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Essential Functions:
- Change Management: Submits items for Governance Approval.
- Manages Vendor's Build/ Issue Tracker.
- Build/Implementation: Designs and builds moderate to complex components and functionality in Production and non Production environments.
- Analysis: Performs analysis, design, and build tasks for new projects that are moderate to complex in scope.
- Performs Complex Issue analysis related to Legacy system issues.
- Support: Troubleshoots complex issues related to Orders, Security, and Clinical Documentation tools that cannot be resolved by an Associate or Intermediate level staff.
- Documents technically complex information with articulation and accuracy.
- Release: Participates in upgrades and Release Notes management and documentation.
- Works with Vendor/Epic on change requests and complex code introduction to the system and assesses impacts accordingly.
- Production Support: Participates in Production Support including on call schedule and off hours support (24/7); troubleshoots issues and determines root cause
- Project Management: Responsible for planning, managing and organizing medium level scope project components or initiatives, typically pertaining to individual work assignments.
- Communication and Documentation: Maintains and updates Application configuration documentation. Communicates with a broad variety of individuals on a broad variety of complex projects and issues which impact the area of management and expertise.
- Security, SOX, Compliance, and Change Management: Follows established security, SOX and Compliance protocols and procedures.
- Works with Epic on Change requests and complex code introduction to the system and assesses impacts accordingly
- Provides periodic informal work guidance/direction to, and training of team members.
- Has limited informal supervisory responsibility.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years related experience in Application Configuration, relevant Technical setting, Relevant Healthcare setting, Medical Office setting, system implementation and/or installation.
- Specific experience with EPIC or other EMR, CPOE, Revenue Cycle content and/or industry expertise.
- 4-year degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- EPIC or other applicable vendor certification (Cerner, EMR/Clinical Application).
- Must Acquire EPIC Certification within 4 months.
- Knowledge and/or direct experience in business / operational area supported by application preferred.

]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2455929-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Essential Functions:
- Change Management: Submits items for Governance Approval.
- Manages Vendor's Build/ Issue Tracker.
- Develops, builds, and maintains Clinical Content/Smart Tools, SmartSets, OrderSets, SmartLinks, Letter Templates, Questionnaires, SmartLists, SmartTexts.
- Testing: Follows style guides and established guidelines to test system, which may include end to end, regression, workflow, and/or cross product testing.
- Build/Implementation: Manages system Tools and Setup (e.g., Inbasket CDA Pools/Distribution Lists).
- Builds out and maintains Production and non Production environments, duplicating pre-existing build/design, with low to moderate complexity.
- LQL/Category List build/maintenance.
- Maintains and supports Preference Lists.
- Responsible for inputting terminated Provider results routing changes, PC/Printer Workstation Setup and Printer Classification mapping (including Order Mapping), following established process and procedures.
- At this level, builds do not include managing order transmittal rules.
- Updates industry code related masterfiles, including using replace utility to modify preference lists and SmartSets, and completing identity mapping.
- Maintains and builds out reports/print groups.
- Maintains, updates existing Department Profiles, Navigators, and Decision Support Tools (BPA, Alt. Alert, etc).
- Analysis: Manages and analyzes routine Interface Exceptions.
- Support: Runs queries and/or reports in Clarity and/or Chronicles using existing SQL and layouts.
- Troubleshoots issues related to Orders, Security, and Clinical Documentation tools that cannot be resolved by an Associate level staff.
- Documents technical information with accuracy.
- Participates in production support including on call schedule and off hours support (24/7); troubleshooting issues and determining root cause.
- Release: Participates in Major Upgrades, and Release Notes management and documentation.
- Project Management: Responsible for planning, managing and organizing small scope project components or initiatives, typically pertaining to individual work assignments. Communication and Documentation: Maintains and updates Application configuration documentation.
- Security, SOX & Compliance: Follows established security, SOX and Compliance protocols and procedures.
- Provides periodic informal work guidance/direction to and training of team members with less experience.
- Has no formal supervisory responsibility.

Secondary Functions:
- Provide production and client support to KPHC Inpatient Suites.
- Answer CSI Hotline and create Remedy ticket. Perform 1st level triage for all issues.
- Reassign or escalate issue as needed.
- Monitor all supported Remedy supported queues.
- Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility by maintaining confidentiality, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity to protect all patient information.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 2+ years related experience in Application Configuration, relevant Technical setting, Relevant Healthcare setting, Medical Office setting, system implementation and/or installation.
- 4-year degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge and/or direct experience in business or operational area supported by application preferred.


Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years related experience in Application Configuration, relevant Technical setting, relevant Healthcare setting, Medical Office setting, system implementation and/or installation.
- Knowledge and/or direct experience in business or operational area supported by Epic application preferred.
- Help Desk or equilivent environment of client/customer service experience in Healthcare preferred.
- Epic certification preferred.]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2455923-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- On a daily basis and in accordance with department standards, maintains and services all electronic and mechanical equipment used by Anesthesia Department personnel.
- Sets-up transducers and calibrates sand zeros monitors.
- Assembles pediatric and adult ventilator circuits.
- Prepares procedural equipment such as the CVP, arterial line, Swan-Ganz, and routine intravenous lines.
- Operates, calibrates, and performs routine maintenance on a variety of technical equipment used in the operating room, such as the Dragger and/or Nark med anesthesia machines, HP Monitors, pulse ox meter, and rapid infusion/transfusion systems.
- Identifies malfunctioning equipment, troubleshoots equipment problems, and refers more serious equipment problems to appropriate technical repair personnel when there are no established guidelines.
- Assists in the establishment and maintenance of a regular schedule of preventive maintenance and calibration of monitors utilized in the administration of anesthesia, including the BP physiological monitors, Data scope, Propac monitor, and Nellcor pulse ox meters.
- Assists in positioning and supporting patients for regional anesthesia procedures such as spinal and epidurals.
- Supports the Anesthesia Provider during insertion of arterial catheter lines and internal jugular catheters.
- Applies monitoring devices to the patient and operates all common physiological monitors (Datex, pulse oximeter, C02 monitor, BP monitors cuffs).
- Removes and disposes of all relevant supplies and equipment following use, exchanging soiled for clean parts between cases and restocking room carts with supplies and drugs.
- Assists in monitoring and ordering supplies for the department.
- Maintains an inventory in the main anesthesia workroom. Orders from the pharmacy and stocks all 'non scheduled'.
- Performs other duties as assigned .
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Hospital experience with an understanding of the function and operation of various kinds of anesthesia equipment.
- High school diploma/GED.
- BLS certificate required.
- American Society of Anesthesia Technologist and Technicians certification, preferred.
- Working knowledge of Anesthesia department operations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of basic instruments and treatment procedures commonly used in the administration of anesthesia.
- Demonstrated understanding of basic anatomy.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other incumbents of the organization.
- Must possess an understanding of aseptic and infection control.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Also, refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.
]]> Wed, 23 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2297066-Silicon-Valley-Patient-Care-Services-Non-RN Essential Functions:
- REPRESENTATIVE ACTIVITIES: Organizes and expedites flow of work for the manager's office and the department in accordance to manager's method of operation and the operations and procedures of the department and organization.
- Initiates any follow-up action.
- Receives and screens telephone calls, letters, and/or visitors.
- Answers routine questions and provides information related to general department operations, policies and procedures using discretion for matters pertaining to confidential or sensitive information.
- Determines when to appropriately refer inquiries, requests or issues to managers or department staff members and follows up to ensure resolution on behalf of manager or department.
- Schedules appointments and makes arrangements for meetings, conferences, and travel.
- Organizes and prepares routine correspondence for the department manager, as well as complex documents including reports, spreadsheets, presentations and various forms of communications documents requiring the integration of multiple office technology and software applications.
- May act as the department's office resource for word processing and spreadsheet application.
- Prepares special reports that require gathering, comparing and summarizing data.
- Organizes and maintains files, correspondence and records.
- Handles and frequently accesses highly confidential and sensitive information.
- Assists with tracking the department budget.
- Tracks and compiles expenses.
- Prepares monthly expense reports.
- May address issues to department manager.
- Performs other related duties following standard office routine, practices and procedures or instructions.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) plus years of experience performing administrative support functions for department managers.
- Experience in coordinating and providing support to large complex projects.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- BA/BS preferred.
- Excellent customer service.
- Lotus Notes skills preferred.
- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills required.
- Advanced level proficiency with e-mail software, MicroSoft Word and with any of the following office technology (required only if applicable to department's needs): PowerPoint. Excel or Access.
- Must be able to work in a Labor-Management Partnership environment.

Skills testing: Typing (45WPM), Excel, Powerpoint, Access, & Advanced level Word]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2452362-Silicon-Valley-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services
Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related discipline and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in Web support including planning, design, development, testing, installation and/or maintenance of Web environments, portals, sites and/or applications.Candidate should also have broad experience with current Web technologies and standards, and specific expertise in UNIX
- Minimum of five to seven years' information retrieval experience
- Minimum of three to five years Velocity, FAST or other search engine technologies
- Knowledge of XML and XSLT
- Knowledge of and experience with IBM and OpenText (formally Vignette) Portal
- Knowledge of Content Management Systems
- Strong verbal, presentation and written communications skills for technical and business audiences
- Good interpersonal, problem solving, reasoning and analytical skills
- Good negotiation skills
- Self starter with self initiative and direction
- The candidate should have proven coding expertise and excellent analytical and verbal skills
- Must be able to multi-task several simultaneous projects with constantly changing priorities
- Must be interested in improving the ways that people find information online
- The candidate should come equipped with a good understanding of current Web development techniques and technologies
- The candidate will be able to elicit and 'bridge' the needs of end users, business clients, and the technology to suggest solutions and opportunities to clients

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS /ABILITIES:
- A Master's degree or equivalent experience in Library Science, Information Management, Computer Science and two years in Library Science or Information Management, three to five years of UNIX experience, and at least three year of structured and/or object-oriented programming experience.
- Experience in search usability analysis. Java experience a plus
- Knowledge of multi platform mobile development
]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2424265-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Maintains supervisor's calendar, arranges appointments, meetings, and travel itineraries.
- May take minutes at a variety of meetings, distribute agenda, and follow-up materials.
- Answers telephones, takes and relays messages.
- Greets visitors.
- Types letters, correspondence, and forms.
- Uses a variety of word-processing software to type letters, reports and presentation materials.
- May compose correspondence on own initiative for supervisors review, may include confidential information.
- Sorts and delivers departmental mail.
- Performs straight data input and may maintain established databases.
- May create simple spreadsheets/graphs using departmental software.
- May track/monitor budgets and post data to ledgers.
- Reconciles invoices and resolves discrepancies.
- Maintains and stocks department office supplies.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.


Secondary Functions:
- Help to maintain conference room calendar for classes and meetings.
-Assist in ordering lunches for appropriate meetings.
-Tracks & monitors budget, post data to ledgers.
-Reconciles invoices and resolves discrepancies.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Two (2) plus years of experience performing administrative support functions for department managers.
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.
- Well organized and detail oriented.
- Basic knowledge of MS Office _ Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Familiar with office equipment.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.


Skills Testing: Typing 40wpm, microsoft word and excel

Schedule: Part-time, Regular; 20 hrs/week; Day shift; Wed - 1:00pm to 5:00pm, Thrs & Fri - 8:30am to 5:00pm
]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2325002-San-Jose-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services
Essential Functions:
- Performs packaging, manipulative, repetitive, and other non-discretionary tasks.
- Removes drugs from stock.
- Counts, pours and mixes pharmaceuticals.
- Places products in container and affixes labels onto containers.
- Performs packaging and repackaging tasks.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Three (3) years of experience preferred.
- High School Diploma OR GED.
- Current CA Pharmacy Technician Registration.
- Requires successful completion of a qualifying exam and the Kaiser Outpatient Pharmacy Technician Program.
- Working knowledge of current drug forms, dosage strengths, and generic & trade name, and traditional equivalents.
- Knowledge of Federal & State laws/regulations regarding the provision of pharmaceutical services.
- Ability to read, understand and transcribe pharmaceutical information.
- Must possess verbal and written English-speaking communication skills.
- Ability to learn and operate pharmacy computer system and other equipment.
- Must be able to learn and operate pharmacy computer system and other equipment.
- Must be able to stand for long periods of time with frequent bending/stooping/lifting or reaching.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.

Skills testing: Typing (30 WPM or 6,000 KPH), Outpatient Pharmacy Tech Test.

Schedule: Relief Pool position; on-call,evening shift, variable schedule.

Special Requirements: This position will be required to work across facilities: Pleasanton, Livermore MOB]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2447898-San-Francisco-Pharmacy
Essential Functions:
- Conducts and documents history including chief complaint, relevant symptoms as appropriate; pertinent ocular health, family and medical history, medications; current spectacle/contact lens and any other data required to manage the patients vision and ocular health needs.
- Performs minimum as well as appropriate additional testing as needed based on the specific needs of each patient.
- Adequately documents findings.
- Is proficient in the use and interpretation of standard ophthalmic equipment.
- These include but are not limited to retinoscopy, subjective refraction, lensometry, visual fields, mobility and pupil testing, slit lamp examination, direct and indirect ophthalmoscopy, gonioscopy, fundus contact lens, tear function testing, Amsler grid, confrontation fields, etc.
- Accurately interprets data from clinical exam.
- Makes sound clinical diagnoses.
- Takes appropriate actions(s) to take care of patients' chief complaint(s) and ensure ocular health and visual needs are met.
- Clearly documents impressions and clinical action plan in the chart including referrals to other providers, long term medical management and/or optical and therapeutic prescriptions dispensed.
- Uses tests and procedures as described above designed to detect and appropriately manager disorders common to the elderly such as glaucoma, cataracts, and macular degeneration.
- Actively communicates with optical, ophthalmology, support staff and fellow OD teams to optimize quality and clinical care and service to patients.
- Teams with optical staff and ophthalmologists to ensure most timely and convenient service given to patient when their services are needed.
- Attends and contributes to staff meetings to keep up with events and policy changes.
- Identifies and reports system problems that result in waste and poor services; identifies possible solutions.
- Maintains all licensing and job requirements (CE, CPR, safety training, PPD)
- Dictates/writes referral and information letters to other providers or agencies, as appropriate, or otherwise communicates with parents, teachers or other providers as appropriate.
- Performs other related duties such as completing school forms, DMV, FAA and other like documents.
- Work and coordinate concerns in a designated location.
- Direct and oversee daily operations and report to the local Chief of Optometry or exempt designee.
- Supervisory Responsibilities: N/A

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of one (1) year of experience desired but not required.
- OD degree from an accredited School of Optometry.
- Current California Optometric License.
- Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents (T.P.A.) required for external employees hired after November 2009 (TPA is not required for internal applicants).
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Meets all of the specifications of staff Optometrist.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2447902-San-Francisco-Optical-Services
Essential Functions:
- Change Management: Submits items for Governance Approval.
- Manages Vendor's Build/ Issue Tracker.
- Build/Implementation: Designs and builds moderate to complex components and functionality in Production and non Production environments.
- Analysis: Performs analysis, design, and build tasks for new projects that are moderate to complex in scope.
- Performs Complex Issue analysis related to Legacy system issues.
- Support: Troubleshoots complex issues related to Orders, Security, and Clinical Documentation tools that cannot be resolved by an Associate or Intermediate level staff.
- Documents technically complex information with articulation and accuracy.
- Release: Participates in upgrades and Release Notes management and documentation.
- Works with Vendor/Epic on change requests and complex code introduction to the system and assesses impacts accordingly.
- Production Support: Participates in Production Support including on call schedule and off hours support (24/7); troubleshoots issues and determines root cause
- Project Management: Responsible for planning, managing and organizing medium level scope project components or initiatives, typically pertaining to individual work assignments.
- Communication and Documentation: Maintains and updates Application configuration documentation. Communicates with a broad variety of individuals on a broad variety of complex projects and issues which impact the area of management and expertise.
- Security, SOX, Compliance, and Change Management: Follows established security, SOX and Compliance protocols and procedures.
- Works with Epic on Change requests and complex code introduction to the system and assesses impacts accordingly
- Provides periodic informal work guidance/direction to, and training of team members.
- Has limited informal supervisory responsibility.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 3+ years related experience in Application Configuration, relevant Technical setting, Relevant Healthcare setting, Medical Office setting, system implementation and/or installation.
- Specific experience with EPIC or other EMR, CPOE, Revenue Cycle content and/or industry expertise.
- 4-year degree in related field or equivalent experience.
- EPIC or other applicable vendor certification (Cerner, EMR/Clinical Application).
- Must Acquire EPIC Certification within 4 months.
- Knowledge and/or direct experience in business / operational area supported by application preferred.]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2003278-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Seeking a team oriented SENIOR ACCOUNTANT who will be responsible for providing financial support to Kaiser Permanente's Information Technology Group (KP-IT). Must be a highly organized professional with proven accounting and analytical skills. Primary focus is the proper and timely recording of financial transactions in the general ledger in accordance with GAAP. Responsible for account analysis, account reconciliations, resolving reconciling items utilizing problem solving skills. Ability to work independently and with other team members or departments to resolve accounting problems/issues. Responsible for meeting monthly due dates to ensure accurate and timely reporting of KP-IT financial data.

Major Responsibilities include:
- Responsible for the proper and timely recording of financial transactions in the general ledger in accordance with GAAP and Kaiser policy.
- Perform monthly analysis and reconciliation of balance sheet accounts, including inter-regional reconciliations.
- Perform monthly and ad hoc reporting to Program Office (PO), KP-IT management and KP-IT finance community in an accurate and timely manner.
- Perform detailed variance analysis on multiple tasks/projects.
- Create and generate financial reports.
- Perform responsibilities in a team environment.
- Document and maintain financial desktop procedures/systems.
- Research and prepare accounting solutions for a variety of problems of moderate scope and complexity.
- Act as information resource to the finance community.
- Assist in audits.
- Follow internal controls and SOX requirements.
- All other duties as assigned by Manager.


Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or 4 years of additional work related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive accounting experience.
- Experience in general ledger, balance sheet reconciliations, and journal entries.
- Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.
- Working knowledge of GAAP and internal controls.
- Strong PC skills in the Microsoft environment, especially Excel and Word.
- Effective interpersonal skills to work with various levels of staff to deliver a high level of customer support.
- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines and perform well under demanding timelines and pressure.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Requirements:
- CPA
- Ability to evaluate and recommend solutions on projects/problems.
- Demonstrated ability to create and maintain reports.
- Strong organizational, communication and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work independently and proactively with minimal supervision.
- Strong service orientation and team focus.
- Experience in a large organization.
- Experience with Business Objects, PeopleSoft and Microsoft Access.
- Knowledge of Kaiser's accounting processes, systems and procedures.
]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2447890-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The PM will represent projects regularly to executive leadership, and must have solid communication skills and the ability to convey strategic value of technical projects to business. Most projects within Information Security are national, so the ability to work with teams across regions is required. This requires presenting to executive leadership at a regional level, and getting buy in from regional IT representatives. Communication skills are key in this environment, so the ability to develop communications plans and execute them is very important.

In addition, the PM will need to work with the team on continuous team and individual improvement, as we mature our PMO, and be ready and willing to teach and mentor as needed with our staff. Further training in security may be required, so any successful PM will be required to learn and certify in security as the need arises.

Project managers in Information Security also manage the finances around their projects. Complete competence in financial forecasting, tracking, and reporting is required. A grasp, at all times, of the financial status of your project is required.

Information Security utilizes Microsoft Project Server and SharePoint. A successful PM is required to have experience with SharePoint, and have an expert level understanding of both MS Project, and the MS Office Suite.

Finally, a successful PM in Information Security must be professional, yet personable. As a small team, we expect the PMs to have a close relationship of support. The expectation is that you are there to help the other team members, and can expect the same in return.
Essential Functions:
- Manages large complex projects or multiple projects of moderate to high complexity.
- Total Managed Project Budget up to $15 million.
- Project Complexity can be multiple sites and up to 20integrated work sites.
- Manages development of project plans and/or coordinates development of project plans across multiple independent projects.
- Demonstrates knowledge, experience and use of change management process and impact on business.
- Responsible for accurate time reporting for a project.
- Provides consulting for business partners for business case development.
- Directs the quality/testing strategies for the project. Evaluates best practice recommendations and trade-off scenarios to enhance the Project Quality Plan.
- Determines program resource requirements and procures resources.
- Assigns work, sets priorities, provides guidance in the completion of tasks and review of program deliverables.
- Proactively communicates with enterprise-wide projects to plan and manage project interdependencies.
- Responsible for applyingthe risk management process.
- Develops requirements and technical specifications for RFPs.
- Manages all phases of the project delivery life cycle and consults for other projects.
- Determines the impact of current/existing technologies on the project.
- Develops solutions to problems of unusual complexity, which require a high degree of ingenuity and innovation, using independent judgment to accomplish objectives.
- Designs communication plan frameworks to be used by project managers within context of overall program/project being managed.
- May manage 4 - 7 project managers across regions.
- Manages a combined project team of up to 100 resources.
- Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.
- Provides managerial responsibility for two or more teams or departments, which may be managed by employees with formal supervisory responsibilities.
- Provides on-going coaching, enabling team members to develop and improve skills and capabilities that support the effectiveness of the department/function.
- Recognized as authority in project management across IT.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or a minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 8 years of Project Management experience.
- Demonstrates understanding of, and knowledge in IT methods and project management, and applies this in all stages of project.
- Advanced knowledge (broad expertise or unique knowledge) of policies, practices and systems.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Project, MS Office, and MS SharePoint
- Viewed as functional expert in field within KP.
- Applies advanced principles, theories, and concepts.
- Sustains strong ongoing relationships with client middle and senior management during projects.
- Leverages project management experience and knowledge by acting as tutor on relevant training or by providing on-project PM learning to team members.
- Having broad expertise or unique project management knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.
- Ability to influence others and build strong partnership with others.
- Team and Service oriented.
- Service Oriented.
- Demonstrate strategic thinking.
- Ability to deal with people dynamic with minimal guidance.
- Ability to resolve conflict with minimal guidance.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Healthcare industry knowledge
- Information technology experience
- Should have managed project budgets of up to $15 million
- Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute (Highly Preferred).
- Identifies individuals who can competently practice as a project manager leading and directing project tasks.]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2305162-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Kaiser Permanente is seeking an experienced Manager to lead the IT Infrastructure Design Services Group. This is a senior level, customer facing role, leading a team of infrastructure technology subject matter experts who provide internal consulting services to clients in the healthcare and supporting business areas throughout Kaiser Permanente.

You will lead a team with accountability for the Infrastructure Design systems delivering critical IT services to healthcare providers and patients. You will be accountable for designing solutions for the entire technology stack including hardware and software platforms for server, storage, clustering, data replication, disaster recovery, application, database, and messaging platforms. In addition you will lead infrastructure optimization initiatives, and contribute to the development of system/platform roadmaps. At least 5 years relevant experience in this role is required. Healthcare background and experience is preferred. Experience working in an outsourced systems management environment is preferred. Must be able to effectively multi-task, and succeed in a fast paced environment, along with effectively dealing with ambiguity and time constraints.


Qualifications:

This position requires a seasoned leader who possesses experience with, and deep technical knowledge of, large scale enterprise class technologies including: IBM pSeries/AIX; VMWare; X86, Cloud, Citrix, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Message Broker, Network Infrastructure, IBM/EMC/NetApp SAN and NAS storage, High Availability/Clustering solutions, Disaster Recovery and data replication technologies (SRDF, etc). In depth experience with requirements based infrastructure design and implementation processes are essential.

Expertise in the delivery of infrastructure and processes implementing IaaS is desired, as is prior experience leading the implementation/utilization of private cloud, automated provisioning, pre-provisioned infrastructure, and supporting design patterns to streamline infrastructure fulfillment.

People management skills are necessary including employee selection, development, coaching, goal setting, and evaluation. This position requires excellent communication skills and a high level of diplomacy.


In addition to the above description the following qualifications are also required.
- Expertise leading project teams in the development, capture, and analyses of system requirements and logical solutions designs which are used to identify appropriate infrastructure platform solutions (sizing, server, storage, clustering, application/database platforms, etc) to address the IT infrastructure needs of the project.
- Expertise in the development and documentation of Non-Functional/System requirements.
- Expertise in the development and documentation of Logical Solution Designs.
- Expertise in the development and documentation of Physical Infrastructure Solution Designs.
- Expertise in traceability mapping and documenting design decisions relative to requirements. .
- Expertise with Infrastructure Design processes and Infrastructure Design Patterns.
- In depth knowledge of and direct experience with capacity planning, forecasting, and management.
- In depth knowledge of and direct experience with large scale system performance tuning including memory, JVM, database, and SQL.
- At least 15 years IT experience with increasing levels of responsibility with a minimum of 5 years experience managing in a similar role.
- Must possess excellent communication skills with experience communicating in professional manner
- Must be flexible and a team player.
- Must possess strong initiative and be highly self motivated.
- Bachelor's degree is required with emphasis in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, an engineering discipline, business, or related field.
- Must be able to produce high quality documentation to develop, deliver, and present critical system artifacts and design documents - Powerpoint, Word, Visio, Excel.
- Must be open to flexible work schedule to remain in-step with project and organizational needs.
- Occasional travel may be required.

Desired Qualifications:
IITL Foundations Certification
TOGAF Certification
Prior work experience with major consulting firm
Good understand of Cloud Services
Experience with IAAS, PAAS]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2441740-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Essential Functions:
- Identifies new opportunities for volunteer assistance and negotiates the expanded volunteer roles throughout the Area.
- Ensures the staff is in compliance with federal, state, and local requirements and does not perform any bargaining unit work.
- In conjunction with KFH/P and TPMG leaders, managers, and supervisors, develops Area volunteer strategies, goals, and objectives.
- Works with the community to develop and expand volunteer programs (e.g., pastoral care programs) which benefit both the community and Kaiser Permanente.
- Develops additional revenue opportunities within the Area.
- Continues to increase gift shop revenues, by introducing new items which better meet the customer's needs.
- Oversees the volunteer services revenue centers (collection and disbursement).
- Ensures Volunteer Coordinators and their staff provide a consistent and high quality volunteer programs.
- Develops training programs for volunteers which meet or exceed regulatory requirements.
- Manages the Volunteer Coordinators who are responsible for 800 - 1200 volunteers within the Area.
- Develops and manages partnerships with local high schools and colleges.
- Creates and manages new volunteer programs across the Area.
- Liaison to community groups.
- Recruits volunteers with skills that match the needs of individual hospitals and medical offices (e.g., language skills, accounting, customer service, retail sales).

