Physician (Medical Officer)
Job Series Number: 0602
At the Federal Bureau of Prisons, being a part of our medical staff allows you to make a daily impact. Here you experience a level of clinical diversity and continuity of care not commonly available in the private sector. At the Federal Bureau of Prisons, we follow a collaborative team medicine approach that empowers our staff to heal patients and grow their careers.
Excellent federal benefits include:
- Title 38 pay for Physicians
- Competitive federal salary and benefit package/li>
- No billing, coding or dealing with insurance
- Consistent 40-hour work week
- Federal law enforcement retirement
- Pay Levels GP14 - GP15
Duties involve all aspects of health care delivery including, but not limited to:
- Performing complete physical examinations
- Collecting comprehensive medical and social history to include a patient history review
- Examining and ordering appropriate diagnostic testing and providing necessary treatment and/or medications as required
- Referring selected cases to consultant specialists when necessary
- Referring inmates requiring hospitalization to a community hospital and to an appropriate admitting physician
- Conducting rounds and visiting patients in their designated housing areas
Education
Licensure
Experience
For purposes of this standard, graduate training programs include only those internship, residency, and fellowship programs that are approved by accrediting bodies recognized within the United States or Canada. Listings of accredited programs are published yearly in the Directory of Residency Training Programs and the Yearbook and Directory of Osteopathic Physicians.
For consideration at the GS-12 level
- Experience performing physical assessment in correlation with historical findings, and recording preliminary objective findings.
- Experience conducting examinations of personnel as required for appointment. Approvals or disapproval examination in such cases from a medical viewpoint and in accordance with current established medical standards for employees.
- Experience administering or directing administration of both curative and preventative inoculations.
For consideration at the GS-13 level
- Experience in making decisions relative to consultation with members of medical and institutional staff.
- Experience in providing clinical care, interviewing prospective physicians and mid-level providers, and evaluating patient care through an ongoing quality assurance program that identifies problems and their resolution.
- Experience in providing clinical oversight and is responsible for all health care delivered.
For consideration at the GS-14 level
AND
1 year of appropriate experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level
Examples include:
- Experience examining and ordering diagnostic testing and providing necessary treatment and/or medications.
- Experience conducting examinations of personnel as required to approving and disapproving examinations.
- Experience prescribing medications, treatments, and fully utilizing health services for treatment, rehabilitative, and diagnostic modalities.
For consideration at the GS-15 level
This pay level has been established for the following specialties only:
- Emergency Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- OB/GYN
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Surgery
- Neurology
- Family Practice
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Anesthesiology
3 years of residency training or equivalent experience is required
AND
1 year of appropriate experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level
Examples include:
- Experience providing inpatient and outpatient medical care in all aspects of health care delivery in accordance with current accepted medical practice and procedures.
- Experience providing physical examinations, physical assessment in correlation with historical findings, records preliminary objective findings.
- Experience providing treatment, emergency medical/surgical services as required, treat severe trauma cases rehabilitative, diagnostic modalities and prescribing medication.
WE'RE HIRING PHYSICIANS NATIONWIDE.
Looking to treat patients and change lives? Physicians are critical to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. To fill these high-priority positions, we are looking for qualified individuals nationwide. We have immediate openings at facilities in multiple locations.
Apply now for Physician opportunities:
Apply for direct hire* Physician opportunities in these locations:
*Direct hire opportunities allow you to work directly with the hiring institution, bypassing the USAJOBS application. To apply to the Physician (Medical Officer) position at these locations, please submit a complete application packet to the email address indicated in the job announcement.
Please consider the following locations that have immediate vacancies:
"My first reaction when my brother asked me to
consider working in the Bureau of Prisons, 'I am not
going to work in a prison.' After four years, I am in
charge of an inpatient acute care unit that accepts
patients from the complex where I work and other
facilities throughout the nation. The Bureau of
Prisons can offer a good balance of professional
growth, satisfaction, and predictability of scheduled
work hours. This has been one of the best decisions
in my career, and more important, my life."
Physician
Join the leader in Correctional Health Care
We value your unique contribution to our collaborative team medicine approach of providing health care. Come and experience a level of clinical diversity and continuity of care not commonly available in the private sector.
We offer:
- A supportive, safe, and secure environment with opportunity for growth and advancement.
- A competitive federal government salary and benefits, including health care and retirement.
- Potential for loan repayment.
- Potential for recruitment incentives.
- Flexible work options.
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