Supervisory Physician Occupational Medicine

The Navy and Marine Corps team offers innovative, exciting, and meaningful work linking military and civilian talents to achieve our mission and safeguard our freedoms. Department of the Navy provides competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and extensive professional development and training.

Consider working for the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED), the U.S. Navy's Civilian health care organization. This position is the Director for Public Health Services (DPH) located at Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River (NHCPR), Maryland and reports to the Commanding Officer via the Executive Officer. In this position you will be responsible for the coordination, supervision, and efficient operation of all public health services provided by NHCPR. The functional service areas include Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Medicine/Health, Preventive Medicine, Safety, Immunizations, Infection Control, and Wellness/Health Promotion; and perform the duties of the Public Health Emergency Officer for Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Naval Support Activity Dahlgren, Naval Support Activity Indian Head, and NAF Washington on Joint Base Andrews.

This announcement is being used to recruit qualified individuals, under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Direct Hire Authority, authorized by 5 United States Code (U.S.C.), Section 3304 and 5 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 337, Subpart B. The Rule of Three, Veteran's Preference, and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to the Direct Hire process. For more information on OPM Direct-Hire Authority, please review this link: http://www.opm.gov/DirectHire/factsheet.asp.

APPLY NOW! This job opportunity announcement has a first cut-off date of 2/26/2018. Applications received by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the cut-off date of 2/26/2018 will receive first consideration for this vacancy. Candidates who apply after may be referred on a periodic basis depending on staffing needs.

Responsibilities

• Direct, plan, coordinate, implement, and evaluate activities related to the delivery of public health services.
• Participate in the development and implementation of long and short range plans, policies, and strategies for providing efficient and competent delivery of public health services.
• Provide worksite evaluations, worker medical surveillance, consultations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention planning for those at risk for occupational and environmental disease conditions.
• Perform pre-employment/placement, return to work clearance, physical fitness for duty, hazardous duty, acute exposure, injury, and impairment examinations.
• Function as the Public Health Emergency Officer. Directly supervise clinical, administrative, and technical operations staff.

Travel Required

Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Supervisory Status - Yes

Conditions Of Employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Males must be registered or exempt from Selective Service. www.sss.gov
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• May be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period.
• All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the referral cut-off date.
• Must receive and maintain appropriate vaccination(s) and immunizations.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or pass the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• Selectee(s) must meet any applicable credentialing or privileging requirements prior to appointment.
• Positions that are supervisory/managerial require that first time supervisors/managers complete a one-year trial/probationary period if not previously completed in a competitive or other excepted service position.
• Supervisors in the executive branch have a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. The selectee will be required to review the 14 General Principles of Ethical Conduct at 5 CFR 2635.101.

Qualifications

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

• DEGREE: Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant's graduation. If your Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree is from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States, you must have a permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), a Fifth Pathway Certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduated education in a foreign country, or successfully completed the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.
• LICENSING: Active, permanent, full, unrestricted physician license to practice medicine in any state, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• RESIDENCY: Two years of residency in the specialty; plus an additional two years of training, residency, fellowship, or experience in the specialty. This experience/training will include experience providing comprehensive occupational medical services to include, but not limited to performing fitness for duty examinations, evaluating health effects from occupational or environmental exposures, communicable disease program implementation, Emergency Management implementation; experience applying principles, practices, and theories of Occupational Medicine to workplace situations.

Applicants must also be able to satisfy clinical privileges requirements which, in addition to the above, includes the following:

• Completion of a residency program in the specialty approved by the American specialty board or AOA, board certification, or board eligible.
• Current clinical competence (e.g., privileged to independently practice as an Occupational Medicine Physician within the past two years, actively practiced within the past two years by having encountered a sufficient number of clinical cases to represent a broad spectrum of the privileges required).
• No health status contraindications to granting clinical privileges.
• Board certification is desired but not required.

SELECTIVE PLACEMENT FACTOR: This position has a selective placement factor that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates. The selective placement factor is: possession of Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification. Failure to document the current certification in your resume or application documents will result in an ineligible rating.

APPLY NOW! This job opportunity announcement has a first cut-off date of 2/26/2018. Applications received by 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the cut-off date of 2/26/2018 will receive first consideration for this vacancy. Candidates who apply after may be referred on a periodic basis depending on staffing needs.

HOW TO APPLY: Send your resume only (provide beginning and ending dates, month and year, a detail description of duties under each work experience to medjobs@navy.mil (no SSN or pictures please). Insert NEJM10126544 in your subject line. 

To learn more about the position please visit: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/PrintPreview/489916200