You will serve as a HEALTH SYSTEM SPECIALIST in the DON Chief Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of NMRTU GROTON CT. This announcement uses the Expansion of Direct Hire Authority Personnel of the Department of Defense to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

Duties

You will counsel military personnel on their rights, benefits, privileges and obligations related to the Disability Evaluation System (DES). You will monitor healthcare system for possible case delinquencies. You will ensure production and accuracy requirement are met for healthcare systems. You will collect demographic information on all personnel enrolled in the DES program and tracking the progress of the medical board throughout the facility. You will apply Information Technology principles, concepts and methods to complete daily tasks related to healthcare systems.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position may require overtime work occasionally.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

GS-09: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Working with federal medical agencies such as Medical Evaluation Boards, Physical Evaluation boards or similar medical agencies to ensure beneficiaries information is delivered timely; Interpreting and applying complex federal policies and regulations to counsel and resolve individual disability cases/claim; Counseling members that are being processed through the Disability Evaluation System on their rights, privileges, benefits and obligations; Coordinating evaluation appointments, assisting in preparing appeals, and rebuttals for service members; Using various healthcare systems to enter medical information; ensuring accuracy and timeliness while monitoring the system of delinquent cases. GS-07: Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-05 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Assisting with gathering, assembling, consolidating and analyzing facts and drawing conclusions; Reviewing reports in healthcare systems to verify accuracy of data and making corrections/edits as necessary; Analyzing healthcare data from reporting systems; Preparing and presenting findings and making recommendations. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Group-Standards https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0600/health-system-administration-series-0671/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, 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.

Education

Applicants must meet the following positive education qualifications requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess.

FOR GS-09: SUCCESSFUL completion of a Master's or equivalent graduate degree; OR 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.B. or J.D., if related.

FOR GS-07: SUCCESSFUL completion of one full year of graduate level education OR you have successfully completed a bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement OR you have a combination of education and experience that equates to one year of experience.

Superior Academic Achievement
http://www.opm.gov/qualifications/policy/ApplicationOfStds-04.asp

COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be combined to meet the total qualification requirements.

If you are using education to meet all or part of the qualification requirements, you must submit a copy of your transcripts or an itemized list of college courses which includes equivalent information from the transcript (course title, semester/quarter hours, and grade/degree earned) in your resume.

IF CLAIMING EDUCATION, FAILURE TO SUBMIT TRANSCRIPTS/ITEMIZED LIST WILL RESULT IN AN INELIGIBLE RATING.

See OPM's General Policies for information on crediting education.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the qualification requirements if the applicant can provide documentation indicating that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide such evidence when applying for further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address NMRTU GROTON CT 1 Wahoo Drive Groton, CT 06349- US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]