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Supervisory Speech Language Pathologist - Service Chief

Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$125K/yr - $162K/yr

5+ years exp

Overton Brooks VA Medical Center is seeking a Supervisory Speech Language Pathologist to serve as the Service Chief for the Speech Language Pathology Service. This role involves overseeing all professional, management, and administrative aspects of the service, ensuring quality care for Veterans, and providing leadership and guidance within the clinical environment.

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No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Serves as a Service Chief; responsible for all professional, management and administrative aspects of the service or organizational entity

Overall responsible for a service-level organizational unit and has full responsibility for clinical practice, program management, education, human resource management and supervision for the service

Autonomously manages substantive parts of specialized, complex, professional services that significantly impact Veterans' care

Provides leadership with objective, independent assessments and recommendations for policy, operational and administrative issues and initiatives requiring decision and action

Monitors work performance to ensure that requirements are satisfied; interprets and processes a wide variety of data related to program planning and specialized needs of the Veterans, the service, and the medical center; and ensures policies or issues have been fully coordinated, vetted, and staffed

Advises executive leadership on implications, key issues, and relationships to interest groups (both internal and external) and recommend courses of action; coordinates and negotiates resolutions to complex problems

Assures compliance with accrediting agencies and regulatory requirements and corrective action is initiated as needed. Responsible for professional and administrative management of an assigned area, including budget execution

Maintains interdepartmental relationships with other services to accomplish medical center goals. 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

Develops policies and procedures and may develop performance standards, position descriptions and functional statements

Monitors the clinical performance of staff, conduct performance appraisals, and perform other clinical and administrative responsibilities to ensure that the mission of the service and the medical center has been satisfied

May set training objectives for staff and delegate responsibilities to subordinate sections

Exercises supervision, administrative management, and direction of both professional areas in a unified audiology and speech-language pathology service or equivalent service-level department, or administrative management and program direction of other rehabilitation-related areas

Manages and directs the work of others to accomplish program goals and missions

Supervises, motivates, and effectively manages a diverse clinical staff applicable to a service level department in a large, complex, or multi-division facility

Responsible for planning, assessing, and evaluating programs to ensure proper coordination between care delivered by the service

Develops, organizes, directs, manages, supervises, controls, and implements policies and procedures for complex service-level departments

Fully responsible for developing and directing educational and training programs; negotiating affiliation agreements with academic partners; and setting training objectives

Delegates responsibilities to subordinate section or assistant chiefs (if applicable), planning, and scheduling work; assigning work to employees; accepting, amending, or rejecting completed work; assuring that production and accuracy requirements are met; appraising performance and recommending performance standards and ratings; assigning delineated clinical privileges; approving leave; and affecting all levels of disciplinary measures

Qualification

Speech-Language PathologyClinical Practice ManagementProgram ManagementHuman Resource ManagementSupervisory ExperiencePolicy DevelopmentConflict ResolutionInterdepartmental CoordinationCommunication SkillsLeadership Skills

Required

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

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)

Complete all application requirements detailed in the 'Required Documents' section of this announcement

Must be able to independently operate Government Vehicle

Must provide clean driving record report from the DMV during the pre-employment process

United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy

Education and Experience: A master's degree, or its equivalent, in speech-language pathology, communication disorders or a directly related field from an accredited college or university and one year of creditable experience

A doctoral degree in speech-language pathology, communication disorders and sciences or a related field, from an accredited college or university

Foreign Education: To be creditable, education completed outside the U.S. must be deemed at least equivalent to that gained in a conventional U.S. program by a private organization specializing in the interpretation of foreign educational credentials

Licensure: Individuals must hold a full, current and unrestricted license in a U.S. state, territory, commonwealth or the District of Columbia

Experience: In addition to the basic requirements at the GS-13 level, completion of one year of professional experience comparable to the next lower level

Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): (a) Skill to translate management goals and objectives into efficient service operations. (b) Skill in providing clinical and administrative oversight of service operations within complex facilities and/or multiple sites. (c) Skill in conflict resolution to facilitate positive working relationships between employees, team leaders and management. (d) Ability to effectively collaborate with local, VISN and national leadership