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The duties of the VISN 20 Northwest Health Network Supervisory Chief of Prosthetics are to administer, supervise, or perform work concerned with rendering Prosthetic and Sensory Aids Services (PSAS) to disabled patients. The Supervisory Chief of Prosthetics is responsible with providing services for Veterans in the VISN 20 catchment area. The Supervisory Chief of Prosthetics may be working at one of the following VISN 20 locations Spokane, Washington.
06/13/2025 to 06/24/2025
$89,083 - $115,813 per year
GS 12
1 vacancy in the following location:
No
No
50% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
No
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
None
Yes
No
CBSV-12747299-25-SRL
838757400
Applicants will be referred in the following order: First - Current Permanent Employees of Spokane Healthcare System; Second- Current Permanent VISN 20 Employees; Third - Current Permanent VA Employees Nationwide; Fourth- Health Professions Trainee (HPT).
Duties:
- Development of local organizational policies and procedures consistent with national and VISN 20 policies and procedures
- Authorize/Approve purchase orders - Help develop Statements of Work (SOW) for VISN Prosthetics contracts (Home O2, Artificial Limbs, DME)
- Monitor contracts for compliance to statement of work. Must be COR certified - Planning, development, preparation and execution of annual budget for their facilities.
- Analyzing costs to develop cost containment initiatives
- Receive, analyze and process requests for prosthetic equipment and services
- Identify and select national CMS/ Health Care Procedural Coding System (HCPCS) codes are entered for every item purchased through and/or billed to ensure proper reporting
- Establishing long and short term program goals
- Responds to a variety of correspondence i.e. Veterans, Congressmen, contractors, Home Oxygen program
- Chairperson in local facility committees, workgroups, teams
- Assess and provide technical guidance concerning equipment and benefits to beneficiaries and other health care workers
- Adjusts work load; recommends new performance measures; measures effectiveness against existing performance measures, review of workload and study workload/forecasting for future program growth.
- Meets VISN 20 standard/expectations of transactions/workload for all staff.
- Implementation of new National and Local guidelines/policy
- Developing tools that allow monitoring of a quality assurance program
- Analyze, review and evaluate the results of various monitors and databases
- Confers with contractors and other health care workers
- Inform Veterans and family on different appliances and services available
- Coordinates specialty programs which include Clothing Allowance, Home O2, AAE, and HISA, Wheelchair, Amputee, Major Medical Committee (MMEC), Prevent Amputation for Veterans Everywhere (PAVE), etc., by scheduling Veterans and providing necessary documentation as applicable.
- Works with VPR/Designee to track timeliness of provision of devices, programs, grants and oversee funding of specialty programs.
- Direct supervision of PSAS staff.
- Ensures adherence to personnel management rules, regulations, and procedures and develops functional statements, performance standards and competencies for staff - Evaluate and assess performance of supervised staff.
- Determine Veteran eligibility
- Review medical and administrative files of Veterans - Interview Veterans and inspect prosthetic equipment /appliances
- Authorize benefit payment and reimbursement per regulation timelines
- Conduct home and vendor visits
- Inspect and recommend approval of contractor prosthetic shops
- Implement JC standards of care
Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday.
Telework: Not eligible
Recruitment/Relocation Incentive: Authorized
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #:GS-0672-12
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
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/.
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This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
Pursuant to VHA Directive 1193.01, VHA health care personnel (HCP) are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to such accommodations as required by law (i.e., medical, religious or pregnancy). VHA HCPs do not include remote workers who only infrequently enter VHA locations. If selected, you will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit documentation of proof of vaccination before your start date. The agency will provide additional information regarding what information or documentation will be needed and how you can request a legally required accommodation from this requirement using the reasonable accommodation process.
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Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 06/24/2025 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/12747299.
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