The Lead Medical Support Assistant is a staff position located under the Medical Administrative Service with the VA WNY Healthcare System. The incumbent is responsible for the coordination of Advanced MSA assignments and workflow in the Health Administrative Service.
The Lead is responsible for daily workload assessments, assigning work, and assuring proper staffing coverage; evaluating training records; and determining training needs of MSAs to provide support across interdisciplinary settings.
The Lead assists the unit with complex and non-standard procedures, including clinical flow processes related to access to care across multiple clinics, specialties, and/or community resources.
The Lead MSA is also responsible for ensuring accurate and timely scheduling of clinic appointments; monitoring productivity of the schedulers, providing guidance to staff members, to include changes in policies and procedures; creating and maintaining employee work schedules; and acting as a liaison among Advanced MSA staff, patients, providers from a variety of specialties and other interdisciplinary staff to resolve day-to-day conflicts.
May be required to present at various meetings on behalf of the section or may be required to hold meetings to benefit the workload in the section. In addition to the above the Lead MSA will also function as a working scheduler and will be expected to cover any absent staff within the section. The Lead MSA may be asked to produce reports related to unscheduled surgeries, backlog, productivity, etc within the section.
Lists the major duties and responsibilities of the position: Incumbent is responsible for orientation and training of new schedulers including training on the applicable software applications, databases, and functions. The incumbent provides initial and continuing education to schedulers, providing training in the utilization of VISTA, VSE, VVC, and other software systems as well as how to run workload reports from VSSC and VISTA.
The work is administrative in nature and requires advanced knowledge of applicable systems as well as the ability to identify learning/training needs, provide training in a variety of manners, work directly with users, and trouble-shoot basic operating problems. In this role, the incumbent is responsible for the assignation of scheduling workload, ensuring that workload is balanced amongst the schedulers.
In addition to this, they are required to redistribute workload to ensure that scheduling backlog is kept to a minimum. They are the initial point of contact between providers and other schedulers, helping to troubleshoot any issues. Incumbent serves as a point of contact for questions regarding the scheduling of all clinical appointments. Additionally, the Lead is responsible for pulling workload, productivity, and report card date for each of the AMSA in the section.
May be required to perform other duties as assigned VA Careers - Medical Support Assistant: https://youtube.com/embed/EE9c4XkaELo Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 8am - 4:30pm. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #:15141F Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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Aleni.Salcedo@va.gov · 917 859 9405
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $54926 – $71405/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-09.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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