PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (Occupational Health) - Defense Health Agency Civilian Corps, Falls Church, VA
FT. LEONARD WOOD, MO 65473
About the Job
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT (Occupational Health - Fort Leonard Wood, MO
Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri is home of the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence, Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear School, Army Engineer School, and U.S. Army Military Police School. Fort Leonard Wood trains and educates nearly 90 thousand troops a year. Surprisingly, the Fort also trains Marines, Airmen, Sailors, Coast Guardsmen and international students from allied nations. With more than 22,000 military members and their families, Ft Leonard Wood provides us with a diverse and well skilled population.
Fort Leonard Wood, situated in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, is a sportsman’s paradise with some of the most beautiful scenery, hosting many large lakes, rivers, streams, and forests ideal for fishing and hunting. Fort Leonard Wood covers more than 61,000 acres located in Pulaski County with a population of nearly 52,607. Bordering the installation to the north are the towns of Waynesville and St. Robert, with an estimated combined population of 9,170. The installation is situated between St Louis and Springfield, Missouri 1 ½ to 2 hours respectively. Also 30 minutes equidistant between Rolla and Lebanon along I-44. It is also a great place to raise a family along with a low cost of living.
Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include competitive compensation packages, paid-time off, medical benefits, student loan repayments, and retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions. For more information, please visit the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/benefits/
Responsibilities:
Serves as an Occupational Medicine Physician Assistant (OMPA) provider to provide both occupational and primary medical services to adult patients ranging in age from 18 years through geriatric. The incumbent serves in the Occupational Health Section of the Department of Preventive Medicine, General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital (GLWACH), with responsibility for the independent examination, diagnosis and treatment within personal credentials and privileges delineated by the hospital Commander. Provides leadership to medical staff in comprehensive care, services and auxiliary practices in general and occupational medicine. Provides or oversees services to military members, retirees, and Department of the Army civilian employees in the Fort Leonard Wood community.
1. The incumbent independently performs a variety of professional direct ambulatory health care clinical duties within the field of primary medicine to military members and eligible employees at the Chemical Defense Training Facility. Assignments include a wide range from routine to exceptionally complex activities including assessing, planning, evaluating and modifying the plan of acute and chronically ill patients.
Performs medical screening examinations. Secures health and medical history from the patient records findings and makes clinical evaluation. Examines patients and performs initial patient work-up and assessment of patients' care and treatment; and determines the need for and orders laboratory tests, X-rays and other procedures necessary to complete assessment of the patient. Makes decisions concerning primary care as well as emergency medical needs of patient’s management, evaluation and revision of therapeutic plans; and refers extremely or selected complex medical problems to medical management. Diagnoses disease, illness disorder or injury; institutes treatment of patients; and will discuss case with consultants when appropriate. Prescribes for and treats a variety of diseases, disorders and injuries; treats patients returning for routine or directed follow-up and treatment of chronic illnesses previously documented in patients' medical records; writes routine orders on outpatients; perform medical histories; and dictates narrative summaries. Provides a limited range of emergency services or crises interventions without requiring the approval authority of the clinic physician, including diagnosis and treatment of minor injuries and direction to co-located Paramedics. Must be able to define unknown conditions and resolve critical problems. Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional or mental problems. Writes prescriptions, including controlled substances in accordance with approved treatment protocols. Records entries into patients chart including progress notes, treatment rendered, tests or procedures ordered, and notations of prescriptions or orders, and drugs dispensed or administered in accordance with approved protocols. Provides surveillance of adherence to medical and primary care practices and procedures to stabilize chronically ill patients; adjusts regimens within established protocols.
2. The incumbent independently performs a variety of professional direct health care clinical duties within the field of Occupational medicine to student trainees, military members, contractors, and eligible employees at the Chemical Defense Training Facility. Assignments include a wide range from routine to exceptionally complex activities including assessments of workers to determine medical fitness for duty, identifying occupational injuries, and ensuring compliance with various regulatory entities.
Performs medical screening examinations. Secures health and medical history from the worker, records findings and makes clinical evaluation. Examines workers and assigns elements of examination to meet occupational requirements; and determines the need for and orders laboratory tests, X-rays and other procedures necessary to complete assessment of the patient. Makes decisions concerning primary care as well as occupational medical needs of worker’s management; evaluation and revision of therapeutic plans; and refers extremely or selected complex medical problems to medical management. Identifies conditions consistent with disease, illness, disorders, or injury; institutes treatment of patients; and will discuss case with consultants when appropriate. Evaluates workers exposed to a variety of occupational hazards; evaluates medical conditions for return to work suitability; performs and adjusts examination protocols for workers in various medical surveillance programs; compares known hazards to implemented examination protocols to ensure adequate examination elements; orders follow up and periodic examinations; acts as subject matter expert for ad hoc occupational health consultations to employers and supervisors; performs medical histories, physical examinations, analyzes medical imaging and laboratory reports, and reviews previous records to perform medical decision-making; and dictates narrative summaries. Provides a full range of occupational health services without requiring the approval authority the clinic physician within the scope of practice and approved protocols. Must be able to define unknown conditions and resolve critical problems. Discriminates between normal and abnormal findings to recognize early stages of serious physical, emotional or mental problems. Advises workers with impairments on ways to demonstrate fitness and prevent disability. Prevents workers with disabilities from work with hazards that could cause injury in accordance with approved treatment protocols and good occupational health practice. Records entries into patients chart including progress notes, treatment rendered, tests or procedures ordered, and notations of advice and recommendations, activity restrictions or orders, and drugs to be avoided in accordance with approved protocols. Provides surveillance of adherence to medical and primary care practices and procedures to stabilize chronically ill patients.
3. Provides consultation, teaching, and coordination with workers and their supervisors of treatment and medical care. Coordinates with Patients physicians' findings and diagnoses, laboratory results, follow-up treatment plan or the effect of medications prescribed in accordance with approved protocols.
Provides primary care, as well as preventive services to healthy individuals, including guidance in common emergency illnesses, accidents, alternative drug usage, etc. Evaluates the total health care needs of patients and develops plans to meet clients' needs. Responsible for interpreting and evaluating continuing changes in direct patient care, conflicting requirements, or technological developments in the medical field. Plans with other professionals and agencies involved in providing primary care and occupational health services to patients/workers and their family members/supervisors, and coordinates the care provided. Develops and recommends new approaches for providing improved, quality care for military and other clients of GLWACH.
The Physician Assistant (PA) serves as an occupational health provider and a Competent Medical Authority (CMA) for the Chemical Surety Reliability Program.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Basic Requirements for Physician Assistant:
Education: Graduation from a physician assistant educational program, accredited by the Accreditation Review Committee on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) or its predecessors, at a college, university, or educational institution that is accredited by an accrediting body or organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.
Certification: Successful completion of the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) examination; must maintain status as a certified physician assistant, including completion of all requirements for Continuing Medical Education (CME) and re-certification.
Licensure: Applicants must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a Physician Assistant from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
Exemption: You are exempt from the license requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0603 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017 or before. Note: You will be required to provide appropriate documentation to the respective Human Resources Office to validate your status.
In addition to meeting the basic requirements above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
Experience: A minimum of one full year of work experience as a certified physician assistant which includes obtaining medical history, performing examinations, and determining appropriate medical treatment.
Education
FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.