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Physician Assistant/Primary Care Service
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 47 days ago
About the Role
This Physician Assistant (PA) position is located in Primary Care Service, VA St. Louis Health Care System (V ASTLHCS), St. Louis, Missouri. The PA is a professional who executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to the management of complex client care. The PA must demonstrate performance and leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
What You'll Do
- →The PA has advanced clinical knowledge and competency and is able to function in a variety of roles.
- →The PA has a scope of clinical practice in collaboration with a physician.
- →The PA functions as the professional leader of a PACT team or an interdisciplinary health care team with broad-based, clinical expertise in caring for patients with chronic and complex disease.
- →The PA possesses the administrative leadership necessary to promote interdisciplinary cooperation among the various disciplines.
- →The PA demonstrates ability to assess the patient clinically, analyzes needs and coordinates care in an effective and cost-efficient manner to assure total management of the patient's identified needs VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →The purpose of the work is to provide the full range of assessment of needs, planning for care, teaching, and performance of routine and emergency procedures for primary care patients.
- →The work product directly impacts the successful completion of the clinic's mission by increasing the well-being of substantial numbers of eligible beneficiaries.
- →Routine duties include: Performing initial histories and physical examinations on outpatients.
- →The supervising physician will review and countersign all admitting inpatient history and physical exams.
- →Providing ongoing outpatient for assigned patients.
- →Performing periodic physical examination on nursing home and domiciliary residents Screening outpatients to determine need for further care.
- →Prescribing medications within defined scope of practice.
- →Ordering diagnostic studies such as laboratory tests, x-rays, electrocardiograms.
- →Carrying out health promotion and disease prevention activities.
Requirements
- ✓All qualified candidates encouraged to apply.
- ✓Open to U.S.
- ✓Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓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 dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓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 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 50b83765-1263-40d0-9a45-76037a254e3b
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