Health System Specialist (EA ADPCS)

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The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Executive Assistant to the Associate Director, Patient Care Services (ADPCS), responsible for relieving the ADPCS of the administrative and management responsibilities that can be assumed by a non registered nurse. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/28/2026. 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-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-9. 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- All applicants must meet one of the the IORs below: 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: 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. OR, Special Provision for Inservice 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. In addition to the IOR above, you may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: GS-11 Grade Level: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: knowledge of the organization and structure of healthcare delivery systems or managed care networks; knowledge of laws and regulations governing healthcare industry standards; skill and ability to apply analytical principles, theories, and techniques to health care management and operational system with a degree of resourcefulness and ingenuity; knowledge of VA administrative investigations policy and methods of fact finding necessary to conduct the Compliance and Business Integrity (CBI) program investigations on incidents of alleged non-compliance with VHA administrative or financial management policies; possess knowledge to assess existing policies and procedures; skill in working effectively with service chiefs developing corrective action plans to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and appropriateness of patient care; ability to develop and deploy a system of internal monitoring to identify potential organizational risks; possess strong managerial, leadership, and interpersonal skills, as well as excellent written and oral communication skills; position requires the ability to provide necessary guidance to senior management, Compliance Committee, and staff, and have the ability to effe

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