Description du poste
This position will oversee the clinical and administrative operations for a growing group of specialty providers including Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Neurology in addition to Urgent Care Center, and Acute Medicine. Presently, the specialty services are located at the Carl Vinson VA Medical Center (CVVAMC) along with Cardiology, Vascular and Nephrology at Macon Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) and Nephrology at the Tifton and Albany CBOCs.
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This is an open continuous announcement. Qualified applicants will be considered and referred until the vacancy is filled. The announcement will be closed when the vacancy has been filled, which may be earlier than the current posted closing date. Duties: Upon request, the incumbent may participate as a member, lead or champion of process improvement teams, leadership committees such as Medical Staff Executive Committee, Medical Executive Council, Professional Standards Board, Peer Review Committee, etc. He/she is tasked with providing active leadership and decision making for the organization, is responsible for strategic planning, the budget process, and performance improvements initiatives. The incumbent will be an operational, working physician chief with at least 50% time dedicated to administrative duties and 50% time devoted to clinical care. The incumbent will have responsibility of the day-to-day operations including assignments, ensuring coverage, and working collaboratively with several other service lines to accomplish the mission. The service chief will be responsible for attending national and VISN training and conference calls. The incumbent will be instrumental in assisting with consult management, SAIL improvements, ensuring good communication and smooth hands off within the VA and with Veterans referred outside of the CVVAMC when appropriate. The service chief must have the ability to communicate effectively with community specialists and personnel at all levels of the community VA organization. The service chief will have direct supervisory authority over all the licensed independent staff in the section; reviewing and authorizing their leave, ensuring coverage, and ensuring that yearly performance appraisals are completed. Some of these tasks will be delegated to supervisory specialists in each of the following areas: Supervisory Cardiologist, Supervisory Pulmonologist, Supervisory UCC Physician and Supervisory Hospitalist. The Chief of Medicine Service, in conjunction with the Chief of Staff, is responsible for planning, organizing, developing, implementing, controlling, and refining a comprehensive patient management/clinical support/administrative program which provides services and technical counsel necessary to meet clinical, procedural, legal and administrative requirements relating to the care and treatment of outpatients to achieve maximum utilization of patient care resources in a cost-effective, efficient, and timely manner. Broad clinical and administrative expertise is required to meet the needs of this widespread rural health patient population, in order to integrate specialty care functions among the Medical Center, CBOCs and coordinate Veteran care with other VA and non-VA entities. Incumbent is responsible for implementing VHA Handbooks, rules, directives, information letters, policies and regulations governing a broad range of administrative aspects of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Medical Center. In order to affect the policies, incumbent must have the skills in management theory, cost-benefits analysis, and statistical analysis. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Recruitment Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): May be authorized to a highly qualified candidate. Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and po