Overview
Health System Specialist Jobs in Des Moines – Iowa – USA at Veterans Health Administration
Summary
Thepurposeof the position is to contribute to the fulfillment of VHA Health Care System’s mission and vision by planning, designing, and maintaining amultidisciplinaryCompliance Department at the Health Care System, with responsibilities of auditing and monitoring to ensure compliance with policies and laws governing business operations, health information management practices, privacy, research, records management, controlled substance program management, ethics, and business integrity.
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 grade level. 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. You may qualify based on your experience and/oreducationas described below:
Individual Occupational Requirement:
Undergraduate and Graduate
Education:
Major study – hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with coursework 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. Special Provision for Inservice Placement:
Successful completion of an agency-sponsoredon-the-job trainingprogram 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. Specialized
Experience:
have at least one (1) full year of s…
Title: Health System Specialist
Company: Veterans Health Administration
Location: Des Moines – Iowa – USA
Category: Healthcare, Administrative/Clerical
