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Lead Purchasing Agent
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
About the Role
The Lead Purchasing Agent serves as a Prosthetics Purchasing Specialist within the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System's Prosthetics & Sensory Aids (PSAS) Service and has responsibility for serving as PSAS equipment/services/benefits consultant, managing consults, and procuring devices.
What You'll Do
- →Major duties include but are not limited to: Distribute and balance workload among employees in accordance with established work flow or job specialization.
- →Provide situational technical advice to internal and external customers in order to ensure appropriate legal, regulatory, and policy requirements are met.
- →Facilitate necessary linkages with other VA services to help expedite Veteran access to needed prosthetic and sensory aid devices and services.
- →Interpret VA rules and regulations relating to determination of veteran eligibility for specialized medical equipment.
- →Advise VA providers about availability, selection, and acquisition of a wide range of prosthetic and sensory aids devices and services.
- →Ensure patients receive appropriate patient education/training and measurements for Prosthetic items prior to issuance.
- →Utilize an inventory management program to perform stock issues to take care of walk-in and immediate patient needs.
- →Receive and analyze electronic PSAS consults/prescriptions for items, services, and home medical equipment.
- →Maintain accurate funding, billing, and subaccount balances.
- →Understand procurement regulations, ensure compliance with national prosthetic contracts, and enter accurate purchasing data into prosthetic databases.
- →Ensure purchase card reconciliations are accurate/timely.
- →Authorize and prepare complex purchase orders for a wide variety of prosthetic and orthotic devices, medical supplies, and durable medical equipment.
- →Collect data used in preparing and submitting numerous reports.
- →Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Physical Requirements: The work required does not inherently include any physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with accommodation or workplace adjustment.
- ✓A pre-placement physical examination is not required.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
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