Health Systems Specialist
The John J. Pershing a Medical Center is a facility comprised of 10 acute medicine beds and 40 beds in the Community Living Center. The Community Living Center provides long term and intermediate rehabilitative care and complements the community placement program. Primary Care, ambulatory specialty care clinics, long term care, community home health care and a variety of telemedicine modalities of care are offered at the facility. The incumbent will provide full professional clinical administrative assistance to the Chief of Staff on clinical administrative operation matters affecting patient care, educational and organizational policies. Duties will include, but are not limited to:
Serve as senior staff member directly supporting the quadrad leadership team. Responsible for planning, organization, development, direction and evaluation of medical center clinical administrative operations. Serve as full time assistant to the Chief of Staff aiding he/she of all administrative matters related to patient care, education and clinical operations. Assists in formulation of hospital policy through completed staff work, studies, analysis and observations; provides specific recommendations and committee reports as required. Responsible to supervise all administrative functions within the office of Chief of Staff. Provide staff assistance with compiling and finalizing reports and recommendations that are forwarded and addressed to VISN 15 Network Director and VACO. Assist with coordination of new clinical programs, planning for construction projects, logistics, five year planning, as well as short and long range planning for clinical administrative operations. Work Schedule:
Monday-Friday 8:
00 a.m. -4:
30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible:
Not Available Telework:
Authorized AD HOC Virtual:
This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#:
Health Systems Specialist / PD#2541-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/13/2020. Time-In-Grade Requirement:
Applicants who are current competitive service 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. This occupational series has an INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT. You must meet this requirement in order to be considered. Individual Occupational Requirements 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 Specialized
Experience:
(for positions above GS-5):
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. GS-12 Health System Specialize Experience In addition to meeting the IOR, applicants must be able to demonstrate one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11), in the normal line of progression or the series that demonstrates performing at least three of the following tasks:
collecting, analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of data and reporting results; using software to perform data analysis; leading communities and/or other groups in coordinating work efforts; interpreting and developing standards, policies, and/or regulations; maintaining budget and/or staffing plans in a health care system. You will be rated on:
collecting, analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of data and reporting results; using software to perform data analysis; leading communities and/or other groups in coordinating work efforts; interpreting and developing standards, policies, and/or regulations; maintaining budget and/or staffing plans in a health care system. 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 is sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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/.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Serve as senior staff member directly supporting the quadrad leadership team. Responsible for planning, organization, development, direction and evaluation of medical center clinical administrative operations. Serve as full time assistant to the Chief of Staff aiding he/she of all administrative matters related to patient care, education and clinical operations. Assists in formulation of hospital policy through completed staff work, studies, analysis and observations; provides specific recommendations and committee reports as required. Responsible to supervise all administrative functions within the office of Chief of Staff. Provide staff assistance with compiling and finalizing reports and recommendations that are forwarded and addressed to VISN 15 Network Director and VACO. Assist with coordination of new clinical programs, planning for construction projects, logistics, five year planning, as well as short and long range planning for clinical administrative operations. Work Schedule:
Monday-Friday 8:
00 a.m. -4:
30 p.m. Compressed/Flexible:
Not Available Telework:
Authorized AD HOC Virtual:
This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#:
Health Systems Specialist / PD#2541-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives:
Not authorized Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 08/13/2020. Time-In-Grade Requirement:
Applicants who are current competitive service 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-12 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-11. 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. This occupational series has an INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT. You must meet this requirement in order to be considered. Individual Occupational Requirements 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 Specialized
Experience:
(for positions above GS-5):
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. GS-12 Health System Specialize Experience In addition to meeting the IOR, applicants must be able to demonstrate one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-11), in the normal line of progression or the series that demonstrates performing at least three of the following tasks:
collecting, analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of data and reporting results; using software to perform data analysis; leading communities and/or other groups in coordinating work efforts; interpreting and developing standards, policies, and/or regulations; maintaining budget and/or staffing plans in a health care system. You will be rated on:
collecting, analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of data and reporting results; using software to perform data analysis; leading communities and/or other groups in coordinating work efforts; interpreting and developing standards, policies, and/or regulations; maintaining budget and/or staffing plans in a health care system. 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 is sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required. 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/.
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0671 Health System Specialist - Salary Range:
$76,721 to $99,741 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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