Duties

Summary

The scope of practice is an executive nature, comprised of complex leadership, medical advisory and administrative components, associated with critical women's health care issues and activities that influence the organizational mission, health care, and policy. The Deputy Director, Women's Comprehensive Health, Women's Health Services (WHS) participates in the leadership of the organization.

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Responsibilities

This position is administratively located in VA Central Office (VACO), Washington, DC, reports to the Deputy Chief Consultant for Clinical Operations, and is also a member of the larger Women's Health Services Senior staff.

Focused areas of responsibilities for this position include:

• Works directly with the Deputy Chief Consultant for Clinical Operations to develop and implement initiatives related to comprehensive health care of women veterans. These initiatives span a wide range of clinical topics.
• Drafting health policy statements, position papers and policy handbooks relating to a wide variety of women's health topics and issues. Providing medical advisory opinions on topics and issues related to provision of care to women veterans.
• Assisting in conducting a thorough program assessment to evaluate services available and provided, demographics of the women veteran population, sites where services and provided, and factors that present barriers to services at facilities and CBOCs.
• Contributing to the design and implementation of strategic program changes to address existing barriers and ensure the highest quality care.
• The incumbent should be an experienced clinician and subject matter expert in women's health care. Assist with development of communications and educational materials for providers and patients. Experience and skills to present, both in person , and virtually, to national audiences on topics related to women's health care
• Evaluating points of intervention within healthcare system, which will maximize opportunities for reducing gender-related disparities in clinical care, while enhancing veteran engagement in their health care decisions. Analyze current research and data and assist in the development of data streams to monitor rates of appropriate screening, loss to follow-up, rates of delayed follow-up and diagnoses, differences in disease-specific outcomes, and rates of treatment interventions to allow comparison to best practices and clinical guidelines and comparison to rates in male veterans.
• Surveying current knowledge and maintain awareness of current research in the areas of gender-specific and gender-neutral disease.
• Interacting with other offices within the office of Patient Care Services (including medical/surgical services, pharmacy, primary care and mental health), VA/VHA information technology offices, Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, as well as other Federal Agencies, legislative representatives, and consumer and veterans groups. Serve as advisor to Deputy Chief Consultant for Clinical Operations on issues related to gender-specific and gender-neutral disease screening and treatment.
• Under direction of senior leadership, represent WHS in research, medical and legislative arenas. Providing presentations on current and future activities of the Women's Comprehensive Health Program as well as activities of the WHS.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Travel Required

Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
15

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Designated and/or random drug testing required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to a background/security investigation
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 10/04/2019.
Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Completion of residency training, or its equivalent, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (Internal Medicine or Family Practice preferred)
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Physical requirements outlined below.

Preferred Experience: Internal Medicine or Family Practice Preferred
Familiarity with large public or private health delivery systems, demonstrated expertise in the application of sophisticated knowledge in women's health care, skill as a health care provider and a strong scientific background, as demonstrated through education, Residency training, research and scholarship.

Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-2 Physician Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office.

Physical Requirements: Be capable to traveling with overnight stays for a period of up to five (5) days at a time. Travel can be up to 15% of time and must be capable to travel by traditional modes of air and land transportation.

Education

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ . If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html .

Additional information

VA offers a comprehensive benefits package. This link provides an overview of the benefits associated with a VA practice: VHA physician brochure .

Annual leave shall accrue for full-time physicians at the rate of 26 days per leave year (1 day per pay period).

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.

VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.

Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.

If you are unable to apply online view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application .

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your application, résumé, C.V., and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment.

NOTE: A formal pay-setting process will be used to determine your salary. The salary may be at any point in the range listed for this vacancy.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
Yes

Position sensitivity and risk
Noncritical-Sensitive (NCS)/Moderate Risk

Trust determination process
Suitability/Fitness

Required Documents

To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes (upload C.V. as resume document type):

• License
• Resume

The following documents are accepted, and may be required if applicable to your eligibility and/or qualifications for this position. Please use this checklist to ensure you have included all documents required for your application, such as a copy of your transcript (if using education to qualify), SF-50's, etc.

• Cover Letter
• DD-214/ Statement of Service
• Disability Letter (Schedule A)
• Disability Letter (VA)
• License
• CTAP Notification Letter
• Other Documents
• Resume
• Separation Notice (RIF)
• SF-15
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
• Transcript

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.