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant hospital volunteer administration and supervision experience required (usually 4 years).
- Previous experience in events management and public speaking are required.
- Previous retail management experience preferred.
- BA/BS in Business Administration or related field or equivalent experience.
- Masters degree preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a diverse group.
- Management of multiple sites preferred.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local requirements.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439701-Silicon-Valley-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals.
- Initiates discharge planning from physical therapy. Implements the treatment program through direct treatment of the patient, may delegate a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordination of the treatment plan with other health care personnel as appropriate.
- Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly assesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patient towards goals, and the need for modifying goals and treatment.
- Discharges patient from physical therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from physical therapy.
- Provides accurate, timely documentation of physical therapy patient management.
- Demonstrates progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree with certification in physical therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
- License to practice physical therapy by the State of California.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI, or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date).
-BLS required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Schedule: Mon - Fri 10:30am - 7:00pm,occasional weekends.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439674-Silicon-Valley-Rehab-Services Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals. Initiates discharge planning for physical therapy.
- Implements the treatment plan through direct treatment of the patient, delegates a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate. Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly reassesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patients towards goals, and the need for modifying goals and treatment.
- Discharges patient from physical therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from physical therapy. Provides accurate, timely documentation of physical therapy patient management.
- Participates in appropriate and approved educational and clinical research activities in physical therapy.
- Participates in specialized patient care clinics outside the department.
- Assists in the development, implementation, and review of departmental patient care programs.
- Performs other duties as needed in the areas of staff education, departmental operations, and departmental projects. Demonstrates on-going progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must have at least two (2) years experience in physical therapy.
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree with certification in Physical Therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
- Licensed to practice physical therapy by the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
-BLS required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Schedule: Mon - Fri 10:30am - 7:00pm, occasional weekends.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439675-Silicon-Valley-Rehab-Services
Essential Functions:
- Manages the operations of 24-hour departments that may be at multiple locations.
- Ensures Assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance with the Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.
- Establishes, implements, and maintains patient care and service standards to meet members and internal clients' expectations.
- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum of care.
- Develops and monitors budgets for the appropriate use of human and material resources.
- Monitors financial performance and identifies and implements strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care/service.
- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department and develops processes to screen, interview, hire, train, and maintain the competency of all department staff.
- Ensures on going staff development.
- Develops, implements, and monitors departmental policy and procedures which support the organizations goals and business objectives and ensures they are met.
- Oversees and develops standards of care and standards of practice, directs fiscal management, and quality improvement activities.
- Manages and resolves human resource, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Extensive nursing experience in both patient care and management/leadership roles required (usually five (5) years).
- Previous supervisory experience required (usually four (4) years).
- BSN or BA in a health care related field strongly preferred.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- BLS certificate required.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and other local, state, federal regulations.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439749-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- CRITICAL CARE - One year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in Critical Care. Current ACLS certification required. Completion of a Critical Care course preferred.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.

Schedule:
Week 1: Tues, Sat
Week 2: Sun, Fri
Week 3: Wed, Sat
Week 4: Sun, Mon
Week 5: Tues, Sat
Week 6: Sun, Fri
This positions works 12-hrs shifts, 24 hrs per week.
]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439752-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2439678-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Provide in-person and telephone reception
- Receives and directs new and refill prescriptions for further processing
- Packages and sells prescriptions and pharmaceutical merchandise
- Assists pharmacy personnel with clerical functions
- Performs other duties as required
- No supervisory responsibilities


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Six (6) months general clerical/cashier experience
- High School Diploma/GED
- Effective customer service and telephone reception skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to read understands and transcribes pharmaceutical information from the prescription form.
- Good clerical ability and mathematical skills (add, subtract, multiply, divide)
- Ability to stand for long periods and to read fine print
- Ability to learn and accurately operate cash register, pharmacy computer systems and other equipment
- Ability to lift/transport up to 50 lbs
- Light to moderate carrying, pulling, pushing, walking and frequent bending, stooping and reaching
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos Ability to write simple correspondence Ability to communicate effectively information to other health care providers, patients and visitors
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment
- Also, refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement

Schedule:

Mon, Tues, Fri: 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Sat: 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2437022-San-Francisco-Pharmacy
Responsible to ensure operational Clarity ETL quality and timeliness for all regions. Works directly with the vendor staff for ETL quality, error resolution and problem-solving. Supports the Clarity Operations team with participation in designing and implementing new operational model processes and practice. Interface with the client, analyze business needs, determine business solutions and implement appropriate system configurations and changes to applications/software.

Essential Functions:

Responsibilities include but may not be limited to:

- Responsible to ensure operational Clarity ETL quality and timeliness for all regions.
- Identifies areas for systems improvements and assists with determining priorities of systems upgrades and enhancements.
- Collaboratively works with the vendor partners, clients and other Technical Specialists to streamline work flow and processes.
- Oversees collaboration with implementation teams to ensure that Epic release changes, testing and implementation, are performed to quality standards.
- Evaluates potential projects and assigns Technical Specialists to the team and reports on progress.
- Utilizes analysis to collaborate with users, analysts and consultants to determine solutions and required configurations to meet business requirements.
- Change request management including cost estimation, project documentation and user training.
- Designs and runs reports, gathers statistics and makes presentations regarding the supported software.
- Manages internal or vendor ETL work for implementations into production, makes adjustments as necessary.
- Identifies areas for work flow and process improvements. Vets ideas with vendor and KP teams and works through applications improvements to implement.
- Understands the impact of the application on the organization and interdependencies. Articulates and communicates this impact to other employees and Business Partners. Leads discussions on organizational impact to lead to application optimization.
- Provides professional/technical guidance to team members.
- Engages in matters requiring coordination across functional lines.
- Serves as a technical/professional mentor to team members.
- Ensures the delivery of work for the team.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in MIS, CS or a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 12 years of professional experience in analysis of complex business requirements, systems upgrades, workflows and application capabilities.
- Thorough knowledge of ETL processes, especially those of the Epic application.
- Considered functional expert in field, if within KP.
- Frequently contributes to the development of new theories, practices and methods.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge of clinical workflows in the healthcare industry.
- Knowledge and/or direct experience in business / operational area supported by application.]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2437024-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy. (Title 22 language)
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care when and where appropriate to do so.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes patient care priorities based on essential patient needs and availability of unit resources (time, personnel, equipment, and supplies).
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and acts to meet them. Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides/coordinates care for patients/patient populations.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.
- Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties/activities of health care team members.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and department Performance Improvement activities.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities in documenting, tracking and conveying information.
- If practicing in a specialty/extended role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job has no supervisory responsibility.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Six (6) months of experience as a Registered Nurse.
- WOMEN'S HEALTH (OBSTETRICS SPECIALTY) - 1 year recent (within the last 3 years) experience in women's health practice (perinatal; gynecology) required; training in and ability to perform prenatal non-stress testing may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, will be willing to train. Where indicated, candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certification(s) within the designated timeframe for a particular field of practice.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience; OR Graduate of registered nursing program and either: 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as a licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Depending on the particular specialty, ACLS and or NALS and or PALS and or PEARS may also be required for this position. See job duties for specific requirements for specialty units.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.
]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2433473-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
This position will support the delivery of testing services, Continuous Improvement / Quality Assurance and other TCoE activities related to achieving enterprise-wide consistency of processes and tools. This role will focus on Nationwide Health Information Network initiatives such asImaging and Bio-Medical device integration. This role will also support other critical initiatives as needed.

Essential Functions:
- Will work on significant and unique issues where continuous improvement (CI) analysis of situations, or data, requires an evaluation of intangibles
- Support the development of comprehensive and strategic business cases with cost/benefit analysis of proposed projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.
- Analyze current business processes and functional requirements for gaps, value streams, and capability.
- Prepare analytical and operational documentation to communicate and validate the analysis, then construct and/or improve operational processes within the QA/Testing space supporting organizational continuous improvement efforts.
- Direct the analysis of enterprise-wide or very complex client needs in project areas such as new business operating models, innovative approaches to IT solutions support, market research of emerging or available product functionality and operational readiness assessment.
- Act as a liaison between business clients and technical staff on complex projects.
- Lead or support matrixed teams collaborating on continuous improvement projects that cross over organizational boundaries.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience A minimum of 10 years of experiencewith CI, QA/Testing
- Experienceusing SixSigma, CMMI, Lean, ITIL, Kaizen, or change management processes for delivering successful efficiency implementations.
- Experience with root cause analysis methodologies with hands on experience leading teams through the full RCA lifecycle of problem definition, data gathering, root cause identification, corrective action definition, corrective action implementation/tracking.
- Exceptional statistical analysis and metrics creation, executive presentation, process modeling, and requirements elicitation skills.
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with expectations to interface with Business and IT leaders.
- Fundamental knowledge of core industry QA/Testing concepts as applicable to waterfall and agile development frameworks.
- Consulting experience leveraging quality control analytics, statistical analysis, and continuous improvement methodologies is essential.
- Expertise with Visio, Excel, PowerPoint
- Statistical Analysis skills/tools
- Experience with Cost/Benefit or ROI analysis
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4+ years of SixSigma, Lean, CMMI svc/dev, or ITIL experience
(Certifications in the above disciplines)
- 3+ years of Epic Product (design, build, integration, test, PM)
- Graduate Degree
- Healthcare industry software product knowledge is highly desired.
]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2433432-San-Francisco-Information-Technology The Security Information Management Information Protection Senior will implement, and manage the toolsets of the Security Information Management Team. The Security Information Management team is responsible for providing log management, file integrity monitoring, security information management, reporting, and system integration services to a variety of customers.

Required Skills and Knowledge:
- Demonstrated knowledge of Incident Response processes and best practices
- Demonstrated knowledge of information security threats and analysis.
- Ability to provide senior level security event correlation
- Senior level knowledge of Windows and *NIX platforms and networking
- Senior level knowledge of security technologies including: Anti Virus, IDS/IPS, Firewalls, Web Filtering and Data Exfiltration systems
- Must be well organized and possess excellent interpersonal, customer service, communication, and documentation skills
- Informed of the latest in security trends, threats, and industry resources such as CERT, SANS, D-Shield, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to work well as a team and independently.
- Ability to perform with little to no supervision
- Ability to participate in technically focused teams
- Experience implementing Security Tool Architectures
- Proven ability to work effectively with management, staff, vendors, and consultants
- Experience with programming/scripting (REGX, PERL, JAVA, XML, Python, C, C++, SQL)
Desirable Skills
- Senior Level experience with manipulation of structured and unstructured data
- Experience with large volumes of data management and information extraction/manipulation
- Senior Level Vulnerability and Threat analysis skills
- Experience with system administration and performance management
- Experience with database implementation, and performance management


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- BS in computer science or other related fields is required, or additional 4years of relevant work experience
- 5 years of information systems experience is required with at least
- 2 years information security experience performing information security event management system implementation and administration
- Experience with Federal, State, Local and other regulatory requirements (HIPAA/SOX/PCI)

Preferred Qualifications:
- Information Security certifications such as CISSP and GIAC
]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2429241-San-Francisco-Information-Technology This Project Management Associate will establish a collaborative relationship among Program and Project principles by coordinating, and assisting in various components needed to define, develop, and deploy projects, programs, or tasks as related to application development efforts. This role will support and coordinate with the senior project lead to provide project transparency through tracking, analysis, and reporting using Excel, Powerpoint, and MS Project. Additional responsibilities include coordinating schedules and activities, placing eProcurement orders for hardware/software supplies and services, compiling and analyzing project reports, and tracking project/program progress and results.

Essential Functions:
1. Overall: Support Lead Project Manager level or higher while learning and verifying PM skills knowledge set.
2. Assist Project Managers with KP-IT Project Management tracking and reporting requirements.
3. Propose alternative solutions to identified gaps and obstacles in current project initiation and reporting processes.
4. Monitor CLARITY(RPM) and assist PM with monthly status updates.
5. Review CLARITY (RPM) for compliance with IT-Oversight policies.
6. Create Remedy service requests for PM edit rights in Open Workbench and in CLARITY.
7. Prepare and submit Purchase Orders and Capital Requests through eProcurement.
8. Create or update SLA's, SOW's and Recharge Agreements.
9. Provide Open Workbench Resource reports.
10. Assist PM with ad hoc reporting requirements for IT-Oversight (ie, regulatory or business mandates).
11. Partners with Financial Analysts on analyzing capital and non-capital reports for reporting project/program actual and committed dollars.
12. Develops and maintains project document library and other project/program repositories.
13. Assist PM's in creating and distributing various project documents required by IT-Oversight.
14. Participates in project team meetings and assist in documenting action items, user requirements, and project schedules.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- Less than one year of experience in project management, or a minimum of 5 years project coordination experience.
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Visio and Powerpoint. Advanced skills with Excel, including knowledge of establishing filters, pivot tables, and linking cells between worksheets. Experienced and familiar with Microsoft Project, including establishing dependencies, resources, and resource loading.
- Must have excellent communication skills, be well organized, detail oriented, good planning skills, be problem solving/analytical, self-directed, team focused, and results oriented individual
- Professional and business appropriate conduct
- Understands risk management concepts


Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Lotus Notes, Open Workbench, Remedy, MS Access, Sharepoint, and Ariba








]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2429274-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Essential Functions:
- Participates in handling the grievances, appeals/denials process.
- Ensures appeals are processed in accordance with regulations, compliance standards and policies and procedures.
- Meets timeframes for performance while balancing the need to produce high quality work related to complex and sensitive member issues.
- Investigates all issues, including collection of appropriate data, preparation and presentation of documents to decision makers.
- Informs members or their authorized representatives, physicians and other stakeholders of Health Plan's determinations.
- Collaborates with internal staff, other MS Departments, managers and physicians to seek resolution on issues and cases affecting member while ensuring compliance, documentation and enhancing members' experience.
- Ensures integrity of departmental database by thorough, timely and accurate entry.
- Mentors others in preparation for positions of increased responsibility.
- Participates in departmental meetings, trainings and audits as requested.
- Answer questions and manages members on existing/open cases.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors' degree or a minimum of four (4) years equivalent experience in a complex HMO or customer service setting.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to compose high quality, detailed written communication.
- Ability to identify issues, gather and assess information.
- Ability to prioritize work and ensure all compliance elements are met.
- Demonstrated conflict resolution and mediation skills with ability to secure action from multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to use sound judgment and to handle complex issues independently, but with the knowledge and ability to escalate and ask for help when needed.
- Ability to multitask and manage time in order to perform well on long term projects while being flexible enough to assimilate short term projects on an ongoing basis.
- Ability to work with peers in self managed teams.
- Knowledge of member grievance and appeals processing preferred.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
]]> Mon, 14 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2429310-San-Francisco-Customer-Services
The Senior Financial Analyst position within the Financial Reporting and Costing group is located at our Pleasanton, CA Campus and is responsible for providing reporting and analytical expertise and support to our IT Business Partners. In this role you will develop analytical reporting in support of IT's financial goals as well as ad hoc and change management projects as assigned in a timely and professional manner. You will support the monthly reporting and analysis process across the IT organization, maintaining Service Level Agreements with both internal (IT) and external (KP) clients. You will identify and prepare evaluations on a variety of complex and diverse subjects including formal presentations of IT's financial results through both statistical and operational analysis. You will participate in the development and maintenance of performance metrics, measurements, methods, targets and reports; assist in identifying performance improvement opportunities by identifying key business issues; create financial models and make recommendations. You will partner closely with the IT finance team to improve financial analysis, reporting, and other financial processes. You will not only ensure that proper processes and deadlines are met, but will also develop and implement internal processes and procedures to support and comply with IT finance policy and procedures.
Essential Functions:
Responsibilities include but may not be limited to:
- Support monthly close activities on a monthly basis in a timely manner. Ensure proper processes and deadlines are met, develop and implement internal processes and procedures to support and comply with IT financial policy and procedures.
- Prepare concise and informative analysis for internal and external reporting partners.
- Partner closely with the IT finance team to improve financial analysis, reporting, and other financial processes. Act as a significant information resource.
- Participate in the development and maintenance of performance metrics reporting; assisting in identifying improvement opportunities. In addition, provide ongoing recommendations on the use and interpretation of analysis, reports, methodologies, systems and source data.
- Prepare ad hoc analysis and reporting as needed.
- May also include identifying, initiating, researching and preparing financial models and/or analysis on a variety of complex and diverse projects and problems (e.g. financial, statistical, operational, and costs/benefit analyses) supporting strategic initiatives.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of financial planning and analysis experience in successively responsible roles including the ability to demonstrate experience modeling and financial data analysis.
- General knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and principles.
- Experience designing and implementing report modifications and improvements.
- Import and export of data and graphics files from multiple databases or data warehouses to develop complex financial and management reports, tables and charts.
- MS Office 2007 Suite - requires advanced level proficiency with MS Word, Excel (pivot tables, v-lookup, h-lookup, charts) and PowerPoint.
- Strong analytic and problem solving skills; high level of accuracy.
- Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with ability to keep track of communications with multiple clients simultaneously.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of Kaiser Permanente's systems and financial tools desired, including Business Objects Xi and Cognos.
- Understanding of IT business rules and how those rules translate into financial systems and financial reporting.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, team environment. - Excellent interpersonal teamwork skills; service oriented.
- Proven initiative and self-directed style.
]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2339283-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Accountable for ensuring accurate and appropriate documentation through local coaching, training and monitoring.
- Supervises Data Quality Auditors.
- In collaboration w/ the Encounter Information Operations (EIO) Training Manager and the local Data Quality Auditor, maintains a training program that supports documentation improvement and addresses documentation risk areas identified through local and regional audits.
- Training to deliver in multiple ways including individual clinician, groups of clinician and departmental meetings.
- Assures the planning, scheduling, and performance of concurrent and retrospective encounter audits, in accordance w/ regional compliance plan.
- Encounter audits will be the primary monitoring tool used to identify operational and regulatory issues related to coding, documentation, and compliance requirements and to ensure complete and accurate data capture in compliance w/ Federal and State requirements.
- Conducts audits on an as-needed basis and assures corrective actions are implemented for audit review findings.
- Serves as the local expert to Medical Center leadership and CMS team on internal and external regulatory requirements (e.g., Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) and National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
- Actively participates w/ local CMS team to ensure and meets local objectives and regional CMS compliance activities are supported.
- Acts as communication link regarding changes to federal and state government billing and coding guidelines and works w/ medical center leadership to provide confidential audits and feedback on an 'as needed' basis.
- Work w/ local CMS team and OSCR Liaison / Coordinator to address operational processes that hinder encounter data capture.
- Works w/ EIO to assure regional resolution, assures and enters audit results into regional audit database to support quality assurance process, regional analysis, and regional training activities if impact extends beyond the medical center.
- Oversees the preparation and/or performance of medical center auditing analysis and/or special projects.
- Collects data and performs analysis to determine root causes of under or over reporting as well as quantifying the effect of the condition identified in the audit.
- Recommends appropriate actions.
- Partners w/ the local Data Quality Auditor and the EIO Training and Audit Managers to identify audit trends and risk areas based on audit findings and data analysis.
- Assists in developing and implementing policies and procedures / Compliance Audit Standards to ensure compliance w/ Federal, State and other regulatory requirements and assures local compliance w/ these policies and procedures.
- NOTE: Travel between Medical Center facilities may be required.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant experience coding (five (5) or more years) based on Coding Clinic Guidelines for inpatient and outpatient.
- Three (3) to five (5) years of experience developing and conducting training / educational sessions for diverse audiences.
- Supervisory experience (two (2) or more years).
- Demonstrated experience conducting Medical Record audits including analysis and the creation / implementation of action plans that address audit finding.
- Demonstrated project management experience including design and implementation of audit plans.
- Experience using PC applications such as MS Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint preferred.
- Medical center operations or clinical experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Health Care, Public Health, Finance, or Business Medical Records Technology or equivalent experience.
- Certification in one of the following: Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Professional Coder (CPC).
- Ability to work with and maintain confidentiality of physician, patient, patient account and personnel data.
- Strong interpersonal and excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work within a team environment and build effective teams.
- Willingness to be flexible depending upon department and/or physician schedule needs.
- Demonstrated ability to review analytical data and audit findings to identify documentation trends and other risk areas.
- Demonstrated ability to develop data requirements and work with analytical groups to extract, organize and analyze coded data.
- Must be able to work in a Labor / Management Partnership environment.]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2424276-Silicon-Valley-Medical-Records
Essential Functions:
- Teaches and models self-management skills, concepts, resources, and tools related to health, lifestyle change and behavior modification to class participants.
- Assists participants in developing specific behavioral goals.
- Provides individual instruction and counseling as needed.
- Assesses needs of class participants and modifies class content or teaching methods to meet those needs.
- Applies evidence-based education techniques in teaching methods.
- Answers questions and provides class participants w/ appropriate resources of information.
- Arranges and coordinates room set-up, availability of materials, and audio/visual equipment.
- Maintains records of training activities including attendance rosters, homework assignments, class evaluations, and timesheets or phone TIME system.
- Administers and collects class evaluation forms and class fees.
- Conducts follow-up phones calls to participants including those who missed sessions to determine reason for absence, monitor progress of participants, and answer related questions.
- Completes required continuous training and education such as those related to workplace safety, legal and regulatory compliance, accreditation and license requirements, and department specific requirements.
- Maintains and promotes knowledge and utilization of resources related to health, lifestyle change, and behavior modification offered by Kaiser Permanente and through the community.

Secondary Functions:
- Teach classes on childbirth/breastfeeding/newborn care classes.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience teaching classes or conducting training programs.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent related to field of course instruction.
- Licensed or professional credentials or certification in the field as appropriate to the course instruction
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning theory and group process.
- Basic knowledge of health concepts, preventive health care, and behavior change.
- Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated skills in teaching techniques and presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and facilitate diverse groups of people w/ understanding of group dynamics.
- Ability to function independently and exercise professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Childbirth, Breastfeeding certifications]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2424126-San-Francisco-Education-and-Training Coordinates with physicians, staff, and non-Kaiser providers and facilities regarding patient care. In conjunction with physicians, develops plans of care and discharge plans, monitors all clinical activities, makes recommendations for alternative levels of care, identifies cost-effective protocols, and develops guidelines for care.

Essential Functions:
- Plans, develops, assesses, and evaluates care provided to members.
- In conjunction with physicians, evaluates and develops discharge plans, recommends alternative levels of care, and ensures compliance with federal, state, and local requirements.
- Develops and maintains case management policies and procedures.
- Coordinates, directs, and performs concurrent and retrospective reviews, and monitors level and quality of care.
- Coordinates the interdisciplinary approach to providing continuity of care, including utilization management, transfer coordination, discharge planning, and obtaining all authorizations/approvals as needed for outside services for patients/families.
- Consults with physicians, health care providers, discharge planning and outside agencies regarding continued care/treatment or hospitalization.
- Encourages members to follow plans of care (e.g., drug therapy, physical therapy).
- Makes referrals to appropriate community services.
- Identifies and recommends opportunities for cost savings and improving the quality of care across the continuum.
- Develops and collects data, and trends utilization of health care resources.
- Interprets regulations, health plan benefits, policies, and procedures for members, physicians, medical office staff, contract providers, and outside agencies.
- Coordinates transmission of clinical and benefit treatment to patients, families and outside agencies.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Previous case management experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in utilization management, discharge planning, or transfer coordination.
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in nursing or health related field.
- Masters degree preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
-BLS Required.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission and other federal/state/local regulations.

Schedule: Part-Time Regular, 24 hours per week, Variable shifts. Requires every-other Weekend shifts and Holidays. Schedule varies depending on departmental needs, variable start times. Primary assignments will be Night shift in the Emergency Department. However, this position requires cross-training for both inpatient and Emergency Department PCC job duties.]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2424281-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
Essential Functions:
The Research and Quality Directorate

The Research and Quality group is forming in 2011 and 2012. It will provide comprehensive IT partnership efforts for Community Benefit, Research & Health Policy; and the Quality and Care Delivery Excellence organizations. We will coordinate and provide leadership across the IT organization for the technical work, information management solutions and collective intelligence delivered for these organizations.
Our focus will be to provide strategic, tactical, and operational leadership which supports the IT planning and delivery for these business and clinical organizations. We will be delivering some IT projects directly and coordinating with other BIOs on the programs and projects they are delivering. Our goal is also to provide an overall IT planning and coordination function as this group forms.
We actively participate and contribute in Industry, KP, and KPIT wide initiatives in the areas of data usage and governance, information management, privacy and security, service oriented architecture, data analytics and visualization, information modeling, and data access controls.

Intern Project:
Support the research and quality portfolio organization's strategic leadership responsibilities, ensure development and innovation technology delivery related tasks assigned to the portfolio of research and quality are completed in a timely manner, perform weekly executive status reporting requirements, represent the program in communications with program direct reports and external program constituents, and support research and quality directors in the analysis of project health metrics.
1. Provide meeting support including organization, facilitation, minutes creation and action item tracking for different audiences
2. Executive Status Report Roll-up and Distribution
3. Communications Coordination and Production
4. Research and quality Program Wide Meeting Preparation and Meeting Minutes
5. Research and quality portfolio presentation creation & management
6. Upkeep for various project and program databases as needed
7. Data request, contract and procurement tracking as needed
8. Research and Quality Multi-Year Planning and Funding Package Distribution & Communication


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications
- College students pursuing a Bachelor's Degree.
- 3.0 GPA
- Academic students seeking professional training within a business corporate environment
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications:
- Honesty, integrity and demonstrated customer-focused interpersonal skills and attitude.
- Models and reinforces ethical behavior in self and others, maintains confidences, admits mistakes, conducts business with honesty, shows consistency in words and actions, and follows through on commitments.
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Develops implements and/or maintains employment and other recruiting and sourcing programs.Interviews and screens applicants and conducts reference checks. Coordinates pre-employment travel, relocation, reporting dates, security clearances and employment processing, including visas.Conducts employment advertising campaigns and programs.Maintains college recruiting, affirmative action and career development programs.Conducts research and analyzes data on assigned projects, including agency performance.May work with external resources including temporary agencies, contract search and Internet sourcing tools.Professionals at the higher levels may function as technical specialists, sourcing, recruiting and identifying candidates for highly specialized and difficult-to-attract positions, usually requiring extensive search.

