Physician (Chief of Staff)

Physician (Chief Of Staff)

The Physician (Chief of Staff) provides leadership of clinical care, with an emphasis on access to high quality health care for veterans as well as patient safety. The Chief of Staff is involved in SAVAHCS's management of resources, organizational performance improvement, patient, employee satisfaction, environment of care and strategic planning. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): PCS is Authorized. Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized. Relocation Incentives: May be Authorized. 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 Duties may include, but not limited to:

• Promotes the development of health care professionals in the health care system through counseling, mentoring, teaching, and encouraging self-assessment.
• Contributes to an environment that provides educational activity, and administrative planning and evaluation based on integration and application of current health care principles.
• Establishes mechanisms whereby the health care system administration, and other VHA components are informed, in a timely manner, of clinical program developments that affect them.
• Takes an active role as a health care system management team member, providing advice and counsel in defining and accomplishing the health care system and VACO mission and goals.
• Represents the health care system, internally and externally, in such a manner as to reflect positively on the health care system, the VISN and the VHA.
• Serves as professional liaison of the health care system to DVA and Federal facilities, the community, affiliates, media, congressional offices, and constituent organizations.
• Maintains and promotes high ethical and clinical standards that are carried into decision making processes.
• Promotes constructive problem resolution in an environment of competing priorities.
• Monitors and ensures staff compliance with agency regulations, medical staff by-laws, rules and regulations, VA facility policies, Joint Commission standards and other appropriate regulations and creates an environment of system-oriented quality improvement.
• Ensures all Veterans receive safe, quality, efficient, timely, and appropriate care with the highest professional and ethical standards and quality of care.
• Ensures the highest level of performance by medical staff members through appropriate delineation of clinical privileges, ongoing performance evaluations, orientation, and use of continuous quality improvement practices.
• Completes performance evaluations of assigned service line managers and clinical service chiefs.
• Responsible for standard of medical care and professional integration of services across service lines.
• Directs the medical staff governance, by-laws and credentialing and privileging.
• Promotes an effective mix, coordination, and support of health care system clinical programs by evaluating current and potential patient population needs, clinical workload and resources, special program mandates and cost/benefit analysis making recommendations to the Facility Director ensuring implementation of approved clinical proposals.
• Provides advice to health care system staff through policy guidance and activities on behalf of patients and their clinical care. Accomplishes health care system clinical program goals consistent with available resources and participates in the allocation of facility resources and modification of programs to best meet needs of the Veteran population.
• Demonstrates commitment to recruitment and retention of high-quality clinical staff.
• Demonstrates commitment to facility research program goals and objectives
• Demonstrates commitment to achieving EEO goals and objectives.
• Ensures the productivity of clinical staff.
• Authority and accountability of credentialing and privileging as Chair of the Medical Executive Council (MEC).
• Interprets regulatory and legal issues, monitoring medical staff and other licensed independent practitioner's compliance and quality of practice.
• Initiates appropriate actions such as discipline, revocation or suspension of all or selected individual privileging.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. MST

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