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Clinical Responsibilities
Incumbent spends 70% of time with clinical responsibilities.
Provide medical oversight, leadership and supervision of a 15-bed Community Living Center(CLC) Hospice Palliative Care Unit. This includes supervision over the medical/provider staff who work in multi-disciplinary teams to coordinate, facilitate and provide patient care and services.
Provide administrative (supervisor and section) and clinical oversight of all Hospice Palliative Care (HPC) programs.
Provide supervision, as appropriate, of fellows, residents and students conducting direct clinical care.
Deliver in-service training for medical center staff, residents, and medical students.
Be responsible for timely completion of all clinical charting and documentation required by the Medical Center as appropriate and outcome data as appropriate.
Perform transitional care as a consultant providing face-to-face consultation to patients under the care of the medical center's inpatient and emergency department services as appropriate.
Educate Veterans, staff, and family about Palliative Care, Hospice, and end-of-life issues.
Consult with medical center staff on a wide variety of patient care issues.
Remain involved in program evaluation.
Maintain full clinical privilege as a member of the Medical Staff.
Abide by Medical Staff By-Laws.
Administrative Responsibilities
Incumbent spends 30% of time managing the HPC Services. This includes but is not limited to supervising a variety of positions including administrative positions, physicians, and nurse practitioners.
Provides leadership guidance and consultation to staff.
Has direct administrative supervision of the Hospice Palliative Care (HPC) physicians and nurse practitioners.
Serves as a consultant to other medical center staff and trainees.
Represents HPC on decision-making committees at the Rehabilitation and Geriatric and Extended Care Integrated Clinical Communities(REC ICC).
Ensures the implementation and maintenance of standards for medical providers and forecast requirements necessary to maintain and increase efficiency and effectiveness of clinical care.
Participates in establishing policies, procedures, and guidelines for the delivery of services.
Communicates provider responsibilities and medical care policies, procedures and guidelines to all providers in HPC.
Provides education and mentoring to other interdisciplinary teams, patients, families, and referring physicians.
Assists the ACOS of Geriatric and Extended Care on the coordination of HPC services response in the event of critical occurrences of violence at the facility, disasters, and/or mass casualty occurrences.
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 08:00am - 04:30pm
EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact , the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.
Worksite address
orlando, FL, 32885, US
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