Essential Functions:
- In partnership with clients, develops job postings based on internal job descriptions.
- May identify recruitment advertising needs or marketing plans.
- Builds source pools of candidates through consultative staffing approaches and networking to ensure a strong pipeline of qualified candidates.
- Screens rsums to identify potential candidates.
- Conducts interviews with candidates, capturing feedback for discussion with more senior recruiters or the client.
- Advises clients in candidate selection based upon candidates presented to client for interviews.
- Negotiates offers with candidates; coordinates with client department on developing employment offers.
- Helps to develop recruitment action plans.
- May work with agencies, recruiting contractors, and/or Internet website representatives in the course of identify candidates.
- Documents candidate evaluation and interview process.
- May specialize in technical recruiting and/or highly specialized executive searches.
- Works on assignments of diverse and complex scope.
- Interprets less defined guidelines to make recommendations for process improvements and/or enhancements.
- Requires complex planning to coordinate with other departments or resources.
- Responsibilities impact the achievement of key functional and/or KP objectives that have direct and significant business impact.
- Contributes to the development of the department's objectives.
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in the inability to reach functional objectives and negatively affect expenditures and resources.
- Involves interpreting and analyzing established concepts and trends.
- Exercises considerable judgment to make decisions for less defined and complex issues.
- Requires complex decision-making.
- Develops solutions to a diverse range of complex problems, which require creativity and innovation within broadly defined policies and practices.
- Requires in-depth analysis to identify and recommend new solutions for more complex problems.
- Provides professional/technical guidance to team members.
- Influences others to buy into new concepts and methodologies.
- Engages in matters requiring coordination across functional lines.
- Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.
- Work is accomplished without considerable direction.
- Work is evaluated upon completion to ensure objectives and performance requirements have been met.
- Provides on-going coaching, enabling team members to develop and improve skills and capabilities that support the effectiveness of the department and/or function.
- Serves as a technical/professional mentor to team members.
- Provides performance input and recommendations to management for development/training plans and/or performance reviews.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 8 years of recruiting experience, preferably with IT or technical type positions
- Develops contacts/leads strategy by identifying professional associations, networking opportunities prior to meeting with manager.
- Works with candidates/applicants to ensure job expectations match qualifications, work requirements for positions of interest.
- Demonstrates through interactions with a diverse group of individuals, sensitivity to cultural differences in values, beliefs, etc.
- Collaborates with hiring manager to determine job requirements, competencies, and selection criteria for open positions.
- Demonstrates knowledge of job market and effect of current economic trends, and available candidate pool on employment strategies for specific positions.
- 4-year degree in human resources or related field or equivalent experience

]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2415037-San-Francisco-Human-Resources-and-HRIS .
The Manager of Nursing Informatics provides boundary spanning leadership between Patient Care Services (PCS) and KPIT to promote evidence-based, highly reliable, efficient and safe patient care. This individual will lead cross functional and inter-professional teams in the Clinical Transformation Program to foster innovation and continuously improve the way care is delivered across the care continuum. This nursing leader will collaborate with a variety to stakeholders to transform care with the intelligent use of data, analytics and performance improvement tools. The Manager of Nursing Informatics focuses on transforming information into knowledge and leading change integrating technology with patient care. This role will focus on care delivery transitions to promote seamless patient-centered care. This role will be a key leader in developing the infrastructure for effective and efficient health information technology that support s the nursing vision of extraordinary nursing care- every patient, every time.

The Manager of Nursing Informatics will be accountable to the Director of Clinical Informatics with a matrix relationship to the Vice President of National Patient Care Services. The primary responsibility is to develop, implement and evaluate strategic and tactical programs that leverage technology to optimize clinical operations and improve efficiency.

Essential Functions:

- Provide leadership to the Clinical Transformation Program that assesses and continually improves the way patient care is delivered at all levels of the organization blending people, processes and technology.
- Champion the redesign of clinical workflow and processes essential for the adoption of new technology.
- Design systems that are interoperable, patient-centric, user friendly and focused on quality outcomes.
- Partner with nurse executives, innovation and advanced technology and KPIT to lead technology changes that advance quality care across the continuum.
- Lead the Ambulatory Nursing Governance Group (ANGG) and leverage KP HealthConnect and enabling technology to improve population care.
- Collaborate with regional and national PCS to transform nursing education to include informatics competencies.
- Translate the impact of health care reform, policy and quality initiatives into practice and care delivery.
- Develop business cases that demonstrate the value proposition of new technologies to improve care delivery or clinician workflow.
- Work collaboratively across the organization to examine data standards and interoperability requirements affecting standardization, efficiency, cost, quality or service.
- Foster collaborative relationships- externally and internally- to optimize quality results and positive team work
- Utilize data mining and advanced analytics to ensure that data, information and knowledge form the basis of 21st nursing practice.
- Recognize the impact of change and strategically plan communication and education with national and regional PCS.
- Collaborate with clinical, quality and performance improvement leaders to conduct clinical informatics research.

Key management activities include strategic planning, creative problem solving, project management, team building and customer service. The success of this role depends on the ability to establish credibility among national, regional and local stakeholders.

The Manager of Nursing Informatics will work collaboratively with KP IT, National and Regional PCS, Quality, AR&L, Risk, Reporting & Analytics, , KPHC governance groups, Physician Peer Groups and others to establish operational best practices and standards of care.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

1. BA/BS degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
2. A minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible management experience in following areas: planning, budget/financial management, staffing.
3. A minimum of 5 years experience in nursing informatics, with emphasis on managing a wide range of large hospital-related projects
4. Experience in strategic planning and execution. Ability to analyze and assess organizational needs. Knowledge of design, development and implementation of project plans and programs. Ability to negotiate and manage agreements and resolutions. Experience in examining and re-engineering operations and procedures, and developing and implementing new strategies and processes
5. Exemplary written & verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
6. Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage several projects. Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings.
7. Understanding of both the business and the clinical aspects of health care delivery including the importance of the evolution of information systems as a component of clinical operations management.
8. Work requires willingness to work a flexible schedule. 25-30% travel may be required.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. A BSN and Master Degree in Nursing with additional formal training or advanced degree in nursing informatics
]]> Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2414982-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Job Role:
The Systems Programming Lead role includes the design, development, installation, integration, testing and performance monitoring of IAM systems software products and applications. Also includes systems development and ongoing engineering and higher level support. You'll work with developers, QA teams, Operations and project managers. You will develop strategies and communications for internal and external stakeholders, and lead efforts as necessary.

Essential Functions:
- Robust knowledge of Identity and Access management processes, technologies, and how they integrate
- Perform detailed analysis of systems and develop recommendations for improvement
- Partner with key business stakeholders to improve the overall quality of identity data
- Manage release branches
- Build and sanity test release binaries

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree or higher with an emphasis in Computer Science or related discipline (or additional 4 years of relevant work experience)
- 8 or more years of experience in Engineering, Identity Management, and/or Information Security, including 3-5 years in a Lead or Architect role
- Proven track record of stabilizing large, complex implementations and implementing engineering best practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including a strong ability to conceptualized and document complex systems for non-technical audiences
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Passionate about improving business processes through developing tools and automation
- Knowledge of Identity Management applications (Oracle Identity Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, Sun Identity Manager, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing and integrating business processes and workflows with IT services (BPEL, Oracle SOA Suite) in the context of Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA) product suite.
- Solid experience customizing and maintaining identity management and provisioning platforms (OIM / TIM / Sun Identity)
- Experience implementing and configuring Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and WebLogic
- Knowledge of LDAP technologies (Tivoli Enterprise Directory, Active Directory)
- Knowledge of Authorization technologies (BitKOO, Oracle Entitlements Server, or similar)
- Successful track record architecting, designing and developing J2EE/JEE web applications
- Knowledge of Access Management applications (Oracle Access Manager, CA Siteminder)
- Strong understanding of information security fundamentals in the identity and access management space
- Clear understanding of application development best practices, with a focus on Java technologies
- Working knowledge of access management platforms (TAM, OAM, SiteMinder or similar)
- Intimate understanding of RDBMS and LDAP technologies
- Proven experience analyzing, authoring and reviewing identity management designs
- Experience working with ETL technologies (Tivoli Directory Integrator, Clover ETL, or similar)
- History working with Eclipse/RAD, SVN/CVS and Apache Ant
]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2414985-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Essential Functions:
- Leads and provides expert technical leadership to highly visible, sensitive and multi-faceted projects.
- Sets strategic direction of projects.
- Develops project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics and resources required.
- Designs processes to address identified problems.
- Establishes team membership and negotiates time commitments and resource allocation.
- Provides staff leadership to multi-disciplinary teams, as well as manages work of outside consultants.
- Motivates team members and facilitates team meetings.
- Acts as liaison, problem solver, and facilitator.
- Cultivates and reinforces appropriate group values, norms, and behaviors.
- Provides guidance to team on performance and productivity issues.
- Designs research plans for data gathering and analysis.
- Actively participates or may lead in analyzing data and developing recommendations and action plans.
- Accountable for the development of project documentation for senior executives and other key clients to facilitate sharing of project outcomes and best practices
- Plans and facilitates meetings.
- Makes formal presentations to various senior level audiences.
- Establishes procedures regarding implementation of project outcome.
- Assesses project impact on workforce.
- May include developing training program for different levels of audiences.
- Establishes effective professional business relationships with all levels of management.
- Instructs and educates on all aspects of project.
- May develop and manage a department, including recruiting, coaching, performance evaluation of staff.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) plus years of progressive experience in specified technical area.
- Project management experience in health care preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, health care administration, operations research, public health administration or other related field or equivalent work experience.
- Master's degree or clinical licenses (RN, MD, etc.) preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to determine key business issues and develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative and qualitative analyses.
- Effective leadership, project management and consulting skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2414983-Silicon-Valley-Consulting-Services,-Project-Management,-and-Program-Management-(Non-IT)
Essential Functions:
- Assesses, develops and coordinates a clinical treatment program for Health Plan members with acute or chronic psychiatric disorders.
- Consults with staff regarding diagnosis, strengths and deficits of member, as needed or appropriate.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals and groups.
- Charts member's treatments and progress in accordance with state regulations and department procedures.
- Instructs and counsels members regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens.
- Interprets psychiatric treatment to member's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment if asked to do so by member.
- Makes referrals to case manager, as appropriate, and/or refers member's family to community support services and resources.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of members.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating members for psychotropic medications.
- May supervise PSW Assistants and PSW Interns, if supervision course has been completed.
- Works on-call evenings, weekends & holidays, assuming primary responsibility for emergency psychiatric care and acting as consultant to emergency department physicians and staff.
- Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies.

Secondary Functions:
- This position is for the Child Team.
- Position may be subjected to relocate to other Diablo Service Area sites.
- Provide clinical treatment for children and families.
- Expected to lead cognitive behavioral and/or dialectical behavior therapy group programs for children, adolescents and teens in a variety of diagnosis-specific curricula (eg; anxiety, depression, ASD, ADHD, panic disorder, post -traumatic stress disorder, etc-).
- Provide group-based mental health services.
- Duties consist of individual and group therapy along with case management, crisis evaluations, short-term therapy, hospital consultation, and working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Applicants are expected to be comfortable working with an ethnically and culturally diverse patient population.
- Evening hours and evening/weekend hospital consultation (on-call) service is required per operational need.
- Credentialing and Privileging approval is required for WCR Medical Centers.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of the members' treatment to include referral of the member and/or members family to external resources.
- Establishes liaisons to utilize resources of public and private agencies/community organizations to meet member and program needs.
- May conduct evaluations in Medicare, Social Security, and state disability cases.
- Weekend hours may be required. Hours may be subject to change due to operational needs.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Outpatient Psychiatric Social Worker:Has experience in assessing, diagnosing and treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions.
- Master's degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university.
- Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
OR MFT:
- Master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science required.
- Current license as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in the State of California.
- Previous post license, paid experience as a member of a psychiatric treatment team in an outpatient setting/program under licensed supervision (usually two to four years)
OR PSWA:
- Master's degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university.
OR MFTA:
- Master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science required from an accredited college or university.
- Must pass the State Board examination within two years from date of hire.

- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI) or obtain NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Must be familiar with DMS-IV-R as a means of diagnosis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations, and professional board standards as is related to member treatment, patient rights, and member/patient confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Inpatient Psychiatric Social Worker:
- Working in an inpatient setting, a minimum of three years post licensure experience in acute inpatient psychiatric settings and with the use of psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic methods and measures in a hospital, clinic or agency preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include inpatient group treatment and crisis intervention preferred.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience providing case management services for child, adolescent and teen patients with the persistent and/or chronic mental illness.
- Ability to conduct initial and ongoing DSM-based mental health evaluations and diagnoses.
- Ability to provide crisis intervention, family-focused treatment planning, and conflict resolution service.
- Ability to develop treatment plans and coordinate care across various internal and external service modalities.
- Ability to complete and maintain computerized documentation of treatment services.
- Participation in Department and Service Team meetings as well as educational activities as approved by Supervisor.
- Ability to maintain current licensing status and complete related continuing education and KP-defined competency training.
- Ability to also work with children, adolescents and their families would be beneficial, but not required.
- Bilingual/ Bi-cultural strongly encouraged to apply.

Schedule: Mon 10:00am - 5:00pm, Tues & Fri 8:00am - 5:30pm, Wed 11:00am - 7:30pm, Thurs 10:00am - 6:00pm]]> Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2414988-San-Francisco-Behavioral-or-Mental-Health Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408368-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
The Compliance, Legal and Regulatory Affairs team supports key business organizations within the Corporate Services (CS)Portfolio of Kaiser Permanente's Information Technology organization. In addition to Legal and Treasury being key business partners, the expanded team supports National Compliance Office and all related compliance areas: Payment Card Industry and Revenue Cycle data marts.

The National Legal Department provides legal advice and representation on a wide range of legal issues affecting Kaiser Permanente. It is a national legal organization comprised of 8 practice groups led by Practice Group Managers plus the Office of Board and Corporate Governance. Based on Kaiser Permanente strategic imperatives, the Legal department is defining their business strategy. This role will facilitate and contribute to this definition at the same time considering the technology roadmap and solution definition to meet this business strategy.

Under the leadership of the Treasurer, the Treasury serves as the corporate finance arm for each of the regions and subsidiaries, and the Kaiser Permanente Program as a whole. One of the key initiatives this role will support is the definition of the long term payment strategy for implementation across the organization. Payment Card Industry compliance sustainability is a key component of the sustainable and yearly roadmap for Treasury area.

Role Overview
The Director, for Legal and Treasury sub-portfolios; is part of Compliance, Legal and Regulatory Affairs (CLRA) team. The role will provide strategic, tactical, and operational leadership to support the IT planning and delivery to the Legal and Treasury business organizations. This person will manage 7 resources.

The role will manage Information Technology strategic planning and analysis, client and relationship management, and day-to-day operations that include finance, performance, and delivery management. The role will also participate and contribute to healthcare industry, KP, and KPIT wide initiatives in the areas of data usage and governance, information management, privacy and security, data analytics and visualization, information modeling, and data access controls. This role will work collaboratively with the managers and directors of these areas to ensure standardization, process improvement, alignment of strategic plans, and be a change agent.

The role will work directly with people at all levels of the organization to ensure the work is funded and conducted within IT guidelines. The position is expected to support the leaders and principals of each of these sub-portfolios as it relates to delivery execution metrics, data reporting and analytics regarding delivery productivity, business case support, facilitation of prioritization activities, interfacing to sub-committees, and engagement with Shared and Managed Services partners including procurement functions.


Responsibilities:

- Manage both Strategic and Operational aspects of treasury and legal business areas
- Build strong and effective relationships within and across KP and KPIT
- Translate business imperatives into technical needs to successfully deliver outcomes
- Act as a champion for Legal and Treasury to business and IT organization and stakeholders
- Be a strong liaison and effectively interpret business imperatives to IT and IT outcomes to business partners and stakeholders.
- Support administrative, operational and management activities in support of team outcomes
- Mentor and guide large matrixed teams while resolving key issues and conflicts
- Supports the development and maintenance of business cases, supporting required materials by governance
- Create and manage Roadmaps and Cross-Functional Program Timeline Alignment
- Manage and track multiple data request from internal and external sources to ensure that they are completed in an accurate and timely manner.
- Support the development, analysis, and reporting across business areas for the specialty exception based monthly meetings including: Finance, Quality, and Delivery, as well as the CS Transformation Meetings.
- Handle Crisis Management/Risk Mitigation; takes ownership of issues and initiates critical escalations and works with Senior Leadership effectively to drive to resolution.
- Facilitate problem solving sessions within the organization and drive problems to resolution.
- Encourage and model the open of expression of diverse ideas and opinions. Serves as a role model for communication and provides professional/technical guidance to team members. Influences others regarding new and existing concepts, processes and/or methodologies.
- Structures process improvement/re-engineering effort for sustainability and broad acceptance.

Minimum Qualifications:

- 8 or more years of progressively responsible management experience in healthcare IT planning, budget/financial management, and staffing.
- 8 or more years of related IT experience including IT Project Management, Program Management, Facilitation, Coordination of Complex Initiatives, and Business Case development including KPI (key performance indicator) identification and benefit realization documentation
- Bachelor's degree or four years of additional equivalent work experience
- Experience and track record delivering processes in a large organization.
- Financial Analytics: Experience managing project, program and or departmental budgets, funding agreements, cost tracking documentation, financial reporting, invoicing and accounts payable.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with significant experience in strong communication and presentation creation.
- Excellent MS Office knowledge and project delivery methodologies.


Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience and excellence in complex performance reporting
- Must have outstanding communication skills at managing a diverse portfolio of projects through the entire life-cycle utilizing varied approaches from agile to waterfall.
- Must be highly collaborative and able to work across organizational boundaries to achieve business and technology goals.
- Proven Champion that drives change management through continuous portfolio management processes and quality improvement across the organization through metrics, trend analysis, best practice and standards adoption, and integration of lessons learned.



Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 8 or more years of related IT experience including IT Project Management, Program Management, Facilitation, Coordination of Complex Initiatives, and Business Case development including KPI (key performance indicator) identification and benefit realization documentation
- Bachelor's degree or four years of additional equivalent work experience
- Experience and track record delivering processes in a large organization.
- Financial Analytics: Experience managing project, program and or departmental budgets, funding agreements, cost tracking documentation, financial reporting, invoicing and accounts payable.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with significant experience in strong communication and presentation creation.
- Excellent MS Office knowledge and project delivery methodologies.
- Ability to be a thought leader and change collaborator within the department and other CS BIO sub-portfolio's


Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience and excellence in complex performance reporting
- Must have outstanding communication skills at managing a diverse portfolio of projects through the entire life-cycle utilizing varied approaches from agile to waterfall.
- Must be highly collaborative and able to work across organizational boundaries to achieve business and technology goals.
- Proven Champion that drives change management through continuous portfolio management processes and quality improvement across the organization through metrics, trend analysis, best practice and standards adoption, and integration of lessons learned.
]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2399499-San-Francisco-Information-Technology - Performs varied clerical work involving a high degree of independent judgment and accuracy.
- Analyze master schedules to determine accuracy and appropriateness.
- Create, Modify and maintain profiles.
- Create and maintain daily patient appointment schedules of TPMG physicians and non-physician providers adjusting time segments in the PARRS II system indicating clinic time and non-clinic time.
- Cancel, reschedule and notify patients of appointment changes (if dept policy) Create, & Maintain master schedules, physician & non-physician work sheets in Microsoft Word and/or Microsoft Excel.
- Secure, compile and report statistical data.
- Documenting and recording data accurately and legibly.
- Participate in intradepartmental meetings and act as liaison with appropriate personnel.
- Release schedules on a timely basis for use by department personnel.
- Covers all departments assigned and other additional duties as assigned by the Manager.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must have at least 6 months experience in Medical Offices environment in a position which demonstrates knowledge skill & experience in the following
- Problem solving skills with the ability to identify, analyze, report and resolve.
- Knowledge of K.P.M.C.operational procedures preferred.
- Experience in automated systems: PARRS II, HEALTH CONNECT, and LOTUS NOTES.
- Setting priorities in a complex, busy environment, handling tasks simultaneously to include follow up.
- Experience in appointment making protocols in primary & specialty care.
- Good Communication skills, exhibiting diplomacy, tact, and caring attitude in all interactions.
- The ability to demonstrate good telephone etiquette and cope with every day pressure while interacting with staff, patients and/or their family members.
- Ability to demonstrate effective oral and written skills..
- Must posess initiative and have ability to make independent decisions.
- Must apply and retain thorough knowledge of all policies/procedures.
- Ability to sit and use a computer terminal 90% of the time and answer telephones.
- Good organizational skills.
- Typing of 40 WPM.
- Word Processing Skills (MS Word & Excel).
-Must be service-oriented individual and maintain the highest level of courtesy to patients, members, staff andcoworkers.
- Must convey proper information and/or instructions to patients.
- Good work history demonstrating dependability, stability and good attendance.
- Perform varied clerical work involving a high degree of independent judgment, speed and accuracy.
- Must successfully complete regional Schedule Creation and Maintenance course when offered.
- Must be willing to work evenings, weekends and holidays as assigned per contractual agreement.
- Overtime and additional hours are assigned per contractual agreement.

Skills testing: Typing (40 WPM), Microsoft Word & Excel (basic)]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408340-Silicon-Valley-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408351-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408338-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408367-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status; also nutrition, pain, patient/family education, family involvement and patient advocacy.
- Formulates a goal-directed plan of care that is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
- Implements care in a thorough, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
- Establishes priorities or patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment, and supplies.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by health care team members.
- Identifies patient/family learning needs and implements appropriate measures.
- Documents patient care and unit activities in a timely, accurate, and concise manner.
- Demonstrates an awareness of and sensitivity to patient/family rights, age specific needs, cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified within the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency patient care situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates sound knowledge base and actions in the care of a designated patient population.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and Department of Nursing personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and Department Performance Improvement activities as directed.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties of health care team members.
- Utilizes effective communication methods and skills, following lines of authority, as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families. Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Provides data for staffing decisions and demonstrates flexibility in the resolution of staffing issues; demonstrates flexibility when floating to other units upon requests.
- Ability to navigate in a windows environment, utilizing a mouse and the ability to learn electronic medical record system application.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job motivates and provides work direction (direct, check, review, assign, organize and coordination) to LVN's, Nurse Attendants, unit assistants, etc., but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 6 months experience. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty units.
- LABOR & DELIVERY - One year recent experience (within the last 3 years) in L&D with completion of AWHONN L&D course preferred. NRP certification is required. Current ACLS certification may be required in some units. Successful completion of advanced fetal monitoring course preferred within the last 2 years. Successful completion of a Fetal Monitoring Interpretation Competency within the first three months of hire may be required. May be expected to cross train to at least 1 other Maternal Child Health/Family Centered Care area with appropriate certifications. Must complete circulating and recovery competencies as required. Willingness to scrub may be required.
- SPECIALITY AREAS - If no qualified candidate, may be willing to train in the specialty areas listed below. Candidates in training are required to obtain appropriate certifications within 6 months of hire or transfer into unit.
- High School Diploma/GED.
- Graduate of an accredited registered nursing program and completion of the current hours required by the BRN of RN student clinical experience or Graduate of registered nursing and either 1) 2000 hours of RN experience in clinical area of specialty from a licensed acute care facility within three (3) years of graduation; or 2) graduate of an accredited licensed vocational nursing program that includes clinical student experience in acute care and has worked 2000 hours as an licensed vocational nurse within the clinical area of specialty within three (3) years before graduation or currently enrolled in an accredited entry level MSN program and has completed pre-licensure requirements to practice nursing.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in California.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for health care providers.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the RN scope of practice.
- Demonstrated commitment to service orientation (members, staff, providers).
- Demonstrated effective written and oral communication skills (in English).
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.]]> Sun, 06 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2408366-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- ANTEPARTUM: Evaluates patient's general and obstetrical health status.
- Determines pregnancy status, duration of gestation, presentation, and position of fetus, fetal heart rate, and determines whether all statistics are within normal limits.
- Obtains an accurate medical, obstetrical, gynecological and social history and an account of the course of the present pregnancy.
- Observes signs of the member's general and obstetrical health status.
- Performs all appropriate physical examinations appropriate to CNM care needed, including the pap smear, breast examination, and pelvic examination.
- Records all findings of examinations, histories and significant observations on patient's chart.
- Consults with appropriate MD regarding any abnormal findings.
- Orders appropriate lab and medical imaging studies as needed.
- Institutes preventative measures and detects abnormal conditions. Obtains consultation and assistance from ancillary services as needed.
- Teaches, counsels, and guides individual members regarding their individual health care.
- Teaches antepartum classes as needed in individual facilities.
- Evaluates maternal general health status and well being.
- INTRAPARTUM: Performs medical screening exam to diagnose labor.
- Independently manages the care of low risk women during labor and delivery, under the supervision of a physician.
- Co-manages higher risk patients when determined appropriate by CNM and MD.
- Performs facility specific standardized procedures.
- Evaluates patient for appropriate pain management. Includes requesting epidural for women in labor.
- POSTPARTUM: Provides health supervision, care, teaches family planning, and prescribes contraception to women during the postpartum period.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Three (3) years of recent experience as a C.N.M. preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.
- Current and valid California R.N. license, California Nurse Midwife certificate, A.C.N.M. certification and BLS certification required.
- Current and valid California Nurse-Midwife furnishing certification (including any needed education in pharmacy) and didactic education and supervised clinical experience in third trimester limited obstetric ultrasound preferred or to be obtained at midwife's expense within one year of hire.
- Current and valid DEA registration number specific to our practice at Kaiser to be obtained within one year of hire at midwife's expense.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI, or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2404987-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
Essential Functions:
- Manages the operations of a large unit or multiple units in an outpatient facility.
- Ensures assistants and staff provide the highest quality of care and are in compliance w/ The Joint Commission, federal, state, and local requirements.
- Collaborates w/ physicians and other health care providers in establishing, implementing, and maintaining patient care and quality service standards to meet members and internal clients expectations.
- Acts as patient advocate resolving patient care issues.
- Develops and monitors budgets and resource allocations.
- Monitors financial performance, identifies and implements strategies to reduce costs, and improves quality of care/service.
- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department and develops processes to screen, interview, hire, and train, and maintain the competency of all department staff.
- Provides on going staff development.
- Develops, implements, and monitors departmental policies and procedures which support the organizations goals and business objectives and ensures they are met.
- Collaborates w/ Physician Team Leader and Department Chief in developing the level of patient services and the day-to-day operations of the department.
- Manages and resolves human resource, labor relations, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant experience in management/leadership roles required (usually five (5) years).
- Significant supervisory experience required (usually five (5) years).
- Significant experience in an outpatient care setting preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a health related field required.
- Master's degree preferred.
- BLS certification preferred.
- Knowledge of The Joint Commission, and other local, state, and federal regulations.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2404989-Silicon-Valley-Patient-Care-Services-Non-RN
The position works closely with members of the applications development, technical architecture, and data center organizations on performance and capacity issues. It also assists in the forecast of future capacity requirements. The position assists in the development of models of existing systems to project the impact of proposed changes / additions.
Responsibilities Include:
- Baseline capacity utilization for infrastructure
- Convert demand forecast to technical capacity requirements
- Trend and model expected utilization based on capacity forecasts
- Develop capacity forecasts for towers
- Develop capacity management options / alternatives using capacity optimization and provisioning models: virtualization, load balancing, cloud, shared services, managed services
- Validate and agree capacity management options with business and IT stakeholders


Qualifications:

MinimumQualifications Required:
- BA/BS Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or other related field
- 5+ years experience in capacity planning
- Experience in analyzing and understanding platforms and towers in terms of data center resources
- Experience in developing forecasts based on the trends and volumes provided by business demand forecasts
- Experience in producing periodic capacity requirements forecast documentation
- Gather tower utilization stats
- Develop hardware plan related to projections
Functional/Technical Knowledge & Skills Required:
- Working knowledge of platforms, servers, storage and network infrastructure (Wintel, Unix, mainframe and storage expertise)
- Working knowledge of data centers in terms of power, cooling, floor space
- Strong quantitative skills with the ability to discern quality of information and patterns in data
- Ability to develop professional relationships with internal business units
- Ability to interpret complex information, provide informed analysis, develop recommendations and educate stakeholders on implications to support decision making
- Track actual usage to projections
Preferred Experience and Skills:
- Experience in the managed healthcare industry is a plus
- Consulting background executing similar functions
- MA Information Systems Management preferred. CPSM Certification, ITIL v3 and Capacity Management a plus
]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 1675803-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Some key business initiatives and programs are:
eServices
Guarantor Statement Redesign
Computer Assisted Coding (CAC)
Metrics & Analytics for Revenue Cycle (MARC)
Claims Optimization

The key focus of the design and delivery teams is to support our business partners to conceptualize, define, design, test, implement and support the revenue cycle initiatives applications.


