This position is in the Health Professions Education (HPE) office and is organizationally aligned and supervised by the Associate Chief of Staff/Education, Designated Education Officer (DEO), who reports to the Chief of Staff (COS). This position is located at the Audie L. Murphy VAMC in San Antonio, Texas within Education & Learning Resources Service.

Duties

Duties may include but are not limited to: -Identifies and resolves complex resource, regulatory, and program issues with academic affiliates, affiliate federal partners, facility and VISN staff, and OAA. -Exercises responsibility for long-range planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of initiative-driven programs. -Provides oversight and coordination for administrative efforts to identify, evaluate, and mitigate risk of injury to HPTs, patients, staff, and visitors in collaboration with facility Occupational Health and Patient Safety. -Provides administrative and management oversight for a full spectrum of paid and WOC clinical HPTs and others associated with a complex health care system, which includes employees, executive facility management, academic affiliates, and HPTs. -Develops, reviews and revises, as needed, medical facility standard operating procedures, policies to ensure compliance with VA and OAA policies (1400 series directives). -Provides overall budget oversight and SME to the DEO and HPE Office staff. -Assesses clinical learning environments using Trainee Satisfaction Survey or other instruments; advocates for and facilitates change based on feedback. -Develops and maintains a long term (5-year) strategic plan for DEO office operations and HPE programs. -Performs market analyses and compares and benchmarks internal services with private sector health care delivery systems to develop market niche strategies for HPE. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 7:30a.m. to 4:00p.m. Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD99413-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not 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, 09/14/2023. 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. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. 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 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. 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-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: Knowledge of health care service administration, continuous quality improvement, data analysis, health care principles, and practices; Budgeting, planning, administration, and labor/union relationships; Apply extensive quantitative and/or qualitative methods; Knowledge of data related to educational affiliations, clinical training programs, policy, planning and operations (i.e., Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA), Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN), and Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) goals and objectives). You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: -Organizational Performance Analysis -Administration and Management -Compliance -Stakeholder Management 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 is required. Work may be performed in a clinical setting to observe program operations and trainee work environments. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel to and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the worksite. Stamina and concentration to meet crucial deadlines is required. There may be a certain amount of pressure due to time constraints. There is extensive use of computer systems. Occasional travel including site visits to other VHA field sites and academic affiliates is 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 Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital 7400 Merton Minter Boulevard San Antonio, TX 78229 US
• Name: VISN 17 SSU USAS Group
• Email: [email protected]