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Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: Patuxent River, MD
Salary: $96,539.00 - $195,000.00 / Per Year
Job Type: Full Time - Permanent
Phone: (215)697-0532

JOB SUMMARY:

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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. From pipefitters to accountants, scientists to engineers, doctors to nurses-the careers and opportunities to make a difference are endless. Civilian careers-where purpose and patriotism unite!

The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery provides high quality patient- and family-centered medical care in wartime and peacetime. Civilian healthcare professionals work side-by-side with military medical staff to care for active duty members, their families, and retirees at medical facilities around the globe. Every day, no matter what the environment, Navy Medicine is ready to provide world class care, anytime, anywhere.

 

This position is for a Family Practice Physician at the Naval Health Clinic, Patuxent River, MD (NHCPR).  The selectee shall be responsible to the Primary Care Department Head for delivering appropriate quality treatment and diagnosis to active duty, active duty family members, retirees, and retiree family members.  The selectee will serve as a primary care provider with enrolled patients and assist with:  advising other care providers (Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Independent Duty Corpsman); consultant and advisor; as a medical representative on boards and committees, in conferences and other activities involving the health care of the population served.

 

The selectee will be on-call (phone watch) on a rotating basis with other providers for patients enrolled to NHCPR.  The clinic will operate 5 days per week (Mon-Fri); estimating 36 hours per week of patient appointments per provider.

 

Hurry, apply on or before the cut-off  11/20/13  to receive first consideration!

 

The purpose of this announcement is to recruit qualified individuals using OPM Government-wide Direct Hire Authority (DHA) authorized by Title 5 USC §3304 and 5 CFR 337 Part 337, Subpart B.  The rule of three, veteran preference, and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to the direct hire process.  For more information on OPM DHA please visit http://www.opm.gov/DirectHire/factsheet.asp.

TRAVEL REQUIRED

• Not Required

RELOCATION AUTHORIZED

• No

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

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• You must be a US Citizen
• Accredited MD or DO, or ECFMG or Fifth Pathway certification
• Active physician license awarded by any state
• Must be registered for Selective Service, see Legal & Regulatory Guidance
• Suitable for Federal employment as determined by background investigation
• If selected-you are required to successfully complete a probationary period