This placement is located in the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), as the Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director) for Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center. The Assistant Director shares with the Executive Leadership Team a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the Medical Center and is directly responsible for facilities operations, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.

Duties

Budget and Fiscal Management: The Assistant Director oversees the management of administrative services supporting assigned operations. Assistant Director performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance. Provides sound fiscal management practices. The Assistant Director demonstrates a clear understanding of government and agency systems and an acute awareness of all elements of resources as they related to the cost of healthcare operations. Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly. Human Capital Management: Exercises full line authority for multiple administrative functions (services and sections) and indirectly for all clinical matters affecting patient care. Delegates authority and holds managers under his/her oversight responsible and accountable for the performance of their service lines, programs and human capital requirements. Functions as a first-line supervisor. In this capacity the Assistant Director exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities which include: (a) prioritizing major work efforts;(b) evaluating the performance of the service level management teams; (c) giving advice, counsel, or instruction; (d) interviewing and tentatively selecting candidates for key centralized positions, and recommending appointment, promotion or reassignment involving such positions; (e) hearing and resolving appropriate complaints and grievances; (f) effecting disciplinary measures, recommending action to higher level officials; and (g) identifying and providing management development and training needs of key staff members. The Assistant Director provides timely and responsive decisions to the union(s) and their members on complaints and grievances and ensures that supervisors are familiar with the negotiated agreement. Stakeholder Relations: Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders. The Assistant Director is responsible for promoting the understanding of the health care delivery system's mission within the local community and proactively advising both of benefit and/or hospital changes and information. Internally, the Assistant Director serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives; responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large. The Assistant Director monitors external sources of information and directives from VHA Central Office (VHA CO) and the health care sector. Identifies and establishes liaison with local administrators, physicians, and provider organizations to promote good relations with the beneficiary community. Systematic Internal Review: Provides an extremely high level of analytical and cognitive ability. Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and / or Community Care. The Assistant Director conducts internal systematic reviews; and serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards. Directs analysis and evaluation of health care delivery quality and effectiveness and ensures provision of health care services that complies with all accrediting agencies. Assures the beneficial and cost-effectiveness for both the patient and the Government. Reports in response to requests from internal and external stakeholders. The Assistant Director develops policies to improve the quality and efficiency in management and administration of the VAMC's healthcare delivery programs and system. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not available Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized For highly qualified candidates, subject to funding. Financial Disclosure Report: Required Position Description/PD#: Health Systems Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director)/PD99901S PCS RELOCATION: AUTHORIZED FOR HIGHLY QUALIFIED CANDIDATES, SUBJECT TO FUNDING

Requirements

Qualifications

NOTE: You must include qualifying specialized experience employment periods in mm/yyyy to mm/yyyy format on your resume and indicate Full-Time or Part-Time (if Part-time, must include # of hours worked per week). AND, if you have held a Government position, that position's grade level MUST be listed on your resume; Failure to include all requirements in your resume will result in disqualification. Please refer to USAJOBS Help Center - What should I include in my federal resume? for additional information on resume requirements. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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 must qualify based on your experience: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Health System Administrator- Asst Director. Qualifying specialized experience is defined as 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: (1) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; (2) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and (3) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement. Applicants must also possess: (1) Management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, recognize, and adapt to changing priorities; and (2) Knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among various medical and administrative services and programs. At this level, applicants would provide executive leadership with insight in establish organizational structures that are efficient, cost effective, support desired grade levels, and facilitate career development; work on the development of a balanced financial plan designed to meet realistic needs of the facility and the network; establish and maintain public relations with a variety of institutions and groups; apply performance standards to measure program performance and health care activities are meeting established goals and objectives; and plan and execute major projects concerned with the analysis and evaluation of programs and operational effectiveness. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: 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

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

Contacts

• Address Richard L Roudebush VA Medical Center 1481 West Tenth Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 US
• Name: Darius Holmes
• Phone: 317-389-6574
• Email: [email protected]