Podiatrist; Chief of Staff

Overview

Central Texas Veterans Health Care System is actively seeking applicants for the Chief of Staff (COS). A board-certified physician who is an energetic and visionary leader with strong leadership, managerial, organizational, communication, and clinical skills who can build upon the strengths of the current clinical services.

• The Chief of Staff (COS) is a member of the senior management team and is responsible for ensuring high quality and cost-effective care, as well as overseeing medical staff development.
• The COS must take an active role in developing and maintaining a good working relationship with the affiliated medical school.
• Recruiting board certified licensed professional staff.
• Ensuring medical staff compliance with agency regulations.
• Overseeing a successful research program.
• Facilitating a culture of continuous process improvement and patient safety.
• The COS will serve as professional liaison of the health care field to other VA, federal, community, affiliate, congressional, and constituent organizations.
• Develops and maintains currently accepted clinical and management practices throughout clinical services.
• Maintains confidentiality of patients and relatives through competence and interpersonal skills.
• Uses assessment skills to examine patients thoroughly using appropriate clinical, laboratory and other pertinent data when necessary.
• Interprets and evaluates clinical data for the purpose of determining diagnosis and clinical status when required.
• Initiates appropriate and timely treatment.
• Recognizes changes in behavior, symptoms, signs, and other pertinent facts about the patient and is able to modify the plan of treatment when indicated.
• Recognizes own capabilities and limitations.
• Serves as a mentor for medical staff providers, independent Licensed Independent Practitioners, and Resident staff as well as Allied Health staff and some administrative staff.
• Directs, authorizes and, on occasion, is involved in planning of educational activities to meet the Performance Measures, Joint Commission, CARF Standards and other requirements of the VHA, VISN and this medical center.
• With the assistance of the Deputy Chief of Staff, evaluates the needs of the staff for continuing educational activities and ensures all mandatory educational requirements are met by the Services who organizationally fall under the responsibility of the Chief of Staff office.
• Fully responsible for the educational and research activities of clinical services and the healthcare system.
• Encourages staff to identify research and development problems, select, develop, and conduct literature search on researchable problems that are relevant to the health care of veterans and have a reasonable expectation of successful conclusion.
• Assures excellent standards of patient care.
• Directs and implements processes and programs to maintain accreditation and other standards.
• Interacts effectively with the professional schools and the medical community.
• Develops and implements policies and decision-making processes that enhance accessibility for Veterans.
• Ensures Service Chiefs do the same.
• Develops and presents budgetary requirements of the clinical services and assists in the formation of the annual budget program.
• Work Schedule:
  
  Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm, subject to change based on the needs of the facility.

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
• Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
  Not 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).
• L icensure: 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.