This position is located in the GRECC at Madison WI VA Medical Center. The duties and responsibilities are carried out throughout the medical center including all clinical and patient care areas involved with the service. Incumbent is a staff speech-language pathologist with special clinical program.

Duties

VISN 12 is committed to fostering and sustaining an environment which celebrates diversity, provides equitable opportunities for employment and promotion, and supports inclusiveness in our culture. Together, we strive to create and maintain working and learning environments that promote professional growth and teamwork, and are inclusive, equitable and welcoming. We embrace our differences as individuals and unite as a team toward a common goal: to serve our nation's Veterans. Major Duties: a. Applies advanced theories and techniques to special patient populations, provide professional advice and counseling, and provide consultation in specialized areas of speech-?language pathology. b. Manages complex and difficult patients with multiple physical, sensory, motor, cognitive, or other issues that complicate communication or swallowing status, and involve multiple clinical management options, difficult clinical decision making, complex data, and high risk of complications, morbidity, or mortality, e.g. tracheoesophageal voice prostheses and laryngetomy tubes, ventilator-dependent and tracheostomized patients with speaking values, and those receiving poly-pharmacy impacting on communication. c. Exercises independent clinical judgment and adapts clinical procedures and techniques to accommodate age-specific and unique patient conditions, needs, and expectations; d. Evaluates patients to determine nature, type, and severity of speech, language, voice, cognitive, and swallowing disorders using a full range of diagnostic tests and techniques, past, family, and social history, record review, and consultation with family and other health care practitioners; e. Plans, coordinates, and implements a full range of patient-focused treatment services designed to optimize function; f. Consults with physicians and other health care practitioners related to diagnostic evaluation and treatment. g. Documents in the medical record: evaluates, diagnosis and clinical opinion, treatment plans, outcomes of treatment, changes in functional status, and patient/family education. h. Attends interdisciplinary team meetings; participates with other health care practitioners to address the global needs of the patient, advises on diagnosis and treatment Work Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Yes- Position Suitable Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: Speech Pathologist/PD000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

BASIC REQUIREMENTS Citizenship. Citizen of the United States. (Non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified candidates in accordance with chapter 3, section A, paragraph 3g, this part.) Education. A master's degree or its equivalent in speech-language pathology, communication disorders, or a directly related field from an accredited college or university. "Accredited" means a college or university [recognized] by a regional accreditation organization and a speech-language pathology academic program [recognized] by the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Licensure. For those grades that require licensure (GS-12 and above), [ ] the incumbent must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license in a State, Territory, Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia. Specialized Experience: Completion of 1 year of experience equivalent to the next lower grade level directly related to the position being filled, and must fully meet the KSAs at that level. In addition, the candidate must demonstrate the following professional KSAs and demonstrate the potential to acquire the assignment specific KSAs designated by an asterisk (*): Staff Speech-Language Pathologist (Advanced Practice Speech-Language Pathologist). This assignment is defined as the ability to provide independent and expert speech-language pathology services in a specialized area of practice. Examples include but are not limited to Traumatic Brain Injury, Polytrauma, etc. Speech-language pathologists at this grade level are advanced practice independent licensed practitioners and must demonstrate ability to apply advanced knowledge, theories, and techniques to a full range of complex patient populations. The advanced practice speech-language pathologist has an increased depth and breadth of practice skills; has expertise in participating in the professional development of colleagues through mentorship and teaching; demonstrates leadership in defining and attending to professional practice issues; and has the ability to expand the conceptual knowledge of the profession. Work involves speech-language pathology services requiring the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of complex speech-language pathology practice skills not typically required in routine speech-language pathology practice. The advanced practice speech-language pathologist has mastered a range of specialized interventions and provides consultation to colleagues, renders professional opinions based on experience and expertise, and incorporates an advanced knowledge of scientific principles and contemporary practice in the differential diagnosis and treatment of speech, language, voice, resonance, swallowing, and cognitive-communication disorders. The following KSAs are required: a. Advanced knowledge of normal anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology in the areas of speech, language, voice, fluency, swallowing, and cognition; b. Advanced skill to perform and interpret diagnostic tests to a full range of patient populations; c. Advanced skill to provide treatment interventions including analysis of instrumental tests of swallowing function and fitting of voice prostheses in the post-surgical management of patients with head/neck cancer, and advanced augmentative/alternative communication technology in a full range of patient populations; d. Knowledge of embryology, genetics, nutrition, laboratory values, pharmacology, ethics, compliance, diagnostic imaging, and biostatistics; e. Advanced knowledge of, and ability to perform, functions associated with contemporary speech language pathology scope of practice; f. Significant professional achievements such as continuing education, leadership, graduate-level teaching, or scholarly works included research articles, presentations, seminar, or workshops.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address William S Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital 2500 Overlook Terrace Madison, WI 53705 US
• Name: Nathan Peters
• Phone: 612-467-4816
• Email: [email protected]