Clarification from the agency

ALL US CITIZENS DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.201) for this occupation. First Area of Consideration: current permanent facility employees. Second Area of Consideration: current permanent employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs

The Heath System Specialist will perform duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a healthcare delivery system. Duties require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of healthcare management in directing or supporting the healthcare delivery system. The core duties of this position include but are not limited to:

• Provides full assistance on administrative matters affecting operation of JHQVAMC and advises and assists management responsible for planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation.
• Interacts with all levels of the facility on various projects, as well as individuals from the network, VA Central Office, Regional Counsel, other federal agencies, community partners, and Veterans and their family members.
• Coordinates and interacts with complex organizational relationships inherent at highly affiliated medical centers with a wide array of medical specialists in most all health care disciplines.
• Maintain close liaison with services within the Assisting Medical Center Director and Chief, Quality Management Service Lines and their administrative support and provide assistance with administrative and management matters.
• Establishes and maintains good working relationships with professional staff and other senior management level officials.
• Demonstrates sound moral and ethical principles in working relationships with co-workers, customers, and stakeholders.
• Leads by example to improve personal awareness, sensitivity to others and accountability in the workplace.
• Comprehensive understanding of the VA mission, organization, and programs; and understands the philosophy and priorities of the executive team.
• Serves as the backup equipment inventory listing (EIL) official. As such, maintains the EIL by location and item. The EIL Official holds those with equipment on the inventory accountable for the equipment.
• Administers planning process and provides authoritative recommendations to Executive Leaders regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities.
• Reviews and analyzes workload, productivity, utilization to formulate plans, policies, regulations and procedures or make recommendations to improve efficiency, productivity or reduce costs.
• Identifying and resolving management issues within the service line and actively participates in day-to-day policy making as well as in long range planning and development of strategic plans, goals, and objectives.
• Participates in top management discussions, decisions and policy making in a healthcare facility.
• Interacts with health care services in making long range and/or short range plans for the medical/health care facility.
• Assesses issues that affect multiple organizational units in both administrative and clinical areas and develops recommendations to address problems. Follows-up on issues and reports actions back to management officials.
• Serves as the primary or backup timekeeper or leave approving official for the Assistant Medical Center Director and/or Chief, Quality Management T&Ls.
• Coordinates the efforts of multiple health care services in supporting the delivery of patient care.
• Proposes and conducts special studies and analyses of complex problems in relation to manpower and requirements, space, equipment acquisition/utilization, organizational alignment, and financial performance.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm
Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Executive Assistant)PD605960
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.

Upon completion of your trial or probationary period , your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.

As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary or 2 year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider:

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

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-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.

Individual Occupational Requirement (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 Individual Occupational Requirement for the Health System Specialist position is:

Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education 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
Experience: You must have 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.

You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below:

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-11 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: evaluating major administrative aspects of mission-oriented programs and services provided by the healthcare system. This involves the development of long-range program plans, goals, objectives, and milestones, and evaluating the effectiveness of programs carried out across this large, complex healthcare system. Identifying and developing ways to resolve problems or cope with issues which directly affect the accomplishment of primary program goals and objectives for delivering quality healthcare to patients.

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.

Physical Requirements: Work is chiefly sedentary, but occasional standing, walking, stooping, bending and carrying items weighing 20 pounds, may be required. The work involves activities related to an enthusiastic teaching/learning environment. Assignments regularly involve long periods of standing, bending, and stooping to observe and facilitate group activities.

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/.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Applicants will be referred in the order in which they were received.

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

Your resume must be 5MB or less. We recommend saving and uploading your resume as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. We recommend using a sans-serif font size like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans. Make your page margins 0.5 inches. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text in your resume. The resume builder can help you create a resume using these recommendations and uses the information in your USAJOBS profile to help you get started.

Documents Accepted:

• Cover Letter
• DD-214/ Statement of Service
• Disability Letter (VA)
• License
• Full Resume
• Professional Certification
• Resume
• SF-15
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action
• Transcript

Documents Required:

• Resume
• SF-50/ Notification of Personnel Action

Please review the above list(s) to ensure you have included all necessary documents required for your application.Not every applicant will require the same documents, therefore it is the applicants responsibility to ensure that their application package includes all necessary documents to determine qualifications and eligibility for appointment, such as a copy of your SF-50, transcript, ICTAP/CTAP documentation (for displaced Federal employees).You will not be contacted for additional information. Applicants will be deemed ineligible if supporting documentation is not submitted.

Veterans' Preference: Since the Direct-Hire Recruitment Authority is being used, traditional Veterans' Preference rules do not apply. Qualified veterans will, however, be given full consideration for this position.

Applications are accepted online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the status of your application.

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