Physician - Service Chief/Geriatrics and Extended Care

<p>The New York Harbor VAMC, St. Albans Campus, is recruiting for a full time Service Chief for Geriatrics and Extended Care (CLC). The Service Chief is accountable to the Executive Chief of Staff for the organization and delivery of intermediate inpatient and outpatient medical care provided at the ECC and its outpatient clinics. This position may be eligible for a sign-on bonus for highly qualified candidates.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>This position is located at the St. Albans Campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. VA New York Harbor provides care to eligible Veterans via 3 medical centers and 2 community-based outpatient clinics. The Margaret Cochran VA Campus is a high complexity facility located in Manhattan with a major educational affiliation with the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The Brooklyn Campus provides acute inpatient medical and surgical services with a major affiliation with SUNY-Health Science Center - Brooklyn. The St. Albans Campus houses a community living center as well as outpatient services. The Service Chief of GEC directs the educational and performance improvement activities on the St. Albans campus, integrating them and the delivery of medical care with the facility's mission, vision, and strategic plans. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: A. Administrative Responsibilities: (1) Ensures that extended care services are aligned with the facility's mission, vision and strategic plan. Provides input as requested to the strategic plan. (2) Provides for the integration of medical care with other services and programs within and outside the CLC. Develops and implements appropriate. policies and procedures to provide guidance in and ensure coordination of care. (3) Directs and supervises the activities of the CLC, including both inpatient and outpatient services. (4) Ensures that all CLC policies are effectively implemented and maintained and are updated as necessary. (5) Attends and provides input into, as appropriate, the Director's Staff Conference, the Executive Leadership Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, the Clinical Executive Board, the Professional Standards and Credentialing Board and the GEC/CLC Performance Improvement Leadership Teams. (6) Assesses needs for, develops, implements, and evaluates the GEC performance improvement plan. (7) Represents the Executive Chief of Staff and the Chief, Medical Service, as the physician at the CLC responsible for clinical administration and quality of patient care delivered in the nursing home units and the outpatient clinics. (8) Develops policies, SOPs, and guidelines in cooperation with the Chief, Medical Service, and inpatient Geriatric Consultation Service at the Brooklyn Campus. (9) Ensures that customer service standards are promoted throughout the St. Albans campus to include complaint resolution and service recovery. B. Clinical Responsibilities: (1) Ensures that comprehensive, coordinated, and timely, long term health care of excellent quality is provided for every geriatric Veteran and the St. Albans campus. (2) Provides primary care to an assigned panel of patients at the St. Albans outpatient clinic. (3) Assigns physician coverage for the nursing home units, designating alternates as necessary; ensures policies and procedures are in place to promote appropriate intermediate bed utilization. (4) Promotes effective communication and working relationships between the units of the St. Albans campus and the VA NYHHS's medical school and allied health affiliates. (5) Apprises patients and their families and/or significant others of significant findings, diagnoses and prognoses and collaborates with them on treatment and continuity of care plans and end-of-life planning; participates in interdisciplinary patient education delivery and documentation. C. Educational Responsibilities: (1) Serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Long Term Care Conference. (2) Ensures competency assessment, service level orientation, in-service training and continuing education are provided for all St. Albans Provider staff on an ongoing basis, and that documentation of participation and evaluation is maintained. (3) Ensures that a clinical environment is maintained suitable for high quality geriatric education and training for students in the various health professions. (4) Responsible for resident education at the St. Albans campus. (5) Ensures appropriate supervision of house staff and students. (6) Evaluates teaching programs to determine effectiveness in meeting program goals and patient care needs. (7) Encourages research activities that add to a general understanding of the distinctive aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and functional capacity. Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be eligible for highly qualified candidates. Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical examination. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.<h3>Education</h3>Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are: Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted. Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) for the year in which the degree was granted. For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above, confirmation must be made that the medical school meets (or met) Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) eligibility requirement for year graduated. NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician graduate of a school of medicine not covered above if the candidate is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrative position with no patient care responsibilities. The appointment will be made only in exceptional circumstances where the candidate's credentials clearly demonstrate high professional attainment or expertise in the specialty area.