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• Evaluates the suitability of each specimen for analysis, requesting a new specimen if determined to be unusable. Prepares specimen for analysis according to established procedures. Follows established procedure for handling of mislabeled, unlabeled, or unsuitable specimens.
• Selects, performs, evaluates, and monitors the performance of test procedures using manual and/or automated techniques in accordance with established protocols. Recognizes and reacts to indicators of malfunction; locates and implements corrective action.
• Conducts quality control procedures on equipment, reagents, and products and maintains proper records for quality control reports. Performs initial quality control of all incoming reagents and supplies as required.
• Performs initial testing on all reagents received in chemistry, blood bank, coagulation, and hematology before reagents are put into use. This includes lot-to-lot testing, parallel testing that is then presented to the supervisor or laboratory director to review/approve before reagents or supplies are put into use.
• Calibrates, standardizes, adjusts, and maintains instruments. This includes verifying correct instrument operation using established procedures and quality control checks and monitoring. Identifies the cause of common problems and makes simple repairs.
• Calibrates, standardizes, adjusts, and maintains instruments. This includes verifying correct instrument operation using established procedures and quality control checks and monitoring. Identifies the cause of common problems and makes simple repairs.
• Performs checks to maintain compliance with regulatory bodies such as AABB, FDA, The Joint Commission (TJC), College of American Pathologists (CAP), and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) such as temperature checks, inventory control, blood utilization tracking,

• Work Schedule: Evenings, & Nights Available; Rotating weekends & holidays. Exact hours negotiable.
• Compressed/Flexible:May be authorized
• Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases
• Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
• Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
• Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
• Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
• Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
• Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
• Functional Statement #: 91618-A
• Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Major duties include, but may not be limited to:

• Receives telephone calls from Veterans through the automated call distribution system. Answers Veteran inquiries related to process questions.
• Documents all Veteran interactions using progress notes and other reports as needed.
• Uses the highest level of customer service at all times to provide patient education via telephone on the medication refill process.
• Follows-through on all prescription problems by phone or EHR progress note to the provider to avoid Veterans being out of medications.
• Participates in telephone notification of class 1 medication recalls as necessary.
• Guides Veterans on how to return medicine to the pharmacy if needed and how to obtain replacement medications.
• Seeks to solve Veteran's concerns at first contact.
• Independently inputs refill prescriptions into EHR computer system for immediate or mail-out processing.
• Processes batch refill prescription ordering for mail-out processing and ultimate fulfillment of Veteran requests.
• Interacts personally with Veterans or their representatives to assure medication profiles are updated, reviewed, and needed prescriptions items or prosthetics supplies are appropriately processed.
• Accurately fills prescriptions orders by selecting correct product based on label requirements and assures each item is filled and labeled according to all applicable standards.
• Answers questions from pharmacy and non-pharmacy personnel regarding outpatient procedures.
• Performs other duties as required.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide general adult psychiatric care,
• Conduct diagnostic evaluations, psychiatric consults, medication management, and individual or group psychotherapy.
• Provide direct clinical supervision of advanced practice nurses or physician assistants and other staff as appropriate.
• Establish professional working relationships with other clinical service providers within the medical center and outlying clinics.
• Provide telephone and e-consult consultations as needed.
• Expected to cooperate with and participate in medical duties or functions related to quality of care, peer review and with other performance improvement activities as directed.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Contributes to the development of a leadership development program for VCL.
• Develops assigned program content based on identified learning needs and individual development plans, formal and informal surveys and assessments, feedback from supervisors, peers, and employees, and other feedback mechanisms.
• Participates actively in the development of career mentoring for leadership development.
• Analyzes employee's career goals, skills, and knowledge gaps, and matches individuals with appropriate mentors. Extends mentoring program to other VCL employees as needed.
• Applies knowledge of coaching and mentoring techniques to provide training as part of formal programs and to train other employees on becoming qualified coaches and mentors in VCL.
• Researches, interprets, and applies Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and VA handbooks, directives, policies, and regulations in the areas of leadership and employee development to participate actively in the development of a leadership, mentoring, and other formal and informal educational programs for VCL employees.
• Recommends and develops policies and procedures for VCL's leadership, mentoring, and other formal and informal educational programs for VCL employees.
• Advises employee, supervisors and managers on policy, instructions and procedures governing the overall management of the leadership, mentoring, and employee development programs.
• Writes regular communications concerning program data and accomplishments. Prepares and/or assists supervisor in preparing strategic documents, reports, formal briefings, presentations, memorandum, and other communications designed to keep senior leaders informed regarding educational and HR data, workforce analysis, trends, and concerns, succession planning, program results and improvements, emerging insights, program recommendations, and proposed action plans.

Duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Serves as local technical payroll experts to VAMC staff and provide data, reports, guidance, and resolutions to payroll issues across the VAMC through research, resolution and response to verbal and written pay and leave inquiries from employees, supervisors, Financial Service Center (FSC), HR staff, Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) and VA Central Office (VACO) officials.
• Promoting effective utilization of employees to achieve program goals and ensure efficient and economical work.
• Setting and adjusts short-term priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work as necessary.
• Developments resolutions and/or solutions to unique or regular and recurring payroll errors based on recommendations from CPTs and/or review of reports or other pay related documents and/or issues that commonly arise.
• Elevating any payroll errors that cannot be resolved locally to appropriate external offices such as HR, Financial Service Center (FSC) or Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS).
• Resolving the most complex and sensitive payroll issues to include: court cases; Congressional inquiries/complaints; direct Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue (IRS), Department of Labor (DOL) or other federal agency (outside of VA) related requests/actions.
• Tracing errors involving correction of pay covering long periods of time, requiring extensive research to identify and resolve pay issues.
• Resolving problems, when necessary, referred or received by other external offices or employees (including garnishment questions, child support inquires, questions from Office of Workers Compensation Program (OWCP) bank discrepancy questions and paperwork from unemployment offices).
• Establishing and develops, or reviews development of, instructions or Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)s for subordinate.
• Resolving or reviews subordinate CPTs work with difficult reconciliations requiring the most in-depth analysis of adjustments and corrective entries.
• Ensuring subordinates run daily reports and regularly monitor reports generated in multiple systems; review reports to ensure consistency and ensure any errors found are resolved based on well established procedures.
• Performing other related duties as assigned.

This Posting is capped at 50 applicants and will close on 11:59pm on the night that 50 applicants have been reached.

Some Duties may include:

• Maintaining uniform organizational design and position structures.
• Ensuring resource allocation supports and aligns with mission critical functions and Manpower requirements.
• Ensuring manpower team work assignments are carried out.
• Performing technical review of all actions to ensure compliance with regulation and interpretation of the organizations personnel accountability, HR policies and procedures to address issues that require substantial interpretation.
• Coaching the manpower team in the selection and application of appropriate problem solving methods.
• Providing advice on work methods, practices and procedures.
• Leading the team in identifying, distributing and balancing workload.
• Making day to day adjustments in accordance with established priorities and/or assessments of the impact on customer service.
• Advising, supporting and assisting analysts and specialists to prepare network-wide written and oral communication and recommendations to customers within the human resources management service applicable database (HR Smart) and all PTI and position management guidance.
• Distributing, presenting and summarizing information to analyst and specialists from Network leadership, the supervisor and from VHA and VA specialists.
• Addressing informal complaints by the team and refers egregious situations to the supervisor.
• Responsible for sharing progress reports regarding employees to the supervisor.

• This position is not a Bargaining Unit position.
• This position is covered by locality-based comparability pay.
• May be required to attend conference at other facilities or other VA sites on occasion.
• Selectee may be required to work at any VA Healthcare System campus, as needed.
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50, (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.
• This position is in the Competitive Service.
• Time-in-Grade Restriction: 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. The grade may have been in any occupation but must have been held in the Federal service.
• Veterans' preference does not apply for other current permanent Federal agency employees

*Note-This position will be filled as Temporary Not to Exceed (NTE) 1 year, and may be extended.
Can be filled as either Temporary Detail NTE or Temporary Promotion NTE, depending on selectee's current grade level.

