Health System Specialist

The incumbent serves as the Strategic Planning Officer for the Eastern Kansas Health Care System. The incumbent is responsible for leading ongoing strategic planning efforts for EKHCS. The goal of the scope of practice is, through data analysis, to define medium to long term strategic goals relating to expansion or decrease of services to meet health care demands.

• Strategic and Capital Planning (40%)
  Co-leads, with the Associate Director, the EKHCS planning cycle to include environmental
  scanning, gap analyses, strategy development and prioritization, implementation, and tracking.
  Leads a multi-disciplinary team through the planning cycle per VHA and VISN guidance, eliciting
  input for Executive/Senior Leadership and coordinating planning related activities for the Space
  Committee, Resource Executive Board, Executive Board, and annual SCIP submission.
  Coordinates the development and effective implementation of the EKHCS Strategic Plan that is
  aligned with VISN 4, HSA 4.2 goals and priorities. Develops and incorporates space planning
  priorities (Master Space Plan, Capital Plan, and Facility 5-Year Plan).
• Strategic Partnerships (15%)
  Researches, engages, and collaborates with public and private community health care providers
  and organizations to expand EKHCS' health care delivery network, improve access to care,
  identity innovative solutions, and leverage all community resources in support of the Veteran
  population.
• Coordination and Support of Market Planning (20%)
  Serves as lead facilitator for the EKHCS Facility Planner; directs the completion of planning tasks
  and responsibilities and coordinating planning activities to ensure the integration of health system
  planning priorities into a consolidated service delivery plan. Builds consensus among EKHCS
  Executive and Senior Leadership market sites through facilitation, negotiation, and influencing in
  support of a unified market service delivery plan. Develops and manages related tracking
  mechanisms for EKHCS strategic initiatives and actions.
• Data Analysis (15%)
  Performs EKHCS catchment population-based demographic studies involving data collection and
  analysis, forecasting, and related methodologies, and advises the EKHCS on planning issues
  associated with program development and expansion initiatives.
• Special Projects / Staff Support (10%)
  Performs special projects for the EKHCS Associate Director and the VISN 4, HSA 4.2 Planner
  involving facility-specific or VISN-wide initiatives (e.g. Congressional Briefings, White Papers,
  Joint VISN meetings, special focus studies). Projects will often require presentations (formal and
  informal) including narrative, graphic, and visual mediums.

Individual Occupational Requirements

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

Specialized Experience

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.

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.

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this job
• Subject to a background/suitability investigation
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
• A complete application package; Resume, Transcripts, etc. is required
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
• Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.

• your performance and conduct;
• the needs and interests of the agency;
• whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and
• whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service