Essential Functions:
- Support program management of large, complex national projects for the Revenue Cycle Technology organization at Kaiser Permanente
-Tasks may include maintaining project plans, documenting meeting minutes, maintaining RAID (Risks, Actions, Information, Decisions) logs, support project financial management, including staffing plans and budget forecasts, preparation of powerpoint presentations, updates to workbench tools to manage of resources and key milestone
- Build strong working relationships with business and IT partners in the National and Regional areas
- Personnel management, including contract staff, includes allocating and overseeing work, ensuring accuracy and overall maintaining a professional reputation

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or a minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 8 years of IT Project Management
- A minimum of 5 years of IT program management
-Proficient in MS Office suite, including Word, Excel, Project, Visio and Powerpoint
- Demonstrated experience in managing projects within financial forecast and to meet schedule and scope projections
- Working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and standard industry practices for project management
-Excellent verbal and written communication skills]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2399464-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The Lead Financial Analyst is a client-facing role and high-level subject matter expert responsible for IT finance issues and processes. This individual will provide financial analysis to ensure that clients' needs are met accurately, and in a timely and professional manner. This position is responsible for the strategic analysis that informs business cases, budgets, forecasts, and long-term plans, while working with KP-IT business partners responsible for scenario planning, business case development and strategic analysis requirements of the IMG-IPD, SOX and ITAM organizations.

Essential Functions:

- Prepare the annual budget and monthly forecast in conjunction with the client
- Analyze and comment on month-end financial results, provide variance analysis, research and resolve financial irregularities, and ensure transparency
- Develop financial models to support strategic initiatives
- Prepare concise and informative presentations of your analysis to senior management to inform and to educate/persuade
- Be a change agent for strategic planning and process improvement
- Prepare Ad hoc analysis and reporting
- Participate in the development and maintenance of performance metrics, measurements, methods, and targets; assist in identifying performance improvement opportunities. In addition, provide ongoing recommendations on the use and interpretation of analysis, reports, methodologies, systems and source data, acting as a significant information resource
- Analyze project business cases as needed, challenge financial spending and savings assumptions and participate in special projects as needed
- Partner with Finance counterparts in all organizations to improve financial analysis, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes. Lead cross-functional teams to solve issues


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 8 years of Finance experience.
- 5+ years of related experience including the ability to demonstrate experience analyzing, modeling, and forecasting financial data, including a thorough understanding of financial statement construction and analysis. Experience in budgeting/forecasting and long range planning. Knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and practices required.
- A minimum of 1 year experience in business case development for large scale multi-million dollar projects using cost/benefit analysis, cash flow and NPV analysis, scenarios and sensitivity analysis.
- A minimum of 1 year of large capital project finance experience.
- Results driven and can deliver under pressure.
- Excellent demonstrated interpersonal and teamwork skills.
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
- Proven initiative and self-directed style.
- Proficiency with MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to travel 10-25% within the local area and between SCAL & NCAL

Preferred Qualifications:

- 1 year of experience of activity based costing or project costing experience
- Working knowledge of Kaiser Permanente's systems and financial tools
- Proficiency with MS Access
- Working knowledge of Cognos, Business Objects, SAP, or Hyperion
- MBA or equivalent]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2399481-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The Senior Financial Analyst will assist with supporting Infrastructure Network Services for the IT Infrastructure Finance team. This position is responsible for assisting the team on financial topics and to become a subject matter expert on financials related to Network Infrastructure. The analyst will work with KP-IT finance as well as business partners on initiatives that produce process improvements, analysis of variances and special requirements of the IT Infrastructure Finance team. The individual will assist with financial analysis in support of multiple financial and operational initiatives, be a change agent for strategic planning and process improvement, and operate in a professional and ethical manner at all times.


Essential Functions:

- Support business case development and analysis
- Assist in the development of financial models
- Develop, improve and enhance financial reports, models and databases
- Initiate investigation of budget and forecast variances, cost trends and utilization patterns and perform analysis
- Work autonomously but collaboratively with teammates and clients
- Be a change agent for strategic planning and process improvement
- Design analytical reports and prepare financial trend and data analysis reports
- Will be accountable for the coordination, compilation, and verification of analytic interpretation of financial reports and analyses
- Perform special projects/studies of moderate to complex scope as directed
- Develop spreadsheet and PowerPoint decks for presentation and analysis of financial reports
- Identify operational impact from analytical findings
- Monitor compliance with policies and procedures related to financial management, budget systems and related automated systems
- Partner with Finance counterparts in all organizations to improve financial analysis, reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes
- Travel (10%) within the local area or possibly between SCAL and NCAL


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of finance experience.
- General knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and principles
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written, with ability to keep track of communications with multiple clients simultaneously
- Excel skills including Pivot Tables, V Look-up formulas and IF statement formulas
- Experience with PowerPoint presentations
- Strong overall analytic and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with a high level of accuracy
- Proven initiative and self-directed style
- Confidentiality concerning all information and projects

Preferred Qualifications:

- MBA or equivalent
- Experience developing business cases for large scale multi-million dollar projects using cost/benefit analysis, cash flow and NPV analysis
- Proficient in budgeting and reporting software applications including Cognos and Business Objects
- Proficiency with MS Access]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2399482-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The Senior Financial Analyst will assist with supporting Infrastructure Non-Network Projects for the IT Infrastructure Finance team. This position is responsible for assisting the team on leading financial projects and to become a subject matter expert on financial projects related to Non-Network Infrastructure. The analyst will work with KP-IT finance as well as business partners on initiatives that produce process improvements, analysis of variances and special requirements of the IT Infrastructure Finance team. The individual will assist with financial analysis in support of multiple financial and operational initiatives, be a change agent for strategic planning and process improvement, and operate in a professional and ethical manner at all times.


Essential Functions:

- Perform special projects/studies of moderate to complex scope as directed
- Support business case development and analysis
- Assist in the development of financial models
- Develop, improve and enhance financial reports, models and databases
- Initiate investigation of budget and forecast variances, cost trends and utilization patterns and perform analysis
- Work autonomously but collaboratively with teammates and clients
- Be a change agent for strategic planning and process improvement
- Design analytical reports and prepare financial trend and data analysis reports
- Will be accountable for the coordination, compilation, and verification of analytic interpretation of financial reports and analyses
- Develop spreadsheet and PowerPoint decks for presentation and analysis of financial reports
- Identify operational impact from analytical findings
- Monitor compliance with policies and procedures related to financial management, budget systems and related automated systems
- Partner with Finance counterparts in all organizations to improve financial analysis, reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes
- Travel (10%) within the local area or possibly between SCAL and NCAL


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of finance experience.
- General knowledge and understanding of accounting rules and principles
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written, with ability to keep track of communications with multiple clients simultaneously
- Excel skills including Pivot Tables, V Look-up formulas and IF statement formulas
- Experience with PowerPoint presentations
- Strong overall analytic and problem solving skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to work under tight deadlines with a high level of accuracy
- Proven initiative and self-directed style
- Confidentiality concerning all information and projects


Preferred Qualifications:

- MBA or equivalent
- Experience developing business cases for large scale multi-million dollar projects using cost/benefit analysis, cash flow and NPV analysis
- Proficient in budgeting and reporting software applications including Cognos and Business Objects
- Proficiency with MS Access
]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2399483-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- REPRESENTATIVE ACTIVITIES: Organizes and expedites flow of work for the manager's office and the department in accordance to manager's method of operation and the operations and procedures of the department and organization.
- Initiates any follow-up action.
- Receives and screens telephone calls, letters, and/or visitors.
- Answers routine questions and provides information related to general department operations, policies and procedures using discretion for matters pertaining to confidential or sensitive information.
- Determines when to appropriately refer inquiries, requests or issues to managers or department staff members and follows up to ensure resolution on behalf of manager or department.
- Schedules appointments and makes arrangements for meetings, conferences, and travel.
- Organizes and prepares routine correspondence for the department manager, as well as complex documents including reports, spreadsheets, presentations and various forms of communications documents requiring the integration of multiple office technology and software applications.
- May act as the department's office resource for word processing and spreadsheet application.
- Prepares special reports that require gathering, comparing and summarizing data.
- Organizes and maintains files, correspondence and records.
- Handles and frequently accesses highly confidential and sensitive information.
- Assists with tracking the department budget.
- Tracks and compiles expenses.
- Prepares monthly expense reports.
- May address issues to department manager.
- Performs other related duties following standard office routine, practices and procedures or instructions.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) plus years of experience performing administrative support functions for department managers.
- Experience in coordinating and providing support to large complex projects.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- BA/BS preferred.
- Excellent customer service.
- Lotus Notes skills preferred.
- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills required.
- Advanced level proficiency with e-mail software, MicroSoft Word and with any of the following office technology (required only if applicable to department's needs): PowerPoint. Excel or Access.
- Must be able to work in a Labor-Management Partnership environment.

Skills testing: Advanced level Word, Excel, Powerpoint, & Typing (45WPM)

This position will float between the Livermore and Pleasanton facilities.
]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2391562-San-Francisco-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services Essential Functions:
- Assumes all responsibilities as outlined on the Senior Physical Therapist job profile. Provides consultation and mentoring to the physical therapy staff in their specific area of specialization.
- Provides education to physical therapists through formal and informal education in their specific specialty both locally and regionally.
- Provides consultation and education to other Kaiser facilities upon request.
- Provides education to other health care professionals in their area of specialization both locally and regionally.
- Assists in the development and implementation of new clinical practice models for the delivery of care to members who require their expertise.
- Provides a leadership role to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of physical therapy services.
- Assumes responsibility for the management of a high volume of patients, including those with complex problems or special needs in their area of specialty.
- Demonstrates behavior consistent with the criteria for professional practice.

Secondary Functions:
- Treat external and internal customers in a respectful, friendly, helpful, and professional manner at all times.
- Adhere to the service expectations of the department and facility.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant (usually 3-5 years) experience in the area of specialty practice.
- Must have demonstrated evidence of advanced education and experience in specialty area.
- Demonstrated teaching experience in specialty area at an intermediate or advanced level required.
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree and certification in physical therapy or foreign trained equivalent.
- Physical Therapist license from the State of California.
- APTA Specialist certification in area of specialty preferred.
- Membership in the APTA preferred.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
-BLS required.
- Demonstrated effective public speaking and lecture skills in past positions required.
- Evidence of on-going professional development required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2305168-Silicon-Valley-Rehab-Services
Essential Functions:
- Conducts needs assessments, establishes priorities, designs, implements, and evaluates basic health education programs, protocols, and standards.
- Coordinates a wide range of health education services, including establishing effective referral and publicity systems, monitoring quality and documentation, providing scheduling and logistical support, and facilitating use of community services to promote the delivery of cost-effective health education services.
- Provides direct group or one-to-one health education services to members and the public.
- Reviews, develops, and recommends high quality, culturally appropriate, written and audio-visual health education materials.
- Consults w/ physicians and staff regarding related health education services.
- Coordinates health information projects such as program catalogs, newsletter, informational displays, community health events, etc.
- Specializes in a specific area of health education (e.g. HIV, nutrition, chronic disease, health promotion) as required.
- Monitors performance of health education instructors and counselors.
- Prepares reports, grants, proposals, and documentation, as assigned.
- Participates in establishing department strategic goals and priorities.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Two (2) years experience in the field of health education.
- Previous experience in uncomplicated curriculum and materials development.
- Master's degree in Public Health, Community Health Science, or Health Promotion OR
Master's degree in a health related field, eligibility to sit for the Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) examination, and successful completion of the Certified Health Education specialist (CHES) examination within twelve (12) months of hire into a Health Educator II position. For specialization - content expertise or certification required.
- Demonstrated knowledge of behavior change, adult learning, group process theory and application.
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of PC applications required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Schedule: Mon Tues Thurs 8:30am - 5:00pm, Fri 1:30pm - 5:00pm]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2391545-San-Francisco-Education-and-Training The candidate will represent Information Security in the assessment as well as research, development and implementation of technologies, techniques, and process improvements pertaining to initiatives that require information security guidance. The candidate will have close working relationship with both IT and the Business. The candidate will work directly with project personnel as well as business management teams. The ability to communicate in both technical and business terms is crucial. As subject matter expert, the candidate must be able to articulate information security requirements and risks in business language.
General Requirements

Provide project leadership for security related engagements related to vulnerability management, security configuration management, security metrics, and GRC integration concerns.
Assist in designing and delivering comprehensive remediation workflow and reporting solutions to customers.
Ability to apply data visualization and statistical best practices to enterprise risk reporting.
Excellent analytical skills to compliment strong written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal, motivational, organizational, persuasive and project management skills.
Proven ability to work effectively with management, staff, vendors, and external consultants
Proven ability to communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical business area representatives.
Understanding of security risk assessment methodologies. Ability to assess both technical and business risks as they pertain to information security.
Provide project leadership for security related engagement related to vulnerability management, configuration management, metrics, and GRC integration concerns.
Understanding of regulatory climate and industry standards such as SOX, HIPAA and PCI.

Technical Requirements

Drive the extension of integration, big data, and business intelligence toolsets for systems assurance, metrics and GRC related programs
Solid understanding of basic statistical methodologies and how to apply them to real world problems.
Assist in designing and delivering comprehensive remediation workflow and reporting solutions to customers.
Provide senior level database support for multiple OLTP and OLAP systems
Plan and execute on mitigation and remediation effectiveness testing.
In-depth knowledge of web application security and industry best practices (i.e, OWASP, WASC, etc), as well as SDLC.
Ability to program and script in various languages (i.e., Python/Perl, Ruby, Java, shell scripting, .Net).
Working knowledge of vulnerability and configuration assessment technologies.
Good understanding of enterprise level network and infrastructure security technologies from tier one vendors..
Expert knowledge of hardening Unix, Linux, Mainframe, Windows and other enterprise level platforms.
Good understanding of sound security practices around the deployment and operations of cloud computing, virtualization, mainframe and database technologies.


Qualifications:

BS Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Mathematics or equivalent combination of experience and formal education, or additional 4 years of work experience.
10 years of hands on experience in two or more of the following: application security, network security, or platform/OS security in engineering, architecture or consulting capacity.
Formal training and general certification in the security field, both vendor agnostic and vendor specific (such as CCIE, CISA, CISSP, GIAC)
Security generalist experience: Deploy and maintenance of vulnerability management, NIDS, HIDS, AV, security configuration management, GRC, Security Metrics Project management experience with the security domain]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2418092-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The Integration Developers who make up this group analyze the integration requirements, message structures, and data processing needs in order to develop the proposed integration solution. Work products include integration components, unit testing and testing support for the EIS/SOA organization.

The Integration Developer - Consultant Specialist is a seasoned engineer, primarily responsible for developing integration solutions, troubleshooting issues and assisting with code reviews to ensure the optimal solution has been delivered. This individual will leverage their knowledge of industry best practices and KP infrastructure to continually improve internal development procedures and standards. As needed, this individual may assist other developers with development challenges and be called upon to assist with critical troubleshooting and bug resolution. When needed, the senior may provide input to solution designs and communicate technical details to business partners. Seniors apply industry best practices regarding Service Oriented Architectures and system modeling in order to satisfy business and technical requirements by developing a reusable, manageable, and cost-effective integration framework.

Responsibilities
- Perform hands on development of integration solutions on a variety of platform
- Research and resolve technical issues and recommend appropriate interventions/modifications as needed
- Ensure work processes and products meet KP IT standards
- Conduct root cause analysis to prevent reoccurrence of issues
- Assist development of the EIS/SOA reference architectures and patterns
- Recommend integration best practices and assist with system modeling



Qualifications:

Basic/Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- 10 years of progressive IT experience, with demonstrated success in software design or development of large, complex applications preferably in health plans or managed care organizations.
- 7 years experience with Java, J2EE, Web App Server (preferably WAS 6/7), Web Services, WSDL, XML.
- 7 years experience developing Top down XML driven Web Services using industry standard frameworks JAX-WS or Spring-WS with eclipse based IDE (RAD 7).
- 5 years experience using frameworks such as log4j.
- 4 years experience with WS testing tools SoapUI, VuGen or SoapScope.
- Strong hands on experience with XML manipulation techniques like JAXB
- Thorough understanding of WSSecurity..

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing RESTful services is HUGE plus.
- Experience with Healthcare and/or insurance industry and/or implementation of HealthCare or Insurance systems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, consulting and presentation skills at all levels of management.
- Demonstrate a high level of judgment and risk taking to make appropriate decisions for diverse, sophisticated and undefined issues;
- Ability to work effectively under aggressive deadlines and in challenging settings.
- Experience working in large organizations with cross-departmental teams.
- Customer service and results oriented while maintaining a team focus approach.
- Excellent problem-solving, strategic and systems analysis and complex decision making skills.
]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2384105-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- For a minimum of twelve (12) month training period, the trainee will be trained by licensed testing personnel to perform the following duties:
- Preparation of human and bacterial samples for analysis using genomic and plasmid nucleic acid preparation techniques.
- Restriction enzyme digestion techniques on nucleic acid samples.
- PCR (polymerase chain reaction) techniques on nucleic acid samples.
- Electrophoresis blotting and hybridization on nucleic acid samples.
- Photographic and autoradiographic techniques and other documentation or image analysis procedures.
- Analysis of results and data produced from the nucleic acid procedures (as above).
- Perform other related duties as qualified, trained and assigned.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a minimum of one (1) year of experience, excluding training, in a clinical or research molecular biology laboratory performing clinical molecular diagnostic testing procedures and techniques.
- Bachelor's degree in biological or clinical laboratory science or a field related to genetics from an US-accredited college or university or equivalent.
- CA Clinical Genetics Molecular Biologist Trainee license.
- Eligible to become a Certified Clinical Laboratory Specialist in Molecular Biology by the National Certification Agency (NCA) within one year of hire.
- Eligible to become licensed by CA State as a Clinical Genetics Molecular Biologist Scientist with one year of hire.
- Must have the demonstrated ability to perform clinical molecular diagnostic testing procedures and techniques as determined by the Employer, including genomic and plasmid nucleic acid preparation, restriction enzyme digestion, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), electrophoresis, blotting, and hybridization techniques on nucleic acid samples.
- Demonstrates and maintains professional conduct including courtesy and patience in all interactions with patients, members, physicians, co-workers, volunteers and visitors. Willing to provide excellent service within the bounds of ones ability, policies and bargaining unit agreement, as applicable.
- Ability to read and comprehend protocols, instructions, correspondence, and memos, and communicate as the job requires.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.


++ Expected Length of Employment: 12 months ++

Schedule: Rotate holidays and Saturdays, as scheduled. Schedule is subject to change based on operational needs.
]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2377235-Silicon-Valley-Laboratory Essential Functions:
- Performs high-complexity tests as authorized by the technical supervisors.
- Prepares human and bacterial samples for analysis using genomic and plasmid nucleic acid preparation techniques.
- Restriction enzyme digestion techniques on nucleic acid samples.
- PCR (polymerase chain reaction) techniques on nucleic acid samples.
- Electrophoresis blotting and hybridization on nucleic acid samples.
- Photographic and auto radiographic techniques and other documentation or image analysis procedures.
- Analysis of results and data produced from the nucleic acid procedures (as above).
- Performs testing of newly developed lab procedures and techniques, as directed and report on results.
- Maintains complete and accurate documentation and records.
- Performs case review prior to final report.
- Trains other staff as assigned.
- Perform other related duties as qualified, trained and assigned.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a minimum of two (2) years of experience, excluding training, in a clinical or research molecular biology laboratory performing clinical molecular diagnostic testing procedures and techniques, OR must have successfully completed Kaiser Permanente in-house molecular technologist trainee/Tech I position (CA Trainee).
- Bachelor's degree in biological or clinical laboratory science or a field related to genetics from an US-accredited college or university or equivalent.
- Must have a current CA State License as a Clinical Genetics Molecular Biologist Scientist.
- Must be a Certified Clinical Laboratory Specialist in Molecular Biology by the National Certification Agency (NCA).
- Must have the demonstrated ability to perform clinical molecular diagnostic testing procedures and techniques as determined by the Employer, including genomic and plasmid DNA preparation, restriction enzyme digestion, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), electrophoresis, blotting, and hybridization techniques on DNA samples.
- Must be able to analyze results and data produced from the testing and perform case review prior to final report.
- Demonstrates and maintains professional conduct including courtesy and patience in all interactions with patients, members, physicians, co-workers, volunteers and visitors. Willing to provide excellent service within the bounds of ones ability, policies and bargaining unit agreement, as applicable.
- Ability to read and comprehend protocols, instructions, correspondence, and memos, and communicate as the job requires.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2377219-Silicon-Valley-Laboratory Essential Functions:
- Teaches & models self-management skills, concepts, resources, & tools related to health, lifestyle change, & behavior modification to class participants.
- Assists participants in developing specific behavioral goals.
- Provides individual instruction & counseling, as needed.
- Assesses needs of class participants & modifies class content to meet those needs.
- Applies evidence based education techniques in teaching methods.
- Sustains a high level of expertise & assures cutting-edge knowledge in specific topic area.
- May coordinate health information projects such as program catalogs, newsletter, informational displays, community health events, etc.
- May support staff education training related to specific content area.
- May consult w/ physicians & staff regarding related health education services.
- May be called on to review & develop or recommend high quality, culturally appropriate, written, & audio-visual health education materials to better meet class needs.
- Arranges & coordinates room set-up, availability of materials, & audio/visual equipment.
- Maintains records of training activities, including attendance rosters, homework assignments, class evaluations, & timesheets or phone TIME system.
- Administers & collects class evaluation forms & class fees.
- Conducts follow-up phones calls to participants including those who missed sessions to determine reason for absence, monitor progress of participants, & answer related questions.
- Completes required continuous training & education such as; those related to workplace safety, legal & regulatory compliance, accreditation & license requirements, & department specific requirements.
- Maintains & promotes knowledge & utilization of resources related to health, lifestyle change, & behavior modification offered by Kaiser Permanente & through the community.
- Delivers appropriate education/therapeutic content within group time frames (time-limited design).
- Assists clients in developing specific behavioral goals using relevant coping and life skills.
- Makes appropriate referrals for follow-up, and triage for crises intervention.
- Maintains knowledge of Kaiser and community resources.
- Encourages utilization of and referral to resources.
- Maintain knowledge of therapeutic topic(s) being processed by group participants.
- Administers class paperwork and completes chart notes as required.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 4 years of experience teaching classes or conducting training programs.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Master's degree in Public Health Administration or equivalent preferred.
- Licensed or professional credentials or certification as appropriate for the course instruction.
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning theory & group process.
- Current knowledge of health concepts, preventive health care, & behavior change.
- Must possess excellent communication & interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated skills in teaching techniques & presentation.
- Demonstrated ability to lead & facilitate diverse groups of people w/ understanding of group dynamics.
- Ability to function independently & exercise professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience required in group facilitation/group process skills.
- Experience in adult education, teaching, relaxation/stress reduction techniques, communication skills, self-care and goal setting
- Bilingual Spanish preferred.


]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2131305-Silicon-Valley-Education-and-Training Coordinates with physicians, staff, and non-Kaiser providers and facilities regarding patient care. In conjunction with physicians, develops plans of care and discharge plans, monitors all clinical activities, makes recommendations for alternative levels of care, identifies cost-effective protocols, and develops guidelines for care.

Essential Functions:
- Plans, develops, assesses, and evaluates care provided to members.
- In conjunction with physicians, evaluates and develops discharge plans, recommends alternative levels of care, and ensures compliance with federal, state, and local requirements.
- Develops and maintains case management policies and procedures.
- Coordinates, directs, and performs concurrent and retrospective reviews, and monitors level and quality of care.
- Coordinates the interdisciplinary approach to providing continuity of care, including utilization management, transfer coordination, discharge planning, and obtaining all authorizations/approvals as needed for outside services for patients/families.
- Consults with physicians, health care providers, discharge planning and outside agencies regarding continued care/treatment or hospitalization.
- Encourages members to follow plans of care (e.g., drug therapy, physical therapy).
- Makes referrals to appropriate community services.
- Identifies and recommends opportunities for cost savings and improving the quality of care across the continuum.
- Develops and collects data, and trends utilization of health care resources.
- Interprets regulations, health plan benefits, policies, and procedures for members, physicians, medical office staff, contract providers, and outside agencies.
- Coordinates transmission of clinical and benefit treatment to patients, families and outside agencies.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Previous case management experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in utilization management, discharge planning, or transfer coordination.
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in nursing or health related field.
- Masters degree preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
-BLS Required.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission and other federal/state/local regulations.


Schedule: Part-Time Regular,24 hours per week, Day shifts: (variable days and hours, and every-other-weekend, and may include day, evening or night shifts)
Week 1: Wed, Thurs, Sat
Week 2: Sun, Thurs, Fri
]]> Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2162347-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Ensures smooth functioning of program in accordance w/ policies & procedures, regulations, & other compliance requirements
- Coordinates activities within & external to the department by answering questions about program operations, policies, & procedures
- Tracks milestones in project plans & contacts team members to ensure timely follow through & completion of assignments
- Schedules conference rooms, caterers, audiovisual equipment, & various support requirements for project teams
- Coordinates administrative workflow of the department & recommends new processes as needed
- Participates in various committee meetings related to the ongoing development & modification of the program
- Prepares various communication materials utilizing Word, PowerPoint, Excel, pivot tables, Visio & other similar software for a variety of management information reports
- Screens phone & email inquiries & assesses problems or questions to determine appropriate response general policies & procedures
- Performs assignments that require researching & collecting information, verifying validity of data, & analyzing information
- Prepares narrative, graphic & other presentation that summarizes findings & variances
- Provides recommendations based on data analyses to include procedural & policy changes
- Uses a variety of software & databases to retrieve required information & to prepare communications, letters, reports, confidential documents, etc
- Utilizes databases to include data entry, extract data, identifying & correcting data, & running reports for management information, budget analysis, performance metrics, & other required data
- May oversee portion of a department budget & make budget recommendations as required
- Independently tracks & compiles reports w/ actual to budget variances & trend analysis as required
- Performs other related duties as required


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) to seven (7) years experience performing administrative support functions for department managers
- Experience in coordinating & providing support to large complex projects
- HS or GED
- BA/BS preferred
- Advanced level proficiency w/ MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) & Lotus Notes w/ expertise w/ word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, & presentation software including the ability to create tables; merge documents; create pivot tables; & develop graphics & PowerPoint presentations from notes
- Familiarity w/ use of databases such as Access to enter & to retrieve data for management information reporting & analysis
- Accuracy, productivity, dependability & good attendance record a must
- Excellent customer service & oral & written communication skills required
- Must be able to work in a Labor-Management Partnership environment

Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong background in use of technology.
- Computer skills to include: MS Suite, KP Health Connect, Adobe Acrobat.
- Strong communication/marketing skills.

