Physician (Sleep Medicine)

**Duties**:
The incumbent will be part of a full Sleep Medicine Clinic that includes one Sleep Physician, one Nurse Practitioner, Respiratory Therapists and Sleep Respiratory Therapists. We provide consultation with sleep specialists, follow-up visits, home sleep testing, and DME. The department in conjunction with Mental Health provides a CPAP adherence class for those veterans struggling to utilize PAP.

The sleep clinic at the NAVAHCS sees patients with sleep illnesses and other conditions relating to the subspecialty of sleep medicine. Clinic services will be required to be performed by the Physician five days per week and will include patient evaluation, examination, and assessment of sleep problems. This position requires basic knowledge of CPAP/BIPAP therapy and sleep medicine.

Duties to be performed include, but are not limited to:

- Performs examinations of patients and establishes medical diagnoses by patient history, physical examination, and other criteria through telemedicine clinics.
- Reviews interpreted sleep studies, CPAP titration studies, and overnight oximetry reports.
- Reviews and interprets compliance data as downloaded from data cards from PAP devices.
- Reviews and triages sleep consults.
- Reviews and completes Sleep-e consults.
- Reviews and adjusts CPAP/BIPAP devices as needed.
- Reviews and interprets PFT results, if trained.
- Determines the need for supplemental oxygen >4LPM (New referrals).
- Builds and sustains collaborative relationships, works to resolves conflicts at lowest possible level.
- Effectively supports VHA, Network, and NAVAHCS initiatives, identifies unique opportunities to expand quality, access, and timeliness of care to veterans.
- Promotes safety with prescribed cautionary procedures and completes all accident reports within agency timeframes.
- Participates in quality improvement/quality assurance activities for the assigned work area and service or service line.

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**Pay**: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

**Paid Time Off**: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

**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)

**Licensure**: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

**CME**: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

**Malpractice**: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

**Contract**: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

**Work Schedule**: Monday through Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Mountain Standard Time

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details.

**Qualifications**:

- To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualification standard at the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupation.
- **Basic Requirements**:

- United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
- Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Terri