VA’s health executives maintain the high standard of care Veterans count on when they visit our facilities. Are you ready to lead care delivery for the nation’s heroes in your community?
Licensed Physician/Dental Officers and Health System Administrators prepared for this challenge are invited to apply for open positions in 12 cities: Amarillo, Texas; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; Leeds, Massachusetts; Manchester, New Hampshire; Martinsburg, West Virginia; Montgomery, Alabama; Phoenix and Prescott, Arizona; Poplar Bluff, Missouri; Providence, Rhode Island; and Syracuse, New York.
As VA Medical Center Executive Directors, you help lead thousands of clinicians, nurses, mental health professionals, medical technicians and support staff who carry out VA’s mission with honor and integrity.
“VA’s culture is defined by its core values: integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect and excellence,” said Darren Sherrard, Associate Director of Recruitment and Marketing at VA. “As part of our executive team, your many functions — community leader, manager, mentor, team builder and more — are all focused on how to best serve Veterans.”
Choose VA to shape care
As VAMC Executive Director, you carry out key decisions that directly impact Veterans’ health care at the local level and advance the quality of care that VA provides overall. You also influence the medical facility’s culture and service to the most diverse population of Veterans in history. You are responsible for the financially sound direction and operation of the medical center. Lastly, you report to the Veterans Integrated Service Network Director for your region.
VA is also seeking candidates to fill these other senior leadership positions:
- Associate Directors and Assistant Directors in a variety of roles.
- Associate Directors for Patient Care Services and other Nurse Executive positions (see related story).
- Chiefs of Staff in various cities.
- Senior Executive Service Deputy Under Secretaries, Executive Directors and others.
And VA leadership positions come with the following benefits:
- Competitive salary and premium-paid medical, vision and dental insurance.
- A generous retirement that includes Social Security, a federal pension and a 401(k)-type plan with up to 5% in employer contributions.
- Up to 49 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave and 10 federal holidays).
- Reimbursement for relocation expenses (conditions apply).
Choose VA today
- APPLY for an open VAMC Executive Director position:
- Physician/Dental Officers apply here.
- Health System Administrators apply here.
- READ about senior leaders working at VA today and download the flyer (PDF).
- EXPLORE VA senior leadership positions.
- LEARN how to Choose VA at www.VAcareers.va.gov.
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Religious Studies major at (Southwest) Missouri State and minors in Computers and history; a member of the (Community Partnership of the Ozarks) Veterans Homeless Task Force and used to work for NAMI, Southwest Missouri.
I attended the Naval School of Health Sciences in ’76 and also a former EMT and Instructor (Missouri) and worked a few rural Emergency Rooms as an ERT. Over 16 hours of college Psychology…
Former Bail Bondsman and local security guard, armed and not.
If I can afford it or fi there is compensation, I can travel for training in this program or the clergy training program…
I am also trying to get a new nonprofit (Southern Missouri Emergency Services) to do three things:
1) Create six (6) disaster battalions in southern Missouri to be available to FEMA and the Missouri State Fire Marshall’s Office: three battalions each…the reserve equipment at each battalion must be left in-state for training and instate disasters;
2) National fraternity of Special Events Motorcycle Teams, manned by volunteers EMTs and paramedics, et al, that
assist local communities in a) Missing person(s) searches
b) Aid in disaster
c) Security assistance, and
d) Traffic control at special events
(Canada already has a medical motorcycle team fraternity available under the name of White Knights)
3) Bring the Rural Medical Assistant program from India and combine it with the U.S. Paramedic program:
both programs are six (6) months long and I plan on combining the two programs with intensive hands-on
practice during the year-long course.
The Rural Medical program was developed to get the severely -ill and sick into the Indian cities where the doctors are, but with Paramedic training added to the program, a severely ill patient can be stabilized at the scene by a Paramedic…
I need writers and administrative help to accomplish this….
Thank you very much!