The ICC Health System Specialist for Diagnostics is responsible for supporting VISN 19 clinical leadership in coordinating, planning, implementing, and monitoring activities to ensure the rapid information exchange and performance improvement which enables the attainment of data-driven clinical goals and improved access to high quality care in VISN 19 Diagnostic Programs.

Major duties of the Health Systems Specialist for the Diagnostics ICC position include, but are not limited to:

• Develops and manages programs and projects for the VISN 19 Diagnostics Integrated Clinical Community (ICC) that will strengthen vertical and horizontal linkages to improve the quality and consistency of leadership, communication, and data essential for transformation to a High Reliability Organization and to support vital systems improvements.
• Responsible for working collaboratively with local and national clinical and non-clinical Diagnostic ICC leaders to develop and implement strategies for standardizing and improving patient care across the VISN and VHA including, but not limited to: monitoring progress, success, barriers and needs for improvement; identifying focused improvement efforts across the VISN and VHA; supporting the development of a robust learning organization through sharing and spreading strong practices; ensuring regular meetings of the VHA, VISN, and facility workgroups; implementing key elements of ICC guidance and policy; and providing regular guidance and oversight to facility-based ICC teams and workgroups.
• ICC-related program planning, organizing, evaluating, coordinating, and implementation.
• Recognized by the medical staff and senior leadership as a specialist in Diagnostics health care administration and policy/procedure formation.
• Functions as a valuable resource in areas of data analysis, quality assessment, performance improvement, interdisciplinary issues, utilization management, risk management, and health care system investigations.
• Belongs to a national community of practice focused on implementing VHA Modernization's Reduce Unwarranted Variation Across Integrated Clinical & Operational Service Lines Lane of Effort and improving the quality care throughout VHA.
• Develops and/or maintains proficiency and supports administrative activities with various computer applications including spreadsheets, databases, word processing, graphic generation and desktop publishing programs.
• Responsible for and oversees resource allocation and management to include funds, equipment, space, staffing, and contracts.
• May be tasked with managing VISN-wide equipment purchases and large-scale contracts.

• Leads and manages significant aspects of the work and day-to-day activities of the NIH Compliance, Audit and Risk Management Team.
• Assesses overall NIH compliance with Information Security plans and policies, as well as alignment with business requirements.
• Evaluates the impact of new Information Security guidance on current programs and recommends changes to existing policies and processes to ensure compliance and responsiveness.
• Provides expert input to the development and implementation of the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives as an authority on safeguarding systems and information.
• Works as part of a team to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate various assigned security outreach and awareness programs and initiatives, including the implementation of security programs designed to address training needs and identify gaps.
• Directs, manages and participates in Information Technology related security policy compliance reviews and evaluations of the NIH’s broad and complex operations, information systems and computer systems to determine the adequacy of security.

Project Analysis, Assessment, and Planning

• Conducts evaluations, surveys, and studies regarding Health Information Technology policy, and applicable software change requests to be delivered to agency governance bodies for consideration and determination of agency-wide technology implementation.
• Gathers and analyzes information, develops solutions and recommendations with actionable steps to improve organizational processes and optimize change resulting in continuous technology improvements.
• Analyzes and develops key performance indicators to gauge the success of the organization in reaching specific goals and objectives.
• Analyzes new or proposed legislation or regulations to determine the impact on program operations and management.
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains program evaluations, plans, and procedures.
• Elicits and analyzes stakeholder needs to develop requirements and requirements of management plans and defines guidelines and procedures to meet stakeholder and program needs.
• Identifies IT program governance issues and problem areas, conducts preliminary analyses to determine the nature of issues, and proposes improvement efforts and courses of action to improve HIT program services.
• Collaborates and plans with Partners, Project Managers, and Governing boards to support all stages of the enterprise project lifecycle.
• Identifies resource requirements, estimates timelines, recommends task assignments to team members and reports progress.

