Physician (Palliative Care-Hospice)

4 weeks ago

St Louis, Missouri, United States Department Of Veterans Affairs Full time
Summary

The Saint Louis VHA healthcare System is actively seeking a full-time board certified/eligible Hospice & Palliative Care physician. Responsible for the provision of consultation services and follow-up for inpatients and outpatients requiring palliative care services. Responsible for providing palliative education to trainees and staff members as needed for job performance and closely with the palliative care APN and other Palliative Care Team members in the provision of these services.



Duties

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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 - Friday, 8:00a.m - 4:30p.m.

Clinical duties include but are not limited to:

  • Oversees provision of controlled substance therapy (opioids, for example) provided to palliative care patients.
  • Directs the provision of quality, consistent, coordinated palliative specialty care at facility and outpatient clinic
  • Participates in direct patient care and serves as a role model for peers.
  • Participates in committee work as assigned, especially in the Ethics team and with the Tumor Board.
  • Has responsibility for conducting focused and ongoing professional practice evaluations (FPPE and OPPE) as assigned.
  • Provides direct patient care in outpatient and inpatient wards, taking call when felt to be necessary to assure the care of the veterans.
  • Completes required training, closure of encounters, billing, electronic view alerts, orders, medication renewals, travel requests, and other assigned tasks in a timely manner.
  • Has responsibility for ensuring that services are provided in an efficient, high- quality manner.
  • Contributes to the development, maintenance, and enhancement of relations with internal and external entities, such as in-home hospice agencies.
  • Participates in local administrative, management, safety, quality assurance, performance, and other functions, meetings, or committees as assigned.
  • The incumbent will need to participate in after-hours on-call coverage and weekend rounding duties at the skilled care and rehab facility (Community Living Center) at our Jefferson Barracks campus on a rotational/shared basis with other ECRS physicians.

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