Serves as Supervisory Health System Specialist in Integrated Health Practice (IHP), Applied Informatics (AI), Clinical Informatics and Data Management Office (CIDMO), Office of Health Informatics (OHI). IHP works directly with key national, regional, and local programmatic leadership to ensure mission-essential clinical priorities are applied into practice across VHA and conducts comprehensive studies to analyze and evaluate the needs, strategic plans, and informatics goals of the stakeholders

Duties

Major duties include but are not limited to: Serves as the Supervisory Health Systems Specialist for staff within IHP working toward solutions for clinical priorities.Provides executive level leadership, program management, and directs the technical, business, modernization, and cultural strategy for development of nationally implemented technical tools, and process changes, that ensure a single standard of care and experience for Veterans and clinical staff.Collaborates with contributors spanning numerous clinical and technical teams from diverse disciplines, program offices, informatics specialties, and others to develop partnerships, create strategic plans and ensure successful change management. Systems Requirements Planner: Consults with customers to gather and evaluate functional requirements and translates these requirements into technical solutions. Provides guidance to customers about applicability of information systems to meet business needs. Consult with customers to evaluate functional requirements. Define project scope and objectives based on customer requirements Leads efforts to ensure the agency's and IHP's ability to respond to meet mission requirements related to informatics solutions through the optimal application of health information systems and services. Analysis, planning, documentation, design, implementation, assessment, and improvement to align health informatics strategy, plans, and systems with the mission, goals, structure, and processes of the health care system. Develops, standardizes, and evaluates technical, business, and cultural strategies and methods for creating and implementing informatics solutions to clinical problems as prioritized by the IHP Management Board. The incumbent exercises considerable judgment and ingenuity in championing the implementation of improved standardized methods throughout the agency. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 800am-430pm Compressed/Flexible: Available 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#: Supervisory Health System Specialist/PD72643-O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved 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, 04/29/2024. 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 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. Selective Placement Factor: This position includes selective placement factors (skill, knowledge, ability or other worker characteristic basic to - and essential for - satisfactory performance of the job). Selective placement factors are a prerequisite to appointment and represent minimum requirements for a position. Applicants who do not meet them are ineligible for further consideration. The selective placement factor for this position is: SPF: Expertise in health informatics with progressive experience and success in leading interdisciplinary teams and projects related to EHR (VistA/CPRS and/or Oracle Cerner) as applied within clinical programs and services across VAMCs, VISNs, or the National VA Enterprise. Justification from PD: Provides centralized guidance relating to the functions of informatics projects including project direction, standards and measures for evaluation of VA-developed (i.e., VisTa/CPRS)applications, products and services. Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.To qualify for the GS 0671 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following: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 General Experience: Work that required a knowledge of the basic principles and practices related to the management of a health care delivery system. Such experience may have been gained as an administrative officer, management analyst, or administrative or clinical program manager or supervisor in a health care delivery system. OR Special Provision of In-service 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. 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 GS-14 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: Evaluates information and makes recommendations for effective organizational changes, including those related to the collection and analysis of information. Drafts executive memos, briefing materials, and presentations to aid in discussions or official presentations. Conducts executive review of correspondence and taskers, identifies appropriate subject matter experts within the program, and makes assignments for follow-up and tracking. Helps develop training materials or other tools to assist managers. Assists in designing and developing national tools and knowledge products. Ensures good communication and coordination with the primary office, other subordinates programs, as well as other VA offices is consistent. 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 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: Experience assessing the impact of Information technology and informatics initiatives on end user workflow clinical processes and achieving programmatic goals. Experience in monitoring and participating in health information interface development, functional and integration testing, phased implementation, and the development of training requirements. Has facilitated project ownership and involvement by key stakeholders throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in both IT and non-IT funded clinical system and informatics initiatives. Participates in the development of acceptance criteria for various phases of the product development lifecycle (e.g., requirements development, testing, national release). Serves as an informatics communications liaison to end users. Experience interacting with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to effectively communicate clinical IT needs and project requirements. Has participated in developing collaborative relationships for sharing information, identifying viable IT systems, and resolving organizational issues and conflicts such as those involving implementation and development of informatics resources. Has performed analytical and evaluative work related to specific informatics content areas such as clinical decision support, order management and document management. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Health Informatics Planning and Evaluation Project Management Communication Administration and 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: Work is conducted in an office setting and involves sitting, walking, climbing stairs, etc. Some travel may be 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.

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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address VHA Service Center - 1 6100 Oak Tree Boulevard Independence, OH 44131 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]