Board Certified /Board Eligible Pain Medicine Physician

Posterity Group; Spring Valley (WV); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Posterity Group—a veteran-owned staffing firm—seeks a Pain Medicine physician to staff Hershel “Woody” Williams VAMC and related CBOCs in West Virginia. The role includes in-person and telehealth outpatient and inpatient care within an interprofessional team using a biopsychosocial model of pain care.

Responsibilities include comprehensive evaluations, accurate diagnoses, developing integrated treatment plans, opioid management, and compliance with VA and DOD guidelines.

Qualifications

• Shall have a current medical license in any US state, territory, or DC.
• Board Certified / Board Eligible in Pain Medicine or demonstrable experience in pain management and opioid prescribing.
• Currently certified in BLS and ACLS or equivalency.
• Must be able to read, write, speak English fluently.

Responsibilities

• Perform comprehensive medical and functional evaluations for Veterans referred to the Pain Clinic, including history, physical examination, and review of diagnostic studies.
• Establish accurate pain diagnoses and comorbidities and collaborate with the interprofessional team to develop individualized, integrated treatment plans emphasizing functional restoration and self-management.
• Provide inpatient Chronic Pain consultative services and medication management for chronic pain conditions with opioid stewardship.
• Manage opioid medications and perform adjustments including tapers per guidelines and local VA policies.
• Order and review laboratory tests and imaging to optimize the pain care plan and follow up on results per VHA standards.

Skills

Medical license

Pain medicine

Opioid management

English proficiency

Education

MD/DO

BLS/ACLS

Job description

Description

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing the Hershel "Woody" Williams VAMC and related CBOCs with Board Certified/Board Eligible Pain Medicine Physician. The Physician is expected to do the following:

Services will be offered through a combination of in-person visits and virtual / telehealth appointments, in the outpatient and inpatient setting, within an interprofessional specialty care team that utilizes the Biopsychosocial Model of Pain Care and the VA Stepped Care Model of Pain Management.

Place of Performance:

• Hershel “Woody” Williams VAMC, 1540 Spring Valley Drive, Huntington, WV 25704,


• Charleston VA Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) 700 Technology Drive, South Charleston, WV 25309.

• Perform comprehensive medical and functional evaluations for Veterans referred to the Pain Clinic, including history, physical examination, and review of diagnostic studies.


• Establish accurate pain diagnoses and comorbidities (e.g., substance use disorders, mental health issues) and, in collaboration with interdisciplinary team, develop individualized, integrated treatment plans that emphasize functional restoration and self-management.


• Provide inpatient Chronic Pain consultative services for Veterans admitted to the hospital.


• Provide medication management for chronic pain conditions, focusing on polypharmacy reduction, opioid risk stratification, and utilizing non-opioid analgesics and adjuvant medications.


• Manage opioid medications and perform opioid medication adjustments including tapers as indicated and in compliance with current VA/DOD Long-term Opioid Therapy Clinical Practice Guidelines, and local VA policies.


• Orders, performs, reviews, and analyzes appropriate laboratory tests, imaging, and other diagnostic studies necessary to optimize the pain care plan.


• Follows up with Veterans regarding results per VHA standards to discuss care plans, changes to therapy, and additional monitoring or testing requirements.


• Provide clinical collaboration with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other members of the interdisciplinary team. Complete all required electronic health record documentation in accordance with VHA standards, including timely, accurate entries for pain management activities, therapeutic changes, recommendations, procedures, and patient check-out (such as diagnostic and procedure codes).


• Ensures compliance with national and local performance measures, including prompt health screenings and completion of clinical reminders for patients. Perform other clinical duties as indicated and assigned.


• Perform interventional pain care, including fluoroscopy and ultrasound-guided invasive procedures (e.g., epidural steroid injections, medial branch blocks, radiofrequency ablations, joint injections, spinal cord stimulator trials, intrathecal baclofen trials, intrathecal pump refills)

Requirements

• Shall have a current license to practice medicine in any State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States or the District of Columbia - full and unrestricted license


• Shall be Board Certified /Board Eligible in Pain Medicine or have demonstrable experience in pain management and opioid prescribing, have experience in providing scope of care as described herein and be currently certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA),


• Be currently certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or equivalency.


• Shall be technically proficient in the skills necessary to fulfill the government’s requirements, including the ability to speak, understand, read and write English fluently.


• Shall provide documents upon request of the CO/COR to verify current and ongoing competency, skills, certification and/or licensure related to the provision of care, treatment and/or services performed.