incumbent develops and recommends policies and procedures for the procurement and service requirements for ancillary testing, including ensuring CLIA licenses are maintained in all sites. The incumbent serves as the technical advisor to all ancillary testing sites. The incumbent maintains adequate skills to work in Chemistry, Hematology, Coagulation, Urinalysis, Phlebotomy, Microbiology and logging in surgical/cytology specimens. Incumbent also supports the laboratory manager and serves as acting supervisor.

Functions include but are not limited to the following description:

• The ATC consults with the laboratory Director of clinical services to identify ancillary testing needs and to analyze emerging trends and technology and adopts appropriate methods, serving as a recognized technical expert to provide authoritative advice, training, troubleshooting, quality assessment and ancillary testing program consultation.
• The ATC develops technical bulletins, procedures, training materials and other program materials, ensuring accreditation and compliance with all regulatory agencies for patient testing, result reporting and proficiency testing including reports, monitors and continuous performance improvement initiatives.
• Acts as the technical supervisor for quality control, records control, proficiency testing, inspection and accreditation for ancillary testing on a hospital-wide basis and oversees the safe and accurate testing of outreach function patients in the clinic.
• Assesses data needed, designs data collection procedures, identifies quality assurance monitors and indicators, and reviews all data analyzed with the laboratory Director.
• Knowledge of the types of surveillance, ability to collect data necessary to monitor variables that affect quality of services, and skill in evaluation, interpreting and teaching others to use quality control procedures and implementing corrective actions.
• Knowledge of Federal, VHA and state laws, regulations, reference standards and medico legal responsibilities, and certifying and accrediting agency requirements in order to carry out the work in each ancillary testing site.
• Performs statistical analysis (variations, standard deviation, trend analysis) on quality control and quality assurance data collected to identify, document, and takes corrective action when needed.
• Serves as a member of the Ancillary Testing Committee. Implements and monitors protocols established in M-2, part VI, chapter 10, "Ancillary Testing", for quality control, quality assurance, proficiency testing, linearity, equipment maintenance, and user competency for all testing.
• Knowledge of laboratory information technology systems and inter-connectivity.
• Ensures that current mandatory hours of continuing education, training modules and additional education hours required by the facility are completed.
• In addition to assisting laboratory manager on various tasks, serves as first line acting supervisor.

• The duties described are for the full-performance level. At developmental grade levels, assignments will be of more limited scope, performed with less independence and limited complexity.
• The duties may include, but are not limited to:
• Prepares study plans for scientific experiments, using the scientist's hypothesis; attends to all the technical/administrative concerns.
• Develops the data required; refines, verifies, justifies, and organizes the data; analyzes and evaluates findings; and writes-up results for review.
• Conducts tests and analyses of studies and evaluations of data on plant pests detected domestically or intercepted at ports of entry from all parts of the world.
• Collects and manages data, evaluates and analyzes data pertaining to risk, diagnosis, mitigation, rearing, control, treatment and quarantine status.
• Manages plant and/or pest samples and resulting data, including receipt, storage, processing, photographing, and archiving while following procedures to ensure sample integrity and custody.

• Receives, enters, and edits all non-IHS and IHS referrals.
• Verifies and determines patient's eligibility for third party resources.
• Performs research related to medical documentation, administrative compliance, and inquiries.
• Conducts in-depth face to face interviews or by telephone to gather pertinent information related to patient care.
• Ensures PRC funds are available prior to issuance of obligating documents on behalf of the government.
• Initiates medical authorizations.
• Gathers all necessary information for appeals or denials.
• Prepares periodic and special reports.

• Receives, enters, and edits all non-IHS and IHS referrals.
• Verifies and determines patient's eligibility for third party resources.
• Performs research related to medical documentation, administrative compliance, and inquiries.
• Conducts in-depth face to face interviews or by telephone to gather pertinent information related to patient care.
• Ensures PRC funds are available prior to issuance of obligating documents on behalf of the government.
• Initiates medical authorizations.
• Gathers all necessary information for appeals or denials.
• Prepares periodic and special reports.

