Supervisory Health System Specialist (Corporate Compliance Chief)

The VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System is hiring a Supervisory Health System Specialist to work as the Corporate Compliance Chief. This position will conduct audits, analyze data and complete investigations as well as conduct routine monitoring in areas of previous compliance-related failures.

There is no educational substitution at this grade level.

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. As the Corporate Compliance Chief you will report directly to the Medical Center Director, and will have daily contact with other members of the Executive Leadership Team in order to carry out the duties of the position. You will also be responsible for the direct supervision of the Research Compliance Officer, Compliance Officer, Compliance Auditor, Compliance Trainee, Integrated Ethics Program Officer, Controlled Substance Coordinator, Risk Manager, Peer Review Specialist, Privacy Officer, and the Government Information Specialist. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Directing, developing, implementing, and overseeing a multi-disciplinary, healthcare system-wide Compliance Section within the scope of the VHA mandated Research Program, Privacy Program, Records Management Program, Conflict of Interest, and Compliance & Business Integrity Program (which includes auditing, monitoring and creation of corrective action plan activities in the areas of coding, documentation, purchased care, exclusionary lists, conflict of interest, accuracy of patient registration, etc.).
• Determining issues, areas, and/or subject matter that create risks for the organization and making recommendations to executive leadership as to how to avoid or minimize the identified risks.
• Creating written policies and procedures that promote commitment to corporate compliance and address specific areas of risk associated with the healthcare system business practices, operations, research, privacy, records management, investigations, and audits of scheduling consult practices.
• Reviewing program directives, vulnerabilities related to compliance issues, areas of underperformance related to compliance, and identifying topics staff need further education and training on.
• Preparing reports for leadership detailing compliance initiatives - identifying issues or failures that have occurred and recommending changes and improvements.
• Maintaining processes to receive complaints, questions, and concerns regarding healthcare system business, research, privacy and records management practices and internal regulations.
• Monitoring the implementation of process improvement projects that are the result of finding made.
• Overseeing data collection, analysis and proposed corrective actions resulting from special studies, reviews, and audits.
• Reviewing and identifying compliance concerns and making recommendations regarding corrective actions to the Medical Center Director.
• Conducting facility risk assessments to identify, assess, prioritize, mitigate, monitor, document, and bring compliance risks to closure.
• Developing, modifying, and interpreting performance standards for all supervised employees.
• Explaining performance expectations to employees and providing regular feedback on strengths and weaknesses.
• Identifying employee developmental needs and providing or arranging for training to maintain and improve job performance.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Telework: This position may be authorized for telework. Telework eligibility will be discussed during the interview process.
Position Description Title/PD#: Supervisory Health System Specialist (Corporate Compliance Chief)/PD14020A
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement.

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-14 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-13. 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.

INDIVIDUAL OCCUPATIONAL REQUIREMENT (IOR): An IOR is a basic requirement that must be met in order to qualify for entry into this job series, and it is something that can be waived. The education must be accredited by an accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education at the time the degree was obtained.To qualify for the GS 0671 occupational series, applicants MUST possess one of the following:

1. UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION: 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.
2. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: specialized experience that is progressively responsible for analytical or administrative, or clinical management, or supervisory experience in the health care field performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities with close working relationships with facility managers and analysis/coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities which provided knowledge in the following areas: 1) Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems; 2) Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups; and 3) Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.
3. SPECIAL PROVISION FOR INSERVICE PLACEMENT: Completion of an agency-sponsored on-the-job training program, which included a formal individualized training plan. The training program should have been performed in an operating health care system and included: 1) Assignments providing a knowledge of basic health system administration philosophies, practices, and procedures, and basic government administrative policies and requirements; 2) 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 3) Oversight by an experienced health system administrator with periodic evaluation of the individual's progress and appropriate adjustment of the training program.

GRADE DETERMINATION (GS-14 LEVEL): Candidates must possess specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-13) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

• Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-13 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: applying analytic principles, theories, and techniques to healthcare management and operational systems; experience that provides working knowledge of the organization and structure of healthcare delivery systems or managed care networks; experience working with healthcare delivery standards including laws and regulations governing business practices, privacy, research, records management, scheduling, consults, auditing and investigations; identifying and documenting compliance risks; and providing guidance to senior management in reference to compliance. You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Compliance
• Critical Thinking
• Leadership
• Organizational Performance Analysis

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: Work of the position is mainly sedentary, although some slight physical effort may be required.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/.