This position is administratively located within the Office of Women's Health (OWH), VHA Central Office under the Under Secretary for Health office. This position is for the incumbent to provide the National Veteran Child Care Program (VCAP) with a compliance and audit program that correlates with the OWH's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values. Planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining the compliance and audit program for the Veterans Child Care Assistance Program (VCAP).

Duties

This announcement will close on 08/06/2024. The first 50 applications received will receive first consideration. Applications that are submitted after the initial cut-off number has been reached will not receive consideration unless otherwise requested by management. The incumbent performs the following major duties and responsibilities: Implements a system wide compliance program. Works with facilities by providing guidance and oversight in the creation and implementation of causation and corrective action. Establishes the performance measures for the program. Designs and develops an auditing process for the program. Takes appropriate corrective actions and recommends remediation action to appropriate management personnel when goals not achieved. Alerts the local health care system's leadership of any noncompliant or unethical activity detected. Audits and reviews VCAP performance measures. Reports findings regarding safety violation incidents to the VCAP Director. Provides education and training to non-compliance sites. Educates local leadership on the program so they can inform Congress and their representative if needed. Participates in interdisciplinary team or work group to address project or program issues. Conducts a retrospective review to determine the origin of non-compliance. Gathers, analyzes, and processes the information and data from audits, inspections, and reviews. Responsible for ensuring that processes related to open lines of communications. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday Compressed/Flexible: May be 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#: Health System Specialist/PD373530 Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/06/2024. 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. You will 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-12 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Building a compliance and audit program that correlates with the VHA's strategic plan, mission, vision, and values. Ensuring a standardized and effective approach to compliance and audit within the scope of the VHA-mandated compliance framework. Exercising oversight of the implementation of the Compliance and Integrity program within the VHA to ensure that it is effective; such oversight shall include taking appropriate corrective action, and recommending remediation when Compliance and Integrity goals are not achieved. .AND Individual Occupational Requirements (OIR) In order to meet the basic requirement of the Health System Administration, 0671 Occupational series, you must possess: An undergraduate or graduate level degree 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, OR 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. At this level, applicants would have obtained this experience working within a health care setting, working directly with clinicians and local leadership to develop performance improvement techniques; applying organizational and system-wide strategies for continuous quality improvement; and experience running and supervising an administrative component of a health care system customizing in facility wide performance improvement programs, projects, and products. NOTE: 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. OR Special Provision for 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. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Compliance Auditing Education and Training Public Safety and Security Writing PREFERRED EXPEREIENCE: Responsibility in planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining the compliance and audit program for the Veterans Child Care Assistance Program (VCAP)program that can be used to provide to Congress, the Secretary of the VA, VHA, Office of Women's Health, Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISN), the medical centers, and Veterans the necessary report to ensure the program is following the intent of the legislation. 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 primarily sedentary. Some physical effort is required in that the incumbent lifts and carries reference books, working papers, and similar items during site visits. 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 Servicing Human Resources Office - 1 2402 Wildwood Ave Suite 301 Sherwood, AR 72120 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]