This position is located in Nespelem, Washington at the Colville Service Unit Portland Area Indian Health Service. The purpose of the position is to serve as a full deputy to the Health Systems Administrator, with equal sharing of management and supervision of the service unit. https://www.ihs.gov/portland/healthcarefacilities/colville/

Duties

Incumbent has responsibility as a full deputy to the Health System Administrator, responsible for managing, supervising, planning, and analyzing the workload for the service unit. Assess and evaluate the operational environment, use sound judgment and decision-making to resolve problem areas, and provide overall direction for health services. Plan, organize, implement, direct, evaluate, and revise functional administrative/management areas of the clinical services, allied health services, and coordination with Purchase Referred Care. Establish, implement, monitor, and evaluate a Colville Service Unit-wide internal review and quality improvement system. Ensures conformity with standards of accreditation (i.e., Associate for Ambulatory Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (AAAHC)), quality Oversite of improvement plans, Governing Board By-Laws, Medical By-Laws, especially pertaining to credentialing and privileging of providers and ongoing changes in regulation requirements for Medicare/Medicaid certification. Provide financial management expertise. Monitor all personnel management activities within the service unit health care system; that includes personnel actions, disciplinary and grievance actions, recruitment, selections, training and development.

Requirements

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying. 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; religious; spiritual; community; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer and part time experience. You must clearly identify the duties and responsibilities in each position held and the total number of hours per week. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks: GS-13: Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level in the Federal service obtained in either the private or public sector performing the following type of work and/or tasks; This position require knowledge of the specialized administrative requirements of health care delivery systems, and sufficient knowledge of clinical practices, procedures and standards to be able to participate in the executive leadership of the entire health delivery system. Time In Grade Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade Requirements: Merit Promotion (status) candidates must have completed one year of service at the next lower grade level. Time-In-Grade provisions do not apply under the Excepted Service Examining Plan (ESEP). You must meet all qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing date of the announcement.

Contacts

• Address Colville Service Unit PO Box 71 HWY 155 Agency Campus Nespelem, WA 99155 US
• Name: Nathan Anderson
• Phone: 605-681-4940
• Email: [email protected]