Total 337 Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in NT - Regional and Remote - Alice Springs

Duties include but not limited to:

• GS-04:
  • Reviews record documentation to abstract all required medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data with guidance and instruction from supervisor or senior coder to develop knowledge of the organization and structure of an electronic patient record.
  • Applies knowledge of medical record content, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, diseases processes, and official coding guidelines to assign codes to the most basic and routine inpatient services.
  • With instruction from a senior coder or supervisor learns to select diagnosis, operation, or procedure codes based on the accepted coding practices, guidelines, conventions and policy.
• GS-05:
  • Maintains current knowledge of regulatory and policy requirements affecting coded information.
  • Assigns codes to documented patient care encounters (inpatient and outpatient); encounters are routine and less complex or for only one specialty or subspecialty.
  • Reviews health record documentation to abstract all required medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data. Patient health records may be paper or electronic.
• GS-06:
  • Assists facility staff with basic documentation requirements to reflect the patient care provided; provides support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing.
  • Uses skill and knowledge of the organization and structure of the patient health record to capture and justify code assignment.
  • Uses a variety of computer applications in day to day activities and duties, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, and Access; competent in use of the health record applications (VistA and CPRS) as well as the encoder product suite.
• GS-07:
  • Assists facility staff with documentation requirements to completely and accurately reflect the patient care provided; provides technical support in the areas of regulations and policy, coding requirements, resident supervision, reimbursement, workload, accepted nomenclature, and proper sequencing. Insures provider documentation is complete and supports the diagnoses and procedures coded.
  • Utilizes the facility computer system and software applications to correctly code, abstract, record, and transmit data to the national VA database in Austin.
  • Performs a comprehensive review of the patient health record to abstract medical, surgical, ancillary, demographic, social, and administrative data to ensure complete data capture. Patient health records may be paper or electronic. The abstracted data has many purposes, for example, to profile the facility services and patient population, to determine budgetary requirements, to report to accrediting and peer review organizations, to bill insurance companies and other agencies, and to support research programs.
• GS-8:
  • Code all inpatient stays (facility and professional fees), all write-in diagnoses and procedures for outpatient encounters and laboratory, radiology, surgical and outpatient encounters that are billed to insurance companies. Codes information from the medial records of patients to generate a clinical care patient care database for the Medical Center. Assures the maintenance and accuracy of the diagnostic and procedural statistics for the facility as well as optimum appropriate reimbursement from the third party payers, by the timely and accurate coding of diagnoses and procedures utilizing the required classification system.
  • Captures data through the Ambulatory Care Data Capture Superbill Form (both printed and electronic), electronic visit notes, the Quadramed/DSS Complaint Coding Module (CCM) and the Patient Treatment File (PTF) in Vista and in Quadramed/DSS. Converts narrative electronic visit notes to ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes.
  • Manually code from the medical record documentation and enter into the appropriate software packages. Inpatient data is captured by the Coders reading the electronic and paper medical record then converting the narrative to ICD, CPT and HCPCS codes.

NOTE: This is a remote position. The salary range listed on this announcement reflects the minimum and maximum salary range for all locations. Upon selection, the salary will be adjusted to reflect the salary for your specific location.

NOTE: This is a TERM appointment (not-to-exceed 3 years). Term appointments are non-status, nonpermanent appointments of limited duration (more than 1 year but not more than 4). Term employees are eligible to earn leave and generally have the same benefits as permanent employees including health and life insurance, within-grade increases and Federal Employees Retirement System and Thrift Savings Plan coverage. Term appointments may be extended without further competition (up to the 4 year maximum). The appointment to a Term position does not confer eligibility for promotion or reassignment to other positions or the ability to be non-competitively converted to permanent employment.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Works with researchers to determine their needs
• Performs analyses of research studies and clinical trial protocols to determine data requirements
• Designs application and data storage systems
• Evaluates clinical trial data reporting requirements and implements required changed, ensuring data integrity and information security assurance
• Conducts hardware and software analysis
• Analyzes clinical trials electronic data capture requirements for screening, randomization, kit assignment, serious adverse events, data collection, and reporting
• Performs mapping analyses needed to determine data assurance and security requirements for data migration
• Designs and develops databases for studies
• Serves as the primary organizational representative for several concurrent projects
• Provides consultation and advice regarding core infrastructure to support, maintain, and improve informatics developments
• Proposes and develops strategic biomedical informatics programs to support better utilization and analysis of VA health, research, and genomic data
• Performs other related duties as assigned

