Why work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons? You can have a meaningful career with an agency that truly values a diverse workforce. You will find a diverse workforce employed from entry level jobs to senior management positions. We protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, and provide reentry programming. Employees at correctional facilities perform correctional work regardless of their specific occupation.

Duties

The incumbent works under the local supervision of the Quality Improvement Manager, and is subject to national programmatic oversight by the Chief, Quality Management, for quality improvement programs for inmates receiving Ambulatory Care and Nursing Care Center services. Incumbent is responsible for assisting the Quality Improvement Manager with the performance improvement programming, monitoring the quality of processes of care and efficiency of the health care delivery system. Facilitates and coordinates performance improvement data collection, trending, analyzing, as well as preparing and displaying improvement data trends to discern patterns of negative trends impacting patient care within established timeframes. Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and is performed on a regular and recurring basis.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship is Required.
• See Special Conditions of Employment Section.

Qualifications

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements. Education: GL-07: One full year of graduate level education OR Superior Academic Achievement. GL-9: Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR two full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D., if related. Major study - - hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. NOTE: If you are using education to qualify, you MUST provide transcripts to receive consideration. Transcripts MUST be received by the Consolidated Staffing Unit by the closing date of the vacancy announcement. Superior Academic Achievement (S.A.A.) applicants MUST provide a transcript in order to be considered under S.A.A. Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html  OR Experience: GL-07 and GL-09: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level in federal service. Specialized experience is progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field. This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities. Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following: Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas, such as budget, personnel, and procurement. Special Provision for Inservice Placement: Successful completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program may be substituted for qualifying experience, provided it included a formal individualized training plan. Such a training program must have been conducted in an operating health care system and included: Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; Practical assignments providing an opportunity to apply health system administration skills and principles (as the individual progresses, work assignments must be characteristic of the grade level to which he or she is assigned); and Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program. Some examples of this qualifying experience are: GL-07: Experience preparing reports and correspondence regarding patient care, delivery of patient care and evaluation studies for appropriate sources. Experience organizing and maintaining health services records or creating filing systems and databases. Experience applying Joint Commission standards to the operation of Health Services in an institution. Experience exchanging technical administrative, or investigative information with individuals in the organization and the general public. GL-09: Experience assisting in the evaluation of current health care delivery systems and quality of care administered throughout a medical complex. Experience collecting, analyzing, and interpreting highly technical information related to quality improvement. Experience assisting with generating monthly quality improvement audit reports, collecting and analyzing applicable data, reports and findings. Experience and knowledge working with a wide range of medical concepts, principles, and practices to perform specialized assignments of advanced nature and considerable difficulty, requiring extended specialized healthcare training and experience. OR Combination of Education & Experience: GL-07 and GL-09: A combination of education and experience. This experience must have equipped you with the qualifications to perform the major duties of this position as described above. Credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience. To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities. **Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.**

Education

See Qualifications Section for education requirements, if applicable.

ONLY if education is a requirement/substitution for specialized experience, applicant MUST upload legible transcripts as verification of educational requirement. Transcripts MUST be uploaded and electronically linked from USAJOBS at the time you apply and MUST include identifying information to include School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). All academic degrees and coursework must be completed at a college or university that has obtained accreditation or pre-accreditation status from an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. For a list of schools that meet this criteria, Click Here.

Foreign Education: For information regarding foreign education requirements, please see Foreign Diploma and Credit Recognition at the U.S. Department of Education website: Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.

Superior Academic Achievement. (S.A.A.) applicants MUST provide a transcript in order to be considered under S.A.A. 

In order to be creditable under this provision, superior academic achievement must have been gained in a curriculum that is qualifying for the position to be filled.

If you are selected for this position and qualified based on education (i.e. basic education requirement and/or substitution of education), you will be required to provide an OFFICIAL transcript prior to your first day on duty.

Contacts

• Address JUSTICE, BUREAU OF PRISONS Consolidated Staffing Unit 346 Marine Forces Drive Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 United States
• Name: CSU
• Phone: 972-352-4200
• Email: [email protected]