Optometrist (Chief of Optometry)
- Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery
- Montgomery, Alabama
- Full Time
Optometrist (Chief of Optometry)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administrion
Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System
Summary
Educion and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay).
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Summary
Educion and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay).
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Overview
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Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
04/27/2026 to 09/30/2026
Salary
$124,308 - $315,000 per year
Pay scale & grade
VM 15
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Montgomery, AL
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Excepted
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
0662 Optometrist
Supervisory stus
Yes
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Credentialing
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
No
Announcement number
CBTB-12943763-26-KL
Control number
866665000
This job is open to
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Federal employees - Excepted service
Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluion criteria.
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Clarificion from the agency
All qualified candides encouraged to apply. Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens. NOTE: The 2-page Resume requirement does not apply to this position. For more informion, refer to Required Documents below.
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The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce's Economic Development department is dediced to building a prosperous future by tracting new businesses, expanding existing ones, and fostering an environment where innovion thrives.
The Montgomery area is a balance between production and service economies with major interstes in all directions; public, prive and military institutions of higher learning; and a proud heritage to showcase.
The warm Southern hospitality, high quality of life and low cost of living makes Montgomery a wonderful place to put down roots and raise a family. Montgomery offers everything expected in a big city - from world-class arts and theer to ste-of-the-art health care and vibrant retail - all with the small-town warmth seldom found in a city of this size.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards .
This positions is a full-time Director of Optometry, assigned to the Acute Care and Specialties Service Line loced the Central Alabama VA Medical Center. This position may be resided either of our main campuses loced in Montgomery, AL and Tuskegee, AL or outlying CBOCs loced Fort Benning, AL, Columbus, GA, and Fort Rucker, AL. The primary purpose of this position is to provide supervision over Optometry staff and services to include administrive and management functions.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized
Relocion Incentive: Authorized
Permanent Change of Stion (Relocion Assistance): Not Authorized
Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Educion Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US Ste or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certificion)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Function or Scope of Assigned Duties:
- Full program responsibility for the Optometry service and provide supervision to subordines.
- Performs other directly reled duties as assigned, including management of community care referrals as needed.
- Provides clinical supervision to student interns when applicable.
- Eye examinions in regularly scheduled clinics provide diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic eye care to pients of all ages, taking into considerion age-reled and cultural differences of the various veteran populions served.
- Address Visual functions to include reduced visual acuity, impaired contrast sensitivity function, impaired central and/or peripheral vision, eye movement dysfunction, loss of depth perception and combinions of these.
- Consistently communices and tres customers (Veterans, their representives, ors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
- Provides the customer with consistent informion according to established policies and procedures.
- Participe actively in performance improvement and tend assigned meetings or process action teams. Work collaborively with other specialties.
- Follow VA directives and polices and maintains current in BLS.
- Possess computer skills to access and input typed da on each pient into the computerized pient record system (CPRS).
- Provides direct clinical supervision of health technicians and other staff as approprie.
- Supports the TECS (Technology-based Eye Care Services) program.
- Establishes professional working relionships with other clinical service providers within the medical center and outlying clinics, provide telephone and e-consult consultions as needed.
- Coopere with and participe in medical duties or functions reled to quality of care, peer review and with other performance improvement activities as directed.
- Provides prescribed medical trement and personal care services to veterans in need of Optometry services.
- Documents observions, assessments, and changes in pient's condition; collaboring with health team members to facilite positive pient care outcomes.
- Attend mandory training, such as VA Voices, Own the Moment, comply with CME requirements in the specialty of Optometry, and must complete the required TMS courses timely.
- Must be aware and compliant of VA SAIL metrics and VA Performance Measures.
Work Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
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Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
All applicants tentively selected for VA employment in a testing designed position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested denied employment with VA.
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
Subject to background/security investigion.
Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment.
Must pass pre-employment physical examinion.
Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
You may be required to serve a probionary period.
Complete all applicion requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualificion standard the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupion.
