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Medical Administration Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 50 days ago
On-site Lake City, FL $50K – $80K Apply by Aug 3, 2026 Miscellaneous Administration And Program ENTJESFJESTJ Healthcare
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Medical Administration Specialist provides administrative authority, guidance, and decision making to Medical Officer and Nursing Officer of the Day, and other similarly named Nurse and Medical positions in charge after hours. Position is located in the Health Administration Service (HAS). The position has both the authority and responsibility to represent both the Medical Center Director and the HAS Chief on all administrative matters occurring outside of normal tour of duty as assigned.
What You'll Do
- →Include but not limited to: Authority and responsibility to represent both the Medical Center Director and the Chief, HAS on all administrative matters occurring when assigned outside normal tour of duty hours.
- →Provides full medical administrative support during other than normal tours of duty to clinical and administrative medical center staff.
- →Authorized as certifying officer for documents pertaining to the administration of laws concerning VA.
- →Coordinates the resolution of medical legal problems concerning the medical center.
- →Ensures that appropriate legal, regulatory, and policy requirements are met.
- →Processes administrative issues surrounding beneficiary death, seriously ill cases, elopements, suicides, assaults, deaths on arrival (DOAs), homicides, code blue, cost recovery matters, and facility or community disasters, etc.
- →Performs for administrative matters for clinical matters working as a team to carry out top management responsibilities.
- →Directly intervenes with problems regarding patient activity, directing and advising clinical staff of appropriate administrative action.
- →Participates in Health Care System (HCS) incident command planning committees and emergency management training drills.
- →Receives and responds to non-routine patient condition inquiries Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met.
- →Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.
- →Position Description/PD#: Medical Administration Specialist/PD99368S and PD99385S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.
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 requires much walking through the medical center with occasionally the requirement to lift objects such as suitcases, clothing, or medical charts.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 34657f55-619e-4f62-9ee9-d2e9b6a88fca
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