Health System Specialist

Health System Specialist

Duties of the Health System Specialist includes, but not limited to:

• Coordination of computer programs, programming, coordinating EHR programs for staff use, development of project plans, convening stakeholder groups to prompt requirements, conducting environmental scans for viable solutions to business need, deploying solutions, and performing assessments to ensure the informatics products and services are meeting stakeholder needs.
• As a recognized expert, the employee guides the evolution of clinical software and processes by ensuring clinical software are available for staff use in addition to training on these programs and using creative and well developed interpersonal skills to achieve effective communication with the end users and national teams.
• Manages the improvement of multiple specialized clinical and business processes and workflows through the implementation and operations of VA's new Electronic Health Records Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO). Manages development of new, innovative, and cutting-edge workflows, best practice processes, directly impacting the efficiencies of process improvements, within VA and the entire network of Veteran care providers.
• Adapts software and emerging technologies to optimize the delivery of care through effective education and communication, innovations in process management, and high-quality customer service achieved by working in close partnership with interdisciplinary services.
• Helps to establish effective clinical and administrative systems, optimize through testing, and integrates standardized workflow processes through education and training of staff, thereby enhancing lifelong learning.

This is a bargaining unit position. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Total Rewards

Work Schedule: Mon - Fri,8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Compressed/Flexible Schedule: Available

Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.

Duty Location Status: Will be physically located in a VA owned or leased office/space

Position Description Title/PD#: Health System Specialist/ PD20979A

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Physical Demands: The work is sedentary. The work requires long periods of sitting and working on a computer terminal. It will require travel to VHA medical centers and facilities. It occasionally requires carrying light objects such as laptops, files, books and paper. Travel will be required up to 75%.