Podiatrist (General)

Job Title

Podiatrist

Job Description

Fort Rucker, Wiregrass VA outpatient clinic provides primary care and specialty health services, including vision care (optometry), laboratory services, and more. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. This is a telehealth position for the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System and its Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs). Staff will examine, diagnose, and medically treat disorders, diseases, deformities, or injuries of the foot and ankle in accordance with evidence-based practice, VHA standards, established clinical methods, and specialty-specific management guidelines.

Duties

• Manages outpatients in a telehealth setting to manage patients with general, adult podiatry specific diseases and conditions.
• Provide podiatry telemedicine to patients at increased risk for amputation who are assigned to rural and/or highly rural VA clinics.
• Work collaboratively with intermediate care technician(s) (ICT) (or equivalent personnel) and/or other departments to ensure comprehensive management of the high-risk patient.
• Tele supervises basic foot care, including basic wound care, and be committed to limb preservation to rural and/or highly rural high-risk patients.
• Manage outpatient consults in a timely manner.
• Manage podiatry Clinical Video Telehealth (CVT) clinics to include management of clinic modifications and/or clinic closures as necessary.
• Provide appropriate tele supervision of ICTs in all care settings.
• Complete all medical records in accordance with Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations of the medical staff.
• Coordinate transfer of specialty-specific patients from/to other hospitals or clinics if necessary.
• Collaborate with other departments and sections including, but not limited to, specialists, nursing staff, social services, utilization management, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team to coordinate the care.
• Maintain an unrestricted medical license.
• In addition, when appropriate, the physician will also perform the following:
• Participate in quality improvement and/or research of High-Risk Eye and Limb Preservation Program (HELPP), Office of Rural Health (ORH) activities.
• Adhere to all HELPP ORH data and metrics reporting requirements.
• Attend all scheduled meetings as requested by the station, ORH or HELPP leadership.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with other hospital departments and administration.

Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm Monday - Friday

Compressed/Flexible : Not Authorized

Telework : Authorized to work from any VA facility

Virtual : This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives : Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS) : Not Authorized