Skills testing: Typing (35WPM)]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2373157-San-Francisco-Administration,-Clerical,-and-Support-Services
Essential Functions:
- Supervises staff concerning overall areas of responsibility which include quality standards, department policies and procedures, and service levels.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Coordinates, schedules, and conducts employee training/development necessary to meet established performance standards, teamwork, and service criteria.
- Performs area inspections with assigned EVS staff, to evaluate/monitor performance, customer satisfaction, and infection control program compliance.
- Ensures general inspections are completed daily and formal inspections are completed monthly in all building areas.
- Supervises grounds keeping employees (if applicable) to ensure that work techniques, quality assurance standards, department policies and procedures and job specification are adhered to.
- Assists in monitoring the budget.
- Researches and resolves variances; identifies and recommends opportunities to decrease costs and increase service levels. In collaboration with human resources, manages labor relations activities of the department and ensures compliance with local contracts.
- Provides ancillary support for scheduling and coordination of conference room setups, audio-visual equipment supervision.
- Manages and maintains inventory supplies with established par levels.
- Perform other duties as required.
- Job may require supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:


Basic Qualifications:
- Significant environmental services experience in healthcare environment required (usually three (3) to five (5) years).
- Significant experience in working with bargaining units and contract interpretation (usually three (3) to five (5) years).
- Previous experience in a lead or supervisory position required (usually two (2) years).
- A.A. degree ortwo (2)years of college required or equivalent experience.
- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) or International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) Certification preferred.
- Management skills, including interviewing, organizing, planning, and problem solving skills required.
- Knowledge of hospital infection control, sanitation protocols and cleaning methods required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2373133-Silicon-Valley-Facilities-Services
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Work with Business Partners to maintain and enhance our efforts to provide the very best IT experience possible.
Participates in the analysis, troubleshooting of problem and definition of efficient, cost effective application solutions; responsible for write functional requirements and logical and physical technical specifications
Contributes to task identification, work effort estimates, work schedules for application changes, maintenance activities and new projects
Contribute knowledge and technical guidance to 24/7 outsourced production support team including code and design walkthroughs
Provide software development guidance and support, serve as a technical/professional mentor to team members and outsourced 24/7 production support team
Oversee development of project plans, assigning/tracking of development assignments
Act as first point of technical escalation - Identify and escalate any issues that arise; communicate technical issues and project assignment statuses clearly
Ability to influence others, Build strong partnership with others, Team Oriented, Service Oriented, Demonstrate strategic thinking, Ability to deal with people dynamics with minimal guidance, Ability to resolve conflict with minimal guidance, and be a Thought Leader


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in IT, or 4 years of additional work related experience.
Minimum of 8 years of IBM Mainframe development and support experience.
Demonstrate working experience in analysis and troubleshooting of problem definitions within business processes in order to define functional requirements and technical specifications.
Working experience with COBOL, CICS, IMS, IBM DB2, SQL tools, ability to write and review SQL scripts.
Demonstrate working experience with Microsoft SQL Server components and database management skills.
Demonstrated Experience or knowledge of legacy or IBM mainframe system modernization initiatives
Proven ability to communicate well, both orally and in written form, with senior management, business partners and technical staff. Strong interpersonal interactions skills
Ability to perform as a team player with the motivation to take on multiple challenging tasks.
Experience working with 3rd party augmented staffing/application support model and offshore resources
Ability in understanding different viewpoints while being pragmatic in problem solving and issue resolution
Knowledge or awareness of mainframe technology integration options, distributed systems, SOA, and/or application development trends in mainframe technologies

Preferred Qualifications:
Analysis and programming experience with Kaiser Clinical Applications.
Experience with legacy applications and Interfaces to Health Connect System.
Exposure in developing enterprise Java applications, server side development (EJB, JSP, JMS, etc).
Exposure with development in interactive development process, ie RUP, Agile SCRUM or XP
]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2198053-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Essential Functions: - Evaluates and diagnoses Health Plan members seen in primary care who have mental disorders or behavioral conditions that affect or are a consequence of their medical condition;
- Utilizes principles of Health Psychology to develop implement, coordinate and evaluate treatment plans for referred members that may include crisis intervention, brief psychotherapy, psychoeducation groups and brief case management.
- Administers and evaluates psychological and neuropsychological tests on a limited basis;
- Prepares concise intake evaluations and treatment plans, and maintains ongoing confidential progress records in accord with state and NCQA regulations;
- Provides education and support to members and their families to encourage compliance with medical and behavioral regimes;
- Co-manages medical conditions through the use of nonpharmacologic and behavioral interventions in order to leverage physician time and develop appropriate patterns of utilization;
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating patients for psychotropic medications, within the scope of practice;
- Provides consultation and training to other members of the APC team in the areas of mental health, behavioral medicine and health psychology;
- Provides consultation on program development, and conducts program evaluation and outcome assessment, as needed;
- Serves as liaison and refers to the Psychiatry Department, Chemical Dependency Services, Behavioral Health Education, specialty behavioral medicine services and other internal and community resources as appropriate.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- LCSW: Masters Degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university and Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
OR
- MFT: Masters Degree in Applied Behavioral Science required. Current license as a Marriage, Family and Child Counselor in the State of California, and previous post license, paid experience as a member of a psychiatric treatment team in an outpatient setting/program under licensed supervision (usually two to four years). Knowledge of state regulations with regard to ethics, treatment, patient rights and confidentiality
OR
- Psychologist: PhD, PsyD, or EdD in clinical or counseling required from an accredited college or university, Current valid license to practice psychology in the State of California, and Minimum of two years professional experience under the direction of a licensed psychologist or board certified psychiatrist.

- Minimum of two years of professional experience under the direction of a licensed psychologist or board certified psychiatrist.
- Ph.D., PsyD or EdD in clinical or counseling required from an accredited college or university.
- Current valid license to practice psychology in the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Previous clinical responsibilities to include diagnosis, crisis intervention, brief individual and group psychotherapy, and consultation and collaboration with medical personnel.
- Familiarity with psychopharmacology preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a member of a team and within a primary care environment.
- Knowledge of learning theory and behavioral medicine.
- Knowledge of state regulations and APA standards as it related to client treatment, patient rights and client/patient confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Schedule: Full-Time Regular, 40 hours per week, Day shifts. Monday through Thursday: 8:30am to 5:30pm. Periodically teaches Health Education classes one (1) Evening per week.
]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2169526-Silicon-Valley-Behavioral-or-Mental-Health Essential Functions:
- Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction.
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals. Initiates discharge planning for physical therapy.
- Implements the treatment plan through direct treatment of the patient, delegates a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate. Provides advice and education to patient and family.
- Regularly reassesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patients towards goals, and the need for modifying goals and treatment.
- Discharges patient from physical therapy when the patient has received maximum benefit from physical therapy. Provides accurate, timely documentation of physical therapy patient management.
- Participates in appropriate and approved educational and clinical research activities in physical therapy.
- Participates in specialized patient care clinics outside the department.
- Assists in the development, implementation, and review of departmental patient care programs.
- Performs other duties as needed in the areas of staff education, departmental operations, and departmental projects. Demonstrates on-going progress toward meeting the criteria for professional practice.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must have at least two (2) years experience in physical therapy.
- Graduate of an accredited physical therapy curriculum with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree with certification in Physical Therapy or foreign-trained equivalent.
- Licensed to practice physical therapy by the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
-BLS required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.


Schedule: Full-time; 40hrs/wk; Day shift; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thurs - 10:30am to 7:00pm & Fri - 10:00am to 6:30pm (Expected to rotate occasional shifts for designated weekend coverage)]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2367834-Silicon-Valley-Rehab-Services
Essential Functions:
- Assists the Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager or Outpatient Pharmacy Director w/ the development and implementation of pharmacy strategic initiatives.
- Assists the Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager or Outpatient Pharmacy Director by providing supervision and direction of the pharmacy services/activities/functions, including drug distribution, drug education, pharmacist clinical activities, retail business expansion, performance measurements, regulatory compliance, employee development, and multi-disciplinary team development.
- Manages departmental personnel and operational practices to ensure compliance w/ Federal and State laws and regulations, T.J.C., O.S.H.A., SBOP, Statewide and Departmental policies and procedures.
- Collaborates w/ the Inpatient Pharmacy Management and Medical Group departments to provide continuity of care and compliance w/ applicable Federal and State laws and regulations governing hospitals.
- Sphere of influence includes Pharmacy Staff, Other Members of the Pharmacy Management Team, Providers, Department Administrators, and Physician-In-Charge.
- Provides personnel management activities.
- Completes performance evaluations and ensures adherence to departmental plan for completion of performance evaluations.
- Develops processes to ensure the department meets HR compliance expectations for evaluations.
- Works w/ Human Resources in handling employee grievances.
- Responsible for the preparation and assignment of department staff's work schedules and assignments.
- Prepares the biweekly payroll.
- Provides regular communication and feedback to the staff.
- Assists the Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager or Outpatient Pharmacy Director to monitor personnel utilization in accordance w/ operating budget and adheres to the personnel justification process for the department.
- Develops departmental budget in conjunction w/ Outpatient Pharmacy Operations Manager and/or Outpatient Pharmacy Director.
- May work w/ local BS & F on departmental budget.
- Responsible for all financial performance targets in pharmacy.
- Participates in designing, implementing and evaluating systems, processes, and methods designed to enhance quality, improve service, and enhance cost effectiveness.
- Responsible for all service measures in department.
- Provides resolution to service complaints by Health Plan members, other Kaiser health care professionals, department heads, and employees.
- Administers organizational and department policies and procedures on a day-to-day basis.
- Performs the duties of all subordinate employees and other duties as required.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Previous experience, or courses completed, in pharmacy business management or related subjects preferred.
- B.S. in Pharmacy required.
- Pharm . D. preferred.
- Current CA Registered Pharmacist License.
- Ability to demonstrate and apply knowledge of contemporary outpatient pharmacy operations principles and standards, including clinical, professional, legal, business, and public relations aspects.
- Ability to extract pertinent information from patients, or other sources, to apply to the patient's medical management plan.
- Demonstrated abilities and skills in pharmacy business management, customer problem-resolution, leadership and supervision.
- Ability to demonstrate proficiency in oral and written English-speaking communication skills.
- Proficiency in various databases and other computer usage.
- Must possess self-initiative, innovative, and collaborative skills.
- Must have a working knowledge of applicable Federal and State pharmacy regulations.
- Must pass background check.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.]]> Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2365345-San-Francisco-Pharmacy
Essential Functions:
- Monitor & maintain pharmacy workflows to ensure service delivery within expected parameters of satisfaction, quality & compliance.
- Depending on the operational setting (outpatient or inpatient), customers served can include members, patients, physicians, nurses & ancillary departments.
- Oversee & direct the work of subordinate employees according to departmental policies, procedures & standards.
- Subordinates include pharmacy techs, pharmacy clerks & identified administrative staff.
- Maintain & adjust work schedules.
- Understand & apply relevant provisions of the UHW & Local 29 Collective Bargaining Agreements.
- Identify & resolve problems & complaints from members, patients, client departments, &/or customers.
- Develop & implement solutions using sound problem-solving & decision-making methods.
- Respond to immediate service interruptions &/or concerns to ensure satisfactory service recovery.
- Identify service concern trends & develops corrective plans of action.
- Serve as liaison between pharmacy & other departments on operational & service matters.
- Maintain & adjust resources to meet operational needs, within budget allocation.
- Perform, direct & supervise ongoing training of staff including assessment of training needs & /or deficiencies relative to policy, best practices &/or established standards.
- Serve as train-the-trainer for the department.
- Reinforce, & hold direct reports accountable to Service Expectations, including Standards of Expected Behavior.
- Promote a team environment through modeling of collaborative behaviors; hold direct reports accountable to team oriented behaviors & ensure any necessary team building training is completed.
- Ensure compliance w/ organizational, departmental, Joint Commission, CMS, SOX, State Board of Pharmacy & other governing laws, regulations, standards, & policies & procedures, including the Principles of Responsibility.
- Ensure effective utilization of pharmaceutical inventory & maintenance of required record keeping.
- Oversee cash control process according to policies & procedures, including ordering money for cash drawers & management of over/short process.
- Advise supervisors of identified discrepancies & make recommendations to resolve issues.
- Assist the pharmacist manager w/ the development of departmental goals for Service, Quality, Finance, People & Compliance.
- Utilize tools & reports to formulate departmental goals, develop operational plans, educate staff & monitor performance.
- Actively participate in local & regional manager Peer Group meetings to learn & share best practices relative to goal attainment.
- Interview applicants & hire employees into Tech, Clerk & Cashier positions & provide department orientation for new hires.
- Provide coaching & counseling to direct reports.
- In conjunction w/ pharmacist manager, prepare & administer performance evaluations (30/60/90 day & annual); administer formal discipline; respond to union (UHW & Local 29) grievances.
- Conduct monthly/quarterly attendance reviews.
- Conduct quarterly reviews on over/short reports.
- Perform TIME keeping functions.
- Facilitate at department staff meetings including assisting pharmacy manager w/ agenda planning.
- Analyze individual & team performance & develop operational/correction plans.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 1-2 years experience supervising non-exempt staff across various job classifications, including technical and union employees.
- Pharmacy experience preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business administration and/or healthcare services.
- Pharmacy Technician certification preferred.
- Knowledge of procedures and laws/regulations in pharmacy settings.
- Working knowledge of budget development and management.
- Demonstrated skills and ability to directly supervise front-line employees in a complex and high volume pharmacy environment.
- Ability to assess operational workflow and make adjustments using sound decision-making and problem solving skills.
- Working knowledge of computer systems and/or software applications, including the PIMS system and Health Connect systems.
- Completion of all KP Pharmacy required management training programs.
- Ability to manage in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Must complete all KP required training for managing in a union environment.

Schedule: Mon - Fri: 4:00PM - 12:30AM. This position works every 3rd weekend.]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2362683-San-Francisco-Pharmacy
Essential Functions:
- Manages the operations of a large unit or multiple units.
- Ensures Assistants & staff provide the highest quality of care & are in compliance w/ the Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, & local requirements.
- Collaborates w/ physicians & other health care providers in establishing, implementing, & maintaining patient care & quality service standards to meet members & internal clients' expectations.
- Acts as patient advocate resolving patient care issues.
- Designs & evaluates processes to improve systems & patient care results across the continuum of care.
- Develops & monitors budgets & resource allocations.
- Monitors financial performance & identifies & implements strategies to reduce costs & improve quality of care/service.
- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department & develops processes to screen, interview, hire, train, & maintain the competency of all department staff.
- Provides on going staff development.
- Develops, implements, & monitors departmental policies & procedures which support the organizations goals & business objectives & ensures they are met.
- Collaborates w/ Physician Team Leader & Department Chief in developing the level of patient services & the day-to-day operations of the department.
- Manages & resolves human resource, labor relations, employee & department safety, & risk management issues.

Secondary Functions:
- This position is responsible for managing the Orthopedics, Podiatry, and Minor Injury departments in the Diablo Service Area and across the contiuum of care.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant, usually five (5) years of nursing experience in both outpatient care & management/leadership roles required.
- Significant, usually five (5) years of supervisory experience required.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in nursing or health related field required.
- Master's degree preferred.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Clinical specialization in area of practice preferred.
- Current California RN license required.
- BLS certification required.
- PALS, PEARS and/or ACLS certifications may be required for positions in specific departments.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, & other local, state, federal regulations.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Past experience within Orthopedics, Podiatry, and Minor Injury departments.]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2362646-San-Francisco-Nursing-Licensed Data governance includes all components of data usage, access, transmission and exchange, storage, retention, archiving, and sharing. It includes all data associated with applications, databases, data warehouses, data marts located on servers, desktop computers, laptops, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, and all mobile devices. Data governance includes people, process, and technology. It also will transcend IT, Health Plan, and Care delivery business organizations, and the Permanente Medical Groups.
This is a position that will require leadership and guidance for executives, technologists, and users. This position will require significant strategic and tactical expertise in the technology, processes, and methods to define and design data warehouses and data marts that will take advantage of new emerging technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, and mobilization. It will require dialogue and engagement of database vendors, competitors, and research firms within the health care industry as well as defense, intelligence, financial, and retail sectors. In addition, this position will require knowledge of open source technologies, and the use of open standards.

Essential Functions:
- Create a data governance strategy, socialize that strategy within IT and KP and ensure that strategy is implemented within regions and portfolios.
- Create data governance oversight processes, coordination teams, and performance metrics to measure success.
- Conduct monthly assessments of data quality, prepare monthly data quality reports, and create data quality remediation action plans.
- Represent AIMI by participating in BIO business strategy sessions, represent AIMI in discussions with BIO business partners reference data warehouse needs.
- Coordinate data warehouse needs across regions and portfolios, and maintain knowledge in changing data warehouse vendor technology.
- Create enterprise, solution, and project specific data warehouse architectures based on defined business needs.
- Create data warehouse governance teams and prepare metrics to measure data warehouse effectiveness.
- Create a strategy to consolidate data warehouses, socialize that strategy with BIOs and business users, and implement that strategy.
- Prepare PAC/RAC initiatives to begin implementing the data warehouse and data mart consolidation initiatives.
- Use data obtained from the data governance forums to create new architectures to enable consolidation and virtualization of data warehouses and data marts within existing and planned investment opportunities for new applications and service development.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Management or Business Information Systems.
-Minimum of 15years of experience in IT dealing with complex data environments, including data security, data administration, data modeling and governance.
- Minimum of 5years of experience delivering data governance strategy.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience leading large-scale multi-million-dollar programs/projects.
- Deep knowledge of data warehouses and data marts, mainframe and client/server infrastructure.
- Proven experience translating complex technologies and database architectures into terms relevant to business partners.
- Proven negotiation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading a large IT organization to SOA governance.
- Experience designing data governance in a cloud environment.
- Experience writing publications or delivering lectures on the topic of data governance trends.]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2362656-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Assessment of Patient's nutritional risk/status
- Development of care plans to meet nutritional needs of patients
- Counseling of patients & family members in the hospital or medical office setting
Education of patients, family members & caregivers in the hospital or medical office setting in person, via telephone or in groups
- Hospital based dietitians work w/ the Food Service staff to coordinate the food w/ the diet orders, & work to establish quality standards w/ the staff
- Provides medical nutrition therapy, which is customer focused & cost effective, while maintaining high quality service standards
- Provides nutritional screening & assessment & education of patients for appropriate nutrition intervention
- Develops individualized nutrition care plans based on patient's laboratory data, food/medication interactions, age, sex, diagnosis, cultural background, pain level, preferences, & religious practices in accordance w/ physician orders
- Provides medical nutrition therapy & encourages physical activity for total risk reduction in members w/ or at risk for chronic disease states, in the medical office setting
- Conducts audits &/or menu reviews, & ensures patient menus or supplemental feedings meet nutritional requirements & physician's orders for individual patients
- Develops meal plans to meet the member's lifestyle
- Documents in the medial records as appropriate (If seeing hospitalized patients, coordinates activities w/ the food service department to insure quality & accuracy of the food serviced to the patients)
- Writes assessments, implements nutritional care plans, & follows the care & progress of the patient per protocol
- Monitors the accuracy of food trays related to the MNT or diet order according to diet manual
- Checks for quality of product & is responsible for corrections & quality follow-up w/ manager/supervisor, staff, or vendor
- Participates in the design, development & implementation of high quality, cost effective food & clinical nutrition programs, policies & practices
- Ensures compliance w/ administrative, legal & regulatory requirements
- Assists in development, implementation & maintenance of nutrition care, & service standards
- Participates in the development & implementation of quality, service & performance improvement processes related to the delivery of clinical nutrition services
- Contributes to the overall cost structure & service improvement goals of the Service Area
- Conducts quality assurance audits & participates in committees & meetings to receive & report information
- Assists in compiling audit information & standard setting
- Provides feedback to Division Food & Clinical Nutrition Services staff on menu modifications & revision
- Provides input to the budget process
- May provide in-service training to staff
- Performs other related duties as necessary
- RDIII: A RDII is eligible to become a RDIII must meet requirements and set forth in collective bargaining agreement
- Helps identify risk factors and establish performance targets & goals
- Performs quality audits, reviews work, & assists others to improve performance
- No supervisory responsibilities


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Current registration as a dietitian w/ Commission on Dietetic Registry (CDR) in good standing
- A registered Dietitian, as defined by the California Business & Professions Code, w/ at least three (3) years experience in an appropriate clinical setting & one or more of the following:
1. Masters Degree in a related field
2. Fellowship w/ the American Dietetic Association (ADA)
3. CDR approved certifications for consecutive re-certification periods.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Knowledge of clinical competencies based on Nutrition Care Standards of the American Dietetic Association, California Dietetic Association (CDA) & American Society for Partenteral & Enteral Nutrition
- Strong communication, interpersonal, & customer service skills
- Group education skills in the medical office setting
- Collaboration & problem solving skills
- Knowledge of applicable federal, state & local regulations, & The Joint Commission requirements
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment
- Also, refer to position specifications outlines in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement

Schedule: On-Call, 0 hours per week, Day shifts. Must be On-Call to cover hospital Inpatient and/or Bariatric Department as needed. Must be flexible as Bariatric schedule varies, and cover both Weekdays and Weekend days in both Inpatient Departments and Bariatric.
]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2359586-Silicon-Valley-Nutrition-and-Food-Services Essential Functions:
- Practices under the standard procedure established for the NP role consistent with Kaiser Permanente policy and in accordance with requirement set forth by the California Board of Registered Nursing.
- Conducts age appropriate assessments of patients, including history taking and physical examination consistent with department protocol.
- Performs assessment/data collection in an on-going systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, cultural, spiritual and cognitive status, patient/family education, family involvement, and patient advocacy.
- Consults with supervising physician or other clinicians as dictated by patient need and assessment findings.
- Participates with physicians and other clinicians in the department to assure effective patient care consistent with quality indicators for patients cared for in the designated service.
- Reviews medical record for follow up or ordering of diagnostic studies under established protocols.
- Establishes and maintains communication with other health care providers and departments to ensure operational efficiency and effectiveness and to promote consistency and continuity of care.
- Establishes effective working relationships with members of the health care team, patients, and families.
- Acknowledges staff rights and cultural and ethical beliefs.
- Delegates appropriately and coordinates duties/activities of health care team members.
- Evaluates effectiveness of care given by team members.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and applies safety principles as identified by the institution.
- Performs efficiently in emergency situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
- Participates regularly in staff development activities for unit and department personnel.
- Demonstrates knowledge of legal issues, including patient confidentiality and risk management in all aspects of patient care and unit functioning.
- Participates in unit and department Performance Improvement activities.
- Participates in nursing research activities as requested.
- Identifies and solves problems effectively.
- Demonstrates a service philosophy in all interactions with patients, families, and all members of the health care team.
- Demonstrates proficiency in the use of computers and telecommunication modalities to document, track and convey information.
- If practicing in a specialty role, fulfills the expectations established for the particular role.
- Perform other related duties as necessary.
- This job has no supervisory responsibility.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of six (6) months of experience as a nurse practitioner. See job duties for specific experience requirements for specialty services.
- One (1) year (within the past three (3) years) experience as a NP providing care for adults (>18 years of age), including preventive care and follow-up for patients with chronic health care problems. Completion of a Masters Program in Adult NP, Family Practice NP, Acute Care NP or Geriatric NP required.
- Master's degree in nursing (unless already a Kaiser Permantente employee who was 'grandfathered in' prior to California Business and Professions Code requirement in January 1, 2008).
- Must meet credentialing requirements established for nurse practitioners within the Kaiser system (National Certification from one of the following organizations: American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, American Credentialing Center, National Certification Corporation for Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing Specialties, and National Certification Board of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Nurses.)
- Current California RN/NP License with California BRN issued Furnishing Number.
- Current BLS required.
- Must have a NPI and meet Medicare requirements for PTAN (Provider Transaction Account Number).
- Current DEA if required for specialty.
- Depending on the particular specialty, ACLS and/or NALS and/or PALS or PEARS may also be required for the position.


PERIOPERATIVE/SURGICAL SERVICES
- 1 year (within the past 3 years) experience as a NP providing care for patients undergoing surgical procedures and/or those who have undergone surgical/invasive procedures.
- Completion of Masters Program in Adult NP, Family Practice NP, Acute Care NP or Pediatric NP required: Adult, Family or Acute NP if practice limited to adults; Family or Pedi NP if practice limited to pediatric patients.
- RN First Assist experience required if assisting with surgical procedures. If only caring for specific patient population of adult or pediatrics then Acute Adult NP or Acute Pediatric NP required.

Schedule: Full-time, Regular; 40hrs week
Clinic = Mon thur Fri, 8:30am to 5:00pm or Mon thru Fri, 7:15am to 3:45pm
Call Svc = Sun thru Sat, 7:00am to 3:30pm or 11:00am to 7:30pm]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2359556-Silicon-Valley-Nurse-Practitioner-or-Physician-Assistant Essential Functions:
- Interviews patients, measures vital signs, and other pertinent information as required by department.
- Records information in patients' medical record.
- Prepares treatment rooms and patients for examination.
- Assists clinician with care of the patient.
- Handles inventories and orders and replenishes medical supplies and materials.
- Gives treatments and performs routine laboratory tests as required by department.
- Schedules appointments, performs clinical tasks and completes appropriate forms as required by department.
- May be responsible for administering medications, including injections.
- May be responsible for cleaning, processing, sterilizing and checking instruments.
- Performs data entry.
- Performs clinical/technical skills specific to the department.
- Performs other related duties as necessary.
- Customer Service: Practices customer service standards as defined by the Medical Center and specified department.
- Anticipates the customer's needs, takes proactive steps to meet those needs, by listening and taking responsibility within scope to ensure issues are resolved.
- Promptly responds to alarms and patient requests.
- Facilitates the customer's ability to utilize resources.
- Assures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
- Team Commitment: Is an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
- Manages difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
- Takes accountability for own actions.
- Acts as a resource and mentor to new employees, students, and other team members.
- Actively participates in departmental professional development activities.
- Adheres to Attendance Policy.
- Supports a collaborative labor-management partnership environment.
- No supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum six (6) months of experience or successful completion of Kaiser Externship.
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Completion of a course of study consistent with the requirements for Medical Assistants as specified by the Medical Board of California.
- BLS certification.
- Medical Terminology Certificate or equivalent experience.
- Ability to use personal computer.
- Ability to read, writes, and comprehends medical information.
- Ability to effectively present information, both verbal and written.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.