CDISs must be able to perform all duties of an MRT (Coder-Inpatient). The CDI Specialist serves as a consultant to various medical staff and ad hoc committees related to medical documentation activities, including compliance. They serve on various workgroups and teams as assigned. They are also responsible for reports preparation and presentation of data to the committee(s). Serves as a consultant in the development and updating of Medical Center policy memoranda pertaining to document function and medical record activities. Ensures that medical record documentation activities are consistent with the requirements established by VA manuals and directives and the Joint Commission standards and Scoring Guidelines.

They are responsible for facilitating improved overall quality, education, completeness, and accuracy of health record documentation through extensive interaction with clinical, coding, and other associated staff to ensure clinical documentation supports services rendered to patients, appropriate workload is captured, and resources are properly allocated. The CDI Specialist analyzes, interprets, and trends findings of quality improvement monitors and prepares monthly/quarterly reports for presentation to the medical staff and/or management. Based on these findings, makes recommendations, and persuades physicians/service chiefs to adopt proposals that result in necessary policy or procedural changes. The CDI Specialist must possess thorough knowledge of medical, terminology, anatomy and physiology and practical knowledge of medical treatment modalities, procedures, surgeries, and disease processes. They review documentation and facilitate modifications to the health record to ensure accurate severity of illness, risk of mortality, complexity of care, and utilization of resources. They identify opportunities for documentation improvement by ensuring that diagnoses and procedures are documented to the highest level of specificity, accurately address all acute and chronic conditions, and reflect the true health status of patients. Serves as Subject Matter Expert for HIMS regarding medical record documentation. Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, service chiefs, and other medical center staff at all organizational levels. Must possess effective interpersonal skills.

Responsible for determining the need for and extent of training medical staff personnel regarding medical record document and requirements. May be required to develop training materials and continuing education programs. Training programs may include legal and ethical documentation practices, Evaluation and Management Code assignment, medical record documentation requirements, etc. In cases where additional medical record documentation is necessary, incumbent advises and/or discusses the issue with the responsible physician(s) via query. Queries sent to clinical staff to clarify ambiguous, conflicting, or incomplete documentation. They review appropriateness of and responses to queries through review of query reports. Evaluates, monitors, and reports on data from a variety of sources in relation to inpatient and outpatient reimbursement. These sources include Data Validation outputs and data provided from the local VISTA and VA Central Office. Incumbent will conduct monitors, summarize data, and prepare reports in a variety of areas, including a variety of special projects for the HIMS section.

Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Chief, HIMS or designee.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 554-60217-0 Medical Records Technician Clinical Document Improvement Specialist (Inpatient) GS-0675-09
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

CDISs must be able to perform all duties of an MRT (Coder-outpatient). The CDI Specialist serves as a consultant to various medical staff and ad hoc committees related to medical documentation activities, including compliance. They serve on various workgroups and teams as assigned. They are also responsible for reports preparation and presentation of data to the committee(s). Serves as a consultant in the development and updating of Medical Center policy memoranda pertaining to document function and medical record activities. Ensures that medical record documentation activities are consistent with the requirements established by VA manuals and directives and the Joint Commission standards and Scoring Guidelines.

They are responsible for facilitating improved overall quality, education, completeness, and accuracy of health record documentation through extensive interaction with clinical, coding, and other associated staff to ensure clinical documentation supports services rendered to patients, appropriate workload is captured, and resources are properly allocated. The CDI Specialist analyzes, interprets, and trends findings of quality improvement monitors and prepares monthly/quarterly reports for presentation to the medical staff and/or management. Based on these findings, makes recommendations, and persuades physicians/service chiefs to adopt proposals that result in necessary policy or procedural changes. The CDI Specialist must possess thorough knowledge of medical, terminology, anatomy and physiology and practical knowledge of medical treatment modalities, procedures, surgeries, and disease processes. They review documentation and facilitate modifications to the health record to ensure accurate severity of illness, risk of mortality, complexity of care, and utilization of resources. They identify opportunities for documentation improvement by ensuring that diagnoses and procedures are documented to the highest level of specificity, accurately address all acute and chronic conditions, and reflect the true health status of patients. Serves as Subject Matter Expert for HIMS regarding medical record documentation. Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with physicians, service chiefs, and other medical center staff at all organizational levels. Must possess effective interpersonal skills.

