Staff Physician-Deputy Chief of Staff for Clinical Operations

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Job Description

Major Duties Include:

• Coordinating and integrating clinical and support programs to meet Veteran needs.
• Ensuring medical staff compliance with regulations, bylaws, policies, Joint Commission standards, performance measures, and all applicable requirements.
• Developing and monitoring quality improvement initiatives and process-improvement measures.
• Evaluating clinical workload, resource needs, and program requirements.
• Conducting cost/benefit analyses for new services and program expansions.
• Providing guidance in defining and achieving facility mission and goals.
• Establishing policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure continuity of comprehensive services.
• Maintaining strong working relationships with affiliated academic institutions.
• Supporting complex health care operations including credentialing and privileging, academic affiliations, community partnerships, committee management, business analysis, and related processes.
• Providing direct patient care as needed within the incumbent's scope of clinical practice.
• Serving as a trusted clinical advisor to the Chief of Staff.
• Acting on behalf of the Chief of Staff in all aspects of administrative leadership, including participation in key managerial bodies and organized medical staff activities.
• Providing strategic leadership, oversight, and support to multiple clinical departments.
• Supervising personnel including task delegation and performance management.
• Chairing and participating in committees, workgroups, and task forces at the facility and VISN levels; assuming Chief of Staff duties in their absence.
• Supporting ad hoc assignments and organizational needs.
• Participating in high-level policy development with senior leadership.
• Promoting innovation, academic excellence, and operational effectiveness across VAMHCS.
• Championing initiatives that support the highest standards of Veteran care. This includes Quality, such as Systemic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL), Access, such as patient wait times, and Patient Satisfaction/Veterans Experience.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

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 possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

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)

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 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m