Basic Requirements:
United Stes Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
Degree of Doctor of Optometry resulting from a course of educion in optometry. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools or colleges approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are United Stes and Canadian schools or colleges of optometry listed as accredited by the Accredition Council on Optometric Educion (ACOE), in the list published for the year in which the course of study was completed.
Optometrists must possess a current, full and unrestricted license to practice optometry, and maintain a current registrion in a ste, territory, or Commonwealth of the United Stes, or in the District of Columbia th requires successful passage of all parts of Nional Board of Examiners in Optometry intended for basic licensure. The Optometrist must maintain current registrion in the ste of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active, current licensure.
Residency Training: Optometrists must have successfully completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of VA in an accredited post-gradue training program, or have comparable experience, as described below: (1) Approved residencies are those with accredited or within pre-accredited stus by the ACOE, in the list published for the year the residency was completed. OR
(2) Two years of licensed clinical optometric practice in the United Stes consisting of active involvement in the management of medically complex pients. NOTE: The Approving Official may approve, under unusual circumstances, a waiver of residency or comparable experience.
Proficiency in spoken and written English.
Preferred Experience: Post-gradue residency program preferred with ability to tre glaucoma and common ocular conditions/diseases and Supervisory experience.
Reference: For more informion on this qualificion standard, please .
Physical Requirements: This position requires visual acuity, keen hearing; clear, distinctive speech; and manual dexterity. The position requires potentially long periods of continued sitting, telephone and computer usage, walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling, and pushing. Transferring equipment/objects may be required.
Educion
NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician gradue of a school of medicine not covered above if the candide is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrive position with no pient care responsibilities. The appointment made only in exceptional circumstances where the candide's credentials clearly demonstre high professional tainment or expertise in the specialty area.
Additional informion
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those th have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive stus.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-reled positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alterne method to submit documents, please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act, the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicant's criminal history prior to accepting a tentive job offer. For more informion about the Act and the complaint process, Human Resources and Administrion/Operions, Security, and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) The Fair Chance Act .
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Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution.
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
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You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above.
Your applicion, resume, C.V., and/or other supporting documention verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect considerion for employment.
NOTE: A formal pay-setting process used to determine your salary. The salary may be any point in the range listed for this vacancy.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
The Department of Veterans Affairs performs pre-employment reference checks as an assessment method used in the hiring process to verify informion provided by a candide (e.g., on resume or during interview or hiring process); gain additional knowledge regarding a candide's abilities; and assist a hiring manager with making a final selection for a position.
Veterans' Preference Note: Preference eligible candides and other Veterans given preference when qualificion of candides are approximely equal for Title 38 positions in VHA. When applying for Federal Jobs, eligible Veterans should claim preference for 5pt (TP), 10pt (CP/CPS/XP), or for Sole Survivor Preference (SSP) in the questionnaire. You must provide a legible copy of your DD214(s) which shows des and character of service (honorable, general, etc.). If you are currently serving on active duty and expect to be released or discharged within 120 days you must submit documention reled to your active duty service which reflects the des of service, character of service (honorable, general, etc.), and des of impending separion. Additionally, disabled veterans and others eligible for 10-point preference (such as widows or mothers of eligible Veterans) must also submit an SF-15 "Applicion for 10 Point Veteran Preference" with required proof as sted on the form. Documention is required to award preference. For more informion on Veterans' Preference, please Feds Hire Vets - Veterans - Job Seekers - Veterans' Preference .
Benefits
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A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .
Review our benefits
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more informion on the specific benefits offered.
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Required Documents
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To apply for this position, you must submit a C.V. and/or resume. Other documents may be requested ler in the process if needed.
Special Note for Applicions: To complete your applicion, please use the following link to download the standard Clinical Resume Document. This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limition into the 'Other' document upload field.
How to Apply
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To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
To apply for this position online, complete steps 1 and 2 above by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026 to receive considerion. Please note, this announcement may close prior to the closing de indiced if the position is filled through other means. If you are unable to apply online before the closing de click here and include the CBTB-12943763-26-KL in the Notes field.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.