Scheduled days and hours are dependent upon departmental needs and may include holidays and weekends; will follow the contract for notification of schedule change.]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2351510-San-Francisco-Patient-Care-Services-Non-RN
Job Responsibilities
- Manage and develop standardize reporting structure on resource tracking and allocation.
- Assist project managers and managers in all project management tracking and reporting requirements.
- Assist the VP of Claims with the day-to-day support in processes and workflows that will improve project assessment efficiency and the integrity of management metrics.
- Work closely with the Executive Directors on developing a standardized report and metrics to manage their core and investment projects and budgets. Makes recommendation for standards and consolidates data for Claims sub portfolio.
- Propose and implement alternative solutions to identified gaps and obstacles in the current processes. Suggest improvements and create new value-added data/metrics and/or eliminate non-essential items.
- Develop and maintain SharePoint. This role will be the department coordinator for this team's data repositories.
- Provide analysis needed by management to know specifically what requires their attention.
- Support management in understanding the success rate of their goals through objective metric analysis and reporting - includes dashboard reporting.
- Plan and execute communication strategies and materials.
- Monitor progress of cross-team deliverables.
- Coordinate forums like project reviews, architecture reviews, labor forecasting reviews, etc.
- Monitors and ensures people processes are consistently met. Recommend process improvements.
- Working relationships outside of Claims organization include Human Resources, Finance and other IT functional organizations.


Qualifications:

Basic/Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- 12 years of experience in documenting functional requirements, analyzes business process, and develops business cases to support IT solutions.
- 5 as a project analyst providing analysis and metrics reporting on ITprojects/programs.
- 5 years of financial, planning, budget and forecasting and analysis, and decision support experience.
- 5 years experience developing and implementing IT project reporting and metrics.
- 3 years experience driving standardization and refinement of processes and procedures.
- Must have strong detailed, analytical thinking, problem solving, financial analysis, and results oriented skills.
- Must have strong consulting and verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient in customer and client relations including team focus, influence, partnership and collaboration.
- Must have excellent Microsoft skills using SharePoint, Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
- Demonstrated experience in successfully influencing complex organizational initiatives involving multiple functions and multiple IT units.
- Ability to work within high performance teams that are geographically dispersed within a matrixes organization.
- Must be a self starter and can operate independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast paced environment and meet tight deadlines.
- Identify and escalate situations requiring urgent attention.
- Ability to work with ambiguity and drive results.

Preferred Qualifications
Previous experience working in the Healthcare Insurance Industry, with information technology a plus.]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2349655-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The Kofax Technical Engineer will play a key role in leading efforts to plan, design, implement and sustain the Kofax shared infrastructure for use by multiple business and application areas. The Kofax shared infrastructure will capture millions of documents annually, and include a highly complex, high volume architecture that must be closely monitored 24x7x365. The successful candidate will also be responsible for establishing sustaining production support operations for the Kofax shared infrastructure, ensuring that excellent service is delivered to our business units in an effective and efficient manner.

This position is located at Kaiser Permanente's Technology Campus in Pleasanton, CA.

Essential Functions:
- Be the primary technical team member to plan, design, install, configure, monitor, support, and enhance the Kofax shared infrastructure.
- Function as a hands-on technical engineer performing test and production implementation off-hours and on weekends, when needed, as well as participating on production application support and incident resolution.
- Work with fellow IT team members to design and implement continous process improvements for preventing and auditing production application incidents.
- Plan and manage assigned projects or tasks, including progress reporting and issue/risk management.
- Coordinate and manage the work assigned to other IT production support resources, as and when needed.
- Plan, coordinate, and perform scheduled software and hardware patches, upgrades, or enhancements.
- Engage end-users to triage issues and gather the necessary data to hand-off to technical resources for further analysis.
- Communicate, on a regular basis, with senior management and IT and non-IT stakeholders to report status, address issues/risks, obtain approvals/support, or share information.
- Be a thought leader for creating improved production support, system monitoring and diagnostics processes.
- Monitor, on a regular basis, the health of the Kofax shared infrastructure, as well as the existing Vignette infrastructure, e.g., disk space usage, system uptime, software/hardware maintenance patches, license consumption.
- Prepare, review and maintain application support documentation.
- Maintain adherence to KP IT Incident, Problem, and Change Management standards and guidelines.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Ten or more years of work experience in IT in a technical or production support role in a medium to large-sized organization.
- Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience installing, configuring, managing and supporting Kofax Capture modules in a mid-sized or large distributed enterprise environment.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team or independently without close supervision.
- Ability to effectively plan, multi-task and handle multiple projects or assignments concurrently.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with experience triaging and resolving technical issues/problems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong customer service orientation and motivated self-starter.
- Ability to work off hours or on weekends as required.
Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable discipline.
- Hand-on experience working as a Kofax technical engineer using various modules and tools that include Kofax Transformation Modules, Network Services, Export Connectors, Import Connectors and Communication Services.
- Deep expertise of the Kofax Capture product, its functionality, configuration, integration and customization.
- Kofax Capture 10 Technical Solutions Specialist Certification.
- Hands-on experience designing, implementing and supporting advanced component-based document imaging and forms processing solution using Kofax Transformation Modules.
- Hands-on experience with the installation and configuration of Kofax servers and clients; assignment of licenses and volume to remote locations.
- Hands-on experience implementing enterprise functions such as enhanced reporting and monitoring for automated problem isolation and notification.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP, Windows environment and its GUI conventions (Server 2008).
- Experience using standard IT tools such as: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Remedy for Incident, Problem and Change Management, RPM, Lotus Notes.
- Experience with defining methods to optimize efficiency and accuracy in classification, separation and extraction of data; defining a reference set for testing using the Extraction Benchmark Tool.
- Experience with reviewing and creating detailed level technical design and architectural documents.
- Experience facilitating meetings and conference calls with a large technical and non-technical audience, both in-person and remote.
- Experience installing and configuring Windows server-based software.
- Experience installing software patches or performing upgrades on server-side Kofax software.
- Experience working in a matrixed organizational environment with cross-functional teams.
- Additional pluses: extensive Unix and Linux system administration experience with scripting and database skills; software development using Java, .Net or VBscript, experience with OpenText/Vignette document management platform; experience as a Technical Project Manager; Healthcare industry experience; experience with document publishing, document archival, or document distribution and fulfillment.
]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2347873-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Kaiser Permanente/National Facilities Services
Pleasanton, CA

The Program Manager is responsible for leadership of facility operations serving the KP-IT portfolio of space and the occupants, primarily IT employees. The incumbent is a key member of the National Functions Facilities Services leadership team and will be directly managing employees and operations for approximately 1.5M - 2M square feet of administrative located in multiple campuses (in various KP locations in NCAL, SCAL and NW areas). S/he is responsible for facility operations of IT's owned and leased sites, client relations, capital maintenance driven projects, operational components of tenant improvements, minor construction projects, purchasing, procurement and installation, safety and security and office services including maintenance, mail and conference services. Regular travel will be required. This position interfaces with Facility Operations business line leaders in NFS to ensure consistent practices, standards, tools and processes are implemented and delivered to the client, IT.
Some travel will be required.

Essential Functions:
- Plans, develops, implements and monitors facility service activities for PO or KP-IT which support the business goals and objectives of the PO populations. This includes: lease management, space allocation, safety and security, and office services. Lead a team of Facility Coordinators, staff and external consultants in the execution of these activities. Contributes to the achievement of National Functions Facilities Services objectives including ensuing the high quality, cost-effective and efficient delivery of services to internal and external customers.
- Hire, train, develop, and manage staff of 10-15 Facilities Coordinators and various positions that may include maintenance, materials, procurement and administrative staff. Monitor performance and develop action plans to ensure high levels of staff accountability and performance.
- Participate in the development of high level space strategies for administrative space in Northern and Southern California and in the Northwest. These strategies include space planning, occupancy planning and increasing density in the current space and provide the necessary information to senior leadership to increase, decrease, or change Kaiser Permanente's real estate portfolio.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations relating to real estate management, safety and security, et.al.; ensure compliance with enterprise policies and procedures


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five years experience in corporate real estate management
- Knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations related to real estate construction and contracting, environmental services, hazardous waste management and safety.
- Proficient in customer relations, team building, conflict resolution, group dynamics, project management and budgeting
- Knowledge of corporate and technology company administrative business needs and local real estate markets in multiple markets.
- Understanding of Kaiser Permanente business and strategic plans
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration related field or equivalent experience (4 years).

An individual should have the following core behaviors:

Champions Innovation and Change
Collaborates
Communicates Effectively
Develops Self/Others
Drives for Results
Focuses on the Customer
Takes Accountability
Demonstrates Business Acumen
Exerts Influence
Emotional Intelligence*

Preferred Qualifications:
- 3 to 5 years facility supervisory or management experience.
]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2347849-San-Francisco-Facilities-Services Position is 40 hours per week, one-year, temporary with benefits. This position ONLY pertains to the Northern California Mental Health Training Programs.
Essential Functions:
- Provide assessment and psychotherapy of adults, adolescents, children and/or families in a brief therapy model
- Conduct intake evaluations
- Provide crisis intervention as needed
- Co-facilitate psychoeducational groups
- Conduct program evaluation and/or research project
- Administer and interpret psychological tests, and write reports
- Participate in regional, consortial, and departmental training activities
- Participate in departmental administrative and educational meetings
- Maintain confidential patient files/records and information in a timely manner
- Comply with regional and local policies and procedures
- Comply with APA's Code of Ethics and state laws pertaining to the delivery of mental health services
- Other duties as assigned
- Team-specific duties provided by residents under the direct supervision of licensed psychologists:
- Adult Team: Provide assessment and individual and group treatment to adults in a brief therapy model
- Child/Family Team: Perform psychological evaluations of children, adolescents and families. Provide psychotherapeutic services to child and family populations
- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP): Provide services to patients needing more intensive treatment for stabilization, in a stepped-down treatment program for patients recently discharged from inpatient psychiatric unit
- Behavioral Medicine: Provide services to patients whose presenting problem is related to the treatment of a physical problem or psychological issues arising from a medical condition
- Provide services to patients who are experiencing emotional or stress-related problems concurrent to receiving treatment for a medical diagnosis or physical symptom
- Chronic Pain Management: Provide services to patients who experience chronic pain, including teaching them pain management skills such as pacing, medication management, staying active, relaxation techniques and positive thinking
- Chemical Dependency: Provide services to patients who are in the contemplation phase, the early stages of their recovery, and patients with longer-term sobriety
- Provide separate and conjoint treatments for family members
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Provide services, including developing extensive evaluation and treatment plans, to specialized population of infants, children and teens with ASD and other developmental disabilities
- Eating Disorders: Provide services to adults, children, teens, and families who have a diagnosis of an eating disorder

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in psychological evaluations of adults, children, adolescents, and families, including administering and writing up psychological testing and assessment batteries, preferred
- Ph.D., Psy.D. or Ed.D. in Clinical or Counseling Psychology
- Doctoral degree from an APA-accredited doctoral program
- Must have completed of all requirements for doctoral degree by residency start date in September
- Must have received pre-doctoral training at an APA-accredited or APPIC-member internship program
- Must submit three letters of reference: one letter must be from most recent primary supervisor
- Knowledge of Evidence-Based Practice and psychotherapy research methods, preferred
- Knowledge of the bio-psycho-social functions that contribute to mental health, preferred
- Accuracy in diagnosing patients and developing effective treatment plans, preferred
- Competence in individual, family and group psychotherapy, preferred
- Demonstrated professional maturity and ethical integrity necessary for assuming professional responsibilities, preferred
- Demonstrated commitment to quality of service, teamwork, and participation in a highly interactive multidisciplinary clinic, preferred
- Demonstrated ability to complete multiple tasks/objectives in a timely manner, preferred

***NOTE: This is a 1 year temporary benefitedposition***

]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2347828-Silicon-Valley-Behavioral-or-Mental-Health Essential Functions:
- Supervises staff concerning overall areas of responsibility which include quality standards, department policies and procedures, and service levels.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Coordinates, schedules, and conducts employee training/development necessary to meet established performance standards, teamwork, and service criteria.
- Performs area inspections with assigned EVS staff, to evaluate/monitor performance, customer satisfaction, and infection control program compliance.
- Ensures general inspections are completed daily and formal inspections are completed monthly in all building areas.
- Supervises groundskeeping employees (if applicable) to ensure that work techniques, quality assurance standards, department policies and procedures and job specification are adhered to.
- Assists in monitoring the budget.
- Researches and resolves variances; identifies and recommends opportunities to decrease costs and increase service levels. In collaboration with human resources, manages labor relations activities of the department and ensures compliance with local contracts.
- Provides ancillary support for scheduling and coordination of conference room setups, audio-visual equipment supervision.
- Manages and maintains inventory supplies with established par levels.
- Perform other duties as required.
- Job may require supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant environmental services experience in healthcare environment required (usually 3-5 years).
- Significant experience in working with bargaining units and contract interpretation (usually 3-5 years).
- Previous experience in a lead or supervisory position required (usually 2 years).
- Management skills, including interviewing, organizing, planning, and problem solving skills required.
- A.A. degree or 2 years of college required or equivalent experience.
- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) or International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) Certification preferred.
- Knowledge of hospital infection control, sanitation protocols and cleaning methods required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous EVS supervision experience.
]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 1915156-Silicon-Valley-Facilities-Services
Essential Functions:
- Supervises the operations of a single or multiple units.
- Ensures staff provides the highest quality of care & is in compliance w/ the Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, federal, state, & local requirements.
- Implements & maintains patient care & quality service standards to meet members & internal client's expectations.
- Acts as patient advocate resolving patient care issues.
- Recommends & evaluates processes to improve systems & patient care results across the continuum of care. Assists in developing & monitoring budgets & resource allocations.
- Monitors financial performance & identifies & recommends strategies to reduce costs & improve quality of care/service.
- Determines the appropriate staff mix for department & develops processes to screen, interview, hire, train, & maintain the competency of all department staff.
- Assists in providing on going staff development. Implements & monitors departmental policies & procedures which support the organizations goals & business objectives & ensure they are met.
- Collaborates w/ physician team leader, department chief, & nursing manager in developing the level of patient services & the day-to-day operations of the department.
- Assists in managing & resolving human resource, labor relations, employee & department safety, & risk management issues.


Secondary Functions:
- Supervisory accountability for Adult Primary Care Medicine clinics, including the after hours and flu clinic's.
- Assistant Manager will supervise approximately 45-50 direct reports.
- Participate on several committees, LMP work groups, Quality Goals initiative and special projects.
- Collaborates with physicians and other health care providers in establishing, implementing, and maintaining patient care and quality service standards to meet members' and internal clients' expectations.
- Designs and evaluates processes to improve systems and patient care results across the continuum of care.
- Develops and monitors budgets and resource allocations.
-Provides on going staff development.
- Develops, implements, and monitors departmental policies and procedures which support the organization's goals and business objectives and ensures they are met.
- Manages and resolves human resource, labor relations, employee and department safety, and risk management issues.




Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of 2 years ofsupervisory experience required.
- Previous nursing experience in outpatient care preferred.
- Bachelors degree or equivalent years of experience in nursing or health related field.
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- BLS certification required.
- PALS, PEARS and/or ACLS certifications may be required for positions in specific departments.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, and other local, state, federal regulations.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Clinical specialization in area of practice preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Significant management or clinical leadership experience in both patient care and healthcare operations (usually 2 - 5 years).
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to build relationships with multiple departments and all levels of the operation.
- Multitask, prioritize and delegate effectively.
- Improve individual and team performance in all areas of department with particular focus on attendance, customer service, quality care and work place safety.
- Clinical specialization in area of practice and Project management experience.















]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2342864-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Measures and records intraocular pressure (tonometry), neutralization of spectacles (lensometry), automated visual fields, autorefraction (in preparation for the subjective refraction by the provider), autokeratometry, anterior chamber angles, vital signs, and pupillary response and other objective ophthalmic testing procedures.
- Measures complete visual acuity's for all ages and ocular diagnoses, including Snellen charts, HOTV charts, color vision, and stereopsis. Administers topical eye medications per specific physician order in preparation for testing as permitted by state law and regulation. Performs other objective ophthalmic testing and automated image capture as indicated.
- Makes and cancels Optometry, Ophthalmology, medical clearances, and diagnostic appointments. Obtains and prepares the appropriate medical information (records, files, forms, diagnostic results) for the provider. Records relevant medical information for the provider (i.e., assessments, plans, interventions, and spectacles) completes forms and other necessary data entry. Documents concise and relevant medical and ocular histories in the medical record.
- Escorts patients to exam rooms and prepares them for examination. Instructs eye patients by providing relevant information, per provider protocols. Witnesses patient consent signature and signs forms.
- Electronically, set up lab, x-ray and other requisitions, as needed. Labels specimen and Pathology Requests forms. Documents the specimens following departmental specific procedures.
- Sets up and assists with minor surgical procedures of the eye, as needed by setting up supplies, handling instruments, etc. Anticipate provider needs (preparation of supplies, instruments, and equipment)
- Cleans (changing cleaning solutions, as needed), wraps, labels and re-stocks instruments. Maintains equipment and orders/stocks supplies. Orders and maintains inventory par levels of supplies, forms, medications, etc. as needed. Keeps work area clean.
- Calls patients with messages from providers and documents disposition. Documents, updates and processes records relating to provider appointments. Performs surgical scheduling functions, as needed.
- Answers phones, makes appoints, takes messages. Maintains provider and department files, as needed.
- Performs other related duties as necessary.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Must be a graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant program or an in-house Kaiser Permanente Medical Assistant program, or have at lease one (1) year (1,000 hours or more per year) of experience as a Kaiser Permanente Medical Assistant, or have one (1) year (1 000 hours or more per year) recent experience of assisting physicians or Optometrists in an eye care setting.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED).
- BLS.
- Must successfully complete PARRS II, AutoReg, and be able to work with electronic medical record system.
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including legible handwriting.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams required.
- Knowledge of computer and computer keyboard.
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
- Also refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement.

Schedule: Mon 8:30am - 12:30pm, Wed & Thurs 8:30am - 5:00pm

Scheduled days and hours are dependent upon departmental needs and may include holidays and weekends.

Expected length of employment: Up to 90 days.
]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2342844-San-Francisco-Patient-Care-Services-Non-RN The Health Plan BIO is responsible for managing the delivery of systems and technologies that support Kaiser Permanente's Health Plan strategies and operations. Within the Health Plan, the Membership Systems sub-portfolio supports critical business capabilities such as benefit administration, customer contract management, member enrollment, member dues billing and payment processing and reconciliation. Membership Systems currently supports the California, Ohio, Georgia, Hawaii, Colorado, Northwest regions, and Consolidated Service Centers in Denver, Colorado and San Diego, California.


Essential Functions:

We are seeking a results driven and customer service focused Senior Project Manager to join our team of dedicated professionals. This position will provide Project Management support to the Program and Product Management team, our regional business partners and Membership Systems Executive management. The Project Manager is accountable for meeting financial and schedule commitments for all IT projects and to communicate effectively with business stakeholders, team members, and KP-IT management to ensure that IT services are delivered according to scope, schedule and budget.

You will be required to know or learn KP-IT's program and process methodology, execute it within the established KP and KP-IT organizational framework and mentor other project managers and team members
Additionally, the Sr. Project Manager will be required to effectively understand and communicate with team members responsible for both IT infrastructure (networks, servers, desktops) and applications.

You must also be a self starter, who is a dynamic and energetic team leader, to identify needed resources, define roles and responsibilities, and ensure assignment of key project participants.
Essential Functions:
Responsible for overseeing all aspects ofa project, ensuring the delivery of IT solutions and services that provide the highest value in support of our regional and national Business partners.
Project planning, Project financial management, Project schedule management,Project resource management, communication.
The ability to manage complex, large-scale projects with overlapping schedules and multiple inter-dependencies.
The ability to deal with ambiguity and operate in a virtual team environment.
Responsible for overseeing projects that may include mainframe, distributed and SOA components.
The ability to work within a waterfall or agile methodology.
Minimal travel may be required.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or Management Information Systems or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5 years of information technology experience that includes a broad understanding of both IT infrastructure and application projects through professional services consulting and/or project/program management.
- Minimum 5 years of progressive experience as a program/project manager that includes managing implementations of large, complex projects with multi-million dollar budgets.
- Demonstrated track record in leading multiple teams through both overlapping and sequentially related projects.
- Demonstrated strong customer focus and client relationship building skills
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
- PMP certification

Preferred Qualifications:
- Healthcare experience is a plus
- Healthcare Reform project specific experience a plus
- Membership sub portfolio experience a plus
- COGNOS forecasting tool experience a plus
]]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2339260-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Lead the service lifecycle management operation for an enterprise Service Catalog (Service Request Management) tool that supports the delivery of IT services for over 160,000 Kaiser Permanente employees
- Manage the pipeline of incoming requests for new services, modifications to existing services and retirement of obsolete services
- Create and maintain training documentation for new service builders
- Coach/mentor more junior team members in developing services for Kaiser Permanente
- Serve as a subject matter expert on the enterprise Service Catalog team
- Develop cross-initiative/service integration plans; facilitate complex discussions across multiple departments and functions to arrive at simple, customer-facing descriptions of IT services
- Lead review and design concept work for new services and develop and document designs for solution integration and implementation.
- Define services from an end-to-end, bundled perspective and be able to describe the inputs, outputs, deliverables, resources and timelines required for each task
- Manage the execution of multiple deliverables for each service to include a high-level process diagram, cost model, service description, support model, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and fulfillment process
- Work with Subject Matter Experts, Business Owners and Customers to help negotiate estimated fulfillment times (OLAs) for services at a task and service level
- Work independently to identify Subject Matter Experts for each service, schedule and facilitate multiple working sessions, and track/manage deliverables, while being extremely collaborative in the process (by working closely with process team, customers, Subject Matter Experts, Service Owners and other team members)
- Drive service definitions to completion by being proactive throughout the service definition lifecycle
- Write, review, edit and modify service descriptions to meet and exceed established standards and definitions
- Consult on business process reengineering; recommend innovative approaches to streamline service fulfillment and leverage automation capabilities where possible
- Identify opportunities for increasing business efficiency through improved manual and automated process
- Identify other initiatives that exist and ensure that efforts are not duplicated
- Participates in and may plan/coordinate planned service releases


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- 8 years of solution consulting experience.
- 3-5 years of process improvement experience
- Broad knowledge of process improvement methodologies (e.g. ITIL, Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen)
- Bachelor's degree
- Undergraduate/Graduate degree (or clearly demonstrated equivalent work experience)
- Management consulting experience is highly desirable with specific expertise in Process Improvement (ITIL, Six Sigma, Lean), and Service Catalog a plus
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, presentation, facilitation, coaching and mentoring skills
- Ability to manage and coordinate multiple concurrent projects, perform under pressure and meet deadlines
- A strong familiarity with IT product management, IT service management, and ITIL, and a broad understanding of the kinds of IT products and services in place in a health care organization, are highly desirable
- Demonstrated ability to articulate complex technical concepts in a manner understandable and useful to a lay/business audience
- Demonstrated code of ethics and professional responsibility
- Expert in Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), and skilled with Microsoft Project

Preferred Qualifications:
- 6-8 years of process improvement, consulting, or related business experience
- Lean or Kaizen experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt highly preferred (or relevant experience using Six Sigma)
- Knowledge of ITIL v3 and experience implementing ITIL Framework in a large organization
- Superb meeting facilitation skills
- Previous health care or health insurance experience preferred
- Detail-oriented with extensive experience in documenting processes; demonstrated excellence in analysis, documentation, and presentation tools
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2316665-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:

- Direct the work of the technical team supporting pre-production & production environment builds & maintenance. Ensure that the team prepares and maintains environment related build documentation.
- Coordinate the work of other team members to provide daily maintenance and technical support activities associated to the operations of pre-production environments (development, QA test, workflow integration, UAT, training and staging/production support). Work with internal IT organizations and/or vendor to find resolution to system failures, and provide a root cause analysis.
- Provide occasional 24x7 production support/coordination as assigned in an on-call rotation.
- Map technical requirements to the application environment and infrastructure requirements, coordination of equipment sizing, acquisition and application environment build-out with infrastructure engineers, system administrators, and internal IT groups.
- In addition to internal IT groups coordination with vendor supported applications is required to assess conformity with Kaiser Standards and determine fit into the target application architecture and perform environment operational testing. Monitor application performance and recommend performance improvements.
- Install and configure application software onto Windows and/or Unix servers, monitoring file system utilization, DNS changes, scheduled job setup and manage application security for pre-production environments.
- Strong knowledge of code migration services and the ability to implement code packaging and deployment procedures is required.
- Provide automated alternatives to repetitive manual processes by creating scripts for installs, job monitoring, code drops, and backup or replication jobs.
- Contribute to project planning and scheduling, preparation of work effort estimates, and coordinate the execution of project build activities across multiple teams and individuals. Align project plans with the EES Environment Strategy.
- Some off-hours and weekend work may be required.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Eight or more years progressively complex experience working with infrastructure planning, design, and provisioning, application installation, configuration and support experience for Unix, Linux or Windows servers, and Windows desktops.
- Experience with Windows administration, and Unix or Linux administration, including command scripting.
- Working knowledge of software applications including but not limited to MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, & MS Visio.
- Flexible and quick to learn new technologies without the benefit of formal classroom training.
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to effectively communicate with clients. Ability to work through alternative solutions and ideas with multiple departments and then present findings/ideas.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with UNIX application installation, configuration and support, or experience with UNIX shell scripting (or VB scripting or equivalent on Windows environment).
- Experience working with SOA-related technologies, web services development and implementation, or J2EE application servers such as WebSphere or JBoss.
- Good understanding of DB2, Oracle, or MS SQL RDBMS technologies.
- Experience with Remedy Problem Tracking software.
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2316652-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Provides leadership in redesign projects related to the coordination, delivery & management of heath care.
- Identifies methods & approaches to reduce cost structure & maintain high quality of patient care.
- Provides expertise on subject matter addressed by project team.
- Works w/ CSA & regional leadership & staff to implement programs.
- Recommends project strategy, identifies best methods & processes, & develops project planning, group process facilitation, training, & appropriate application of information technology.
- Collaborates w/ stakeholders & sponsors to define project charter, framework, vision, & deliverables.
- Ensures quality & effectiveness of research. Monitors & maintains timelines & budget.
- Contracts w/ & manages work of internal/external consultants.
- Coordinates all internal & external communication, represents the project to internal & external groups.
- Ensures the development of an effective implementation plan & facilitates the execution of this plan.

