The Chief of Podiatry, Durham VA Health Care System has supervisory responsibility over the staff podiatrists and assigned health professions trainees located across North Carolina at the Durham VA Medical Center, the Greenville Health Care Center, the Garner Community Based Outpatient clinic and the Clayton Community Based Outpatient Clinic and the Telehealth program.
FUNCTIONS: The position exercises full operational responsibility as first level supervisor over other podiatrists in the surgical service. Plans and adjust daily assignments for supervised staff assigned to the clinic and operating rooms. Evaluates competencies of newly assigned personnel and others as required and orients staff to policies and procedures of the clinic and operating room. Conducts staff meetings and coordinates in-service training.
Executes all facility and departmental policies. Promotes sound management principles, initiates and/or recommends personnel actions, develops employee work standards, observes and evaluates employee performance, identifies training needs and ensures that training is provided. Counsels employees and takes disciplinary measures such as warnings and reprimands, referring more serious complaints to a higher level supervisor.
Investigates and resolves formal and informal patient and staff complaints and grievances. Approves and disapproves leave. Provides clinical counseling as needed. Serves as a role model emphasizing caring leadership. Provide technical oversight; interviews candidates for subordinate positions; and recommend hiring, promotion or reassignments.
Serves as a fully credentialed, expert, Board Certified Podiatrist with clinical privileges, performing diagnoses and treatment for the full range of cases, problems, and injuries encountered in the specialty. applying extensive knowledge and understanding of medical sciences underlying the field of podiatry; pharmacology, and lower extremity biomechanics to perform various routine and complex medical and surgical procedures.
Serves as a consultant to other podiatrists on difficult or unusual cases in podiatric specialties, and as a Subject Matter Expert in Diabetic Wound Care. Facilitates access to medical care by making appropriate referrals to other health care providers in accordance with applicable policies and regulations.
Directs efforts of podiatric health promotion and disease prevention and participates in the Prevention of Amputation for Veterans Everywhere program and Limb Preservation Initiatives. Creates referral consult templates that promote disease prevention.
Directs efforts of the Director of Podiatric Medical Education to stand up training programs: the podiatry post-graduate Limb Preservation Fellowship, and other graduate and post-graduate training programs to increase access to podiatric services. Directs efforts to develop research initiatives that will serve veterans.
Oversees telehealth podiatry programs, including Clinical Video Teleconferencing (CVT), Store and Forward Technology (SFT), VA Video Connect (VVC), Telephone, and the Remote Temperature Monitoring (RTM) programs.
Responsible for all administrative activities normally associated with patient care in a timely manner, such as consult review and triage, completion of patient medical records, encounters, and other documents necessary in the operation of an inpatient/outpatient treatment clinic. Maintains an unrestricted podiatric medical license and completes the required continued Medical Education through conferences, reading programs or other approved CME events.
Completes all mandatory education in TMS and training and competency validation. Demonstrates the ability to establish effective working relationships with co-workers, patients support service staff, nursing staff, physicians and other DVAHCS staff. The Chief will display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work together to implement the organization's missions and goals.
Follows applicable regulations and instructions regarding access to patient privacy and HIPAA regulations. Completes all medical records in accordance with Bylaws, Rules, and Regulations of the medical staff. Collaborates with other departments and sections, including, but not limited to, medical and surgical specialists, primary care providers, nursing staff, social services, utilization management, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team to coordinate care.
Coordinates transfer of specialty-specific patients from/to other hospitals or clinics if necessary. Develops and maintains good working relationships with other hospital departments and administration. A offers a comprehensive total rewards package. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc 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/.
lisa.damond@va.gov · 912-569-1715
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $200000 – $400000/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-09-14.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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