- Position Title
- Health System Specialist- Supervisory
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSR-12710058-25-SN Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Friday, March 21, 2025 to Thursday, March 27, 2025
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Eligibilities
1.
Are you an employee of the facility indicated for this position?
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
This includes: Career/Career Conditional or Excepted Service (i.e. Canteen, Hybrid, Title 38, etc. and meets interchange agreement requirements). This does not include temporary, term or temporary intermittent.
To verify your eligibility, you must submit a copy of your most recent Notification of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50). Your SF-50 must include enough information to be able to determine that time-in-grade requirements have been met (if applicable) and include your position title, pay plan/series/grade, tenure and the type of appointment (i.e. Competitive or Excepted). Please be aware that award SF-50's do not always include this pertinent information.
Preferences
1.
Which of the following items describes your current or recent (within the last five years) political appointee service?
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
If you responded yes to any of the items below, you will need to include a SF-50 specifying your prior service.
Your resume must be submitted in English and include the following information for each job listed:
- Job title Duties (be as detailed as possible)
- Month & year start/end dates (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Series and Grade, if applicable, for all Federal positions you have held
- Please be aware that your answers will be verified against information provided on your resume. Be sure that your resume clearly supports your responses to all of the questions by addressing your work experience in detail.
By submitting your application, you are certifying, to the best of your knowledge and belief, all the information submitted by you with your application for employment is true, complete, and made in good faith, and that you have truthfully and accurately represented your work experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education (degrees, accomplishments, etc.). The information you provide as part of your application may be investigated. You are also certifying, and acknowledging, that misrepresenting your experience or education, or providing false or fraudulent information in, or with your application, may affect your eligibility for appointment and/or continued employment. False or fraudulent statements may be punishable by fine or imprisonment (18 U.S.C. 1001).
Assessment 1
Thank you for your interest in a Health System Specialist position. Please respond to the questions below. Please respond to the questions below.
1.
GS-13 Grade Requirements: To qualify for the GS-13 grade level, do you have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level?
Examples of Specialized experience are:
Knowledge of agency program goals and objectives, the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones, and methods of evaluating program events, milestones and accomplishments.
Ability to effectively supervise others by setting priorities, assigning work, evaluating work of subordinates and developing subordinates for increased responsibility and succession planning.
Skill to plan, organize and direct team study work to accept and implement recommendations where proposals from the EMT involve substantial agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures or may be in conflict with the desires of the activity studied
Broad knowledge of Federal government policies, regulations, and trends in the areas of personnel, budgeting and management systems, as well as an understanding of the public and private sector trends in health care.
Examples of Specialized experience are:
Knowledge of agency program goals and objectives, the sequence and timing of key program events and milestones, and methods of evaluating program events, milestones and accomplishments.
Ability to effectively supervise others by setting priorities, assigning work, evaluating work of subordinates and developing subordinates for increased responsibility and succession planning.
Skill to plan, organize and direct team study work to accept and implement recommendations where proposals from the EMT involve substantial agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures or may be in conflict with the desires of the activity studied
Broad knowledge of Federal government policies, regulations, and trends in the areas of personnel, budgeting and management systems, as well as an understanding of the public and private sector trends in health care.
For each knowledge area, select the one response that most accurately describes your current level of knowledge using the scale below.
2.
Serves as the HSS/Group Practice Manager (GPM) in Psychiatry and Mental Health Service and actively collaborates with the Chief and Assistant Chief of the Psychiatry and Mental Health Service, and the Deputy Chief of Staff
3.
Provides oversight and administrative management of all patient care provided by Psychiatry and Mental Health Service within the medical center, at Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) and other off-site VA clinical space
4.
Conducts or participates in special information flow studies, analyses, presentations and briefings, as assigned.
5.
Ensures that care is integrated into an efficient Clinic Practice Management model not only as it relates to Psychiatry and Mental Health Service, but any other clinical Service as assigned by the Chief of Staff. Responsible for supporting high quality patient experience for the Veteran, by acting on feedback from the Veteran, their family and/or significant others, VAMC employees and expert clinical staff.
6.
Works with the Executive Management Team (EMT) and fellow HSS/GPMs to develop strategic plans for the facility as it relates to access to care. Measures and assesses clinical business activities with an emphasis on improving clinical product line performance.
7.
Identify and implement improvements to optimize clinic management processes, access strategies and 'make-buy" decisions through an in-depth analysis of in-house and non-VA provided care.
8.
Continuously evaluates the current outpatient services model with the medical center, VISN, and throughout VHA in order to propose access changes that will result in extensive changes in medical center policy.