1. Plans, directs, coordinates, and evaluates activities necessary to the overall management of a diverse occupational safety program. Reviews complex health and safety plans/programs and develops and issues instructions and procedures establishing technical and administrative safety and occupational health requirements which frequently become official policy and may impact a wide range of agency safety activities. Ensures and performs periodic inspections, assessments, evaluations, and surveys of facilities, equipment, and operations; and identifies deficiencies in the program and variances to the standard(s) using a comprehensive knowledge of regulations, standards, procedures, methods, and techniques to determine compliance with safety and occupational health regulations. Plans alternative course of specialized action to resolve hazardous conditions and unsafe working practices, modifying and extending accepted principles and practices where available precedents are not directly applicable. Documents and reviews inspection, assessment and evaluation findings, recommends or initiates appropriate program improvements based on findings, and prepares formal reports for dissemination to appropriate parties. Advises key commanders and managerial and executive personnel of courses of actions affecting facility operations, work processes, human-machine relationships, and environmental conditions which impact on the safety and efficiency of personnel and preservation of government property. Recommends appropriate measures to prevent unnecessary exposure and eliminate or control hazardous operating procedures. Ensures follow-up inspections are conducted, and violations and hazards corrected. (25%)
2. Plans, directs and conducts investigations and analyzes of mishaps and hazardous conditions to determine origin, causes, and contributing elements and prepares written evaluation reports concerning findings and proposed recommendations. Work operations and environmental conditions involve a substantial number and diversity of hazards that include those with potential for significant severity and loss. Uses the current Air Force Automated Safety (AFSAS) reporting system. Compiles and analyzes mishap data, identifies trends, and develops comprehensive recommendations to reduce or eliminate mishaps. Reports typically contain graphs, charts, and recommendations for changes in operating procedures, regulations, and use of protective devices that affect agency activities. (25%)
3. Prepares supplements to instructions and manuals and develops specialized local instructions defining mishap prevention programs and procedures based on interpretation and/or adaptation of higher command instructions and policies formulated by other federal government agencies. Evaluates new trends for policy development or for further inquiry and study leading to new methods for eliminating or controlling minor through extremely serious hazards to life and property. Coordinates with other installation offices regarding comprehensive occupational health matters affecting installation personnel and devises specialized operating practices involving diverse but recognized hazards. Prepares and revises local written procedures or abatement actions for conditions not directly addressed by existing standards or guidelines and evaluates agency-wide effect. Evaluates safety standards adopted by national safety associations, societies, or institutes; publications on work processes; and current industrial problems and modifies/adapts for local application. Makes recommendations and decisions on complex policy issues that frequently become official policy and may impact a wide range of agency safety activities. (15%)
4. Reviews plans and specifications for new construction, major building alterations, and/or changes in equipment and monitors project through completion to ensure compliance with safety codes and standards. Recommends design changes not included in the original plan and provides technical recommendations to eliminate or control safety hazards in the construction, repair and maintenance of installation facilities and equipment. When need arises, stops any operation that is of imminent danger to personnel or property. Develops specialized operating practices affecting construction matters associated with diverse but recognized hazards and attends pre-construction conferences to brief contractors on safety requirements. Identifies potential safety hazards to assure adequate fire exits, stairways, aisle space, means of egress, etc. Randomly spot checks construction sites and notifies contracting officer when safety violations or practices are observed (e.g., improper scaffolding, construction pits not safeguarded, improper use of ladders). (15%)


Performs other duties as assigned.

Some of the duties and responsibilities of this position include (but are not limited to):

• Responsible for the operation of the Heat Extractor system, which produces tempered water for Boiler Plant use and reclaimed heat for the hospital's fresh air supply.
• Monitoring and responding to the alarms generated by the Energy Management Computer system.
• Overseeing the operation of the Base-Loop Fire Alarm System.
• Performing maintenance and periodic testing, including record keeping for a 150 KW emergency generator with automatic transfer switches.
• Supervising lower-graded Boiler Plant Operators.
• Planning, scheduling, and changing work assignments for subordinates as necessary.
• Determining material, equipment, maintenance needs and ensuring they are requested in a timely manner to assure un-interruption of critical operations.
• Drafting position descriptions, performance standards, and routine memoranda.
• Providing information and advice to higher-level supervision on budget estimates by preparing budget worksheets.
• Overseeing, analyzing, and maintaining operational records of work production.
• Planning and scheduling all training of operating personnel.
• Scheduling and approving leave requests.
• Resolving informal complaints and grievances.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

The position leads a team comprised of Peer Specialists and may lead Without Compensation (WOC) peer support employees, within a common supervisory structure, to provide services, integrate processes, and meet goals of peer support service programming at the facility. As the leader of a team of peer support staff, the position facilitates, coordinates, coaches, and problem solve with the members of the peer support staff team. The position also acts as the recognized liaison to and from the peer support staff team and the supervisor. The work of the position enables the peer support provider team as a whole to deliver improved quality, quantity, and timely services to Veterans.
Duties include, but not limited to the following:

• Ensures that the organization's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values are communicated to the peer support staff they lead and integrated into the team's strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, products, and services.
• Articulates and communicates to the peer support staff they lead the assignments, projects, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review as well as the deadlines and time frames for completion. The position communicates the supervisor's instructions to the team.
• Coaches the peer support staff they lead in the selection and application of appropriate problem-solving methods and techniques, provides advice on work methods, practices and procedures, and assists the team and/or individual members in identifying the parameters of viable solutions.
• Maintains awareness of the status and progress of peer support staff's work and makes day-to-day adjustments to ensure their work aligns with program goals and processes.
• Leads the team in identifying, distributing, and balancing workload and tasks in accordance with established workflow, skill level and/or occupational specialization; makes adjustments to accomplish the workload in accordance with established priorities to ensure timely accomplishment of assigned team tasks; and ensures that each team member has an integral role in developing the final team products and services.
• Identifies training needs and assists in the development of training for peer specialists and Veterans seeking to become peer specialists.
• Serves as a coach, facilitator and/or negotiator in coordinating team initiatives and in consensus building activities among team members.
• Maintains working knowledge of treatments and services available for the purpose of appropriate referrals.
• Represents the team in dealings with the supervisor for the purpose of obtaining resources (e.g., computer hardware and software, use of overtime or compensatory time), and securing needed information or decisions from the supervisor on major work problems and issues that arise.
• Participates in the service, training, consultation, and other professional activities of VA health care services and functions as a fully vested member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Uses personal recovery experiences to model coping techniques and recovery tools to coach Veterans on relevant skills needed for self-management of their health condition(s) and pursuit of their personal wellness.
• Observes behaviors that might indicate difficulty adapting or responding to treatment (e.g., missed assessment appointments, failure to attend or maintain abstinence, risk to self or others, disruptive behavior), completes appropriate documentation, and reports concerns to the treatment team in a timely manner.
• Uses ongoing individual and group meetings to teach Veterans how to identify and combat negative self-talk and overcome fears by providing a forum that allows Veteran to share their experiences.
• As necessary, handles crisis interventions for Veterans and addresses other emergent situations without the benefit of specific instructions.
• Informs Veterans about VA and community supports and resources, including how to effectively utilize them in the recovery and wellness process.
• Maintains a working knowledge of current trends and developments in holistic approaches in wellness and recovery by reading books, journals, and other relevant materials.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Conducts safety and environmental inspections of the institution and prepares a report for the Environmental and Safety Compliance Administrator’s review.

Promotes the adherence of safety policy for the facility.

Assist in the training of staff and inmates in the techniques of firefighting, occupational safety and environmental protection.

Assist the Safety Administrator or Assistant Safety Administrator in conducting investigations and obtains statements from witnesses and securing physical evidence.

Prepares factual written reports for all concerned that will identify the accident, injuries suffered by staff and/or inmates, cost of property damage and offer recommendations to eliminate future accidents in the future.

Responsible for developing and conducting safety training classes for the inmate population and staff.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staffs correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis. 

Selected Physician will serve the Veteran populations at both the Hyannis and New Bedford Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs), requiring travel between the two Facilities.

The Staff Physician (Family Medicine | Internal Medicine | Primary Care), is responsible for maintaining professional, technical and administrative knowledge, competencies and skills to provide effective, timely, quality responses to patients' health care needs. The Primary Care Physician is responsible for the Veterans enrolled in his/her PACT.

