The Prosthetic Representative (Assistant Chief) for the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks is fully responsible for sharing full responsibility with the Chief for directing, supervising, and managing all phases of the prosthetic service operations. This individual serves as Chief of the service in the Chief's absence. The VHSO has active specialty services including Spinal Cord Injury, Home Based Primary Care, Low Vision services, and Prosthetic Implants.
Duties of the Prosthetic Representative (Assistant Chief) include, but are not limited to: Manages procurement and contracting for the VHSO Prosthetic Program to include, distributing national prosthetic contract requirements and guidelines as part of the National Prosthetics Clinical Management Program (PCMP) to staff, reviewing PCMP contract compliance, ensuring usage of Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts, and VISN 16 contracts and blanket purchasing agreements (BPA), preparing procurement requests, evaluating proposals for work, acting as a COR for procurements and VISN 16 contracts, and/or maintaining procurement and contracting records.
Reviews contracting and procurement for small procurements that require varying approaches initiation of new ideas and demonstrated resourcefulness. Initiates and prepares contracts to secure adequate resources to facilitate operations to include determining appropriate costs, performs costs analyses, and communicates both orally and in writing with contractors. Incumbent exercises authorizations for obligation and expenditures of funds.
Contributes to developing an annual specific-purpose budget for the Prosthetics and Sensory Aids Service by evaluating financial trends, ensuring compliance with agency guidance, and executing the budget on a facility program level. Coordinates budget and planning processes in order to inform upper management on key issues, which impacts agency processes and decision-making and future facility budget planning.
Gathers information for programs and reviews budget formulations and workload analysis submissions. Monitors budget allocation and execution to ensure that operating program objectives are met. Performs in-depth, rigorous analysis of budget requests by employing techniques such as cost benefit analysis, program trade-offs, and exploring alternative methods of funding.
Monitors the use and rate of expenditure of budgeted funds through continuing dialogue with facility administrative and clinical staff, review of written documents, and examination of obligations and expense totals. Determines the service's personnel requirements and controlling expenditures. Determines resource requirements and recommends resource allocations based on priorities and needs.
Follows the network business plan through the coordination and cooperation of the facility's prosthetic program and ensures that the functions, abilities, and plans link to and effectively supports VHA, Network, VHSO and VISN 16 Prosthetics initiatives, goals, plans, programs, and achievements with internal and external stakeholders.
Ensure that objective requirements of Public Law 104-262 (Provision of Prosthetic Services) and Public Law 107-135 to maintain capacity to provide for the specialized treatment and rehabilitative needs of disabled Veterans (including spinal cord dysfunction, blindness, amputations, and mental illness) are met. Participates in national initiatives, intra-agency workgroups and/or committees. Assists in the drafting and/or recommending national policies or directives.
Works with facility to develop policy, SOP's, and memorandums that align with national policies and directives. Seeks best practices from other VHA facilities to enhance PSAS's program to meet Veteran's needs. Develops functional statements, performance standards and competencies. Handles administrative matters pertinent to all issues related to the facilities Prosthetic Program.
Prepares specific instructions for ongoing operations and/or implements policies designated by higher-level personnel. Serves on or chairs various committees such as the Home Oxygen Committee, or any others as assigned by the Medical Center.
Ensures compliance with Joint Commission Home Care and hospital standards and other regulations governing this function; works closely with oxygen and medical equipment companies to assure maximum delivery of their services and compliance to their contracts; coordinates quality assurance monitoring of this equipment program and represents program to Joint Commission and VA audit teams.
Furthering the goals of equal employment opportunity by taking positive steps to assure the accomplishment of affirmative action objectives and by adhering to nondiscriminatory employment practices in regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or handicap. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm, subject to change based on the needs of the facility. Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: 564-00584-F 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.
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This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $89508 – $116362/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-21.
This position is open under the 'Fed Competitive' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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