Summary

This Physician Assistant position is within the Primary Care Service line - and is located at the Portland VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). This position is a full-time at 40 hours per week - Monday thru Friday - 8:00am - 4:30pm.

Duties

• NOTE: This multi-discipline recruitment that will result in the hiring of one of the following disciplines: Physician - Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Physician Posting: CBTD-12687454-25-TBH Nurse Practitioner Posting: CBTD-12688301-25-CC VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package
• The duties of the Physician Assistant include - but are not limited to: Obtaining medical histories and performing physical examinations on inpatients and outpatients
• Admitting and discharging patients in consultation with - and on behalf of - the collaborating physician
• Carrying out health promotion - disease prevention - and patient education activities
• Dictating discharge summaries
• The collaborating physician must countersign the discharge summary
• Document operative notes if the PA was present for the procedure
• The operative surgeon must review and co-sign the note
• Evaluating outpatients to determine the need for further health care
• Participation and documentation of Life Sustaining Treatment Goals of Therapy discussions - including DNR/DNAR orders Making daily rounds to observe and record each patient's medical progress - updating and summarizing medical records - changing orders when appropriate and notifying the responsible physician of significant changes in the patient's condition
• Obtain and document informed consent for treatments and procedures for which the PA is responsible 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 ancillary services - such as - pharmacy - social services - physical medicine and rehabilitation therapies - prosthetic services - etc
• Provide education and counseling of the patients and families in preventive care - medical conditions - and the use of prescribed treatments and drugs
• 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
• Administrative duties such as Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT) Teamlet Leaders - clinic or program managers or other administrative or management duties
• Education of health profession trainees and students Participate in clinical research Preventive Medicine programs and related duties Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) in accordance with ACLS protocols - to include defibrillation and cardioversion - if the PA has current documentation of successful ACLS course completion
• Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized for new to VHA highly competitive applicants Relocation Incentive: Authorized for current VHA employees
• Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Learn more
• EDRP Authorized: This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program
• You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment
• Program Approval - award amount (up to $200 -000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application
• Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply
• 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 Work Schedule: Monday thru Friday - 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Notifications: This position is a Bargaining Unit position
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action)
• The SF-50 must identify the position title - series - grade - step - tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted)
• In some cases - more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held
• This position is in the Excepted Service
• The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.