VA Wilkes-Barre is seeking our Chief, Mental and Behavioral Health Service to lead Mental and Behavioral Health Service medical center operations!

Highly qualified candidates will be Board Certified Psychiatrists with management or leadership experience. As a member of service level leadership, you will have full and final administrative responsibility for planning, developing, coordinating, directing, and evaluating an integrated mental health program to both outpatients and inpatients of WB VAMC.

In this role, you will:

• Perform a wide range of higher-level management functions for Wilkes-Barre VAMC, CBOCs and VISN 4 through participation in planning and oversight boards, councils, and committees.
• Develop and maintain continuing programs in the areas of professional peer review organizational improvement, continuing education, scope of practice, human resource management, clinical privileging, organizational stewardship and other quality improvement activities for a multidisciplinary staff are also essential to this position.
• Provide direct health care

Tour of Duty: M-F 8-4:30. Salary and sign on bonus negotiable.

About working at VA:

• Licensure: Any full and unrestricted license from any US State or Territory is sufficient to work at any VA Medical Center or clinic
• Recruitment incentive may be approved depending on location
• Student Loan Repayment: You may be eligible to apply for an education loan reimbursement award of up to $200,000 under the provisions of the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)
• $1,000 CME reimbursement + 5 day paid absence to attend
• Free liability protection!
• Performance bonus of up to an additional $15K each year!
• No physician employment contracts!

Contact me to discuss this opening! 

Hillary Garcia: Hillary.Garcia@va.gov