Medical Support Assistant (Advanced)

Job Title

Allied Health Professional

Duties

Duties include but not limited to:

• Works collaboratively in an interdisciplinary coordinated care delivery environment (i.e., patient aligned care team, or other specialty care.
• Handle multiple phone lines on in an inpatient care setting, making sure these calls are forwarded to correct staff if needed.
• Develop/maintain effective and efficient communication with the patient, interdisciplinary team, management team, VA medical centers, and other agencies.
• Perform administrative duties, train other MSAs on correct operations and serve as a preceptor to developmental level MSAs.
• Schedule appointments; notifies his/her supervisor when clinic area access is less than desirable or if an individual patient cannot be scheduled within mandated timeframes.
• Processing physician orders from CPRS and verifying orders in CPRS upon completion.
• Organizes work independently and handles administrative and scheduling problems and deviations based on personal knowledge of operations and policy, schedules, and provider's preferences.

Work Schedule

Monday-Friday 8:00AM-4:30PM

Pay

Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off

37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave

After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy

After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

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)

Telework

Not Available

Virtual

This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #

71017-F

Permanent Change of Station (PCS)

Not Authorized