Responsible for the primary care of assigned patient panel across the continuum of care to include: comprehensive health assessment; case management; continuity and coordination of care; patient advocacy and compliance with chronic disease, prevention and utilization indicators. Specific duties include (but are not limited to):

• Comply with credentialing and privileging and required monitoring and evaluation criteria
• Must maintain high clinic standards that are carried into decision-making processes
• Continually strive to maintain and enhance teaching skills to effectively teach residents and students
• Comply with current standards for medical record documentation and resident /medical student supervision
• Expected to meet or exceed established Chronic Disease, Prevention and Utilization Indicators
• Provide appropriate care for Veterans ranging in age from 18 through the geriatric years, taking into consideration diagnosis and physical, psychosocial, spiritual and cultural needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge, skills and abilities to: conduct comprehensive health assessments; determine diagnoses and health care needs; and to construct health care plans based on effective therapeutic ability, consultation ,patient education and established practice guidelines.
• Demonstrates ability to coordinate patient care through patient management techniques within the assigned PACT and implement the same functionality in PACTs.
• Maintains effectiveness in recognizing emergency/acute situations and intervening in an appropriate and effective manner.
• Documents patients' health care clearly, adequately and accurately as defined by medical records documentation, chronic disease and prevention indicators.
• Signs notes in a timely manner as dictated by Medial Center by-laws or the Primary Care Service Chief.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this position, you will serve as a Health Physicist.

Typical assignments include:

• Serving as a Regional Radiological and Nuclear technical advisor for off-site preparedness activities associated with Radiological Emergency Preparedness Program.
• Ensuring that State and Regional personnel receive all relevant training IAW the REPP National Training Program.
• Tracking and reporting programmatic demands, activities, funds, expenditures, production, and staff assignments.
• Planning, initiating, writing, and reviewing REPP HP and site reports for pre, during, and post exercise plume and ingestion pathway exercise evaluations.
• Serving as REPP off-site exercise Site Lead and authorized agent to represent the Region at meetings and conferences with senior Federal officials, State and local government officials and private sector on all regional REPP activi

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

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

• Taking-recording-reporting vital signs accurately
• Assisting with ambulation or wheelchair usage
• Providing safe environments and other duties or care as directed by Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses or providers.
• Incumbent will initiate emergency action in life threatening situations such as cardiac and /or respiratory arrest, massive bleeding, shock, or assaultive behavior and will alert licensed personal immediately
• Performing EKG's
• Rooming and prepping patients for exams
• Obtaining specimens, properly labeling and preparing specimens for transport for testing.
• POC testing
• Cleaning/disinfecting exam rooms/medical equipment after patient use
• Performs other duties as assigned

The incumbent serves as the Regional Administrator of the Boston Regional Office. Duties may include are not limited to the following:

• Directs, controls, evaluates, and provides technical policy and administrative staff assistance to operational Area and District offices which are responsible for the inspection, enforcement, and compliance efforts through on-site investigations conducted by Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHO's) to assure that these are administered fairly, uniformly and accurately within the framework of established standards and policies.
• Participates in the development of and evaluates State comprehensive occupational safety and health plans provided for under Section 18 of the Act under which a State may assume responsibility for the development and enforcement of standards, or certain aspects thereof, which must meet Federal criteria and recommends to the Assistant Secretary the approval or rejection of such plans. Before, during and after the final approval stage the Regional Administrator is responsible for monitoring State operation, evaluating its effectiveness, approving Federal Grants to defray part of its costs and certifying, through a semi-annual evaluation, that the program meets requirements of the Act and OSHA safety and health standards, or in the instance of program or operational inadequacies, to recommend withdrawal of the plan's approval.
• Provides continuing awareness, education, and training programs for the Regional Ares staffs, State personnel, employers and employees, and others in the private sector to increase professional competency and promote a better understanding, acceptance, and voluntary compliance with OSHA's programs and an injection of technical professionalism into the achievement of improved occupational safety and health conditions.
• Develops and provides guidance for Federal Agency safety programs under Section (19) of the Act to assure that standards and other benefits are provided all Federal employees in the Region.
• Participates in the development of and administers special national emphasis or experimental programs where regional resources are marshaled and intensified to approach specific serious and critical industrial and occupational health and safety situations.