The incumbent functions as the lead manager, coordinator, and point of contact for patient safety policies and activities developed by the National Center for Patient Safety (CCPS) VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System (VAEKHCS). In other words, the incumbent will be the key person at VAEKHCS to help build and implement patient safety systems and promote the culture of safety within VA facilities and for VA patients in all healthcare settings.

Duties

Perform duties directly contributing to the administrative management of the health care system delivery system, and is responsible for planning, organizing, developing, managing, and evaluating the health care system's patient safety program. These duties require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management in leading the health care system's patient safety program. Performs Root Cause Analysis activities such as: SAC Classification Provides RCS "just in time" training Works with the Quality Manager and identifies RCs Team members Supports RCS Teams, e.g., RCS Advisor. Develops competencies in team functions. Working with the Quality Manager, ensures the RCS's are complete, that all technical requirements ae met, and all implementation requirement are accurately identified. Serves as the VAEKHSC POC for Patient Safety Alerts/Advisories, including tracking system actions. Conduct periodic environmental patient safety inspections. Evaluates the RCA process as it functions in the health care system and responds to improve it as appropriate. Analyze data, identifies trends and concerns of issues Provides timely and accurate referral to VA and non-VA subject matter experts. Perform staff support work in short and long-range planning efforts, and complies with directives and national guidelines in preparing annual and cyclic planning documents. Work Schedule: 0730-1600 Monday-Friday Telework: Ad-hoc eligible Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Health System Specialist -System Redesign/PD023840 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/17/2023. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. Health System Administration Series, 0671, has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): Undergraduate and Graduation Education: Major study -- hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education. ~OR~ Specialized Experience: 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 In-service 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. Preferred experience: Qualified applicants within VHA, hospital/healthcare experience within past three years. You may qualify based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Develop meeting agendas and coordinating committee assignments. Develops user-friendly, on-going management reporting systems that reflect customer, stakeholders, and senior management's needs for information. Provides comprehensive resource allocation information to support decisions involving organizational funds. Applying advanced qualitative and quantitative techniques in order to perform thorough management analysis of current and projected diagnostic service programs. Apply health care management principles to complex problem-solving situations. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (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 that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work is primarily sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Education

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System 2200 SW Gage Blvd Topeka, KS 66622 US
• Name: Samona Mckinley
• Phone: 2165444460
• Email: [email protected]