Deputy Chief, Primary Care Physician

Quick Facts

• Role: Deputy Chief, Primary Care Physician
• Focus: Primary Care leadership + direct clinical care for Veterans
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
• EDRP: Potential eligibility for the Education Debt Reduction Program (application required within 4 months)

Description

Help lead Primary Care programs by planning, coordinating, and evaluating services while providing direct patient care to a Veteran panel. Serve as a supervising provider and first-line clinical supervisor for staff and patients managed by advanced practice providers and other clinicians, ensuring quality, patient safety, staff development, and compliance. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to improve access, outcomes, and quality improvement initiatives, and act for the Chief Primary Care Service during absences.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care: assessment, diagnosis, treatment, care coordination, patient education, and clinical follow-up
• Ensure proper follow-up for the assigned panel and manage timely patient appointments
• Supervise patients managed by advanced practice providers and other mid-level providers
• Supervise direct-care employees to ensure clinical quality, patient safety, staff development, and compliance with accreditation/performance standards
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to improve access, quality, and patient outcomes
• Support quality improvement initiatives and administrative/clinical oversight of Primary Care operations
• Mentor and teach Primary Care staff, residents, trainees, students, and other employees
• Consult on developing, implementing, and evaluating diagnostic and treatment approaches
• Select and conduct literature searches for researchable problems relevant to Veteran health; support Planning and Execution of Research and Development programs
• Review and prepare timely, sound, and orderly service reports; develop and implement policies and decision-making processes

Benefits

• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, and regular salary increases
• Paid Time Off: 50–55 days per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays; possible 5-day paid absence for CME)
• Retirement: federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% contributions
• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many programs can be carried into retirement)
• CME: possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (full-time with board certification)
• Malpractice: free liability protection with tail coverage
• Recruitment/relocation incentives (sign-on bonus): may be eligible for highly qualified applicants