The position functions as a Health Systems Specialist (HSS) at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. CAVHS is a two-division facility located in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Arkansas. The position will perform a variety of duties in an extremely complex medical facility which is constantly evolving within a highly complex and competitive geographic area.

Duties

Duties: The position directs and coordinates the administrative functions and activities of the support services. The position will develop, evaluate, adjust, and prioritize functions, programs, procedures, and support management systems in order to accomplish the facility's mission. The position is responsible for advising the ADPCS and Senior Health System Administrators, Environmental Management, Nutrition & Food, and Voluntary Services. Develops long and short-range program development proposals to meet existing and anticipated program needs. Responsible for training, facilitating, and managing cross-disciplinary teams that are working on sensitive, confidential matters and making broad decisions with large degrees of uncertainty. The position serves as a liaison and handles the communication with persons and/or groups within and outside of an organization or office, speaking for the ADPCS on administrative issues. The position utilizes VHA databases, such as VSSC, EDIS, BMS, Vista, and DSS in order to complete analyses of the CAVHS, particularly as it relates to Patient Care services. The Work Schedule: Monday- Friday 7:30a-4:00p, weekends and holidays may be required. Subject to change based on the needs of the agency. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD04586 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/12/2024. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements 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 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: 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. OR Special Provision for Inservice 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. In addition to meeting the above Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR), applicants must also meet the experience and/or directly related education relevant to this position. In addition to the IOR above you much also meet the specialized experience described below. Specialized Experience: Experience as a supervisor and effectively dealing with conflict and conflict resolution; Experience communicating orally and in writing with management and employees on a variety of issues Experience with facilitating the development of performance and program plans to meet goals. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementCommunicationComputer SkillsInterpersonal SkillsOrganizational Awareness 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: The work's generally sedentary, although physical ability to move around the facility frequently throughout the day is required. As well as the ability to walk between the two campuses and other sites of care in the system is 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.

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications for the IOR 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 John L McClellan Memorial Veterans' Hospital 4300 West Seventh Street Little Rock, AR 72205 US
• Name: Samantha Carter
• Phone: 4799573977
• Email: [email protected]