Secondary Functions:
This position plans, organizes, directs, evaluates & coordinates administrative nursing services within a single medical center and collaborates w/ staff in the development & execution of strategic plans, providing quality care, & managing cost-effective services that aligns w/ federal, state, & local regulations. In addition, accountable for the following areas dependent upon medical center beds & services offered: Administrative Services: Staffing Offices including systems, Nursing Supervisors, Bed Control, Nursing Quality, which includes Quality Liaisons & Responsible Reporting and key relationships include Clinical & Administrative Director peers, Chiefs of Service, other department directors reporting to Assistant Administrators for clinical & operations, regional PCS, AMGA, community peers.

- Collaborates w/ medical center management in identifying & implementing innovative models & best practices.
- Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, patient focused delivery of services & cost effective utilization of necessary services.
- Ensures a superior care experience & a safe environment w/ patients & staff.
- Ensures policies, practices, & procedures comply w/ administrative, legal & regulatory requirements of the health plan contract & governmental & accrediting agencies.
- Develops & implements safety & quality strategies to assure patient satisfaction.
- Utilizes research data to implement clinical changes & the delivery of patient care & member services.
- Manages the financial performance & identifies & implements strategies to reduce costs & improve quality of care & services.
- Communicates effectively as hospital's advocate to members of the community and promotes positive public relations objective of the hospital & marketing services.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant experience (usually 3-5 years) in a management or leadership role &/or project management/operational planning.
- Previous experience w/ Kaiser Permanente preferred.
- BSN or BA in health related field required.
- Masters degree preferred.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN nursing license required.
- Specific subject matter expertise in the health care operations & care delivery.
- Ability to conceive, plan & manage team-based projects.
- Familiarity of heath care industry strategic business issues, w/ an understanding of KP, its operations, social & legal environment.
- Knowledge of Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, & other local, state, & federal regulations.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Substantial nursing experience in patient care (usually 8 years).
- Masters degree in Nursing, Health Care, Public Administration, or Business Administration preferred.
- Previous experience & knowledge of nurse staffing & nursing workload IT systems.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead & manage through influence & change.
- Ability to work effectively in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a union environment.
- Proven ability to deliver results for meeting organizational objectives.
- Proven ability to work effectively w/ Labor.
- Proven strong quantitative & IT systems skills.
]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2089877-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
Essential Functions
- In this position you will work with clients and senior leadership to evaluate and define operational requirements for implementation of new technology and workflows and ensure operational readiness for production; Identify data center business continuity services, support, and implementation requirements; Evaluate alternative approaches, service requirements and lead recommended initiatives.
- You will be responsible for the physical security policies, procedures, and adherence at our national data centers. This includes monthly audit assessments, preparing responses for internal and external audit agencies, and liaison to National Facilities Services.
- You will assist with BERT and data center continuity planning. This position will develop formal communications and training regarding DC business continuity implementation plans. Emergency evacuation documentation, testing, and training will be required.
- You will assist in local or enterprise-wide data center tracking and reporting for hardware assets from receipt to initial install. You will help ensure the effective and economical employment of procured hardware.
- You will also participate in the design/implementation of key data center operational processes to support the consistent implementation of a framework within the organization; document standard operating processes, OLA has and detailed procedures.
- Identify and implement process improvements (including automation) within Data Center Services; provide metrics management for financial and analytical management reporting to help improve productivity and availability.
- The Operations Analyst is responsible for enforcing compliance by ensuring third party installations adhere to Kaiser Permanente's standard and policies.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field / work experience.
- Minimum of8 years Information Technology experience is required
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Data Center Operations with one or more of the following: network, distributed systems, mainframe, midrange, batch
- Experience working in a large or enterprise Data Center environment that consist a minimum of 50,000 sqft. of raised floor.
- Minimum of 2 yearsof experience with Business Continuity Planning
- Solid background developing, implementing and improving process and procedures
- Strong procedural documentation skills are required.
- Candidate should be fully competent in using various software tools packages such as Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Access and Microsoft Project
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience responding to audits such as (SOX, PCI etc.)
- Previous Healthcare experience is highly desired
- Certification/familiarity with the ITIL foundation library preferred.
]]> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:00:00 GMT 1923773-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The EIS/SOA Services Development Team is responsible for developing electronic interfaces across disparate platforms using several technologies. Within this organization, the Process Orchestration Engineer bears primary responsibility for business process automation and the related design documentation. The resource that fills this role will serve as the subject matter expert for the deliver team and architects related to Process Orchestration and Kaiser's chosen tool, WebSphere Dynamic Processor Edition. The engineer will validate logical workflow models and determine the feasibility of implementing the models.

The SOA Process Orchestration Engineer is a seasoned engineer, primarily responsible for compiling process orchestration flow diagrams and for implementing orchestrations for business customers. This individual will leverage their knowledge of industry best practices, web services, and KP infrastructure to streamline design, development and testing of orchestrations. As needed, this individual may be called upon to assist the testing and support organizations when troubleshooting implemented solutions. In this position you will support and perform a wide range of technical activities in support of Kaiser's SOA middleware and web service applications.

Essential Functions:
- Support modeling of business process workflows and business entity lifecycles (ex. SPMP/SPDP)
- Design and implement human tasks
- Design and implement BPEL orchestration and business process definitions within WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) or similar application
- Design and implement solutions using BPM with in Lombardi or similar tool.
- Demonstrate ability to modify business process elements (logic, rules, orchestrations) via configuration changes
- Document project lessons learned for use in follow-on projects
- Work with integration architects to identify opportunities for new business and current client expansion
- Assist internal testing team, as needed, to ensure stable operating platforms and solutions
- Perform deployments of J2EE applications on WebSphere platform.
- Communicate effectively with the Development Leads, internal managers, business, project management and other Kaiser Permanente-IT teams to review project documentation and determine testing needs
- Participate in internal design reviews
- Contribute to production readiness/hand-off review before go-live
- Work on large, complex projects that have enterprise impact and require subject matter expertise of multiple electronic systems
- Be an expert technical resource to the team, to management and to peers.
- Contribute to task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules.
- Ensure work processes and products meet KP IT standards
- Train or mentor others as appropriate on specific area of systems expertise; assist in development of training materials and/or conduct training


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) or more years of hands on experience implementing Business Process Orchestrations
- At least 3 of the years using IBM WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Dynamic Processor Edition
- At least 2 years of using BPM Lombardi experience.
- Extensive experience interfacing with business users to elicit functional requirements and leading developers to implementation
- Well-versed in BPM terminology and processes. Ability to leverage BPM tools to full capacity
- Ability to lead / mentor a team of developers toward delivery of solutions to meet business requirements
- Hands on experience using java script and DOJO based UI.
- Hands on experience with at least one database platform (ex. Oracle, DB2, Sybase)
- Ability to decompose documents to identify deployment requirements and configurations for complex integrations
- Proven ability to facilitate task breakdown and scope discussions, and can lead technical discussions with 5 or more contributors
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; good listener
- Ability to prioritize work load and consistency meet deadlines
- BA or BS Degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience is required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with RUP and Agile teams
- Knowledge of DataPower, WebSphere Services Registry and Repository (WSRR), ITCAM for SOA, PKI, WS-Security, SAML and various web services standards
- Hands-on experience building, deploying and/or supporting distributed applications built with EAI and SOA technologies (ex. J2EE on WebSphere, JMS, EAI, MQ)
]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2305131-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
The individual will be a senior member of the SI&O leadership team and expected to oversee processes, tools and best practice deliverables to increase KP lT's effectiveness as a services organization.In addition, this individual will be responsible for leading teams of individuals - those with both direct and/or indirect reporting relationships. The ED, DCoE will oversee a team of developers, designers, testers and vendor resources to support IT and business deployment of mobile applications, social media and Intranet solutions. These resources will include both onshore and offshore personnel.

Essential Functions:
- Create and manage a Digital Center of Excellence, as an IT shared service that provides enterprise mobile application development & management, reusable services/tools, intranet development & management, utilization of social media to support business processes, & standardized processes to support mobile applications development, operations & end-user support. These applications will support members, business partners & clinical partners. The DCoE will contain a variety of skills & will work closely with other IT organizations to ensure appropriate business, application & infrastructure support is present to support mobility, intranet & social media.
-Develop a digital strategy for KP, define & implement programs that progress the digital strategy. The digital strategy may include, but not limited to, the following elements: digital roadmap for the Intranet, social media, mobile & infrastructure, mobile platform, social media, Intranet solutions, marketing/promotion, user experience, user interface, & mobile apps - including consumer, eCommerce, & clinical.
-Partner in the development & implementation of other components of the Digital Strategy, including, but not limited to, Internet strategy & foundational components - such as infrastructure, process integration, system integration & standards.
-Develop & implement a mobile app product roadmap that includes new releases, major upgrades & minor upgrades to address bug fixes. The mobile app release roadmap will be integrated with other technology releases including Internet, Social Media & infrastructure changes.
-Provide leadership & participate in additional 'digital' areas as defined by the VP, SI&O.
-Recruit, motivate & develop a high performance staff that is geographically dispersed. Understand existing staff technical competencies & build employee skill sets based upon technical & business requirements.
-Define staffing/resources strategy for the execution of the Digital Strategy. Manage contract delivery of onshore & offshore resources, including activities in development, testing, & maintenance of applications.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- A college degree is required plus relevant IT industry experience.
-The successful candidate will bring a minimum of 8 years of progressive IT solutions experience in roles of increasing responsibility, expertise in large system implementations and application development/management, and proven experience developing and leading new organizations. The individual must have demonstrated success in working in highly-matrixed, program/product development areas. Experience developing mobile applications or managing mobile application development work is required.
- The candidate should have proven experience in leading the creation, oversight and ongoing operationalization of shared service environments. This includes extensive experience in advanced/sophisticated IT end to end life cycle management, leading application development and/or application management team(s). His/Her career is characterized by a track record of increased responsibility (promotions) based on performance.
- Understanding of the mobile industry and alignment with business strategies. Understanding of the Intranet technology and tools; business needs for various Intranet tools.
- Experience in leading a team of designers, developers and testers focused on mobile apps - for both iOS and Android platforms.
- Knowledge of Search engines that support Intranet sites.
- The demonstrated ability of creating and leading teams to produce high quality, efficient application processes and tools for development, testing and support. The ability to reinforce consistent application development and support methodologies while dealing with the ambiguity and all of the challenges associated with a large-scale, complex company.
- A background/experience with application architecture, information management, SOA, and mobile applications including advanced technical skill sets such as object-oriented design and development, iterative development methodologies such as Agile, Open Source Software (OSS), and highly scalable, distributed systems.
- Ability to manage alternative staffing arrangements (i.e., contract and offshore staff). The ability to lead and energize multi-disciplined work teams to learn to apply new technologies to respond to business needs and deliver results. Strong team work and interpersonal skills are required, and this leader must have the ability to communicate and persuade at all management levels.
- Business process knowledge. He/She must have certain acumen for business modeling, business case design, workflow analysis, process redesign, etc.
- Strategic technical leadership. Proven ability to work closely with both senior executive management and in-depth technical resources in developing needs, plans and strategies to achieve the objectives of the organization. He/She will create an environment that fosters strong relationships throughoutKP to support on-time, on-budget project delivery with exceptional quality, reliability, availability, and customer satisfaction. Ability to work effectively in matrixed and at times, ambiguous areas, as part of the maturation process of working with emerging and innovative technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to recruit and build a high performance organization. A proven track record in assessing and selecting talent. He/She must be a strong mentor and developer of talent.
- Brand preservation. The leader must be cognizant of branding and how it attracts users (or turns them away) through effective application design and deployment.

Preferred Qualifications:
- A strong working knowledge of SOX and audit compliance practices is preferred.]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2305245-San-Francisco-Information-Technology We are currently seeking a Principal Application Integration Architect for an opportunity within the Health Plan Business Information Office (HP-BIO). Kaiser's HP-BIO delivers systems and technologies that span the broad and diverse portfolio of Marketing, Sales, Benefits, Membership, Claims, and Contact Centers. You will be responsible for performing software application integration strategy & planning, architecture, goals & roadmap alignment, and provide leadership in the development and operations of SOA methodologies, policies, and practices. You will also work closely with other senior technology team members as you lead and manage high-level solution architecture reviews. This opportunity requires the skills and experience of a senior-level Principal Architect who can work collaboratively and effectively with key staff throughout the HP-BIO organization, including IT Executive Directors, VPs, Application Architects, Data/Information Architects, Enterprise Architects, Development Managers, Program/Project Managers, Design Engineers, outsourced Service Providers, and Business Function Management.

EssentialFunctions:

- Perform the role of a portfolio-level Application Integration Architect to apply application integration architecture principles, guidelines, and standards, to help guide and influence the direction of HP-BIO programs, key initiatives, and investment projects.
- Own the development and evolution of the application integration architecture & strategies for the HP-BIO, including all integration technologies and methods (e.g., SOA, web services, direct app interfaces, integration plug-ins, pub-sub, eCommerce, etc.).
- Establish and maintain effective working partnerships with Architects throughout the HP-BIO, across other BIOs, and also with Enterprise Architects to address the challenges of application architecture issues that cross organizational and application boundaries.
- Work together with BIO leadership on improving high-level, cross-functional architecture reviews for key initiatives and strategic application integration priorities (Solution Architecture Governance).
- Lead and coordinate a matrixed team of senior architects across the portfolio in performing the high-level, cross-functional architecture reviews.
- Also participate in the cross-functional architecture reviews as a subject matter expert in application integration.
- Lead SOA governance processes and procedures for the various systems across the HP-BIO, and ensure proper alignment to shared SOA strategies and goals.
- Align cross-functional solution architecture review scope, methods, and techniques with the broader scope of enterprise-level reviews by Kaiser's Enterprise Architecture function.
- Provide application integration solution consulting on HP-BIO's highest-priority initiatives and projects.
- Effectively communicate integration architecture guidance using established communications channels and methods to staff at all levels of the BIO from software engineers to senior VPs.
- Articulate the integration architectures/designs in various UML/non-UML diagrams, and guide the development teams and/or other architects on how to implement them.
- Provide application integation content within current state and future state architectures and strategies, and also specific roadmaps and planning on how to successfully proceed from current-state to future-state.
- Develop research on emerging integration technologies, and help IT leaders incorporate them where appropriate into long-term integration strategy and planning.
- Create executive-level summaries from detailed architectures up to high level abstract strategies and goals.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.
- 10 years of experience and a proven track record in Application Integration Architecture leadership roles with Fortune 500 companies.
- 5 years experience as a thought leader and subject matter expert on application integration technologies, strategies, and best practices.
- 3 years experience developing IT strategic roadmaps that are driven by and integrated with business strategies
- 3 years experience creating executive-level summaries from detailed architectures up to high level abstract strategies and goals.
- 4 years experience as a subject matter expert on past, present, and future application integration frameworks and technologies (with an emphasis in SOA, web services, integration brokers, eCommerce, and B2B integration standards).
- Able to connect technology and concepts to financial impacts resulting in Total Cost of Operations (TCO) estimates and projections.
- Extensive experience in leading new technology evaluations, RFI/RFPs, prototyping, and leading Proof of Technology efforts.
- Capable of providing guidance to programs and projects on the use of technologies with hands-on approaches, when and where needed.
- Strong oral and written communication and documentation skills. Ability to create and provide presentations to Executive leadership.
- Experience working in large organizations with geographically dispersed, cross-functional teams.


Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or related field.
- Extensive experience in both business unit and enterprise-level architecture methodologies and practices (in Fortune 500 companies) with solid understanding and utilization of different architecture frameworks in addressing organization-wide business and IT challenges.
- Experience in application integration within the Health Care Insurance industry, and also associated softwae applications (e.g., membership, claims, etc.).
- Extensive knowledge of Health Care Industry business processes and functions, standards, and regulations.
- Experience with Healthcare Reference terminology (LOINC, CPT, SNOMED, ICD-10) and HL7 standards groups.
- Knowledge of current and emerging technologies within the overall Health Care industry.
- Experience in integrating emerging technologies, such as cloud and mobile, with large-scale, complex, and regional legacy applications.
- Strong leadership skills to bring together diverse stakeholders in reaching concensus and agreement.
- Be able to quickly understand and synthesize the business requirements and help the various stakeholders in visualizing the solution.

]]> Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2305167-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
While this role will provide general technical architecture and strategy support in data architecture, infrastructure architecture, and security architecture, the candidate will focus on application architectures (strategy, patterns, blueprints, frameworks, roadmaps, and models for the enterprise, programs, and systems) pertaining to Internet, Intranet, and mobility applications, services, and advanced/emerging technology to a wide variety of customers/users including IT technical staff, IT executives, Kaiser Permanente executives and staff, physicians and clinicians. This candidate will also create and oversee the following functions for the BIO: business architecture alignment, IT standards definition and governance support, representation on the ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE/INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Standards Board, architecture review & governance teams, legacy application and data system integration architecture, and application technical architecture support. Also, this position will work with business and care delivery executives, and their teams to ensure that architectures are pragmatic and actionable.
This position is peer to other Executive Director positions within ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE/INFORMATION MANAGEMENT including: Data Architecture, Information Services, Technical Architecture, Business Architecture, Innovation and Advanced Technology, HP Portfolio Architecture, CS Portfolio Architecture, CO Regional Group Architect, and Data Governance

Essential Functions:
- Define, create, communicate, and maintain application frameworks, blueprints, models, patterns, technologies, processes, and standards.These tasks will be carried by establishing and overseeing short-and long-term workgroups predicated by appropriate industry assessments, and the creation of definitive white papers. This work will focus on service-based technologies and methods.
- Define, support, and oversee IT Standards and taxonomies, architecture repositories, workflows, and governance processes for architectures, models, technologies, applications, processes, etc.
- Will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and managing a standards review processes, waiver processes, and standards aging processes for the BIOs supported.
- Define, create, communicate and maintain an architecture review and approval processes for enterprise, solution and project specific architectures.
- Define, create, communicate and maintain legacy frameworks, blueprints, models, patterns, technologies, processes, and standards for legacy application systems. These will focus on service-based technologies and methods.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Information Management, Business Information Systems.
- Candidate must have a minimum of 15 yearsofIT architecture experience creating complex application and/or data architectures.
- 7 of those years must be key leadership positions where the candidate managed staff, budgets, and projects.
- Candidate must exhibit executive presence, possess excellent writing and oral communication skills, and be able to demonstrate experience building and maintaining relationships with executives and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced technical degree is preferred]]> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2296990-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Assists the Imaging Service Director in meeting the clinical needs of physicians, staff and members. Supports and actively develops a strategy to achieve an integrated service line for diagnostic imaging. Manages the daily operations of department by maintaining appropriate schedules (both staffing and patient), and monitoring performance improvement, safety, quality and regulatory standards. Participates in the planning of major facilities construction/renovation projects to ensure the safe and effective placement of imaging equipment and efficiency of operations.
- Ensures equipment and procedures are safe, functional, and capable of meeting the diagnostic needs of the medical staff in a timely manner. Develops and monitors payroll and non-payroll budgets for the department. Identifies and implements opportunities to reduce costs. Manages union supervisors and staff and resolves human resource, labor relations, employee and department safety issues. Selects and trains technical and administrative imaging staff. Monitors staff performance and participates with the Chief and Director in the development of competencies, performance standards and imaging protocols for the department.
- Develops and implements a plan for equipment procurement, maintenance and replacement. Keeps abreast of new developments in diagnostic imaging technology and makes recommendations on the acquisition and implementation of new technology. Accountable for adherence to state and federal rules and regulations on safety and quality assurance programs. Ensures compliance with The Joint Commission, MQSA, federal, state and local agencies.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Previous recent supervisory experience in a full service imaging department required.
- Prior experience (3 to 5 years) as a Diagnostic Imaging Technologist.
- Bachelor's degree in Health Care, Business or equivalent experience required.
- Certification as CRT and/or CNMT preferred.
- American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) preferred.
- Working knowledge and experience in a high volume imaging department preferred.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills, labor relations and human relations skills essential.
- Comprehensive knowledge of federal, state, and local regulatory standards required.
- Strong computer skills required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience in a union environment strongly preferred.
]]> Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2289816-Silicon-Valley-Imaging-and-Radiology Essential Functions:
- Supervises staff concerning overall areas of responsibility which include quality standards, department policies and procedures, and service levels.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations. Coordinates, schedules, and conducts employee training/development necessary to meet established performance standards, teamwork, and service criteria.
- Performs area inspections with assigned EVS staff, to evaluate/monitor performance, customer satisfaction, and infection control program compliance.
- Ensures general inspections are completed daily and formal inspections are completed monthly in all building areas.
- Supervises groundskeeping employees (if applicable) to ensure that work techniques, quality assurance standards, department policies and procedures and job specification are adhered to.
- Assists in monitoring the budget.
- Researches and resolves variances; identifies and recommends opportunities to decrease costs and increase service levels. In collaboration with human resources, manages labor relations activities of the department and ensures compliance with local contracts.
- Provides ancillary support for scheduling and coordination of conference room setups, audio-visual equipment supervision.
- Manages and maintains inventory supplies with established par levels.
- Perform other duties as required.
- Job may require supervisory responsibilities.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Significant environmental services experience in healthcare environment required (usually 3-5 years).
- Significant experience in working with bargaining units and contract interpretation (usually 3-5 years).
- Previous experience in a lead or supervisory position required (usually 2 years).
- Management skills, including interviewing, organizing, planning, and problem solving skills required.
- A.A. degree or 2 years of college required or equivalent experience.
- American Society for Healthcare Environmental Services (ASHES) or International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA) Certification preferred.
- Knowledge of hospital infection control, sanitation protocols and cleaning methods required.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
]]> Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2013881-Silicon-Valley-Facilities-Services
This position will support existing security architecture endeavors and will work with IT security personnel as a liaison between tactical projects and EAIM strategic objectives. This position will also interface with principals and executive directors in portfolio and regional Business Information Officer (BIOs), IT functional areas, and other technical resources to ensure that security architectures are pragmatic and actionable.

Essential Functions:
Enterprise Security Architecture - define, create, communicate, and maintain security frameworks, blueprints, models, patterns, technologies, processes, and standards. Initial focus areas will be mobile security, identity and access management, and software security.
IT Standards - define, create, communicate, and maintain taxonomies, repositories, workflows, and governance processes for all IT security standards including architectures, models, technologies, applications, processes, etc.
Will be responsible for supporting a standards review processes, waiver processes, and standards aging processes.
Program Solution Architecture Support - for strategic national and regional programs provide appropriate security services architectures.
Require significant strategic and tactical expertise in technology, processes, and methods to assist with the definition and design architectures that will take advantage of new emerging technologies such as virtualization, cloud computing, semantic computing, and mobilization.
Require dialogue and engagement of application related vendors, competitors, and research firms within the healthcare industry as well as defense, intelligence, financial, and retail sectors.
Require knowledge of open source technologies, and the use of open standards.
Accountable for communication, implementation, enforcement, monitoring, and oversight of compliance policies and practices as a function of their role.
Accountable for ensuring the ongoing security and compliance of products and services within their area of responsibility.
Support the integration of security standards into existing and ongoing projects related to identity and access management, mobile solution development, and large enterprise grade data (big data) security issues.
Support the creation of IT security standards & architecture processes, and assist with continuing development of the enterprise security architecture. In addition, this person will assist with long term investment projects by providing insight and guidance with respect to their security related architecture requirements.


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or a minimum of 4 years of equivalent work experience.
- A minimum of 15 years of Information Technology experience
- Ten years of security solution development and implementation experience
- An understanding of secure communication protocols, data protection methodologies, virtualization methodologies and their associated vulnerability profiles
- Ability to articulate complex security risks associated with enterprise based solutions such as mobility, data respositories,cloud technologies and business continuity as well as mitigating strategies that may be employed to reduce deployment and operational risk
]]> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2281328-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Kaiser Permanente
Pleasanton, CA

TheWeb Search Business Analyst/Product Owner works to enhance, extend and transform the capabilities of the kp.org enterprise search function by contributing to a wide variety of projects that differ in size, scope, and complexity. This work involves implementing the business search architecture, governing, and when necessary, creating and implementing the search metadata strategy, and defining capabilities to align with the KP digital strategy and search best practices. The Product Owner works closely with technical and business resources to produce robust enterprise search capabilities for use by KP members and the Internet public.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Scrum product owner for site and feature search, works in partnership with KP IT to clarify and develop the defined capabilities. Works closely with Creative Services and assists with driving design patterns for search. The search capabilities must support the new technical framework for the Web site along with emerging enterprise-wide business needs.
Translates search business requirements into actionable User Stories, manages the backlog, and works closely with both business stakeholders and IT partners to ensure the product goals and priorities are met and, where possible, components are extensible.
Responsible for managing the enterprise search planning and development activities, driving projects to a successful conclusion, and assisting with the releases and production support for the defined solutions.
Collaborates with other search team members, the content management team, product management, Creative Services, and business stakeholders to define and enhance search capabilities.
Contributes to the development of the search strategy and roadmap.
May have supervisory responsibilities for a small team.


Qualifications:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Work Experience
- 6-8 years experience with enterprise search system implementation, product and platform enhancement, and support. Experience with other search engines, especially Vivisimo/Velocity, is large plus.
- 4 - 6 years of key customer contact within enterprise search management and search architecture. B2C web experience is a big plus.
- 2-4 years of key customer contact within content management and content architecture.
- 2-4 years of product and project management experience and key customer contact within search.
- 2-4 years experience working with enterprise content taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and/or taxonomy management tools.
- 2-4 years experience with managing projects, good attention to detail.
- 2-3 years of supervisory experience.
- Experience defining an enterprise search architecture and business rules for structured metadata, spelling corrections and synonyms for internal or external search engines.
- Practical experience in implementing personalization models via search and managing content in multiple languages.
- Experience with Autonomy Interwoven products (e.g., TeamSite, MetaTagger, OpenDeploy, SitePublisher, MediaBin, etc.) a plus.
- Experience integrating a Web Content Management system with IBM Websphere Portal a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Comfortable with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Experience working with individuals with widely varying levels of technical and business knowledge.
- Can negotiate effectively and professionally when project stakeholders have conflicting or competing priorities; adapts easily to different audiences.
- Able to manage both indirectly (management by influence and educating others) and directly (clear decisions when asked) within a large organization that is consensus driven.
- Knowledge of the health care and/or health insurance industry.
- Strong understanding and experience navigating IT processes, org charts, and accountabilities.
- Masters Degree preferred
Functional/Technical Knowledge & Skills
- Deep knowledge of search principles, work trends, competition, technical limitations in order to design products and relationships between suites of related products appropriately.
- Thorough knowledge of web search and user taxonomy policies, practices and systems.
- Some working knowledge of database concepts and SQL is desired.
- Understanding and broad application of principles, theories, concepts, practices, and standards in content management and metadata, and knowledge of content information architecture.
- Detailed knowledge of web development processes to be able to frame/phase the work so that it can be implemented and rolled out effectively, meeting expectations, deadlines, and budget.
]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2270832-San-Francisco-Sales-and-Marketing
The SOX and Compliance Sustainability - Business Consultant Consultant/Specialist provides subject matter expertise from technical, project management and business consulting perspective in support of Care Delivery BIO SOX and Compliance activities. Members of this team work across a number of SOX related initiatives to ensure appropriate processes, procedures and controls are adequately designed, implemented or remediated to meet audit and compliance expectations, operating efficiency goals, and other business objectives.

