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Podiatrist (General)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
The Podiatrist provides comprehensive podiatric medical care to Veterans in an outpatient clinical setting. The incumbent evaluates, diagnoses, treats, and manages diseases, disorders, deformities, injuries, and functional impairments of the foot, ankle, and related structures. Care is provided in accordance with evidence-based practice, VHA standards, established clinical practice guidelines, facility policies, and applicable professional standards.
What You'll Do
- →FUNCTIONS OR SCOPE OF ASSIGNED DUTIES: The Podiatrist provides direct clinical care and performs duties that include, but are not limited to, the following: Examines, evaluates, diagnoses, and treats Veterans with podiatric conditions affecting the foot, ankle, and related structures.
- →Provides outpatient podiatry care for general adult podiatric diseases and conditions, including but not limited to diabetic foot complications, peripheral neuropathy, nail disorders, calluses, corns, foot deformities, ulcerations, infections, musculoskeletal complaints, and other podiatric concerns.
- →Performs comprehensive foot assessments, including neurovascular assessments, diabetic foot examinations, biomechanical evaluations, skin and nail assessments, wound evaluations, and risk stratification for limb preservation.
- →Provides routine and medically necessary foot care in accordance with VHA policy, clinical indications, and established standards of practice.
- →Provides care for Veterans at increased risk for amputation, including those with diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, chronic wounds, deformity, prior ulceration, or history of lower extremity complications.
- →Performs appropriate podiatric procedures within the scope of licensure and granted clinical privileges, which may include debridement of nails, calluses, hyperkeratotic lesions, ulcers, and nonviable tissue; incision and drainage when appropriate; biopsy; injections; nail avulsions; treatment of ingrown toenails; and other minor podiatric procedures.
- →Develops, implements, and modifies patient-centered treatment plans based on clinical assessment, diagnostic findings, patient needs, and evidence-based practice.
- →Orders, reviews, and interprets diagnostic studies within the scope of practice, including laboratory testing, imaging, vascular studies, cultures, pathology, and other clinically indicated evaluations.
- →Prescribes medications, treatments, orthotics, prosthetic devices, footwear, wound care supplies, durable medical equipment, and other therapeutic interventions in accordance with scope of practice, licensure, privileges, and VA policy.
- →Refers patients to other specialists or services when clinically indicated, including but not limited to vascular surgery, wound care, infectious disease, endocrinology, prosthetics, orthotics, rehabilitation, primary care, emergency care, or community care when appropriate.
- →Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to coordinate comprehensive management of high-risk patients and promote limb preservation.
- →Manages podiatry outpatient consults, return-to-clinic orders, scheduling needs, and follow-up care in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
- →Completes all medical records, encounter documentation, orders, consult responses, procedure notes, informed consent documentation, and clinical communications in accordance with medical staff bylaws, rules, regulations, VHA requirements, and local facility policy.
- →Participates in care coordination for patients requiring transfer to another facility, higher level of care, emergency evaluation, surgical evaluation, or additional specialty services.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship: non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓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.
- ✓English Language Proficiency.
- ✓In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓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).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 01836159-2454-41e5-acca-7e8043e392aa
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