The Health System Specialist position is assigned to the Chief of Staff Service at the Greater Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Incumbent is responsible for providing administrative and technical direction and support to the credentialing & privileging operations. Incumbent ensures complians with VHA policies, directives memos and notices of The Joint Commission standards. Also responsible to collect relevant data and making informed decisions to ensure appropriate care is provided.
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 05/08/2025. 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-09 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-08. 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. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-08 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience in Healthcare administration, continuous quality improvement, data analysis; healthcare principles, theories and practices; budgeting, planning, administration. Experience in applying qualitive and/or quantitative methods for program improvement and applying healthcare management principles to complex problem-solving solutions. OR, Education: Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have undergraduate or graduate education in a major field of study hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields, such as business or public administration, with course work in health care administration. 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 associates degree. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position: Analytical Reasoning Clerical Compliance Inspection Health Informatics Planning and Evaluating Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment. Physical Requirements: The work is mostly sedentary. Occasionally, light physical effort may be required, such as that involved with walking, stair climbing, and carrying of light office items. 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/.
Duties include but are not limited to: Assists the C&P Manager/Analyst in developing short and long-term goals necessary to accomplish the mission of the C&P program. Serves as SME in the field of credentials and clinical privileging. Receives and reviews VetPro reports detecting problem arears requiring further investigation. Ensures accurate provider data is entered into and maintained in the VetPro computer program. Manages provider applications (initial and renewals) for LIPs C&P with the VAMC. Posses broad knowledge of medial specialties and core privileges and is the technical advisor to clinical leadership for the development of department specific privileges and assures that complete documentation is available to support privileges granted to providers. Provides guidance and instruction to hospital staff in completing the required documentation of establishing privileges for LIPs. Provides oversight to the application process; analyzes exceptions and deviations in the expected application process. Analyzes and manages issues related to documents that do not meet expected requirements, regulations or guidelines such as malpractice claims, adverse actions against licensures and/or certifications, FSMB reports and National NPDB CQ reports. Prepares agendas for credentials related meetings, ensures those involved are ntoified of expectations, and ensures appropriate paperwork is accomplished completely and accurately. Develops and provides routine and special reports as requested by the C&P Manager/Analyst. Holds credit card and is responsible for maintaining records, reconciling monthly chard statements and verifying legitimacy of requests. Provides ongoing review of regulatory requirements, TJC Standards, changing laws and legal precedents. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Position Description/PD#: Health System Specialist/PD99876S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not Approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized