Job Description

Summary

The Hampton VA Medical Center is a 1-C - teaching facility serving Eastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. The main campus is located in Hampton - VA with 4 community-based outpatient clinics in Chesapeake - Portsmouth - and Virginia Beach - VA; and Elizabeth City - NC. Hampton VAMC provides comprehensive health care which includes primary care - acute inpatient - acute psychiatric - chronic spinal cord injury - an 169-bed domiciliary - and long term Community Living Center/hospice care unit.

Duties

• Duties Include but not limited to: Obtaining medical histories and performing physical examinations
• Providing and coordinating medical care for assigned patients in any care setting - including establishing diagnoses - formulating and implementing care plans - and providing follow-up care
• Evaluating outpatients to determine the need for further health care
• Ordering diagnostic studies and other special tests - such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - Computerized Tomography (CT) scans - etc
• Carrying out health promotion - disease prevention - and patient education activities
• Ordering or obtaining laboratory specimens
• Ordering ancillary services - such as - pharmacy - social services - physical medicine and rehabilitation therapies - prosthetic services - etc
• Ordering VA specialty service consults and initiating requests for non-VA medical care and consults in accordance with VHA and local facility policy and procedures
• Ordering patient care supplies
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package
• Pay: Competitive salary - regular salary increases - potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year) 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 Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 0730 - 1600

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About Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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