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Program Analyst - Clinical Profile Manager

Employer
USAJobs
Location
Washington, D.C
Closing date
Jan 20, 2022
Duties

The Program Analyst - Clinical Profile Manager for the medical facility and satellite clinics/healthcare system (Facility). This position provides a high level of complex and highly skilled support related to provider profile management. Coordinates clinical/provider profiles and scheduling grids, including but not limited to clinic set up and clinic maintenance. Clinic profiles provide the vehicles to capture outpatient and related workload for Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA), MCA, and Financial Revenue Management for purposes to schedule patients, and to monitor clinic performance. Clinic profile set up ensures the clinic structure allows the scheduling of patients, direct workload capture, accurate access wait times, direct insurance and co-pay billing; direct MCA costing, and track facility and provider performance against national, VISN and local measures.
Coordinates quality assurance efforts through assessments on workflow and procedures to develop means of improving service delivery to customers. Monitors and conducts annual reviews of accuracy of clinic profiles to ensure facility is capturing and transmitting workload accurately for maximum reimbursement, and workload credit. Works with services to monitor grid validation, appropriateness of Managerial Cost Accounting (MCA formerly DSS) identifiers, and count/non-count clinics, trains, develops, coordinates and provides training to all areas impacting profile management and trains other staff to perform similar duties and will delegate duties, as needed.

Duties include, but not limited to the following:
  • Responsible for overall program management for the clinic maintenance process for the Facility and leads the facility's efforts to integrate profile management among healthcare providers, other facility staff, and patients.
  • Interprets national policies and procedures, developing and implementing local standards, defining requirements and providing advice to top management on related issues pertaining to clinic/provider profile management.
  • Integrates advanced clinic access (ACA) principles and initiatives, outpatient scheduling directive mandates, ambulatory data capture and workload rules and regulations, coding and billing criteria, MCA requirements into clinic structures.
  • Develops and implements an in-depth training program for the Facility to ensure staff are properly educated and accountable for clinical profiles, scheduling, and data management.
  • Creates clinic specific special instructions including scheduling and overbooks.

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Monday-Friday 7:30am-4:00pm
Telework: VA supports the use of telework as a way to help attract and retain talented individuals in public service, increase worker productivity, and better prepare the agency to operate during emergencies. This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

Promotion Potential: The selectee may be promoted to the full performance level without further competition when all regulatory, qualification, and performance requirements are met. Selection at a lower grade level does not guarantee promotion to the full performance level.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

  • You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
  • All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959
  • You may be required to serve a probationary period
  • Subject to background/security investigation
  • Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
  • Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
  • Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Personnel


Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 01/21/2022.

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-9 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-7. 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:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS GS-09: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-07 grade level in federal service that has provided you with the knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of a Program Analyst. Qualifying specialized experience includes: Working knowledge of applicable public laws VA regulations and national, VISN and facility directives, legal decisions and state laws dealing with care, policies, procedures, and precedents regarding scheduling, clinic profiles, ambulatory data capture, workload, billing, DSS(MCA) identifiers and ACA principles; practical knowledge of all VA scheduling packages and ambulatory data capture applications, other non-related packages interfacing with the ambulatory data capture program (lab, radiology, surgery, event capture, TIU, etc.), fileman, and other applications pertinent to outpatient clinic profile management and data collection; skills on how to locate, extract, interpret and generate reports of various natures for various Facility services; and experience and innovative skills to evaluate and analyze processes and procedures with multiple variables, problem-solve and apply judgment to make complex independent decisions with ramifications across a continuum.

OR

Applicants may substitute education for the required experience. To qualify based on education for this grade level you must have a master's or equivalent graduate degree (LL.B. or J.D., if related) or two (2) full years (18 semester hours is usually the equivalent of one full year) of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree in a related field from an accredited institution. Note: Transcripts must be submitted with your application materials. Education cannot be credited without documentation.

OR

Equivalent combinations of specialized experience and education as described for each grade level may be used to meet the total requirements for this position. This education must have been obtained in an accredited college or university. Your experience must be detailed, and transcripts are required.

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
  • Analytical Reasoning
  • Critical Thinking
  • Writing
  • Project Management
  • Oral Communication
  • Data Management
  • Customer Service

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: Regular and recurring work is mostly sedentary involving sitting at a desk, although the position requires the ability to move from one geographic location of the facility to another. The incumbent works with a computer screen and keyboard. Some physical effort such as standing, walking, bending or prolonged sifting may be required. The incumbent may be exposed to walking to outlying areas. The work places no special physical demands on the employee.

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/ .

Education

A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/ . If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html .

Additional information

Receiving Service Credit or Earning Annual (Vacation) Leave: Federal Employees earn annual leave at a rate (4, 6 or 8 hours per pay period) which is based on the number of years they have served as a Federal employee. VA may offer newly-appointed Federal employee's credit for their job-related non-federal experience or active duty uniformed military service. This credited service can be used in determining the rate at which they earn annual leave. Such credit must be requested and approved prior to the appointment date and is not guaranteed.

The Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan (ICTAP) and Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) provide eligible displaced Federal/VA competitive service employees with selection priority over other candidates for competitive service vacancies. To be qualified you must submit appropriate documentation (a copy of the agency notice, your most recent performance rating, and your most recent SF-50 noting current position, grade level, and duty location) and be found well-qualified for this vacancy. To be well-qualified : applicants must possess experience that exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors, and who are proficient in most of the required competencies of the job. Information about ICTAP and CTAP eligibility is on OPM's Career Transition Resources website at http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restructuring/employee-guide-to-career-transition/ .

This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.

As required by Executive Order 14043 , Federal employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of the employee's duty location or work arrangement (e.g., telework, remote work, etc.), subject to such exceptions as required by law. If selected, you will be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and submit documentation of proof of vaccination before your start date. The agency will provide additional information regarding what information or documentation will be needed and how you can request a legally required exception from this requirement using the reasonable accommodation process.

Due to COVID-19, VA is currently in an expanded telework posture. If selected, you may be expected to temporarily telework, even if your home is located outside the local commuting area. Once employees are permitted to return to the office, you will be expected to report to the duty station listed on this announcement. Management officials will provide information about returning to the official, pre-pandemic worksite, when applicable. At that time, you may be eligible to request to continue to telework depending upon the terms of your organization's telework policy and the duties of the position.

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document you do not have in electronic form, view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application .

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