The incumbent serves as a Program Analyst - Clinic Profile Manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veteran Health Administration. The Program Analyst- Clinic Profile Manager position provides a high level of complex and highly skilled support related to provider profile management. They coordinate clinical/provider profiles and scheduling grids, including but not limited to clinic set up and clinic maintenance.

Duties

The Clinic Profile Managers provide the vehicles to capture outpatient and related workload for Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA), MCA, and Financial Revenue Management for purposes to schedule patients, and to monitor clinic performance. Clinic profile set up ensures the clinic structure allows the scheduling of patients, direct workload capture, accurate access wait times, direct insurance, and co-pay billing; direct MCA costing, and track facility and provider performance against national, VISN and local measures. Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: 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. Interpreting national policies and procedures, developing, and implementing local standards, defining requirements, and providing advice to top management on related issues pertaining to clinic/provider profile management. 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. Overseeing clinic supervision to staff delegated to services performing clinic profile coordination and management functions. Leading clinic profile team members to ensure analytics, goals, are being met using accurate and timely clinic management tools for their designated services/clinics. Participating in Facility/VISN projects, task forces, and committees to problem-solve, educate, and implement software, data capture and scheduling directive matters. Responsible for oversight of all clinic set up options, clinic profiles and outputs. Assessing the best structure of clinics, based on national mandates and direction, facility needs, provider needs, patient needs, and data desired to be captured. Responsible for ensuring appointment reminder systems are set up accurately for all outpatient clinic locations. Coordinating with informatics for development and management of data systems, assisting and creating the basis for data driven decision-making of clinic profile operations management. Identifying problems and applies analytical techniques, correcting negative trends and provides resolutions to system issues/malfunctions, to include encounter and transmission errors, clinic grids and other issues related to clinic profile management. Developing and implementing an in-depth training program for the Facility to ensure staff are properly educated and accountable for clinical profiles, scheduling, and data management. Coordinating quality assurance efforts through assessments of workflow and procedures to develop means of improving service delivery to customers. Evaluating data capture outputs that includes but not limited to clinic utilization, accurate clinic parameters, program clinic naming standards, etc. to ensure facility compliance with scheduling directives and other national guidance as it relates to Clinic Profile Management. Performs other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: May be authorized 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#: Program Analyst/PD99898S 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, 12/05/2023. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-11 Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-09 in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Program Analyst- Clinic Profile Manager. Qualifying specialized experience is: Ability to locate and interpret appropriate and applicable regulations dealing with care, policies, procedures, and precedents regarding scheduling, clinic profiles, ambulatory data capture, workload and billing; Knowledge of insurance intake processes and specialized medical billing programs; Reviewing data, presenting alternatives, making recommendations, and assisting with developing problem resolutions; Skill to evaluate and analyze processes and procedures with multiple variables; and Developing and implementing a training program to ensure staff are properly educated and accountable for clinical profiles, scheduling, and data management. NOTE: Experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title, duties, month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week. OR Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree, or 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree, or an LL.M. if related that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of this position. NOTE: Transcripts must be submitted with application. Education cannot be credited without documentation. OR Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have a combination of successfully completed education and specialized experience directly related to the work of the position as outlined above that meets the requirements of the position. Only education in excess of a master's or equivalent graduate education may be used to qualify applicants for the GS-11 level. NOTE: If using education combined with specialized experience to qualify, a copy of your transcript is required. 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. 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 James E Van Zandt VA Medical Center 2907 Pleasant Valley Boulevard Altoona, PA 16602 US
• Name: Shanice Moore
• Email: [email protected]