Geriatrics Physician - Geriatrics Director Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) in Hawaii (Honolulu, Oahu)

The Geri PACT Director is assigned to the Geri PACT/Geriatrics Consultation Section of Geriatrics and Extended Care (GEC) Service, VA Pacific Islands Healthcare System (VAPIHCS). VA PIHCS provides patient centered care, delivered by engaged, collaborative teams in an integrated environment that supports learning and continuous improvement. The Geri PACT Director oversees both Geri-PACT and Geriatrics Consult clinics. The Geri-PACT Director must have outstanding clinical, interpersonal skills, organizational and administrative skills.

The Geri PACT Director is also a Geri PACT physician who can provide care in both Geri-PACT, a special population PACT providing care for complex, vulnerable at-risk Veterans, and Geriatric consultations in a consultant role. The Geri PACT physician works with the inter professional team to establish plan of care for Veterans, participates in inter-professional team meetings, appropriately facilitates utilization and access to other needed medical services, monitors quality and service metrics, provides education to staff as needed, teaches trainees rotating in Geriatrics in the outpatient clinic, documents appropriately in the electronic medical record, adheres to confidentiality practice, completes mandatory trainings. The Geri PACT physician participates in research as appropriate and education/training activities. The physician must meet requirements for academic appointment with the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Geriatric Medicine. The Geri PACT physician will be involved in the education and training of residents, fellows, medical students, and non-physician clinical trainees.

The Geri PACT Director additionally oversees the Geri-PACT and Geriatrics Consultation clinics and supervises the frontline team, including the Geri PACT Physicians, RNs, LPN, Health Tech, SW, and Medical Support Assistant. The Geri PACT Director works with the Chief of GEC and/or ACOS of GEC to establish and maintain appropriate level service agreements as needed, reviews workload information to balance clinic workload and report as needed, ensures overall panel capacity is maintained based on local patient complexity, ensure Geri PACT program meets standards for PACT programs, ensures that quality assurance program for Geri PACT encompasses both required PACT metrics and VHA quality indicators that target frail elderly, communicates mission and goals, outcomes, resource needs and recommended sources, urgent issues and options for address them, noteworthy accomplishments to staff and relevant clinical services on a regular basis including VA leadership as ACOS of GEC.

Supervisory Controls: The Geri PACT Director reports to the Chief of Geriatrics and Extended Care who reports to the ACOS of GEC.

Work Schedule: 8:00am - 4:30pm; Monday - Friday

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 Federal holidays with pay annually
• 5 Days paid absence to attend approved CME courses

Insurance:

• Health Insurance: VA employees have an outstanding number of health insurance plans from which to choose (premiums are partially paid by VA) Lifetime Healthcare Insurance options available
• Dental & Vision: Our insurance options also include exceptional vision and dental plans (premiums are partially paid by VA)
• VA employees have the option to use Flexible Spending Accounts, which allow you to use tax-free dollars to pay for medical, dental, and vision care expenses that are not reimbursed by your health insurance plan
• Term life insurance, family, and additional coverage options are available with the cost shared by the Federal Government
• Long-term care insurance is available as an option

Federal Retirement Plan:

• VA employees are covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). FERS is a three-tiered retirement plan composed of 1) Social Security benefits, 2) FERS-RAE basic benefits (pension), and 3) Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) which is a 401K-type plan
• How is the pension funded? VA employees automatically contribute 4.4% of their salary each pay period and the VA contributes 12.2% of the employee’s salary each pay period for a total annual contribution percentage equal to 16.6% of the employee’s salary
• Similar to the 401(k) savings plans widely available in the private sector, the TSP allows employees to tax defer a portion of their income each year, subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service. For calendar year 2020, employees under the age of 50 may contribute up to $19,500, while those over age 50 are eligible to make catch-up contributions that allow them to defer up to $25,500.
• The Federal Government also provides an automatic basic contribution (1% of salary) and up to 4% of salary in matching contributions, depending on the amount of the employee contribution
• For retired military personnel, these benefits are in addition to full monthly retirement pay or pension
• In addition to FERS, VA provides health care insurance coverage for retired personnel
• Disability Retirement
• Employees are vested in a federal pension after only 5 years service