The Health System Administrator (Assistant Medical Center Director) serves in an Executive Leadership role under the Executive Director/CEO of the Healthcare System and is responsible for oversight of administrative functions associated with Veteran Experience, Employee Experience, and High Reliability.

Duties

The Assistant Medical Center Director is responsible for ensuring the Healthcare System is optimizing the Veteran experience to meet patient expectations with focus on patient-centered care and satisfaction as well as Employee experience and engagement. Duties include, but may not be limited to the following: Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services. Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care. Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.. Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration. Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives including but not limited to High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience and Veteran Service Organizations. Responsible for the organizational change and advancement of the healthcare system through continuous process improvement and innovations. These duties are geared to successful accomplishment of the Healtcare System's assigned patient care, treatment, medical evaluation, research, and DOD contingency support missions. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm 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#: Health System Administrator ( Assistant Medical Center Director)/PD99901-S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Authorized PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/22/2024. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: The 0670 series require specific education or experience to be met in order to be appointed into a position of this series. You must meet the pre-determined Education or Experience Individual Occupational Requirement below as set by Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Undergraduate and Graduate Education in a Major study of: hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. 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. Applicants must also possess: Knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among various medical and administrative services and programs. Management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, recognize and adapt to changing priorities; 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, and basic government administrative policies and requirements. Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program. 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 appropriate adjustment of the training program. You may continue to qualify based on your experience 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. Specialized experience is: Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services. Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care. Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration. Leads facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience and Veteran Service Organizations. Responsible for the organizational change and advancement of the healthcare system through continuous process improvement and innovations. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementDecision MakingFinancial ManagementLeadershipManaging Human Resources 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: Most of the work performance is at a desk, in an office setting. The position does require touring of the medical center for direct supervision, survey and environment of care issues. The incumbent occasionally carries books and papers to and from meetings and conferences. 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 Bruce W Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center 1201 Northwest 16th Street Miami, FL 33125 US
• Name: Iris Steward
• Phone: 813-816-7155 X100153
• Email: [email protected]