Podiatrist- Surgical Care

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Temple (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Podiatrist in the Podiatry Section of Surgical Care at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS) reports to the Chief of Podiatry. The physician provides medical and surgical services to eligible veterans and administers the Podiatry section.

Responsibilities include clinical duties in podiatric surgery, patient evaluation across multiple settings, supervision of trainees, and on-call coverage while promoting foot health and preventing complications from systemic diseases.

Responsibilities

• Perform operations that require a Podiatric surgeon (clinical duties).
• Evaluate patients in the Podiatry clinic, emergency room, ICU, OR, and inpatient services.
• Supervise medical students, residents, and fellows in clinics, wards, and OR.
• Provide on-call coverage per schedule.
• Promote foot health education to prevent deformity and complications.
• Assess limb loss risk and participate in amputation prevention with interdisciplinary teams.
• Prescribe prosthetic aids and devices as needed.
• Interact with prosthetics and other care professionals for amputee care.

Job description

The Podiatrist - in the Podiatry Section of Surgical Care at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS) - reports directly to the Chief of Podiatry. The Podiatrist is responsible for providing medical and surgical services to eligible veterans and administrating the section of Podiatry.

Duties

• This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT & will remain open until November 25 - 2026 or until positions are filled
• Eligible applications received will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package
• Clinical Duties: Responsible for performing operations that require a Podiatric surgeon
• Operations include - but are not limited to - lesser digital deformity repair - bunionectomy - flatfoot and cavus foot repair - amputation and limb salvage and reconstructive rearfoot and ankle surgery - forefoot surgery
• Responsible for evaluation of patients in the Podiatry clinic - emergency room - intensive care unit - operating room - and other inpatient services
• Supervise trainees including medical students - podiatric medical students - residents - and fellows in all these settings
• Responsible for providing on-call in accordance with the call schedule
• Practices safety - environmental - and/or infection control methods
• Responsible for the delivery of podiatric health care in the promotion of health education - with the objective being to stimulate public interest in early detection and care for the identification of common foot problems and complications of systemic diseases and to prevent deformity - disability and complications
• Assess all patients for their degree of risk to limb loss and will maintain an interdisciplinary approach to amputation prevention to reduce the incidents of amputation and other lower extremity complications resulting from diabetic foot ulcers and peripheral vascular disease
• Assess patient's need for and prescribe the appropriate prosthetic aids and devices including aids - appliances or parts which are required to replace - support or substitute for a deformed - weakened or missing anatomical portion of the foot
• Closely interact with prosthetics - along with other interdisciplinary health care professionals - to provide care and treatment to amputee veterans - veterans at risk for amputation and veterans with foot deformities
• Administrative Duties: Responsible for the daily running of the Podiatry clinic in both the inpatient - OR - and outpatient setting
• Responsible for maintaining clinical flow efficiency in the outpatient setting and working to keep clinic and operative wait times low
• Support and enhance CTVHCS philosophy and goals
• Teaching Duties: Teach Podiatric Surgery fellows - residents - and podiatric medical students in the clinics - on the wards - and in the operating room
• Maintain adjunct clinical professor faculty status at the colleges of podiatric medicine
• Research Duties: Actively participate in Podiatric research - serving as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on funded and non-funded research projects
• Serve as research advisor and mentor to Podiatric residents - Podiatric graduate students - and visiting faculty
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 7:30am - 4:00pm Telework: Ad-Hoc (Occasional or Irregular basis) Virtual: This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized