Audiologist - Chief

This position is in the Audiology Section of the Operative Care Line at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC) in Houston, Texas.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include, but are not limited to: This position as a Supervisory Audiologist spends 25% or more of your time providing technical and administrative supervision. This position serves as a service chief, managing stand-alone services, product lines or service lines. You will typically have line and staff authority for resource allocations within the area of responsibility and ensure the efficient operation of the organizational unit. You will have a broad and overall responsibility for the service-level department and full responsibility for clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management, and supervision for the service, as appropriate. You autonomously manage substantive parts of specialized, complex, professional services that significantly impact Veterans' care. You provide leadership with objective, independent assessments and recommendations for policy, operational and administrative issues and initiatives requiring decision and action. As a Service chief, you are responsible for planning, assessing, and evaluating programs to ensure coordination between care delivered by the program and the overall delivery of health care within the facility. You interpret and process a wide variety of data related to program planning and the specialized needs of the Veteran, the service, and the medical center. You assure compliance with accrediting agency and regulatory requirements and corrective action is initiated as needed. As a service chief in this assignment, you ensure policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed. You advise leadership on policy implications, key issues, relationships to internal and external interest groups, and recommend courses of action. You maintain interdepartmental relationships with other services to accomplish medical center goals. Service chiefs in this assignment coordinate and negotiate resolutions to complex problems. You may prepare special reports and responses, Congressional responses, briefing papers, issue briefs, and decision papers for the medical center leadership, which may be highly sensitive, confidential and of a complex nature as requested. You are responsible for professional and administrative management of an assigned area, including budget execution. As a service chief, you are assigned develop policies and procedures and may develop performance standards, position descriptions, and functional statements. You conduct performance appraisals and perform other clinical and administrative responsibilities related to the management of staff to ensure that the mission of the service and the medical center has been satisfied. You may set training objectives and delegate responsibilities to subordinate sections. Work Schedule: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. OR 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday - Friday Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 580-02443-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. Subject to background/security investigation. Possess a valid, unrestricted State driver's license and have a safe driving record. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service. Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

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