About the Position: This position falls under the Defense Health Agency (DHA) at Camp LeJeune in Onslow, North Carolina.

Duties

A HIPAA Privacy Compliance Specialist is responsible for ensuring the facility complies with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations regarding patient information privacy and security. Develop and implement privacy policies and procedures, conduct regular privacy assessments and audits, provide staff training on HIPAA regulations. Investigate privacy breaches or complaints and ensuring that the organization remains in compliance with all HIPAA requirements. to include Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) privacy related issues. Serves as the local HIPAA/FOIA subject matter expert for investigations. Monitors all health-related agreements with other similar internal DHA organizations to ensure all privacy concerns, requirements and responsibilities are addressed. They also play a key role in developing and maintaining a culture of privacy and security within the organization and capable of generating detailed reports/responses to all matters related to HIPAA privacy compliance.

Requirements

• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
• This position requires the incumbent be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Tier 1 security investigation or access for the duration of employment. A background investigation and credit check are required.
• This position has a mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination requirement and is therefore subject to annual seasonal influenza vaccinations.
• This position requires the incumbent to have tuberculosis testing.
• Immunization screening is required. Hepatitis B immunization is required for all positions with direct patient contact. Applicants may be required to show proof of other immunizations depending on the type of position.

Qualifications

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. 30 Percent or More Disabled VeteransCurrent Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA)Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian EmployeeDomestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel WorkforceInteragency Career Transition Assistance PlanLand Management Workforce Flexibility ActMilitary Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473Non-Department of Defense (DoD) TransferOffice of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement EligiblePeople with Disabilities, Schedule APriority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) EligiblePriority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability RetirementPriority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference EligibleReinstatementVeterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the Experience requirements described below. 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; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. GS-09 Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: Assisting in monitoring compliance with Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements;- Develops local policies and procedures as needed from DoD and DHA HIPAA/FOIA privacy requirements; and, identifies, implements and manages the maintenance of the organization's health information privacy policies and procedures; Implements mechanisms to receive, document, track and investigate all complaints and actions taken related to privacy policies or procedural issues; Oversees the destruction of sensitive information as defined by HIPAA/FOIA guidance when the information is no longer required for operational or archival purposes; and Tracks medical information released outside the organization to individuals, agencies or other organizations. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07). You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Creative ThinkingPlanning and EvaluatingTechnical Competence Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-07).

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Contacts

• Address JT-DHA-DD83DX DHA NC COAST MKT-LEJEUNE DO NOT MAIL Camp Lejeune, NC 28547 US
• Name: Army Applicant Help Desk