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Staff Physician/Section Chief of Neurosurgery
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
The Chief of Neurosurgery at VA St. Louis Health Care System provides leadership and oversight for the Neurosurgery Section within Surgical Service. Responsibilities include clinical care, surgical procedures, team-based leadership, teaching, and administrative duties. Recruitment/Relocation Incentive may be offered to a highly qualified individual.
What You'll Do
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.
- →VHA Physician Total Rewards.
- →Recruitment/Relocation Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): May be offered to highly qualified individuals.
- →Louis Health Care System, responsible for supervisory and programmatic oversight of the Neurosurgery Section.
- →This role serves as the primary advisor to the Associate Chief of Staff for Surgical Service and collaborates with section staff, other service chiefs, and executive leadership to promote excellence in patient care and education.
- →Major Duties and Responsibilities: Outpatient Care: Evaluate, diagnose, and treat Veterans with spinal, and peripheral nerve conditions.
- →Collaborate with Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), nurses, and technicians to ensure efficient clinic operations and timely follow-up.
- →Delegate tasks appropriately while maintaining oversight of all clinical care.
- →Inpatient Care: Serve as attending neurosurgeon for hospitalized patients.
- →Work closely with inpatient nursing staff, case managers, and technicians to manage daily care, post-operative recovery, and discharge planning.
- →Operative Care: Perform complex spinal surgical procedures, including spinal reconstruction.
- →Lead perioperative teams, including anesthesiologists, surgical nurses, APPs, and scrub technicians.
- →Provide intraoperative teaching and model best practices in teamwork, sterile technique, and safety.
- →Emergency Surgical Care: Respond promptly to urgent neurosurgical consults and emergent operative cases.
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 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.
- ✓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 trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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