Health System Specialist (Physical Evaluation Board Liaison Officer)

Job Duties

Coordinate evaluation appointments; schedule follow-up appointments for National Guard and Reserve Component (RC) personnel for approved line of duty (LOO) related injuries.

Maintain and safe guard both hard copy and electronic medical information.

Assist in preparing appeals, rebuttals, and coordinate the assignment of Soldier's legal counsel.

Advise Soldier of the necessity of obtaining sufficient documentation (medical and non-medical) concerning the Soldier's ability to perform military duties and the severity of the Soldier's disease or injury.

May be required to take or coordinate photographs of injuries, wounds and scars; treating the Soldier with dignity and compassion to support the MEB documentation.

Inform the service member of his/her ability to appeal further to the Physical Disability Agency and to the Board of Corrections for Military Records if all previous appeals fail.

Track all assigned cases, analyze performance against metrics, analyze available data using various statistical analytic tools, measure means, trends, statistical deviations, construction of charts to convey ideas related to PDES processing events.

Identify problems and recommend changes to command policies and improvements to processes and services provided to service military members and their Families.