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Health System Specialist (Trainee)

Veterans Health Administration | Charleston, SC

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Posted Date 12/20/2024
Description Service as an Administrative Resident in the Charleston VA Health Care System, pre/postgraduate studies, to provide practical instruction and guided working experience in a hospital environment.Major duties include, but are not limited to:
  • Organize, direct, control and coordinates group activities in a timely and effective manner.
  • Conducts extensive work in analyzing data and conducting background research on the issue.
  • Pulls, isolates, and engineers data to identify root causes of performance issues.
  • Participate in committees and task groups.
  • Review basic pay administration plans used in Veteran Health Administration (VHA)
  • Rotate through each hospital service.
  • Follow the development of the five year plan and be involved in the development or execution of a facility development plan.
  • Participate on a yellow belt project to assist a service line in process improvement
  • Schedule visits to neighboring VHA medical centers with different sizes and missions.
  • Attend local meetings of hospital councils, healthcare planning agendas, and other healthcare groups.
  • Staff and write response to congressional correspondence and learn of the relationship with hospitals and congressional offices.
  • Fill in for an administrative officer in clinical service as approved by executive leadership.
  • Fill in for an assistant chief or other supervisor in an administrative service as approved by
  • Coordinate a special event program.
  • Be assigned /developmental projects ad studies until completion.
Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Work Schedule: Monday- Friday, 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Telework: Available - Ad-hoc
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Trainee)/PD10826T
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO): Not AuthorizedTo qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 12/24/2024.

Individual Occupational Requirements (IOR): The 0671 Occupational series has an IOR that must be met:
  • 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,
  • 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 meeting the above IOR, you must meet the following to qualify based on your experience as described below:
  • Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-09 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of Positions in this series range widely in type and include support duties to medical or health personnel such as audiologists, speech pathologists, medical officers, and optometrists. Therefore, technician experience is experience that requires application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled OR,
  • Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR,
  • Combination: Applicants may also combine education and experience to qualify at this level. You must have an combination of specialized experience and education beyond a master's or equivalent graduate degree. The total percentages must equal at least 100 percent to qualify an applicant for that grade level. Only graduate education in excess of the amount required for the next lower grade level may be used to qualify applicants for positions at grades GS-9 and GS-11.
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/.

Physical Demands: Work is mostly sedentary, but there is a moderate amount of walking involved, with infrequent bending, lifting, and stooping. Vision should be sufficient to read from a computer screen for prolonged periods without excessive fatigue. Input data into the computer requires prolonged use of the keyboard.A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Salary59,966.00 - 77,955.00 Annual
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