Responsible for determining the need for and extent of training medical staff personnel regarding medical record document and requirements. May be required to develop training materials and continuing education programs. Training programs may include legal and ethical documentation practices, Evaluation and Management Code assignment, medical record documentation requirements, etc. In cases where additional medical record documentation is necessary, incumbent advises and/or discusses the issue with the responsible physician(s) via query. Queries sent to clinical staff to clarify ambiguous, conflicting, or incomplete documentation. They review appropriateness of and responses to queries through review of query reports. Evaluates, monitors, and reports on data from a variety of sources in relation to inpatient and outpatient reimbursement. These sources include Data Validation outputs and data provided from the local VISTA and VA Central Office. Incumbent will conduct monitors, summarize data, and prepare reports in a variety of areas, including a variety of special projects for the HIMS section.

Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Chief, HIMS or designee.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM
Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized
Virtual: This is a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 554-60096-A Medical Records Technician Clinical Document Improvement Specialist (outpatient) GS-0675-09
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards

This announcement is for a Temporary promotion or Detail NTE 120 days. Open WMC wide only.

This announcement will close on 11/21/2024, the first 75 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the date in which the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management.

The Program Manager is responsible for providing overall leadership and direction for the program as well as overseeing the planning, implementation, and management of the program within the Veterans Health Administration. The incumbent provides overall management and support of Scholarship and Clinical Education programs including daily communication with various customers and stakeholders at all levels of the organization, charter groups and arrange meetings, collect and analyze data, formulate and implement program development and improvement activities, assist in survey administration and the management of funds.

Major Duties Include:

• Performing application evaluation and explaining eligibility criteria to candidates.
• Identifying current and future program needs and establishing priorities.
• Preparing responses at the request of Congressional staff offices related to program area.
• Collaborating with other agencies for application selection.
• Preparing annual and supplemental requests for funding and decision documents.
• Collecting and analyzing data for purposes of determining funding needs for program support, identifying additional disciplines to include in legislative proposals and determining cost-effectiveness of educational assistance opportunities.
• Serving as a national technical expert on the laws, regulations and policy that govern the operation of Scholarship and Clinical Education programs.
• Creating and justifying the annual budget of programs along with management of received funds.
• Developing budget reports and assisting in budget allocation and execution for the program and monitoring the use and rate of expenditure of budgeted funds.
• Collecting, inputting, managing, and maintaining data, record keeping, and creating and generating budget and financial reports.
• Developing comprehensive plans and processes to attract program candidates based on projected
  occupational needs.
• Developing policy/guidelines, instructional methods, materials, etc. to support program participation to meet Administration recruitment needs.
• Providing subject matter expert analysis and advice on agency-wide student loan financial recruitment &
  retention programs.
• Collaborating with Third Part Vendors for processing of payments.

Major duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Involves specialized administrative judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of clinical flow processes relating to access to care across multiple clinics, specialties, and/or care in the community resources.
• Recommends changes to existing clinic procedures based on current administrative guidelines.
• Expertise in utilizing numerous advanced patient systems in support of multiple clinics involved in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model.
• Coordinates with the patient care team to review clinic appointment availability (utilization) to ensure that clinic schedules are closely monitored to effectively support the needs of the clinics and adjusts as necessary.
• Develop and/or maintain effective and efficient communication with the patient, interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery model teams, VA medical centers, and other agencies (e.g., assist with communications during the inpatient to outpatient discharge; communicate with non-VA medical facilities; prepare correspondence to notify patients of normal lab results; manage a system for follow-up care such as consults, tests, etc.).
• Processes incoming patient secure messaging through MyHealthyVet and coordinates with care team as appropriate
• Participates in team huddles and team meetings to manage, plan, problem solve, and follow-up with patient care by sharing information and collaborating with the interdisciplinary team; setting priorities and deadlines, adjusting the flow and sequencing of the work to meet team and patient needs; identifies incomplete encounters and communicates findings to providers; as needed; assists the team to reinforce the plan of care and self-help solutions;
• Enters appropriate information into the electronic record
• Monitors pre-appointment information and/or requirements to assure readiness for patient visit/procedure
• Manages patient systems to verify and validate accuracy and resolve issues; evaluates patient information and clinic schedule lists to determine whether the patient requires an immediate appointment; informs team members about shared patients (i.e., those who receive their care at multiple VA centers or those who receive care in the community).

