Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Residential Rehab Treatment Program (Physician) - Detail

Job Title

The incumbent is responsible for clinical and administrative management of the service as well as development of policies and procedures and monitoring of quality outcomes. Clinical/Admin split is 50/50 to 70/30. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Broad and overall responsibility for the RRTP medical operations to include full responsibility for clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management, and supervision for the service.
• Autonomously manages substantive parts of specialized, complex, professional services which significantly impact the care provided to Veterans.
• Provides leadership with objective, independent assessments and recommendations for policy, operational, and administrative issues and initiatives requiring decision.
• Monitor work performance to ensure that requirements are satisfied.
• Interpret and process a wide variety of data related to program planning and specialized needs of the Veterans, the service, and the medical center.
• Ensure policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed.
• Advise leadership on implications, key issues, and relationships to interest groups (both internal and external) and recommend courses of action.
• Coordinate and negotiate resolutions to complex problems.
• Ensure compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements and assure corrective action is initiated as needed.
• Responsible for professional and administrative management of RRTP budget execution
• Maintain interdepartmental relations with other services to accomplish medical center goals.
• Prepare special reports and responses, Congressional responses, briefing papers, issue briefs, and decision papers for the medical center leadership, which may be highly sensitive, confidential, and of a complex nature.
• Incumbent will provide a full range of psycho-diagnostic service including diagnostic assessment, medication evaluation and management, suicide risk assessments, crisis intervention, and overall care of patients with psychiatric disorders and chronic disease management.
• The incumbent reports clinically and administratively to the Chief of Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program (RRTP).

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30-4:00pm Pacific Daylight Time.