The Lead Health Technician (Telehealth Clinical) provides direct leadership to a team of Telehealth Clinical Technicians as well as leading initiatives designed to improve the delivery of care to Veterans using telehealth. The incumbent provides high level support, training, and advanced management of telehealth operations and is typically stationed at a clinical care delivery site (VA Medical Center, CBOC, VA Outreach Clinic, etc.); with duties that may require travel.
The Lead Health Technician (Telehealth Clinical) provides an array of complex and specialized duties related to leadership, staff education, technology management, as well as project and program management for all dimensions of virtual care and telehealth initiatives.
In addition to lead duties, maintains responsibility for day-to-day operation of telehealth services at the assigned location and between the assigned location and remote sites of care as well as participating in the programmatic development and advanced support of the facility-wide telehealth program.
Is expected to be able to exercise independent judgement and is responsible to regularly provide oversight and guidance to other staff members and will require minimal direct supervision. This lead position functions above the full performance level and therefore requires the performance of higher-level duties which must consist of significant scope, complexity (difficulty) and range of variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time.
Duties of the Lead Health Technician (Telehealth Clinical) include, but are not limited to: Leads a team of telehealth staff by providing guidance and technical direction related to telehealth program. Works with the supervisor to develop assignments for team members in order to meet routine and unusual deadlines and priorities. Distributes and balances workload and tasks among employees in accordance with established workflow and/or job specialization and required rotations.
Serves as a work leader, monitors status and progress of team members' work and makes day-to-day adjustments in accordance with established priorities. Gives on-the-job training to new employees (local and at the CBOC sites). Instructs employees in specific tasks and job techniques, making available written instructions and reference materials for use by team members in the accomplishment of tasks or projects.
Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work to ensure that the supervisor's instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met. Provides information to the supervisor concerning promotions, reassignment, recognition of outstanding performance, and personal needs.
Utilizes needs assessment, service agreements, and other tools when collaborating with stakeholders to develop new programs and processes to ensure telehealth programs are meeting the strategic plans of the healthcare system. Independently reviews quality and performance data (i.e. patient satisfaction surveys, image quality, performance metrics, clinical wait times) for telehealth programs effectiveness and satisfaction on developing process improvements as required.
Coordinates with vendors, Biomed and IT to upgrade and/or replace telehealth technologies to minimize impact on patient care. Develops and coordinates a wide variety of standard operating procedures with full and complete technical advice to ensure telehealth operations are timely, efficient, and appropriate.
Serves as a telehealth preceptor to independently plan and carry out standardized developed training in accordance with established telehealth program policies and directives. Conducts reviews to ensure technologies and systems are functioning prior to training and that trainees have completed prerequisites. Evaluates skills and competencies for initial certification and on-going performance evaluation.
Provides remedial training as needed and reports to supervisor regarding ongoing performance. Maintains responsibility for facility inventory management and registering and maintaining telehealth end points and scheduling of multi-point video conference calls in the Telepresence Management System or other similar application. Leads performance improvement activities aimed at improving the efficiency of the patient telehealth processes.
Develops reporting procedures, sampling techniques and measurements at various points in the telehealth processes to identify/analyze inherent weaknesses in work and procedures and advises others as to trends in the processes of patient telehealth services. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm PST. Telework: Not available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Kimberly.Wallace1@va.gov · (541) 826-2111 X3285
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $55882 – $72644/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-23.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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