Total 5 Others job vacancies in Portland Plant - Portland, Maine

Major duties includes, but are not limited to:

The primary purposes of this position are to: (1) foster and manage a local library program, (2) provide information and reference support to clinical and nursing programs and committees, and (3) serve as an active team member with the multi-disciplinary management and clinical operations.

Library Program Development, Implementation, and Administration

• Acts as the primary professional responsibility to recommend plans, developments, implements and revisions for the library program for this medical center.
• Recommends and establishes the scope and extent of programs and services to be offered.
• Develops and maintains knowledge-based systems and services relevant to the organization's needs.
• Acts as the point of expert knowledge in searching and evaluating the health care literature.
• Recommends and establishes program guidelines, policies, and operating procedures.
• Recommends and monitors program budgets.
• Evaluates the library programs in terms of clientele requirements and needs, as well as, quality of performance.
• Recommends and implements corrective measures and new procedures to improve and/or expand services.
• Collaborates with the VISN, VA Library Network (VALNET) and the VA Library Network Office (LNO) to continuously improve delivery of health care information.
• Ensures compliance with copyright legislation and license agreements.
• Tracks statistics and completes local and national reports.
• Capitalizes on existing and emerging technologies to improve access to pertinent information resources through recommendations and implementation.

• Serves as the expert in searching highly specialized biomedical, nursing and allied health and health management, databases and the Internet.
• Carries out complex searches providing accurate and reliable information that informs clinical and management decisions, provides context for research efforts and encourages the self-directed learning of staff.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of the terminology and practices of health care disciplines, including all fields of medicine and surgery, dentistry, nursing, mental health, health administration, pharmacy and allied health fields, to accurately interpret questions and complete reliable and comprehensive searches.
• Maintains current knowledge of database content and serves as the expert in searching techniques across a variety of databases and vendors.
• Ensures state-of-the-art policies and procedures pertaining to the cataloging and classification of highly technical medical materials collections.

• Works with physicians, nurses and other staff in clinical settings and in routine clinical conferences, such as Morning Report, to provide patient-specific information in coordination with CIIR Program manager.
• Functions as a resource to clinicians by searching medical databases to identify and retrieve knowledge-based information to resolve questions and controversies in diagnosis and treatment, clarify clinical decisions, decide upon the best course of care, and elucidate rare medical conditions.
• Uses knowledge of evidence-based practice and resources to provide highly-specific, case-related medical literature which contributes to quality patient care as well as quality clinical education for medical students, residents, and clinical staff.
• Recommends and establishes outreach efforts to market and fully exploit the benefits of library tools and resources.
• Manages online knowledge-based resources.
• Communicates with customers at their levels of understanding and provides information appropriate to their health literacy levels.

• Recommends, establishes and maintains the development of a comprehensive, high quality library collection (monographs, journals, audiovisuals, etc.) that is broad in scope and penetrating in coverage to meet the information needs of staff, students, researchers, and patients.
• Stays abreast of and evaluates new library technologies to determine applicability to patrons.
• Routinely receives, records, and re-distributes incoming mail including library journals and books.
• Assists in the acquisition and processing of library materials that are either purchased locally or distributed by national VA programs.
• Carries out shelving and archiving duties to maintain stacks in order, shifts overcrowded volumes of journals, and takes inventory and binding duties as assigned.

As a General Engineer (Recent Graduate), you will:

• Serve as an engineer responsible for researching, analyzing, interpreting, evaluating, and performing difficult but well precedented engineering assignments in support of the functions of one or more functions.
• Perform assigned segments or phases of larger assignments.
• Analyze engineering data through computational processes; compares data from various reference sources or research agencies to identify correlating factors; and interprets the data and explains the mathematical or statistical techniques and limitations, and the significance of their use to the specific problem.
• Perform, interpret, and correlate various calculations, analyses, and computations for unknown factors or relationships that are primarily matters of a factual nature or involve mechanisms that are well understood.
• Learn engineering techniques and gain knowledge through job experience and extended professional training that supplements technical understanding.
• Use computers and information technology and their varied applications to accomplish projects, designs, plans, and reports.

As a Student Trainee (General Engineer), you will:

• Research, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and carry out difficult but conventional assignments.
• Determine relevancy and use of factual, economic and financial engineering, and scientific information.
• Prepare, provide, and evaluate conventional plans, designs, design specifications, and related documentation.
• Perform and interpret calculations, analyses, and computations for unknown factors or relationships primarily in matters of a factual nature or involving well-understood mechanisms.
• Conduct analytical investigations using the scientific method.
• Use performance monitoring and quality assurance principles and methods.