Description

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized amount to be determined
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of annual paid time offer 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
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

The Director of the Imaging ICC must be an experienced, clinically active, board-certified radiologist. The Director must possess an experience base that includes progressive supervision, management and clinical oversight responsibilities in the field of radiology encompassing all imaging modalities offered by the MVAHCS. The Director shall have leadership qualities and strong moral compass in keeping with VA's I-CARE values of integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect and excellence.

The Imaging ICC Director's duties include the following functions but are not limited to:

• Accountable for clinical and administrative activities of the ICC. This includes responsibility for the quality of clinical care delivered in all programs in
• Imaging, including direct oversight of care provided by all physicians, contract activities, as well as other program personnel.
• Responsible for implementation and maintenance of effective peer review, quality assurance, and review of quality and appropriateness of the patient care rendered within the ICC.
• Responsible for meeting clinical performance measures and monitors relating to the Imaging ICC and, as an MVAHCS ICC Director, contributing to the pursuit of overarching organizational performance measures and monitors for the Healthcare System.
• Serve as the primary liaison for common interests between the VA, University of Minnesota Medical School, and other academic education partners with imaging training programs. 

Clinical Duties:

• The incumbent is required to maintain radiology privileges and practice clinically.

Leadership:

• The incumbent will determine goals, priorities and direction for the ICC and clinical operations and will be responsible for assigning duties to staff within the ICC.
• The incumbent will supervise physicians (including contract staff) as well as additional technologists and support staff and arrange for appropriate coverage of clinical and administrative services. The incumbent will conduct regular meetings to keep staff abreast of all clinical business, policies, procedures, goals, priorities and directions.
• Responsible for continuing surveillance of the professional performance of medical staff members who exercise privileges or function under a scope of practice in the ICC. This includes recommending privileges and scopes of practice, ensuring that ongoing professional practice evaluation is continuously performed, and taking appropriate action to ensure safe, high-quality care in accordance with VA requirements.
• The incumbent will address grievances, apply disciplinary policies and nominate incentive awards in all matters concerning ICC staff members.

Leadership within the MVAHCS:

• The incumbent will participate in wide ranging and higher-level management functions through participation and planning in operational boards, councils and committees throughout the MVAHCS, on campus and in the VISN.
• The incumbent will develop and maintain programs in the area of organizational improvement, continuing education and other quality improvement activities.

The incumbent will plan and collaborate with Imaging leadership at the VISN and/or national level regarding professional, management and health care delivery issues as required.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8AM TO 4:30PM

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
  
  

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
  Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are: (1) Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), b) OR
  [(2) Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA),OR
  (3) Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States), which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.
• Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as "Physician Resident Providers" (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e., not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather, they are to have a "scope of practice" that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally, surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.

Additional Requirement: Must be board certified in the area of Diagnostic Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Medical Physics, or Radiation Oncology.

Preferred Experience:

• Knowledge of and ability to communicate existing policies and regulations effectively.
• Knowledge of and ability to utilize resource materials and to develop new materials when needed.
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with a diverse group of professional staff and management officials who are often at the highest management levels.
• Ability to develop and recommend new or revised policies that are consistent with organizational goals and objectives.
• Skill in leading senior management officials in policy development.

Ability to influence high level officials in adoption of and conformance to performance measures, monitors, and other policy guidelines.

Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.

Physical Requirements: You will be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination or evaluation as part of the pre-employment process for this position. Questions about physical demands or environmental factors may be addressed at the time of evaluation or examination.