Agency contact informion
Southeast Network Title Thirty Eight Recruitment
...
Address
Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery
215 Perry Hill Road
Montgomery, AL 36109
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. We will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued, and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must submit a C.V. and/or resume. Other documents may be requested ler in the process if needed.
Special Note for Applicions: To complete your applicion, please use the following link to download the standard Clinical Resume Document. This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limition into the 'Other' document upload field.
How to Apply
Help
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
To apply for this position online, complete steps 1 and 2 above by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026 to receive considerion. Please note, this announcement may close prior to the closing de indiced if the position is filled through other means. If you are unable to apply online before the closing de click here and include the CBTB-12943763-26-KL in the Notes field.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.
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Agency contact informion
Southeast Network Title Thirty Eight Recruitment
...
Address
Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery
215 Perry Hill Road
Montgomery, AL 36109
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. We will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued, and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/27/2026 to 09/30/2026 Salary $124,308 - $315,000 per year Pay scale & grade VM 15 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Montgomery, AL Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number CBTB-12943763-26-KL Control number 866665000
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administrion
Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System
Summary
Educion and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay).
Learn more about this agency
Summary
Educion and length of practice are considered through a formal pay-setting process to determine the final compensable salary (Base Pay + Market Pay).
Learn more about this agency
Overview
Help
Accepting applicions
Open & closing des
04/27/2026 to 09/30/2026
Salary
$124,308 - $315,000 per year
Pay scale & grade
VM 15
Locion
1 vacancy in the following locion:
Montgomery, AL
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Relocion expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time
Service
Excepted
Promotion potential
None
Job family (Series)
0662 Optometrist
Supervisory stus
Yes
Security clearance
Other
Drug test
Yes
Position sensitivity and risk
Non-sensitive (NS)/Low Risk
Trust determinion process
Credentialing
Suitability/Fitness
Financial disclosure
No
Bargaining unit stus
No
Announcement number
CBTB-12943763-26-KL
Control number
866665000
This job is open to
Help
Federal employees - Excepted service
Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluion criteria.
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement.
Clarificion from the agency
All qualified candides encouraged to apply. Open to U.S. Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens. NOTE: The 2-page Resume requirement does not apply to this position. For more informion, refer to Required Documents below.
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The Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce's Economic Development department is dediced to building a prosperous future by tracting new businesses, expanding existing ones, and fostering an environment where innovion thrives.
The Montgomery area is a balance between production and service economies with major interstes in all directions; public, prive and military institutions of higher learning; and a proud heritage to showcase.
The warm Southern hospitality, high quality of life and low cost of living makes Montgomery a wonderful place to put down roots and raise a family. Montgomery offers everything expected in a big city - from world-class arts and theer to ste-of-the-art health care and vibrant retail - all with the small-town warmth seldom found in a city of this size.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards .
This positions is a full-time Director of Optometry, assigned to the Acute Care and Specialties Service Line loced the Central Alabama VA Medical Center. This position may be resided either of our main campuses loced in Montgomery, AL and Tuskegee, AL or outlying CBOCs loced Fort Benning, AL, Columbus, GA, and Fort Rucker, AL. The primary purpose of this position is to provide supervision over Optometry staff and services to include administrive and management functions.
Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Authorized
Relocion Incentive: Authorized
Permanent Change of Stion (Relocion Assistance): Not Authorized
Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized
Educion Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Not Authorized
Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases
Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US Ste or territory
CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certificion)
Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided
Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting
Function or Scope of Assigned Duties:
- Full program responsibility for the Optometry service and provide supervision to subordines.
- Performs other directly reled duties as assigned, including management of community care referrals as needed.
- Provides clinical supervision to student interns when applicable.
- Eye examinions in regularly scheduled clinics provide diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic eye care to pients of all ages, taking into considerion age-reled and cultural differences of the various veteran populions served.
