The San Francisco VA Health Care System High Reliability Officer (HRO) is directly aligned under High Reliability Services. The HRO has responsibility for assisting in the administrative management of the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS). The HRO serves as a savvied professional who leads leadership teams in creating and sustaining a High Reliability Organization.

Duties

The HRO supports VA, VHA, VISN and HCS mission, goals, and objectives and actively works with leadership at the National, VISN, and the HCS level, and their staff to design and implement effective High Reliability practices and programs; serves as the program coordinator for multiple projects working directly with National, VISN, and HCS leadership and serves as a senior advisor providing leadership and teams guidance and valuable consultative services. The HRO assists in the planning, development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of National, VISN, and HCS milestones in relation to specific performance measures. This includes working with senior leadership at the HCS to hardwire Executive Career Functional (ECF) plans throughout the organization and develop a structure to manage project portfolios, project scopes and schedules, project guidelines, requirements, corrective action, and plan modification. The HRO serves as the primary day-to-day liaison between leadership at the National, VISN and HCS levels, and assigned program leads. Major Duties and Responsibilities Collaborates with VACO, VISN, HCS and Service level leadership to obtain High Reliability business practices. Manages projects and takes actions as required to ensure business objectives are consistent with VHA and VA strategic initiatives. Performs long-range work planning, inclusive of resource and support requirements. Provides a high level of professional and technical expertise, proficiency, guidance, oversight, and organizational skills necessary for management of the quality of process reengineering development and evaluation for all projects in support of health care operations to achieve a high reliability organization. Coordinates multifaceted activities among Service Chiefs, supervisors, project offices, VISN initiative leads, and National program leads. Coordinates interactions between consortiums who wish to collectively apply resources to cross functional solutions to support multiple programs or processes. Uses qualitative and quantitative techniques for analyzing and measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of programs relative to the mission, organizational goals, policies, and programs relative to the process improvements. Provides advisories, identify deficiencies or success stories, designs corrective actions, takes follow up action, and provide feedbacks to key staff, and decision makers. Participates in councils and committees that oversee and drive operations and ensure they are aligning with high priority objectives. Supports and strengthens the VA, VISN, and SFVAHCS strategic plan, mission, vision, and values which are communicated and integrated into strategies, goals, objectives, work plans, work products and services. Provides input and makes decisions that have major impacts regarding High Reliability and creating strong business practices. Serves as the health care system's primary point of contact for matters at the local and national level. Works independently and with others to build effective partnerships within VA, VHA, VISN, HCS and the community. 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 Specialist (High Reliability Officer)/PD01953O 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, 06/24/2024. 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-13 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-12. 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. This series has an 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. Education: Undergraduate or Graduate Education with a major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration. (TRANSCRIPTS REQUIRED). OR Specialized Experience: 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. 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, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; 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. Specialized Experience for the GS-13: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-12) 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 Health System Specialist - High Reliability Officer. 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.. At this level, applicants would have obtained this experience working within a health care setting, working directly with health care system administration and finance services to solve problems in support of policy compliance and program/operational functions; experience with disbursement agreement (DA) administration used for payment of salary and benefit; and completing record data analysis to determine potential or actual fraud, waste and abuse, and to recommend redistribution of resources. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ReasoningCommunicationDatabase Management SystemsDesignProcess ControlTechnical 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. Physical Requirements: Work is mostly sedentary and involves very little physical effort. Work is generally performed in a typical office setting with adequate heat, light, and ventilation. 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: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.

Contacts

• Address San Francisco VA Medical Center 4150 Clement Street San Francisco, CA 94121 US
• Name: Brenda Johnson
• Phone: 7275986871
• Email: [email protected]