This position is located in the Office of the Medical Center Director. The incumbent services as a Health System Specialist to the Medical Center Director and senior management at the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center. Assignments will be provided on a broad spectrum of complex topics to include management improvement, productivity improvement, management controls, and other clinical, and administrative support issues,

Duties

Duties of this position include but not limited to: Reviews, plans, and coordinate the delivery of healthcare programs throughout the facility. Provides support to the Medical Center Director to monitor performance measures and manage change. Participates in development and documentation of long and short range planning efforts. Prepares and contributes to reports and other presentations on program planning and evaluations as well as facility reporting both internally and externally. Responsible for the development of comprehensive business plans to improve the operation and cost effectiveness of facility programs. Assists with development of service agreements, DOD sharing agreements, and standard operating procedures to address problems impacting program efficiency. Coordinates and monitors implementation of initiatives to expand or enhance healthcare programs. Designs and conducts a wide variety of comprehensive and detailed analyses of complex functions and processes related to health programs. Responsible for the review, analysis, evaluation of medical center operations. Serves as internal consultant to management on expansion programs and projects. Uses VA data systems, the Internet and other sources of data to provide reliable and up-to-date data to support decision-making tools and recommendations. Identifies and proposes solutions to management problems which impact the development and planning of program direction. Analyzes management techniques, practices, and processes to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Facilitates training for facility administrative staff to fill gaps in business knowledge and to advise on the use of appropriate subject matter experts. Reviews proposed organizational changes requiring the establishment, consolidation, transfer, or regrouping of functions for services. Responsible for the review of the cost effectiveness and utilization with appropriate recommendations given on various programs and operations. Monitors and analyzes monthly physical reports for contract expenditures and resource sharing agreements. Ensures recommendations regarding physician market pay and biennials for service chiefs are completed Ensures reports to local councils, the VISN, and external accreditation agencies are completed. Serves as the Director's liaison for operation's flow, initiatives redesign and other related initiatives. Work Schedule: 8:am - 4:30pm - Monday - Friday, subject to change depending on the needs of the agency. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD14026O 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, 10/08/2024. 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. Individual Occupational Requirement: 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- you must possess 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. You may qualify based on your experience 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: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management 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 healthcare professionals and organizational leadership to solve problems in support of the delivery of patient care and program/operational functions; experience running and supervising an administrative component of a health care system customizing in compliance, improvement programs, and operations; experience applying strategic planning and change management principles to prepare program operations for technological advancements; and developing internal review systems and actions to assure that clinical, educational, and administrative activities comply with applicable standards. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Administration and ManagementAnalysis and Problem SolvingComputer SkillsInterpersonal SkillsOrganizational Performance Analysis 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 requires frequent walking through the Uptown and Downtown Divisions of the medical center. The work requires community contacts and authority to use government vehicles. Must have vision adequate to use a computer, read printed material and charts. Must be able to hear normal voices and able to speak to an audience effectively. 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

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 Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center One Freedom Way Augusta, GA 30901 US
• Name: Lois Auge
• Phone: 706-002-0094 X20094
• Email: [email protected]