Major duties of the Supervisory Health System Specialist (Corporate Compliance Officer) include:

• Responsible for the initiation and completion of administrative investigations and fact-findings as approved by the Health Care System Director.
• Directing, developing, implementing, and overseeing a multi-disciplinary, health-care-system-wide Compliance Section within the scope of the VHA mandated Privacy Program, Records Information Management Program, Conflict of Interest, and Compliance & Business Integrity (CBI) Program (which includes auditing, monitoring and creation of corrective action plan activities in the areas of coding, documentation, purchased care, exclusionary lists, conflict of interest, accuracy of patient registration, etc.), Controlled Substance Program, VHA policy related to Administrative Investigative Boards, VHA policy related to Access, and VISN equivalent of each of these programs.
• Establish goals and work plans for the Compliance Section and ensures the implementation of the goals and objectives of the section.
• Determine issues, areas, and/or subject matter that create risk for the organization and makes recommendations to executive leadership as to how to avoid or minimize the identified risks.
• Creates written policies and procedures that promote commitment to corporate compliance and address specific areas of risk associated with the Health Care System business, practices, operations, privacy, Records Information Management, investigations, and audits of scheduling and consult practices.
• Creates and maintains local policies governing each of the disciplines within Compliances.
• Creates a formal, written training and education plan for all disciplines with the Compliance Section.
• Monitor the implementation of process improvement projects that are the result of findings made by the Compliance Section.

As the VISN 22 VA Health Connect Clinical Contact Center (CCC) Chief Nurse you will report directly to the VA Health Connect CCC Director. The Clinical Contact Center Chief Nurse will provide executive leadership and direct supervision to the Nurse Managers over the Clinical Contact Center nursing staff and other employees as assigned. Assesses, plans, and evaluates the processes and daily operations of the Clinical Contact Center, collaborating with the Nurse Managers and administrative and clinical leaders within the VISN (e.g. from Clinical Contact Centers and Tele Emergency Care), at the medical centers where patients are assigned (e.g. from Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Specialty Care), and with Program Offices (e.g. Homeless Program, Veterans Crisis Line) to design and implement interdisciplinary programs and processes within the service.

Chief, Clinical Contact Center is responsible for:

• Assessing and recommending the allocation of human and material resources, in determining staffing levels, managing overtime, and plays a significant role in the recruitment and retention of staff.
• Ensure competency assessment meets the learning needs of nursing staff and are completed on each employee annually.
• Reviews Clinical Contact Center Data, quality assurance findings, and business operations data related to nursing and clinical operations for trends and early intervention; formulates follow-up plans with stakeholders within and outside of the VISN.
• Evaluates findings from VISN Clinical Contact Center Quality Assurance Program and collaborates with both administrative and clinical services to monitor quality and safety within the service and during transitions in care to the medical centers.
• Functions as facilitator in implementing action plans and performance and process improvement strategies at services for follow up to include regular progress reports.
• Performance improvement projects may be co-led with leaders from medical centers.
• Promotes evidence-based practice designed to validate and/or improve patient care and health care delivery.
• Acts as a liaison with the nursing leaders in Offices of Nursing Services, Office of Integrated Veterans Care (IVC) and the Office of Nursing Services to address issues related to nursing as needed.

• Chief Nurse experience preferred
• Three plus years of experience in Emergency, Critical Care or Call Center leadership preferred
• Doctorate degree with Evidence Based Practice experience is a plus

This position is 100% remote and the US location is negotiable after selection. Work sites outside of the U.S. are prohibited. Your salary will be based upon the locality pay of your work site after selection.

To view the salary range including locality pay for your particular location, please visit this link to the 2024 OPM Salary Tables.

Applications received as a result of job fairs, recruitment events, and emergency hiring mechanisms in support of this hiring initiative will also be accepted during open and closing date of this announcement.

IT Specialists (INFOSEC) are a mission critical occupation for HRSA. These positions are responsible for the analysis of system and/or security requirements, the development and implementation of mission critical applications for the agency's Information Technology operations.

As an IT Specialist - Info Sec - Information Systems Security Officer (ISSO), you will serve as a technical authority/subject matter expert for HRSA on matters involving the vulnerabilities and threats to HHS' information technology systems.

Your major duties and responsibilities will include:

• Developing/updating system security plans, risk assessments, disaster recovery, and contingency plans, incident response and additional system development life-cycle security documentation.
• Overseeing the security posture for one or more system(s) throughout the entire lifecycle; providing continuous monitoring through scheduled audits, controls testing, and audit reviews, and escalates issues as needed.
• Facilitating remediation/mitigation of weaknesses tracked on the Plan of Action and Milestones to reduce risk and address weaknesses to the system.
• Providing Continuous Monitoring support/guidance by reviewing security documentation, logs, scans and ensuring system backups are performed.
• Conducting security impact assessments when system changes or additions occur to the system, evaluate compliance with IT security requirements, compare them with expected results, and make recommendations.

Employee / Labor Relations Advisory Services:
Provides client managers, supervisors, and employees with information and interpretations of the Southwest Regional Human Resources Office's employee conduct and performance management, benefits administration, and other work life programs, procedures, practices, policies, and guidelines, when the issues addressed require substantial interpretation, there is potential for controversy, and/or the issue involves more than one area of Human Resources (HR) policy. Reviews performance, conduct related actions, and provides guidance on complex and/or sensitive issues, such as those that conflict with past practices, involve highly visible or political situations, or have the attention of labor organizations or other groups. Reviews routine to complex, multi-issue, and multi-party complaints or grievances; conducts personal interviews and other fact finding to advise management of alternative and optional approaches to resolve the situations.

Employee / Labor Relations Policy Development and Review:
Reviews and analyzes the effects of proposed and actual changes to employee relations policies and guidelines that impact a significant organizational segment of an organization, such as a Regional Office, Center, or major field installation. Develops and communicates Southwest Regional HR Office-wide positions and interpretations on conduct-related decisions, rulings, appeals, guidelines, and new or revised instructions to managers, peers, employees, and employee organizations. Develops changed or new policies and procedures to promote and implement revised conduct administration program principles, practices, and criteria to promote organizational efficiencies. Works with senior HR Specialists and client managers to develop alternative strategies and assess trade-offs between conflicting Human Resources requirements, such as OPM requirements, Executive Orders, or MSPB decisions, and issues arising from the implementation of new or revised conduct administration and/or performance management practices, such as a new performance appraisal system.

Labor Agreement Administration:
Recommends solutions to labor relations problems and issues having significant impact on cost, production, or working conditions. Certain issues impact significant organizational segments of an agency, such as a regional office, Center, or major field installation, and involve collective bargaining agreements with more than one bargaining unit. Conducts systematic studies and prepares statistical reports and/or written guidance to address subjects of union and management interest. Produces labor summaries, covering subjects such as trends, formal grievances, and arbitration, to clarify and/or quantify generalizations about the current state of the labor relations program for client managers.

Labor Partnering and Negotiations:
Collaborates with client managers to develop SWRHRO positions, proposals, and strategies on complex Human Resources issues, such as controversial items requiring modification or adaptation of guidelines where no clear precedent exists.

Agency Representation in Third-party or Potential Third-party Proceedings:
Serves as a technical advisor or management representative in cases with potential impact on a labor relations program area in a major agency organizational segment, such as a Center or regional office. Reviews and investigates formal grievances on complex and/or far-reaching issues in the pre- litigation stage for possible settlement or withdrawal before third-party proceedings are initiated. Additional responsibilities in the areas of: Employee/Labor Relations Program Administration, Proposal /Plan Development for Employee / Labor Relations Projects, Employee / Labor Relations Program Oversight, Employee / Labor Relations Program Evaluation Work