Health System Specialist (Strategic Planner)

Job Title

Health System Specialist (Strategic Planner)

Duties

The duties include:

• Providing full staff assistance contributing to decision-making, problem solving, and planning throughout the medical center by evaluating programs, establishing criteria to measure effectiveness and/or predict the attainment of organizational goals and objectives, and recommending changes in management practices, relative materials, methods, techniques, organizational structure, procedures, etc., without limitation to scope or impact.
• Developing and implementing administrative regulations or guidelines for the conduct of program operations.
• Managing contracts to ensure compliance, performance, and risk mitigation throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Providing advisory services and high-level insight into the most complex top management deliberations and decisions, participating in determinations and resolutions.
• Coordinating analysis covering a broad range of activities with an emphasis on complying with policy and resulting in recommendations for improvements in the effectiveness and/or efficiency of medical center operations.
• Informing and advising senior leadership on relevant metrics, information, data, and knowledge regarding the internal and external health care environment.
• Collecting and analyzing data to project future healthcare needs regarding access to and array of clinical services provided.
• Conducting studies of the appropriate space, equipment, staffing, and support services necessary to meet the needs of the Veteran population, participating in formulation of the budget/allocation of resources and developing business cases and clinical restructuring documents for the expansion of clinical services.
• Serving and advising on major committees/subcommittees/task forces as the Director deems necessary for coordination of Medical Center activities (i.e., Space Committee, Position Management Committee, Resource Management Committee, and Joint Commission for Resource Sharing Collaborative) and guiding Hampton VA Executive Leadership on Strategic Planning Processes.
• Responsible for the strategic and operational assessment of Hampton VA Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC's) and other off-site locations.
• Working collaboratively with city, county, and state officials to address Veteran issues within the community.
• Serving as an innovators network and system redesign champion, identifying areas for innovation and process improvement and working with subject-specific leadership to develop appropriate plans of action.
• Providing written and oral communication precepts and rules to write policies, correspondence, reports, etc. and presenting new requirements and changes in policy and procedure to clinical service employees, as applicable.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Telework: This position may be authorized for ad-hoc telework, per VA Policy.

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist (Strategic Planner)/ PD028880

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized