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Section Chief of Peripheral Vascular Surgery- Physician-authorized EDRP and Incentive- Full-TIme
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 63 days ago
About the Role
Eligible for Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) a student loan payment reimbursement program. Must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office. Recruitment or Relocation Incentive: Authorized for a highly qualified candidate.
What You'll Do
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Providence VA Medical Center is an acute care facility operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- →While most tours of duty are scheduled during the day, the possibility of "on call" and working evenings, nights and weekends does exist. "On call" and shift changes, will be considered based on patient and facility needs.
- →The Section Chief, Peripheral Vascular Surgery Section, VA Providence Healthcare System (VAPHCS).
- →Maintains professional, technical and administrative knowledge, competencies and skills to provide effective leadership and direction for the section and timely and quality responses to patients' clinical needs and problems.
- →Patients seen and treated can range from 18 through the geriatric years.
- →Complies with credentialing and privileging, ensures the staff meet those requirements and all other monitoring and evaluation needs.
- →Maintains high clinical and ethical standards that are carried into decision-making processes and takes an active role in effective teaching of residents and medical students and accomplishing the Medical Center's and the Surgical Service's mission and goals.
- →Assesses and prioritizes equipment needs for the section and informs the Chief, Surgical Service.
- →Promotes constructive problem resolution in an environment of competing priorities and promotes the development of health care professionals through counseling, mentoring, teaching and encouraging self-assessment.
- →Complies with current standards for medical record documentation and residency supervision and assumes accountability for professional and administrative activities within the section.
- →Provides service consisting of the diagnosis, care and treatment of patients consulted through the section on an inpatient and outpatient basis; provides and promotes high quality and effective care of its patients; supervises and teaches residents and medical students; and monitors and evaluates patient care through various quality management activities.
- →Responsible for managing section operations.
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.
- ✓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 identification 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).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in allopathic medicine or osteopathic medicine.
Personality Fit
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