- Address Visual functions to include reduced visual acuity, impaired contrast sensitivity function, impaired central and/or peripheral vision, eye movement dysfunction, loss of depth perception and combinions of these.
- Consistently communices and tres customers (Veterans, their representives, ors, and all VA staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
- Provides the customer with consistent informion according to established policies and procedures.
- Participe actively in performance improvement and tend assigned meetings or process action teams. Work collaborively with other specialties.
- Follow VA directives and polices and maintains current in BLS.
- Possess computer skills to access and input typed da on each pient into the computerized pient record system (CPRS).
- Provides direct clinical supervision of health technicians and other staff as approprie.
- Supports the TECS (Technology-based Eye Care Services) program.
- Establishes professional working relionships with other clinical service providers within the medical center and outlying clinics, provide telephone and e-consult consultions as needed.
- Coopere with and participe in medical duties or functions reled to quality of care, peer review and with other performance improvement activities as directed.
- Provides prescribed medical trement and personal care services to veterans in need of Optometry services.
- Documents observions, assessments, and changes in pient's condition; collaboring with health team members to facilite positive pient care outcomes.
- Attend mandory training, such as VA Voices, Own the Moment, comply with CME requirements in the specialty of Optometry, and must complete the required TMS courses timely.
- Must be aware and compliant of VA SAIL metrics and VA Performance Measures.
Work Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Requirements
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Conditions of employment
U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
All applicants tentively selected for VA employment in a testing designed position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested denied employment with VA.
Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
Subject to background/security investigion.
Selected applicants required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identificion required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or ste-issued dentificion cards th are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identificion for employment.
Must pass pre-employment physical examinion.
Participion in the seasonal influenza vaccinion program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
You may be required to serve a probionary period.
Complete all applicion requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Qualificions
To qualify for this position, you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualificion standard the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupion.
Basic Requirements:
United Stes Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
Degree of Doctor of Optometry resulting from a course of educion in optometry. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools or colleges approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are United Stes and Canadian schools or colleges of optometry listed as accredited by the Accredition Council on Optometric Educion (ACOE), in the list published for the year in which the course of study was completed.
Optometrists must possess a current, full and unrestricted license to practice optometry, and maintain a current registrion in a ste, territory, or Commonwealth of the United Stes, or in the District of Columbia th requires successful passage of all parts of Nional Board of Examiners in Optometry intended for basic licensure. The Optometrist must maintain current registrion in the ste of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active, current licensure.
Residency Training: Optometrists must have successfully completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of VA in an accredited post-gradue training program, or have comparable experience, as described below: (1) Approved residencies are those with accredited or within pre-accredited stus by the ACOE, in the list published for the year the residency was completed. OR
(2) Two years of licensed clinical optometric practice in the United Stes consisting of active involvement in the management of medically complex pients. NOTE: The Approving Official may approve, under unusual circumstances, a waiver of residency or comparable experience.
Proficiency in spoken and written English.
Preferred Experience: Post-gradue residency program preferred with ability to tre glaucoma and common ocular conditions/diseases and Supervisory experience.
Reference: For more informion on this qualificion standard, please .
Physical Requirements: This position requires visual acuity, keen hearing; clear, distinctive speech; and manual dexterity. The position requires potentially long periods of continued sitting, telephone and computer usage, walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling, and pushing. Transferring equipment/objects may be required.
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NOTE: The Under Secretary of Health or designee in the VHA Central Office may approve the appointment under authority of 38 U.S.C. 7405 of a physician gradue of a school of medicine not covered above if the candide is to be assigned to a research, academic, or administrive position with no pient care responsibilities. The appointment made only in exceptional circumstances where the candide's credentials clearly demonstre high professional tainment or expertise in the specialty area.
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This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
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This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive stus.
