The Office of Suicide Prevention serves as the primary consultant to the Secretary and the Under Secretary for Health on issues related to preventing Veteran suicide. The focus of the Office is to support the vision of the Secretary and Under Secretary for Health and VA's mission in implementing best practices to prevent suicide among all of the Nation's Veterans.

Duties

This announcement will remain open until Tuesday, December 3, 2024. All applications received up to 11:59p.m. EST on the date in which 50 applications is reached will receive first consideration. Additional applications will be reviewed in one day increments as requested by management. Duties include, but are not limited to: Applies appropriate techniques such as advanced data analysis, modeling and simulation to improve and guide initiatives. Works with other individuals and services to develop systems for data mining, transforming data into information, and knowledge management. Ensures sustainability and spread of efforts directed at improving quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency using management engineering. Develops methods for the measurement and assessment of spread and sustainability. Works with other individuals and services to develop automated systems for tracking improvement (data trending, data dashboards, and balanced scorecards) and for monitoring project progress and completion. Uses a wide range of advanced analytical techniques, statistician methods, and tools to collect baseline information, identify limitations in current systems, and discover potential improvements. Advises on potential benefits/uses of automation to improve the efficiency of administrative support or program operations. Provides oversight and leadership for the analysis, implementation, spread and maintenance of SP projects and initiatives related to mental health and/or public health and/or suicide prevention. Works with teams to identify measurement and monitoring strategies that balance effort with effectiveness based on sound statistical analysis. Helps performance teams develop process maps and data collection and analysis strategies to measure current capabilities. Recommends and develops methods of performance evaluation and process improvement for national and local healthcare systems, networks, and VHA. Serves as an internal consultant to national, VISN, and local groups working to improve quality and performance by helping them identify the most appropriate measures and monitors to ensure quality outcomes. Manages studies to optimize quality, safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in healthcare systems. Launches and supports SP team's data analysis needs, provides expertise for consultations over data analysis, and provides education and research expertise in support of national OSP leadership expectations. Develops the appropriate statistical, graphical, and narrative reports and communicates these studies to the SP leadership, medical center leadership, and in national or VISN-wide forums. Provides training and consultative services to all levels for healthcare system management regarding the requirements and implications of the SP initiatives based on program and data analysis. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Yes Telework: In office 5 Days/PP Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD26950 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved 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, 12/03/2024. 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. Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can't be waived. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained. To qualify for the GS 0671 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following: 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; 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. 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. AND; Specialized Experience: You must have at least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-12) in the Federal Service, that is directly related to the work of the position and has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties as a Health System Specialist. Qualifying specialized experience is defined as 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: (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. Preferred Experience: Planning and executing statistical analyses to characterize suicide risks and rates. Experience in developing analysis and initiatives to support public health prevention. 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. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Data Management Database Administration Project Management Quality Management Organizational Performance Analysis 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 is sedentary and does not require any special physical effort. Some work may require walking and standing in conjunction with travel and attendance at meetings and conferences away from the work site. Employee may carry light items such as papers, books, and portable computer requirement or driving a motor vehicle relative to attendance at meetings. The work often requires long hours to meet project deadlines and to devise corrective action and solutions to unexpected technical and/or management crises resulting in sometimes highly stressful work situations. 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.

Contacts

• Address Office of Suicide Prevention, Veterans Crisis Line 810 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20420 US
• Name: VHA National Recruitment Center
• Phone: (844)456-5208
• Email: [email protected]