Podiatrist Medical Director, PCMHI

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT & will remain open until May 08 2026 or until all positions are filled. The first cut-off date is December 26 2026. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updated. After that time you must update your application through your USAJobs account if you would like to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period.


Core responsibilities for the Medical Director of the Primary Care - Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) include leading and coordinating the operations of a multidisciplinary outpatient team with a focus on uninterrupted high-quality care to Veterans. Incumbent monitors and ensures compliance with VANTHCS and mental health policies regulations executive orders and management directives. He/She will collaborate with other teams and team leaders to improve communication and to ensure ongoing continuity of care for Veterans.

• In conjunction with the Clinical Directors of this Mental Health Team the Medical Director PCMHI organizes and directs administrative operational patient and personnel activities for the team. Duties include coordinating interdisciplinary staffing work assignments resource allocation and direct patient care.
• Provides integrated mental health care in primary care clinic settings through collaboration with primary care physicians and primary care nurses. Core responsibilities also include providing triage services to Veterans new to Mental Health. Duties will include consulting with primary care physicians providing brief mental health assessments and time-limited follow up to Veterans not established in specialty mental health and educating veterans nurses and mental health staff about behavioral health issues.
• Skilled in general outpatient psychiatry including diagnostic evaluations pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. He/she should be competent in the management of individuals with a broad range of clinical problems including but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder mood anxiety and psychotic disorders substance use disorders and psychiatric disorders in the elderly Veteran population.
• Serves as a collaborative member of a multidisciplinary mental health team. He/she may provide clinical supervision and/or be assigned as formal collaborating physician for health care professionals such as Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants and Clinical Pharmacy Specialists. They will also provide shared administrative supervision for Social Workers Psychologists Peer Support and Nursing staff.

Conditions of employment

• All qualified candidates encouraged to apply. Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

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.


Podiatrist Basic Requirements

• Degree as a doctor of podiatric medicine or its equivalent from a school of podiatric medicine approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Approved schools are United States schools of podiatric medicine approved by the Council on Podiatry Education of the American Podiatry Association in the year in which the degree was granted. AND
• Completed or currently completing residency training or its equivalent approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. VA Podiatrists involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status. Approved residencies are: (1) Those approved by the accrediting bodies for graduate medical education the Council on Podiatric Medical Education in the list published for the year the residency was completed or (2) Other residencies and training experiences or their equivalents which the local Professional Standards Board determines to have provided an applicant with appropriate professional training. AND
• Currently hold or will hold a full and unrestricted license to practice Podiatry in a State Territory or Commonwealth of the United States or in the District of Columbia.

• ABPN or AOBNP board certified or eligible or anticipated eligibility
• Buprenorphine treatment experience
• Integrated Care experience
• Administrative Psychiatry experience
• Significant VA practice experience