This position is located in the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center. The duties and responsibilities are carried out throughout the medical center including all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the service. Incumbent is the Assistant Chief for the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Service.

Duties

Duties Include: Is an assistant service chief. Incumbent serves as a full assistant to the service chief and shares a full scope of delegated managerial responsibilities. Incumbent shares full responsibility for all professional areas with the service chief. Provides orientation/training of medical staff. Assists in orientation and training of new staff. Assists in the training and supervision of students, trainees, and fellows, providing feedback on progress toward established educational goals. Keeps current with theory and practice through continuing education programs, journals, textbooks, and other literature, and in-service programs. Provides patient and family education including informed consent. Exercises supervision, administrative management, and direction of both professional areas in a unified audiology and speech-language pathology service or equivalent service-level department. Has responsibility for general or technical supervision of key clinical or training programs within the service, and overall technical and administrative oversight of speech-language pathologists. Shows potential to supervise, motivate, and manage effectively a diverse clinical staff. Shows potential skill in assessing qualifications and abilities of current and prospective employees. Develops productivity standards applicable to a service or equivalent organizational department. Organizes work, sets priorities, delegates tasks and responsibilities, and meets multiple deadlines for the service. Adapts to new and changing work conditions, staffing, and contingencies. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am to 4:30pm Telework: Available. Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 40320F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. 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.) English Language Proficiency. Speech-language pathologists must be proficient in spoken and written English in accordance with chapter 2, section D, paragraph 5a, 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-Submitted. 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. (1) The S-LP must maintain full, current, and unrestricted licensure/registration. (2) Non-licensed applicants who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for S-LP licensure may be given a temporary appointment as a graduate S-LP under the authority of 38 U.S.C. § 7405 (a) (1) (D).Failure to obtain licensure during that period is justification for termination of the temporary appointment. This may result in termination of employment. [Individuals appointed as graduate S-LPs may not be promoted to the GS-12 level without being fully licensed. (3) The requirement for licensure may be waived by the Under Secretary for Health or designee in VHA Central Office for individuals engaged in research or academic assignments involving no direct patient care duties, in accordance with current activities. (4) A S-LP who has, or ever has had his/her speech-language pathology license revoked, suspended, denied, restricted, limited, or issued/placed on a probationary status may be appointed only in accordance with the provisions in Chapter 3, section B, paragraph 16 of this part. Grandfathering Provision: May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). Physical Requirements. See VA Directive and Handbook 5019. Grade Determinations: Supervisory Speech-Language Pathologist, GS-13. Experience. In addition to the basic requirements at the GS-12 level, completion of one year of professional experience comparable to the next lower level. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). In addition to the experience requirements, the candidate must demonstrate all of the following KSAs: (a) Skill in applying effective management practices to direct the work of organizational units within a service. (b) Skill in communicating established performance benchmarks to a service or equivalent organizational department. (c) Skill in implementing continual performance improvement activities to meet performance benchmarks. (d) Skill in conflict resolution in dealing with a diverse range of employees. (e) Ability to analyze data to manage workload, quality, performance and productivity within the service. Assignment. For all assignments above the full performance level, the higher-level duties must consist of significant scope, complexity and range of variety and be performed by the incumbent at least 25% of the time. Assistant chiefs serve as assistants to the service chief, department head or person of similar organizational rank and share a full scope of delegated managerial responsibilities. Assistant chiefs perform supervision, administrative management and direction of both professional areas in a unified audiology and speech-language pathology service or a speech-language pathology service-level department. Assistant chiefs assess the qualifications and abilities of current and prospective employees; and oversee the professional practice of peers, including recommending clinical privileges or scope of practice of clinical staff. Assistant chiefs identify and address organizational problems; set priorities; communicate assignments and objectives; advise on work methods, practices and procedures; develop performance standards and conduct performance appraisals. They analyze and use data to effectively manage resources, workload, quality, performance, productivity and access within the service. Assistant chiefs provide oversight and assistance in the training and supervision of students, trainees and fellows; and identify continuing education needs of staff. Preferred Experience: Supervisory Experience References: VA Handbook 5005/153, Part II, Appendix G30 Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address West Palm Beach VA Medical Center 7305 North Military Trail West Palm Beach, FL 33410 US
• Name: Samantha Portuondo
• Phone: (727) 398-6661
• Email: [email protected]