The continued evolution of Health Care reform has driven unprecedented changes in the regulatory and Compliance landscape within the Health Care industry. In the Care Delivery BIO, you will be responsible for partnering with business and technology constituencies to address these evolving challenges by embedding risk management and compliance management competencies into day to day activities. The success of this team requires dedicated professionals who possess the analytical, feasibility, relationship and executive summary skills needed to form highly reliable risk management strategies to meet various SOX/Compliance requirements.

At the Consultant/Specialist level you will provide advanced compliance analysis and consultation for the Care Delivery BIO SOX and Compliance Organization. In addition, you will possess the analytical, feasibility, business case and executive summary skills needed to form highly reliable risk management strategies to meet various compliance requirements.


Essential Functions:

1. Developing an in depth understanding of the broad regulatory landscape impacting KP business areas. Remain current with emerging regulatory sentiments as well as solution trends in the marketplace.
2. Assessing the impact of laws and regulations on KP systems and technology. Work with other risk organizations to shape organizational control policies and standards.
3. Lead risk/security assessment studies to validate perceived risks. Perform interviews, document design assessments, and walkthroughs of key controls (both new and existing).
4. Lead cross-functional remediation teams in developing processes using requirements gathered from clients and engineering.
5. Exhibit pragmatism in formulating process remediation and implementation strategies, defining work tracks; and submitting assessment findings and recommendations
6. Design sustainment strategies and measurement systems to ensure that requirements can continue to be maintained over time.
7. Develop and nurture trusted relationships with Business Partners, KP IT Executives, Security & Compliance Officers and other Compliance Team Members to gain consensus approvals on strategies, recommendations, findings, project plans, etc.
8. Serve as single-point-of-contact for assigned applications or application groupings by providing SOX guidance directly relevant to an application's architecture and technology landscape.

Day to day tasks include information gathering, documenting existing processes, issues and recommendations in support of our strategies; collate and produce executive summary presentations related to findings and recommendations; develop design and drive remediation work streams. Other tasks may include working with project teams, participating in the development of design requirements, business cases to ensure compliance requirements are met. Work proactively with project and program managers to resolve issues.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

1) Bachelor's degree in a related subject and/or 4 years of equivalent experience.
2) A minimum of 12 years of experience in documenting functional requirements, analyzes business process, and develops business cases to support IT solutions.
3) 8+ years technology risk management experience and at least 5 years SOX experience (e.g. Audit, SOX, Compliance, etc.) in a highly regulated industry. This would include the following disciplines:
a. Current information security and compliance vendor landscape
b. Control frameworks such as COSO and COBIT
c. Regulatory requirements in particular: SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, Privacy
Candidate should demonstrate versatility with a track record of experience in interpretation and application of a broad spectrum of regulatory imperatives.
4) Proven experience in performing broad scale, complex IT Security Assessments.
5) Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong expertise in Excel and Powerpoint..
6) Strong client relationship focus with business sponsors, enterprise architects, and information security engineers to articulate business case and technology options.
7) Ideal candidate is a change driver and has a strong track record of influence in very large, consensus-driven organizations.
8) Candidate functions effectively as both a Manager as well as an individual contributor.
9) Solid understanding of Enterprise Risk Management and Strategy frameworks as well as understanding of current enterprise threat scenario as related to healthcare
10) The Business Consultant Consultant/Specialist will be required to know or learn the KP-IT program and process methodology and to execute it within the established KP and KP-IT organizational framework and oversight processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

1) Certified Information Security Analyst/Manager (CISA/M) designation
2) Experience in internal consulting and customer account management; defining engagement scope, negotiating commitments, gathering requirements, defining deliverables, designing integrated solutions, and overseeing technical implementations considered a plus
3) Four years experience as a SOX Auditor, with strong GCC (all domains) and information security background including current vulnerabilities
4) Proven experience proposing enterprise level solutions to mitigate risk of receiving a material weakness in IT general controls
5) Experience in the health care industry]]> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2270899-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Manages the units day to day clinical operations including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, & quality improvement.
- Develops & implements action plans to improve staff development.
- Supervises a single unit (8 to 24 hours) of approximately 20 - 60+ employees.
- Ensures the highest quality of care is provided & is in compliance w/ federal, state, & local regulatory requirements & established departmental policies & procedures.
- Utilization of services.
- Monitors the quality of service & utilization standards & assumes specific responsibility for patient care at the unit level.
- Ensures coordinated plans of treatment, customer focused care & cost effective utilization of services.
- Monitors the allocation & utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs & provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities.
- Works w/ health care providers outside of the unit, to achieve optimal patient care across the continuum.
- Researches, identifies, & implements best practice models of other units.
- Investigates & resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.
- Supervises the daily unit operations, including human resources management, department & employee safety programs, & risk management.
- Accesses KP Health Connect to evaluate the quality of care provided.
- Uses KP Health Connect to manage clinical operations.
- Monitors quality, appropriateness, and accuracy of KP Health Connect documentation
- Maintains role specific KP Health Connect competencies.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- BSN or BA in health care related field preferred.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
- Current California RN license required.
- Current BLS certification required and ALCS certification strongly preferred.
- PALS certification may be required for positions in specific departments.
- Demonstrated knowledge of quality improvement, clinical care delivery processes, staffing, and budgeting.
- Knowledge of Nursing Practice Act, The Joint Commission and other federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills.]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2256845-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed
Essential Functions:
- Assesses, develops and coordinates a clinical treatment program for Health Plan members with acute or chronic psychiatric disorders.
- Consults with staff regarding diagnosis, strengths and deficits of member, as needed or appropriate.
- Provides outpatient psychotherapy to individuals and groups.
- Charts member's treatments and progress in accordance with state regulations and department procedures.
- Instructs and counsels members regarding compliance with prescribed therapeutic regimens.
- Interprets psychiatric treatment to member's family and helps to reduce fear and other attitudes obstructing acceptance of psychiatric care and continuation of treatment if asked to do so by member.
- Makes referrals to case manager, as appropriate, and/or refers member's family to community support services and resources.
- Utilizes resources of public and private agencies and community organizations to meet the needs of members.
- Collaborates with physicians in screening and evaluating members for psychotropic medications.
- May supervise PSW Assistants and PSW Interns, if supervision course has been completed.
- Works on-call evenings, weekends & holidays, assuming primary responsibility for emergency psychiatric care and acting as consultant to emergency department physicians and staff.
- Reports safety concerns to mandated reporting agencies.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Outpatient Psychiatric Social Worker
- Has experience in assessing, diagnosing and treating a broad range of psychiatric conditions.
- Master's degree in Social Work required from an accredited college or university.
- Valid Licensed Clinical Social Worker license in the State of California.
- Must have a National Provider Identifier (NPI) or obtain NPI, prior to employment start date.
- Must be familiar with DMS-IV-R as a means of diagnosis.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of social service agencies, state regulations, and professional board standards as is related to member treatment, patient rights, and member/patient confidentiality.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
- Inpatient Psychiatric Social Worker
- Working in an inpatient setting, a minimum of three years post licensure experience in acute inpatient psychiatric settings and with the use of psychosocial assessment and psychotherapeutic methods and measures in a hospital, clinic or agency preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include crisis intervention, individual and group psychotherapy preferred.
- Previous clinical responsibility to include inpatient group treatment and crisis intervention preferred.

Schedule: Full-Time Regular,40 hours per week, Variable shifts. Provides psychiatric consult services to the emergency room between the hours of 8:30am and 5:30pm.
]]> Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2256831-Silicon-Valley-Behavioral-or-Mental-Health This position will be responsible for leading multiple large-scale programs/projects and/or initiatives, including providing direction and guidance to a matrixed team of project managers and engineers in several technical fields, including servers, storage and database design and administration. Key to this individual's success is the ability to lead a team that is both responsible for technical designs as standards, as well as technical project management and delivery and to partner with application to extend their availability capabilities.
This position will be accountable for the unit cost for the shared services and benchmarking against the industry.
Additionally, this executive will collaborate with other SI leaders and application owners as well as IT Infrastructure Program leaders to provide support for and ensure alignment with other significant tracks of work, including Solution Design, Data Center Services, Infrastructure Program, Program Delivery, and next generation data centers.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
To design, implement and support cost-efficient shared services for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Additionally Middleware and Services roadmaps including Virtualization will be the responsibility of this individual.
Under the direction of the ED for Technology Integration this leader builds and guides teams that design engineer, develop and execute complex plans and focuses resources on situations requiring intense short-term and/or long-term effort in order to deliver value. Program/project deliverables and timelines will be aggressive and require a sophisticated mix of technology application and organizational change to deliver expected benefits.
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SHORT- AND LONG-TERM ACCOUNTABILITIES
Deliver significant business value by building strategic relationships, assessing needs, forming collaborative cross-functional strategic design, development and execution teams, and ultimately delivering against commitments on-time, within budget and to quality expectations across multiple program initiatives.
Deliver Roadmaps for Middleware, Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), Virtualization, and Multi-Tenancy Utilities (Web). Coordinate the implementation of the roadmap's across the data centers. Accountable for the service cost for each of the above.
Build a high-performance organization by
Identifying and onboarding well qualified resources in key roles
Clearly defining objectives and critical success factors
Leveraging shared services including Finance, Governance and PMO to support the team's delivery focus
Building strongly collaborative relationships with stakeholders and customers.
Provide executive-level leadership and guidance within KPIT in the area of enterprise availability - including maintaining significant technical depth and domain expertise and staying connected to industry trends and forums in a manner that is leveraged within KPIT via your effort to collaboratively synthesize and present technical information supportive of the Infrastructure Program initiative and KP's business objectives.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
IMG and SI Leadership Team
SI&O Leadership Team
IMG Leadership Team
Direct Reports and Staff
World-class peers in external professional organizations
KEY RELATIONSHIPS
CD BIO
eBusiness
Solution Design
Enterprise Architecture
Data Center Services


Qualifications:


- B.S/ B.A. in an engineering/technical discipline required or 4 years of additional work experience
- 10 years of Infrastructure background which includes : Storage (SAN, NAS), Servers (Open Systems)
- 5 years of Infrastructure Management experience in large complex enterprise environment
- Must have experience managing a technical team of 25+ staff members
- 4 - 5 years experience interaction and creating business cases and presentations with Senior Executives staff members
- Demonstrated track record of significant accomplishment in a senior leadership role including the successful development and implementation of multi-million dollar programs/projects in complex matrixed organizations with numerous constituents
- Experience with design or implementation one of more of the following infrastructure components: Storage area networks, mid-range servers, load balancing, database replication, storage replication.
- Experience managing a multi-year program of related cross-functional projects is preferred.
- Experience with Virtualization is required - at least 4 years of management experience.
- Running a VMWare utility including standards setting, automation, and capacity and capital planning.
- Planning and supporting a self-service cloud offering. (Private cloud preferred). This includes developing IaaS and PaaS offerings, managing engineering necessary to build, deploy and support.
- 4 years experience with managing Cloud technologies
- 4 years experience managing Middleware technologies
- Experience with Utility computing is highly preferred
Demonstrated track record of significant accomplishment in a senior leadership role including the successful development and implementation of multi-million dollar programs/projects in complex matrixed organizations with numerous constituents.
Experience with design or implementation one of more of the following infrastructure components: Storage area networks, mid-range servers, load balancing, database replication, storage replication.
Experience managing a multi-year program of related cross-functional projects is preferred.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE
MS/MBA Degree
Experience from global consulting firm
Experience managing large infrastructure in fortune 50 organization]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2239782-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Performs admission evaluation on new patients to include: obtaining basic medical information and history, reviewing patient's medical record, performing physical exam, transcribing history and medical findings into patient medical record, and reporting deviations from normal findings to attending physician.
- Provides patient and family with pre-operative and other pertinent education.
- Answers questions regarding surgery, recovery and risk factor modification, procedures; provides blood transfusion information; performs surgical peri-operative procedures; locates and utilizes x-rays, instruments and pertinent patient information.
- Reviews patient chart noting allergies, pertinent medical history, and abnormal physical findings.
- Assists in performing surgical procedures and other procedures consistent with the standards of care and practice guidelines: Depending on the specialty, may work as the first assist during surgical procedures, start IV's, and/or perform suturing.
- Performs post-operative procedures to include transcription of standard post-operative orders into patient medical records; assists physicians with evaluation and management of patient's status during recovery; reviews vital signs, laboratory and x-ray studies; assists with technical management of patients.
- Performs patient discharge in conjunction with social worker, pharmacist, and physical therapist; dictates discharge and transfer summaries in a timely manner.

Secondary Functions:
- The PA will be expected to work in clinic, round in hospital (post-op patients) and assist in surgery. Rotating weekends


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- One year previous experience in the last five years as a physician assistant.
- Graduate of an approved primary care physician assistant or surgical physician assistant program approved by the National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA).
- Licensed as a Physician Assistant by the Medical Board of California (M.B.C.) and the Physician Assistant Examining Committee (P.A.E.C.).
- Advanced Certification in specialty area, preferred.
- BLS certification required.
- Must have a Nat'l Provider Identifier (NPI), or obtain an NPI, prior to employment start date).
- May be required to possess specialty skills to perform tasks required by the specific department (e.g., neurosurgery, orthopedics, etc).
- Must be able to work in a Labor-Management Partnership environment.


Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience assisting in OR with Orthopaedic Surgeons.


]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2239767-Silicon-Valley-Patient-Care-Services-Non-RN
Essential Functions:
- Define best practices and guidelines for care delivery data analytics
- Evaluate and select innovative data analytics technologies appropriate for care delivery business needs
- Analyze early-stage business requests and perform feasibility, scope, effort and funding analysis
- Design and implement high-performance, scalable and flexible analytics solutions that meet national and regional reporting and BI needs
- Define and model solution architectures
- Work in close collaboration with other members of the Care Delivery BIO organization, infrastructure management group as well as business partners during solution design and delivery
- Create logical and physical data models
- Design and implement data warehouses/data marts
- Create business and clinical intelligence reports where needed by business partners
- Specify data integration solutions where needed


Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or a minimum of 4 years of equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of technical experience in data analytics and business intelligence, including five years in architecture and solution design
- Ability to define and document best practices for data analytics
- Ability to specify data analytics infrastructure requirements, evaluate and select infrastructure solutions
- Ability to determine feasibility, scope, level of effort and level of funding for early-stage business requests
- Experience with architecture modeling using UML, Visio and modeling tools
- Deep hands-on experience in database design (logical and physical), query design, data warehousing, data marts, operational data stores, data modeling, architecture modeling, database management/administration and business intelligence (BI)
- Hands-on experience in using and managing multiple RDBMS, including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Teradata or/and others
- Solid understanding of high-performing database design techniques
- Experience in developing SQL and non-relational queries with sound understanding of query optimization
- Experience in implementing high-performance data warehouses/data marts
- Experience in logical and physical data modeling using ERD and UML, including solid understanding of data normalization, dimensional modeling and non-relational data models
- Experience in producing different type of reports, such as executive dashboards, static reports, multi-dimensional reports, ad-hoc reports. Experience with different BI reporting tools, including SAS, Business Objects, Crystal Reports, Cognos
- Experience developing applications that access data in a variety of databases
- Experience with meta-data management tools, as well as data quality and data profiling tools
- Solid knowledge of data integration using data virtualization, ETL, web services, file transfers and/or message queuing, with hands-on experience using related technologies from Informatica, Composite Software, Denodo, IBM or/and others
- Sound understanding of data architecture best practices, including high-performance and scalability design
- Strong problem solving and analysis skills
- Strong communication, inter-personnel and collaboration skills. Proven team player.
- Experience with agile and traditional project delivery methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with in-memory databases, non-relational databases, NoSQL and latest Big Data platforms such as Apache Hadoop
- Experience with predictive modeling, data mining and statistical analysis
- Experience with semantic analytics technologies
- Knowledge of the healthcare business
- Experience working for large organizations
]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2239783-San-Francisco-Information-Technology
Working with leaders from KP HealthConnect IT across the enterprise, Information Management Group Systems Integration, and regional business leaders, this position leads planning, coordination and support Epic software releases, coordination and development of processes impacting the KP HealthConnect enterprise, promoting KP HealthConnect optimization opportunities, and delivering KP HealthConnect projects.

Essential Functions:
- Lead and participate in planning and supporting Epic upgrade strategies and associated projects.
- Research and promote KP HealthConnect optimization opportunities and lead/deliver related projects.
- Present discussion outcomes and/or established project plan to national and regional IT and business leaders
- Investigates, documents, and analyzes IT requirements in projects, IT solutions support, and market research of the related areas.
- Assesses scope and impact of client business needs to define a project. Works with partnering IT services to accomplish clients business needs.
- Identifies and documents cross-functional and/or cross-regional requirements, IT functional requirements, workflow, information sources and distribution paths, and system specifications
- Develops simple business cases with cost & service dimensions of proposed IT projects that are used at management and executive levels for funding and scope decisions.
- Analyzes and defines efficient, cost effective IT solutions that support client business processes and functional requirements for simple IT projects.
- Evaluates existing application products that could address client requirements and develops recommendations where appropriate.
- Applies methodologies/standards to requirements analysis.
- Performs risk analysis.
- Develops and implements communication and escalation plans.
- Supports the development of project plans.



Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and/or 4 years of equivalent work experience.
A minimum of 6 years of experience in project management.
- 8+ years of professional experience in healthcare or information technology organization.
- 3+ years of Epic application experience
- 3+ years of EHR application project management and/or implementation experience
- Strong project management skills (ability to lead meetings, prioritize tasks, resolve conflicts, maintain issues list, develop and manage project plan)
- Strong detailed analytical thinking, problem solving, and results oriented skills
- Strong communication, verbal and written, and organizational skills
- Prior experience with and ability to present to executive-level audiences
- Ability to manage multiple and competing tasks and projects
- Ability to work effectively as a team player and work with people of all backgrounds and at all levels
- Ability to work in a matrix organization to lead group discussions and influence decision making
- Ability to work with and establish relationships with virtually located team members and business partners
- Strong meeting facilitation skills
- Strong MS office suite skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Project
- Willing to travel up to 20% of time
Preferred Qualifications:
- Should have managed project budget of up to $10 million.
Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.
- 5+ years of Epic application experience
- 3+ years of Epic upgrades, leading and/or participating, experience
- Process improvement experience.
]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 GMT 2239800-San-Francisco-Information-Technology Essential Functions:
- Collaborates w/ medical center management in identifying & implementing innovative models & best practices w/ an emphasis on quality of care, service improvements & cost reduction
- Directs development & implementation of quality & utilization standards to ensure coordinated plans of treatment, patient focused delivery of services & cost effective utilization
- Coordinates to provide for the seamless transition of patients across the continuum of care
- Ensures a superior care experience & a safe environment w/ patients & staff
- Ensures policies, practices, & procedures comply w/ administrative, legal & regulatory requirements
- Provides clinical & professional oversight for areas of accountability
- Assures successful implementation of organizational strategies
- Hires, retains, & achieves staffing ratios & optimal patient outcomes
- Mentors nursing managers in development of leadership skills, fiscally accountable staffing/scheduling practices, professional development of staff, & outcomes based practice
- Oversees the development of department standards as identified by regulatory agencies including policies & procedures
- Develops services that achieve a high level of customer satisfaction w/ emphasis on customer service, highest standards of quality & innovation
- Manages & resolves human resource, labor relations, employee & department safety & risk management issues
- Enhances nursing practice & patient outcomes through the effective use of clinical practice
- Participates in developing the hospital's plan for the recruitment & retention of nursing resources
- Utilizes research data to implement clinical changes & the delivery of patient care & member services
- Directs the budget & resource allocations for designated departments
- Manages the financial performance & identifies & implements strategies to reduce costs & improve quality of care & services
- Improves & promotes the public relations objective of the hospital & marketing services
- Accesses KP Health Connect to evaluate the quality of care provided.
- Uses KP Health Connect to manage clinical operations.
- Monitors quality, appropriateness, and accuracy of KP Health Connect documentation
- Maintains role specific KP Health Connect competencies.

Secondary Functions:
Collaborates with KFHP/H and the Medical Group staff in the development and execution of strategic plans, providing quality care, and managing cost-effective services which are aligned with federal, state, and local regulations. Responsible for achieving the strategic vision for nursing in their assigned areas of accountability. Responsible for the quality of nursing care and services to patients in their assigned areas of responsibility. Collaborates with CNO and other medical center management in identifying and implementing innovative models and best practices with an emphasis on quality of care, service improvements and cost reduction.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Substantial nursing experience in patient care (usually 8 years)
- Progressive management experience required (usually 5 years)
- BSN or BA in health care related field required
- Masters degree in Nursing, Health Care, Public Administration, or Business Administration preferred
- Current California RN license required
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal communication skill
- Demonstrated ability to lead & manage through influence & change
- Demonstrated knowledge of federal & state laws & regulations such as: Knox-Keene Act, Federal HMO Act, Nurse Practice Act, The Joint Commission, & all applicable Medicare & Medical regulations
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment
- Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a union environment
- Proven ability to deliver results for meeting organizational objectives
- Proven ability to work effectively w/ Labor
]]> Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT 2089931-Silicon-Valley-Nursing-Licensed Essential Functions:
- Assists patient with selection of eyewear, making such facial measurements and adjustments as are necessary to properly fit glasses to the patient.
- Interviews patient to determine visual needs.
- Interprets refractionist's prescription.
- Instructs and counsels patient on proper methods of eyeglass care.
- Enters prescription and sales information into computerized system and performs all other clerical functions required to satisfy patient needs.
- Verifies Optical Benefit coverage.
- Dispenses and adjusts optical product.
- Inspects final product for accuracy in accordance with prescription requirements, original order and ANSI Z80 standards.
- Reconciles patient's concerns to their satisfaction.
- Performs all other dispensing functions consistent with the accepted professional.
- Practice as authorized by the California Board of Medical Examiners and organizational policies and practices.
- Conducts daily inventory of frames and accessories as requires.
- Perform necessary shop work as required, including but not limited to cutting, edging, dyeing, and mounting of lenses.
- Repairs frames as required.
- Completes all required forms.
- Dispensers may also repair; solder; check out prescriptions; edge; mount and complete eyeglasses for final delivery to patients.
- Dispensers may sell other products or perform other services as deemed necessary by the Employer.
- Recommend to branch manger improvements in sales and service.
- Maintain written and verbal communication with lab as required.
- Will perform customer service and floor coordinating duties.
- Performs other related duties as necessary.
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Four years as an Optical Dispenser (Optician)
- Contact lens fitting experience preferred
- High School Diploma/GED
- American Board of Optician (ABO) certification, preferred
- Demonstrated excellent customer service skills
- Computer knowledge and ability to enter prescriptions into computerized system and place retail eyeglass orders
- Typing 25 wpm
- 50 mile travel
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
- Ability to write simple correspondence
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment
- Also, refer to Position Specifications outlined in the appropriate collective bargaining agreement

Skills Testing: Typing 25WPM

Schedule: Tues & Thurs: 8:30AM - 5:30PM; Fri: 1:30PM - 5:30PM

++Must be able and willing to travelto all other facilities within 50 miles based on operational needs. Must be able and willing to work additionalhours as needed up to 40. Hours subject to change with short notice.Some evenings and/or Saturdays may be required.++
]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT 2235331-San-Jose-Optical-Services The candidate will serve as the lead point of contact for all production related issues. Manage root cause analysis and prevention plan. Ensure proper production staffing model and on-call rotation are in place. Coordinate all production fixes between IT organization and the business. Participate in IT/project planning sessions and ensure clear understanding/feasibility of any relevant implementation milestones from the perspective of application and infrastructure readiness/change. Ensure/help define requirements for applicable SLAs. Manage the relationship with the business clients, ensuring that any needed/approved technology infrastructure changes are scheduled and implemented. Assess and develop new policies, procedures, standards and templates that might help prevent recurring problems, and improve the quality and timeliness of the services and technology delivered. Proactively support knowledge sharing within the IT and business communities.

Essential Functions:


- Build and deliver Operational support/Delivery Excellence framework
- Assist organization in the creation, monitoring, measurement and analysis of standardized processes.
- Communicate to key management stakeholders on salient quality issues and business opportunities.
- Lead and manage all production related issues and identify/troubleshoot infrastructure issues; documenting root cause as well as solutions.
- Lead or manage more junior staff on operational/delivery excellence team.
- Lead, facilitate and participate in cross functional Process Improvement Initiatives and root cause analysis
- Provide support to develop support assets, e.g., tracking tool for operational excellence success stories, tracking of root cause/lessons learned from actual delivery experiences, etc.
- Facilitate process improvement and assist business owners in improving existing process performance through analysis, experience and employee input in a project environment.
- Deliver on project objectives to improve quality, cost and service.
- Implement strategic quality direction into operational guidelines and practices and support ongoing expansion of the quality culture across the organization.
- Support the development and implementation of a formal management review of Key Performance/Operating results, and train and coach all functional areas on measurement principles
- Implement and manage a continuous improvement process on all standardized activities and processes.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related technical/business areas or equivalent work experience
- Minimum seven years of managing in a large application production support environment
- Minimum five years managing an infrastructure environment
- Well rounded understanding of strategy, technology development, operations and business processes
- Re-engineering/process improvement experience, leading and coaching quality improvement projects
- Strong project management skills
- Strong change management skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent customer support skills
- Ability to coach and transfer knowledge to key stakeholders
- Experience managing geographically distributed and culturally diverse work-groups
- Experience in establishing operation support models, and working with on-shore/off-shore support teams
- Strong influencing/negotiation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience supporting major PeopleSoft HCM, CRM and FSCM applications
- Experience with key technologies - WebSphere, Databases (Oracle, M/F DB2), middleware, J2EE and .NET
- Experience with CMM/Six Sigma and other relevant methodologies and tools]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:00:00 GMT 2232623-San-Francisco-Information-Technology