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Job Title
Chief, SCI/D Service
Job Description
The Chief, SCI/D Service, provides oversight and leadership for the clinical, education, and research functions within the SCI/D Service at VAPAHCS. All Section Chiefs within SCI/D Service report directly to the Chief, Spinal Cord Injury Service. He/she may have oversight responsibility for performance measures. He/she is directly responsible for the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff and initiates areas of programmatic development.
Major duties include but are not limited to:
Ensuring that written policies and procedures are developed in compliance with all applicable VHA Central Office, SCI Strategic Health Group (SHG), and accrediting organization standards and requirements which must be reviewed annually and updated as necessary.
Contributing and providing input to the annual performance evaluations for all SCI/D Center staff.
Managing service-level quality improvement (QI) activities that monitor critical aspects of care. An ongoing and continuous evaluation of the program must be conducted to ensure the quality and appropriateness of care provided to patients.
Ensuring that a QI or Performance Improvement (PI) committee meets at least quarterly to identify important aspects of care and function and to monitor areas of service delivery which are identified as high-risk, high-volume (such as preventive health maintenance program), or problem prone.
Ensuring performance measures are met, e.g., access to care, patient satisfaction, patient outcomes, and risk management shall be addressed.
A systematic plan must be used for collecting and analyzing data, taking corrective action, and reporting results.
Despite the incumbent's extensive administrative responsibilities, he/she maintains a clinical workload.
Admitting eligible SCI/D veterans consistent with the medical and functional requirements of patients.
Providing annual comprehensive preventive health evaluations by the SCI/D Center multidisciplinary team.
Notifying the SCI/D Coordinator of discharges from the SCI/D Center.
Designating appropriate SCI/D Center personnel to support documentation procedures and requirements necessary for quality and accuracy of data in the SCI/D Registry.
Supervising the clinical and administrative aspects of the SCI Home Care (SCI-HC) Program.
The planning and administration of the urodynamic laboratory and providing consultation to other services requesting urodynamic studies.
The Chief, SCI/D Service, promotes research in all areas, including basic science, clinical trials, and health services research, as well as endeavors that advocate for improved care delivery through outcome evaluation and scientific inquiry. He/she advocates ethical decision-making for VA staff and patients.
Developing, implementing, and maintaining a program of research that addresses topics of importance to Veterans with SCI/D.
Actively participating in identification of avenues of novel SCI/D research as well as design of appropriate methodology and analytical approaches.
Overseeing all clinical research activities that involve the patients or staff of the SCI/D Center, both those originating from within the SCI/D Center as well as from outside (i.e., representing collaborations with other services within VAPAHCS, VA SCI/D System of Care, Stanford University School of Medicine, and other VA and non-VA facilities)
Coordinating and involved in dissemination of outcomes of SCI/D research activities via publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentation at local, regional, national, and international conferences.
Providing mentorship and directing training opportunities for medical and academic students and professionals pursuing training in SCI Medicine (e.g., medical students, residents, etc.)
Worksite address
palo alto, CA, 94306, US
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