The Veterans Affairs Southern Nevada Health Care System (VASNHS) is a Level 1b facility serving the VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21). The VASNHS offers a full range of comprehensive health care services including Dentistry, Geriatrics, Imaging, Medicine Services, Mental Health Services, Laboratory, Primary Care, Oncology, Rehabilitation Services, Specialty Services, and Surgery.

Duties

The incumbent will be responsible for conducting project analysis at the Health Care System level. Responsible for delivering analytical project materials to a broad array of programs and services throughout the Medical Center, for all phases of a project from inception to closure. This role applies a broad range of quality improvement knowledge and experience to include program/project management, programming, predictive analysis, data mining, and data warehouse access. In addition, this position builds reports, dashboards and other tools used to advise project teams and leadership in the formulation of planning facility wide Strategic Plans and facility wide projects. Major duties include but are not limited to: Participates in and facilitates transformative quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency improvement efforts. Acts as the analytics lead for healthcare and operational improvement projects impacting patient care delivery systems and functions throughout the medical center. Facilitates, coaches, and trains audiences at all levels of the organization. Responsible for gathering business data from disparate data sources through many different tools and presentation rendering vehicles. Look at trends and suggest solutions for improvement. Provides reports, processes, forms and applications. Analyzes business processes and requirements. Creates and maintains documentation including requirements, design, and user manuals/resources. Identifies metrics performing below benchmarked standards or falling below the upper or lower control limits of a statistically controlled models. Organizes, directs, controls and coordinates group activities in a timely and effective manner. Conducts extensive work in analyzing data and conducting background research on the issue. Develops statistical, graphical, and narrative reports, and communicates these studies to medical center executive leadership, service chiefs, supervisors, and other staff. Leads project teams to develop appropriate metrics, goals, and improvement milestones. Ensures data is accurate, available, and relevant. Provides consultation to executive, service line, and program leadership by leveraging VA data analytics resources. Participates in the instruction to others on Lean, Lean Six Sigma, Systems Redesign or other improvement methodologies principles and tools through formal classroom instruction or small group mentoring. Delivers training on basic statistics using various dashboards, systems, and reports. Responsible for leading the team through development of control strategies, to ensure project solutions are sustained after the project lifecycle. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 07:30 am - 16:00 pm Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist /Sa/Dir//PD02167O Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: not authorized 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, 09/30/2024. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. 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 may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-12 grade level: One year of specialized experience (equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the federal service); experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA's) and other characteristics to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled, in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR) - Basic Requirement. 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 General Experience (for GS-12 positions): Work that required a knowledge of the basic principles and practices related to the management of a health care delivery system. Such experience may have been gained as an administrative officer, management analyst, or administrative or clinical program manager or supervisor in a health care delivery system. Specialized Experience (for positions GS-12): 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. 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. ***In addition to meeting the IOR, applicants MUST also meet the minimum qualifications listed below*** GS-12: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Knowledge of health care operations principles, Health Professional Training (HPT) programs, clinical disciplines and unique characteristics of HPTs. Knowledge of accreditation standards to effectively analyze, evaluate, administer, and advise on programs and associated special purpose resource allocation. Knowledge in supporting, analyzing, planning, coordinating and executing multiple highly complex academic training programs. Skills in communications, negotiations, and resolving conflicts regarding reconciliation issues with academic affiliations. Sills in applying a comprehensive range of principles, concepts and practices of HTP clinical coverage, scheduling, and rotation schedules. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical ReasoningOrganizational Performance AnalysisProject Management 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. 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: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address Las Vegas VA Medical Center 6900 North Pecos Road North Las Vegas, NV 89086 US
• Name: Symenthia Bryant
• Phone: 720-439-1806
• Email: [email protected]