• Develops, reviews, evaluates, and provides statements (scope) of work for proposed procurements.
• Defines Technical and managerial requirements and approaches, acceptance plans, and criteria with detailed descriptions of deliverables, schedules, and prices.
• Evaluates overall plans and proposals for major IT projects and equipment.
• Assists in preparing and approving solicitation documents for distributed information technology, and the technical evaluation of information technology and services offered by the general information technology community.
• Establishes quality assurance standards and delivery requirements, ensures compliance with all contract clauses, and administers technical aspects of the contract.
• Develops acquisition program requirements, ensures competitive sources are solicited, evaluated, and selected, and the price the government pays is reasonable.

• Develops and conducts presentations and technical briefings for Stakeholders, Program Management, and OIT leadership.
• Presents project status briefings and recommendations concerning long-range information resources management plans to top-level management.

Leadership in Medical Imaging and Archiving Informatics:

• Serve as a recognized informatics expert in the areas of medical imaging and PACS.
• Convene and lead groups of subject matter experts (SME) in radiology and related healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as a liaison between the Office of Information Technology and select Indian Health Service Headquarters offices and divisions.
• Responsible for programmatic guidance of imaging related disciplines to ensure that the data needs of these programs are considered in health information technology system selection and configuration.
• Perform in a professional manner when conducting duties between Indian Health Service, Tribal, Urban (I/T/U) users, state, local healthcare organizations, external and internal stakeholders and software development staff.
• Represent the Office of Information Technology on specific professional specialty groups (PSG) or technical advisory groups (TAG) as assigned.
• Prepare briefing papers, presentations, or other documents concerning activities, progress, goals, accomplishments, or risks in areas of responsibility that may be used to inform senior staff, Indian Health Service area leadership, Tribes and Urban Indian organizations or other agencies.

• Conduct market research, independently and in collaboration with appropriate Office of Information Technology and program colleagues on medical imaging and or archiving products and systems that may be useful in improving care and outcomes for Indian Health Service facilities and patients.
• Document findings and recommendations in formats accessible to business sponsors and leaders who do not have deep technical knowledge.
• Conduct fact-finding and systems analysis relative to the implementation of medical imaging and archiving applications.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to support implementation and modification of planned or proposed software changes or administrative policies for clinical software.
• Use expert independent judgement to select and develop methods to meet long-term objectives for new healthcare software applications.
• Evaluate, interpret, and implement regulations, mandates, and industry standards for health information technology system functionality, performance, interoperability, security, and usability.
• Interface with health information technology product vendors and or support contractors regarding Indian Health Service system configuration requirements or product enhancement requests.

Project Analysis, Assessment, and Planning

• Conducts evaluations, surveys, and studies regarding Health Information Technology policy, and applicable software change requests to be delivered to agency governance bodies for consideration and determination of agency-wide technology implementation.
• Gathers and analyzes information, develops solutions and recommendations with actionable steps to improve organizational processes and optimize change resulting in continuous technology improvements.
• Analyzes and develops key performance indicators to gauge the success of the organization in reaching specific goals and objectives.
• Analyzes new or proposed legislation or regulations to determine the impact on program operations and management.
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains program evaluations, plans, and procedures.
• Elicits and analyzes stakeholder needs to develop requirements and requirements of management plans and defines guidelines and procedures to meet stakeholder and program needs.
• Identifies IT program governance issues and problem areas, conducts preliminary analyses to determine the nature of issues, and proposes improvement efforts and courses of action to improve HIT program services.
• Collaborates and plans with Partners, Project Managers, and Governing boards to support all stages of the enterprise project lifecycle.
• Identifies resource requirements, estimates timelines, recommends task assignments to team members and reports progress.

• Develops, reviews, evaluates, and provides statements (scope) of work for proposed procurements.
• Defines Technical and managerial requirements and approaches, acceptance plans, and criteria with detailed descriptions of deliverables, schedules, and prices.
• Evaluates overall plans and proposals for major IT projects and equipment.
• