This position is in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Mid Atlantic Health Care Network (VISN 6), Salem VA Medical Center (VAMC), in Quality Management Service. The incumbent provides support of integrative organizational and program management, as well as advanced support to operations, accreditation, quality and patient safety activities.

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to: Serves as the hospital-wide Controlled Substance Coordinator (CSC) overseeing all initiatives for Salem VAMC as it relates to the Controlled Substance Inspection Program. The CSC serves as the medical center expert on controlled substance inspections and provides education to manages and leads controlled substance inspectors from diverse areas of the medical center. Checks waste, logs and other sources against inventory to ensure no diversions take place within the medical center. Monitors expired drug inventory to ensure that all controlled substances are properly destroyed. Provides technical, administrative assistance, advice, and support through a fully developed, comprehensive, and administrative controlled substance management program. Coordinates ongoing data collection or performance measures (ex. patient outcomes, mortality, patient satisfaction, scheduling, etc.) and performs analysis to determine optimal organizational performance to improve processes, healthcare outcomes for patients, patient safety, and quality of care. Interprets program directives and standards to ensure medical center compliance with all regulations and mandates from both internal and external sources. Develops special projects and reports, which encompass areas related to identifying potential and/or immediate cost savings for the health care system for quality management; in terms of budget analysis for projecting, forecasting, staffing, contracting, and provider relations and operational needs are concerned. Work Schedule: Full Time; Monday - Friday 7:45AM - 4:30PM Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD021910 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Designated and/or random drug testing may be required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• You may be required to serve a probationary period
• Subject to background/security investigation
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/08/2024. 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-9. 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: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 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. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M, if related. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ReasoningCommunicationsPlanning and EvaluatingQuality ManagementRisk 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 with occasional mobility. Minimal travel can occur. No special physical demands are required perform the work, especially when conducting a Controlled Substance inspection. Some bending, stooping and carrying light items such as paper, binders and medical charts 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

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: Andrew Larrison
• Phone: 8505137687
• Email: [email protected]