The Phoenix Health Care System is currently recruiting one Health System Specialist (Facility Planner) for the Associate Director in Phoenix, AZ. The incumbent is to assess the productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare systems operations and to analyze problems in the staffing and efficacy of staff activities and administrative support.

Duties

Duties include but are not limited to the following: Ensure that Network Health Care Planning Model and priorities are fully integrated into the Facility Strategic Capital Investment Planning by working with the Capital Assets Manager and Chief Engineer. Establish procedures to secure adequate control in terms of deadlines, progress reports and directives and uses own initiative in developing procedures which will increase the general flow of information and overcome bottlenecks in the administrative process. Identify short and long-term planning parameters required to adequately accommodate existing and projected healthcare demand. Initiate and manage complex projects in programmatic areas and leads interdisciplinary groups of staff whose work products result in significant and sustained contributions to VAHCS's success. Review proposed organizational changes requiring establishment, consolidation, and transfer or regrouping of functions for one or more services and/or sub organizational units. Analyze and evaluate organizational functional and organizational components e.g. staffing, budget, personnel, and procurement to ensure alignment of VALBHS policies, in terms of meeting plan objectives. Coordinate activities to ensure that planning processes are directly related to performance outcome measures and to ensure planning processes are aligned with related transformational care initiatives. Provide advice to services on planning issues associated with program development and expansion? initiatives, coordinating planning activities with Network for VA/DoD Sharing Initiatives, VHA Site Tracking (VAST), Clinical Inventory, Rural Health, Telehealth and Bed Control Programs. Review long-range, mid-range, and short-range plans; assess resource projections, priorities, and justifications, et cetera; make recommendations on strategic planning efforts that can be implemented within existing resource levels and advises on the impact of efforts that require additional resources. Plan, prepare and contribute to reports and other presentations on strategic planning and evaluation. Design and conduct a wide variety of comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses of substantive administrative and managerial operations, functions, and/or processes related to long-range strategic planning for VA Phoenix. Develop broad themes and direct proceedings of high-level conferences where work and decisions have a major impact on VA Phoenix or an important subject or program. Serve as project manager responsible for assigning segments of the project or study to various participants, coordinating the efforts of the group, and consolidating findings into a completed product. Conduct special projects or studies to analyze, evaluate, and provide recommendations on strategic planning of administrative programs or issues. Identify and collect necessary data including legislative and program data and interviews with senior management, program officials, employees and supervisors; assembles and assesses information gathered; formulates findings, conclusions, and recommendations; presents results in written and/or oral form, which are well-organized, supportable and clearly expressed. Track and monitor a multitude of ongoing projects and briefs senior executives on project status and will interface with Health Care System leadership to insure effective and seamless project integration. Identify short and long-term planning parameters required to adequately accommodate existing and future healthcare demand. Engage senior leadership in all aspects of planning, including the development of goals, objectives and performance measures. Demonstrate problem-solving techniques, to include gathering facts through research and inquiry, conducting an analysis of information for impact and relevance, developing potential solutions or alternatives, and presenting recommended courses of action. Lead, conduct or participate in complex projects, studies and reviews- particularly those with wide or significant effect upon agency's organizational structure, policy, processes, operations, fiscal control and economy and those where the boundaries of the studies may be broad. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Facility Planner)/PD13309O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): 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, 08/07/2023. 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-12 position, you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. You may qualify for the GS-0671-12 Health System Specialist (Facility Planner) based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: For the GS-12, you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: 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. You may qualify for the GS-0671-13 Health System Specialist (Facility Planner) based on your experience as described below: Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, 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: 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, independently and without supervision: 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. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: ComplianceOrganizational AwarenessPlanning and EvaluatingProject ManagementStrategic Thinking 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: No special physical demands such as above average ability, dexterity, or strength are required to perform the work. Work is sedentary, and the employee may sit comfortably. There may be some walking, standing, bending, carrying of light items, driving of an automobile, etc. Fieldwork may involve traveling to other facility sites of care, interviews, meetings, and sources of information. Work is performed in the office setting. May require occasional travel. Work is usually performed in offices, meeting rooms, or similar settings. The position may require occasional travel, including the normal everyday risks and discomforts of auto, bus, rail, and air transportation. 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 Carl T Hayden Veterans' Administration Medical Center 650 East Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85012 US
• Name: Kayleigh Lundh
• Phone: 602-757-1832
• Email: [email protected]