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Physician (Occupational Medicine)

Employer
Department of Navy - Bureau of Medicine
Location
Barstow, California
Closing date
Feb 21, 2020

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Specialty
Occupational Medicine
Hours
Full Time
Position Type
Permanent

Consider working for the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), the U.S. Navy's Civilian health care organization. This position is located at Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow (MCLBB) and reports to the Head of Occupational Medicine Department, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton. In this position you will provide occupational medicine and preventive medicine services; and supervise medical care to civil service employees and active duty members at MCLBB, and Yermo Maintenance Center (YMC).

Responsibilities

  • Conduct exams for medical surveillance and special duty certification exams.
  • Provide clinical supervision and teach residents, interns, and other medical students/staff.
  • Evaluate all reported adverse health effects resulting from an occupational or environmental exposure.
  • Advise medical staff on clinical follow-up and case investigation of patients with known or suspected reportable communicable diseases.
  • Assess employees for workplace injuries, and write supplementary physician letters to Department of Labor as needed.
  • Advise on emergency preparedness issues, particularly those involving bio-warfare agents.

Travel Required

Occasional travel - Travel is dependent upon position description and availability of funding.

Conditions of Employment

  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • Males must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. www .sss.gov
  • Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
  • Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
  • May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period.
  • All qualifications requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement and clearly documented in your resume.
  • Must receive and maintain appropriate vaccination(s) and immunizations.
  • Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
  • Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
  • Selectee will be required to successfully complete a pre-appointment physical examination.
  • Selectee(s) must meet any applicable credentialing or privileging requirements prior to appointment.
  • Must be able to travel independently to conduct duties at off base locations.

Qualifications

This announcement is being used to recruit qualified individuals, under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Direct Hire Authority, authorized by 5 United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 3304 and 5 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 337, Subpart B. The Rule of Three, Veteran's Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to the Direct Hire process. For more information on OPM Direct-Hire Authority, please review this link: http:// www .opm.gov/DirectHire/factsheet.asp.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

  • DEGREE: Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant's graduation. If your Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree is from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States, you must have a permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), a Fifth Pathway Certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduated education in a foreign country, or successfully completed the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.
  • LICENSING: Active, permanent, full, unrestricted physician license to practice medicine in any state, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
  • RESIDENCY: 5 years of residency training or equivalent experience and training in Occupational Medicine (e.g., 2 yrs. Residency & 3 years fellowship, experience or other training). Your resume must reflect you have a sufficient level of expertise in Occupational Medicine to perform the core privileges of this position. This experience/training will include experience providing comprehensive occupational medical services to include, but not limited to performing fitness for duty examinations, evaluating health effects from occupational or environmental exposures, communicable disease program implementation, Emergency Management implementation; working in a clinical setting that involves knowledge of occupational and environmental health hazards including asbestos, blood borne pathogens, cadmium, chromates, ionizing radiation, isocyanates, lead, noise, tuberculosis and vibration; experience exercising sound judgment, tact, and persuasion in gaining the confidence and cooperation of those contacted; experience applying principles, practices, and theories of Occupational Medicine to workplace situations.Applicants must also be able to satisfy clinical privileges requirements which, in addition to the above, includes the following:
  • Completion of a residency program in the specialty approved by the American specialty board or AOA, board certification, or board eligible.
  • Current clinical competence (e.g., privileged to independently practice as a XXXXX Physician within the past 2 years, actively practiced within the past 2 years by having encountered a sufficient number of clinical cases to represent a broad spectrum of the privileges required).
  • No health status contraindications to granting clinical privileges.
  • Board certification is desired but not required.

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: possession of Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification. Failure to document the current certification in your resume or application documents will result in an ineligible rating.

How to Apply

Your complete application (resume, assessment questionnaire, and all supporting documents) must be received by 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on 04/05/2019. Applications received after 04/05/2019 may result in an ineligible rating and loss of consideration. If more than one resume is received, only the last resume received and processed will be reviewed. Send your resume only (provide detail description of duties under each work experience) to medjobs @navy.mil (no SSN or pictures please). Insert HC10064647 in your subject line.

To learn more about the position, please visit: https:// www .usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/481988300

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