- Position Title
- Health System Specialist
- Agency
- Veterans Health Administration
- Announcement Number
- CBSX-12717178-25-JP Opens in new window
- Open Period
- Thursday, March 27, 2025 to Tuesday, April 8, 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.
2.
Are you a Veterans Health Administration employee?
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.
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.
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).
2.
I authorize my application information being shared with hiring managers for similar positions. I understand this option may not result in further consideration for additional positions nor will it impact my application for this announcement.
3.
How did you hear about this job?
Assessment 1
For each task in the following group, choose the statement from the list below that best describes your experience and/or training. Please note that your answers will be verified against the information you provided in your resume. NOTE: Evidence of experience, must be supported by detailed documentation of duties performed in positions held. Please provide such documentation on your application or resume. Also, please provide work experience information such as hours per week and starting/ending dates of employment (month and year format) to establish one (1) full year of experience. The requirement for this proof is specified in the "How to Apply" section of this announcement.
Basic Requirement:
1.
Individual Occupational Requirements: In order to meet the basic requirement of the Health System Specialist, 0671 Occupational series, you must have one of the following:
For each task in the following groups, choose the statement from the list below that best describes your experience and/or training.
Select the one statement that most accurately describes your training and experience carrying out each task using the scale provided.
2.
Provide support by analyzing, evaluating, advising on, and/or coordinating health care delivery operations to support improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of patient care.
3.
Oversee budgetary responsibilities as they pertain to all clinical service including FTEE, overtime monitoring, and productivity review and analysis.
4.
Act as liaison with administrative, clinical managers and staff to provide oversight in the design, development, integration implementation and modification of a variety of management effectiveness programs e.g. clinic practice management, quality improvement, labor mapping, staffing methodology, occurrence screening, utilization review, risk management, Veteran Centered Care, patient inquiry control, patient satisfaction, boards of investigation, internal control reports related resource allocation issues, and/or clinical pertinence reviews for all providers.
5.
Develop an understanding of the need for and maintain an awareness of available resources in terms of financial, space and human resources, and make recommendations to Clinical and Administrative leadership regarding these needs and distribution or redistribution of these resources.
6.
Demonstrate an extensive and thorough knowledge of VHA initiatives, Strategic Priorities, healthcare delivery models, such as the operational tenants of multi/interdisciplinary teams, (Primary Care, Community Managed Care, Mental Health Care, Social Work, Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pharmacy, etc.).
7.
Administer planning processes and provide authoritative recommendations to the Chief of Staff regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities.
8.
Direct and assist Health Care System leadership and staff in administrative research, management analyses and development of reports pertaining to program plans, development operations, and assessments of any planning phase of the Health Care System's activities.
9.
Conduct special studies on staffing methodology, space, clinical informatics, software applications, reusable medical equipment, service contracts, cost benefit analysis and equipment utilization.
10.
Note discrepancies and the planned initiative for effecting remedial actions.
11.
Establish administrative controls aimed at ensuring remedial actions are completed as proposed.
12.
Identify medical center problems that involve new or revised policies or procedures and brings them to the attention of senior medical center management for appropriate action.
13.
Obtain timely actions, responses, or decisions on request within and to the medical center and ensure they are actions to remedy critical problems alleviating any chance that accreditation might be threatened.
14.
Analyze and evaluate, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations in meeting established goals and objectives.
15.
Facilitate the continuity of clinical services and input into the planning process for all clinical initiatives and construction projects throughout each phase of the project.
16.
Exchange information regarding operational requirement, identify operational issues, minimize the impacts of patient care during construction and facilitate employee satisfaction through efficient and effective construction project outcomes.
17.
Provide leadership and coordination for the development and modification of effective clinical management systems.