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Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through Nional Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizions (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience th transles directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
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Special Note for Applicions: To complete your applicion, please use the following link to download the standard Clinical Resume Document. This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
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To apply for this position online, complete steps 1 and 2 above by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026 to receive considerion. Please note, this announcement may close prior to the closing de indiced if the position is filled through other means. If you are unable to apply online before the closing de click here and include the CBTB-12943763-26-KL in the Notes field.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
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Agency contact informion
Southeast Network Title Thirty Eight Recruitment
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Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery
215 Perry Hill Road
Montgomery, AL 36109
US
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Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. We will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued, and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
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NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
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Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Required Documents
Help
To apply for this position, you must submit a C.V. and/or resume. Other documents may be requested ler in the process if needed.
Special Note for Applicions: To complete your applicion, please use the following link to download the standard Clinical Resume Document. This one-page document does not need to be modified and must be uploaded into the two-page restricted 'Resume' document upload field.
Your full resume/CV may be uploaded without page limition into the 'Other' document upload field.
How to Apply
Help
To begin, click Apply Online to cree a USAJOBS account or log in to your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your USA JOBS resume and/or other supporting documents and complete the occupional questionnaire.
Click Submit My Answers to submit your applicion package.
To apply for this position online, complete steps 1 and 2 above by 11:59 PM (ET) on 09/30/2026 to receive considerion. Please note, this announcement may close prior to the closing de indiced if the position is filled through other means. If you are unable to apply online before the closing de click here and include the CBTB-12943763-26-KL in the Notes field.
During the applicion process you may have an option to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions. Opting in does not impact your applicion for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further considerion for additional positions.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegrion support for military service members.
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Agency contact informion
Southeast Network Title Thirty Eight Recruitment
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Address
Central Alabama VA Medical Center-Montgomery
215 Perry Hill Road
Montgomery, AL 36109
US
Next steps
Once your online applicion is submitted you will receive a confirmion notificion by email. We will review applicions to ensure qualificion and eligibility requirements are met. After the review is complete, a referral certifice(s) is issued, and applicants notified of their stus by email. Referred applicants notified as such and may be contacted directly by the hiring office for an interview. All referred applicants receive a final notificion once a selection decision has been made.
You may check the stus of your applicion any time by logging into your USA Jobs account and clicking on Applicions. Informion regarding your applicion stus can be found in the USAJobs Help Center .
NOTE: Participion in the seasonal influenza program is a condition of employment and a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). It is a requirement th all HCP to receive annual seasonal influenza vaccinion or obtain an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Wearing a face mask is required when an exemption to the influenza vaccinion has been granted. HCP in violion of this directive may face disciplinary action up to and including removal from federal service. HCP are individuals who, during the influenza season, work in VHA locions or who come into contact with VA pients or other HCP as part of their duties. VHA locions include, but are not limited to, VA hospitals and associed clinics, community living centers (CLCs), community-based outpient clinics (CBOCs), domiciliary units, Vet centers and VA-leased medical facilities. HCP include all VA licensed and unlicensed, clinical and administrive, remote and onsite, paid and without compension, full- and part-time employees, intermittent employees, fee basis employees, VA contractors, researchers, volunteers and health professions trainees (HPTs) who are expected to perform any or all of their work these facilities. HPTs may be paid or unpaid and include residents, interns, fellows and students. HCP also includes VHA personnel providing home-based care to Veterans and drivers and other personnel whose duties put them in contact with pients outside VA medical facilities.
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Fair and transparent
The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance.
Criminal history inquiries
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy
Financial suitability
New employee probionary period
Privacy Act
Reasonable accommodion policy
Selective Service
Signure and false stements
Social security number request
Overview Help Accepting applicions Open & closing des 04/27/2026 to 09/30/2026 Salary $124,308 - $315,000 per year Pay scale & grade VM 15 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Montgomery, AL Remote job No Telework eligible No Travel Required 25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Appointment type Permanent Work schedule Full-time Service Excepted Promotion potential None Job family (Series) Supervisory stus Yes Security clearance Drug test Yes Position sensitivity and risk Trust determinion process Financial disclosure Bargaining unit stus Announcement number CBTB-12943763-26-KL Control number 866665000
Job ID: 519784216
Originally Posted on: 5/3/2026
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