Health System Specialist

Health System Specialist

Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support by analyzing, evaluating, advising on, and/or coordinating health care delivery operations to support improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of patient care. This includes integrating local, state, federal, VISN and VHA needs into the long-range planning at the Health Care System to include all areas of employee and labor relations (i.e. labor mapping, staffing methodology).
• Clinical resource analysis and cost containment efforts, planning, management information systems, organizational functional analysis, and professional support programs. This includes space needs analysis (from the clinical perspective), resource management and planning, including equipment and specialized items with special controls, and plans for future development. Budgetary oversight responsibilities as they pertain to all clinical service including FTEE oversight, overtime monitoring, and productivity review and analysis.
• Extensive and thorough knowledge of VHA initiatives, Strategic Priorities, healthcare delivery models, such as the operational tenants of multi/interdisciplinary teams, (Primary Care, Community Managed Care, Mental Health Care, Social Work, Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, Pharmacy, etc.).
• Periodic assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery model will be accomplished to ensure optimal performance.
• Direct involvement of the development and implementation of alterations and/or modification in operational processes, for example Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT), Behavioral Health Integration Programs (BHIP), annual staffing and/or team integration methodology process.
• Performs staff support work in short and long-range planning efforts related to NAVAHCS.
• Complies with directives in preparing annual and cyclic planning documents.
• Obtains and consolidates planning information from subordinate units.
• Administers planning processes and provides authoritative recommendations to the COS regarding possible need for revision of regulations and policies governing planning activities.
• Assesses priorities to best meet Veterans' health care delivery needs.
• Directs and assists Health Care System leadership and staff in administrative research, management analyses and development of reports pertaining to program plans, development operations, and assessments of any planning phase of the Health Care System's activities.
• Conducts special studies on staffing methodology, space, clinical informatics, software applications, reusable medical equipment, service contracts, cost benefit analysis and equipment utilization.
• Knowledge and skill in applying analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to issues or studies concerning the efficiency and effectiveness of program operations carried out by administrative or professional personnel which requires knowledge of pertinent laws, regulations, policies and precedents that affect the use of program and related support resources in the area studied.
• Examines programs and recommends expanding, contracting, combining, separating, or realigning them to best meet patient health care needs most economically.
• Ensures and coordinates the appropriate completion of special studies required by the COS, collaborating with, and providing guidance to clinical and administrative Service Chiefs, Program Managers and other Health Care System personnel as required. Conclusions and recommendations from special studies are consolidated as necessary for presentation to the COS and/or Executive Leadership Team (ELT). These studies may require the integration of information drawn from direct interaction with Network, Regional and Central Office levels of VHA, from educational affiliates, and from State and Federal agencies. Results of these studies can have significant impact on future directions of Health Care System programs, resource utilization and relationships within the agency and throughout the community.
• Analyzes and evaluates, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations in meeting established goals and objectives.
• Evaluates agency wide programs against short and long range objectives.
• Conducts meetings for the Administrative Support and Business Managers in service lines reporting to COS in order to ensure continuity of medical, programmatic, administrative, women's health, mental health and specialty and diagnostic programs.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m

This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/ PD12674O

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized