Job opening: Program Analyst
Salary: $57 118 - 89 835 per year
Published at: Nov 13 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid-Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Salem VA Medical Center, Salem, VA in the Office of the Assistant Director. This position is the Clinic Profile Manager for the medical facility and satellite clinics/healthcare systems.
Duties
Major Duties include but not limited to:
· Responsible for overall program management for the clinic maintenance process for the facility and leads the facility's efforts to integrate profile management among healthcare providers, other facility staff, and patients.
· Integrates advanced clinic access (ACA) principles and initiatives, outpatient scheduling directive mandates, ambulatory data capture and workload rules and regulations, coding and billing criteria, MCA requirements into clinic structures.
· Responsible for establishing and managing communication plans that identify target audience, appropriate messages, activities, and resources needed for effective communication, and communication plans for change management, incorporating multiple channels to manage expectations and disseminate project progress.
· Coordinates all administrative needs of clinic profile building and maintenance, establishing the program goals, evaluating implementation, and data capture components for the facility.
· Responsible for standardization of clinic profile management, coordinating, establishing, and maintaining all computerized clinic profiles utilized by the Facility and meeting standards, accurate wait time and outcome measures.
· Coordinates with informatics for development and management of data systems, assisting and creating the basis for data driven decision-making of clinic profile operations management.
· Updates and maintains digital workflow, forms, designs, and electronic records of clinic maintenance requests, such as creating new, modifications, in activations and cancellations.
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:45 am- 4:30pm
Compressed/Flexible:
Telework: Ad Hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst/PD90076A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized: $10,000 recruitment incentive for 2 year service commitment
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/21/2023.
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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. 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.
· Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: program management within the clinical setting; assisting with the development and management of data systems; and retrieving and analyzing data for validation and experience of clinical care sufficient to carry out routine clinical tasks, including drawing blood and monitoring vital signs.
OR,
· Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have 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.
OR,
· Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond one year of graduate level education .
You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Administration and ManagementCommunicationsFlexibilityTechnical Competence
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 primary sedentary but may require some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or prolonged sitting.
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
A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Contacts
- Address Salem VA Medical Center
1970 Roanoke Boulevard
Salem, VA 24153
US
- Name: Cymone Carrol
- Phone: 240-685-1330
- Email: [email protected]
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