Dentist-Deputy Chief Of Staff; Hospital Services

Position: Dentist-Deputy Chief Of Staff (Hospital Services)
The Deputy Chief of Staff for Hospital Services functions as a key member of the executive leadership team, actively participating in the development of overall management objectives and philosophies necessary for the attainment of optimum efficiency in providing health care to our Veteran population. The incumbent is accountable to the Chief of Staff and Medical Center Director for the coordination of clinical activities, clinical staff, and administrative oversight.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.

The incumbent will monitor and ensure medical staff compliance with agency regulations, medical staff bylaws, health care system policies, The Joint Commission (T JC) standards, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities {CARF), Long Term Care Institute (L TCI), the College of American Pathology (CAP), Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB) and other appropriate regulations. In addition, the incumbent provides leadership oversight in compliance with other federal agencies such as the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Office of the Medical Inspector (OMI).The

incumbent will possess a broad knowledge and understanding of health care policies, missions, and operating programs, and extensive specialized knowledge of health care management. The incumbent develops and maintains good working relationships with affiliates and promotes the professional development of all health care staff. The incumbent will promote standards of clinical competence and conduct for staff which is maintained through: compliance with credentialing and privileging processes, monitoring and evaluation of clinical practices, peer review, consideration of clinical performance patterns in clinical privileging and other appropriate quality improvement activities.

Medical Staff Functions:

* Support organizational efficiency and safety through oversight and program management of the medical center inter-health care system transfer process.

* Promote the development of health care professionals through counseling, mentoring, teaching, and encouraging self-assessment.

* Promote an environment that provides patient care, educational activity, and administrative planning and evaluation based on integration and application of current knowledge.

* Establish mechanisms whereby health care system employees, higher level administration, and other VA components are informed, in a timely manner, of clinical program developments that affect them.

* Take an active role as a management team member, providing advice and counsel in defining and accomplishing the health care system's mission and goals.

* Effectively lead the clinical staff to achieve health care system mission and goals.

* Represent the organization, internally and externally, in such a manner as to reflect positively on the health care system and VA.

* Serve as a professional liaison of the health care system to other VA and federal facilities, the community, affiliates, media, congressional offices and constituent organizations.

* Maintain and promote high ethical and clinical standards that are carried into decision-making processes.

* Promote constructive problem resolution into an environment of competing priorities.

Program Management:

* Work with the Executive Leadership team to ensure that health care system programs reflect the mission and priorities of VHA and VA.

* Promote an effective mix, coordination, and support of clinical programs by evaluating current and potential patient population needs, clinical workload and resources, special program mandates and cost/benefit analyses making recommendations to the health care system Director and ensuring implementation of approved clinical proposals.

* Provide leadership to staff through policy guidance and activities on behalf of patients and their clinical care.

* Promote standards of clinical competence and conduct for staff which is maintained through: compliance with credentialing and privileging processes, monitoring and evaluation of clinical practices, peer review, consideration of clinical performance patterns in clinical privileging and other appropriate quality improvement activities.

* Facilitate assessment of education and development needs of clinical staff to develop and implement plans for meeting identified needs and to prioritize use of available training funds.

Work Schedule:

Monday through Friday, 7:30am - 4:00pm, hours may be negotiable.

Telework:
Telework will be determined at the discretion of the supervisor.

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

May be authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance):
May be authorized