Serves as a Supervisor for Medical Support Assistants at a medical center in VISN 1, VA New England Healthcare Network. The position is responsible for planning, directing, and controlling work for the lower grade Medical Support Assistants. Work is performed collaboratively in an Interdisciplinary Coordinate Care delivery model (Patient Aligned Care Team, or Specialty Care Setting).
Position must have medical terminology and broad knowledge of patient procedures and policies.
VA Careers - Medical Support Assistant: https://youtube.com/embed/EE9c4XkaELo Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Supervisory Medical Support Assistant GS-0679-08 General Description: Serves as a Supervisor for Medical Support Assistants at a medical center in VISN 1, VA New England Healthcare Network. The position is responsible for planning, directing, and controlling work for the lower grade Medical Support Assistants.
Work is performed collaboratively in an Interdisciplinary Coordinate Care delivery model (Patient Aligned Care Team, or Specialty Care Setting). Position must have medical terminology and broad knowledge of patient procedures and policies. The employee maintains a close relationship with the Service Care Lines administrative offices to ensure clinics are operating in a timely and efficient manner.
The incumbent shall have extensive knowledge of various policies and procedures relating to the business rules regarding Pre-registration, Scheduling (Appointment Management and Recall), clinic profile management and utilization, scheduling/tracking consults, Advanced Clinic Access Procedures, Community Care referrals, Performance Measures, KIOSKs, Insurance Card Buffer (ICB) and the proper flow of work to and from the various teams, services and care lines and contributes significantly to the daily business activities.
The position assists in the management of data which may include PCMM (Primary Care Medical Management), EWL (Electronic Wait List), BARR (Encounter/Action Required Report), access related reports, Text Orders and consult completion and performance measures. Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the work of lower medical support assistants.
The employee establishes work priorities, identifies developmental training needs of employees and provides or arranges for training when required. They work closely with their Supervisor to identify and develop training which meets the needs of the MSA and administrative/clinical data capture requirements.
The incumbent's responsibility for training includes, but is not limited to, in-service education of on-the-job skills, classroom instruction closely associated with actual inpatient/outpatient hospital clinical practices, and attitudes and relationship of position to professional staff. Incumbent is responsible for new employee orientation and is expected to work closely with new employees for the first (90) days.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:00pm Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized. Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Ad-Hoc Available according to agency policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: F01629 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 $65687 – $85390/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
Applications close on 2026-09-11.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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