Physician-Anesthesiologist w/ Recruitment Incentive and Relocation Incentive

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The Iron Mountain VA Healthcare System is seeking an Anesthesiologist in the Surgery, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Service with specific duties to provide care to those in the operating room and to serve as Chief of Anesthesiology. This position is necessary to provide specialized clinical Anesthesiology services for surgical patients and those undergoing other diagnostic and therapeutic non-operative procedures.

Duties

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 08:00am-4:30pm

• Develops guidelines for employee engagement performance requirements, measuring levels of
  engagement, retraining, and developing talent to achieve a high-quality diverse workforce.
• Responsible assisting with the strategic planning and operation of the Surgical
  Service. The employee is responsible for ensuring the administrative and clinical supervision of
  surgical staff in their professional role. Incumbent ensures the provision of surgery services in a
  variety of inpatient and outpatient program areas and clinics.
• Assists with all surgery activities within the medical center ensuring that educational and
  quality surgical care needs of Veterans are met. To accomplish the functions of this position, close
  cooperation with leadership, and the Service Chief is required.
• Participates in making major decisions affecting the basic content and character of the
  operations of surgery. These decisions involve matters, such as, determining which surgery elements
  should be initiated, dropped, curtailed, or emphasized; how many resources should be deployed; the
  time of curtailing, initiating, and changing surgery elements; basic service planning, evaluation of
  service goals and objectives; decisions on organizational structure and delegated responsibility.
  measures for improving coordination among surgery service, and control measures to provide data for
  management and reports results to Chief of Surgery.

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

Paid Time Off:

• 26 Days paid annual (vacation/personal) leave
• 13 Days paid sick leave each year with no limit on accumulation
• 11 paid Federal holidays per year
• 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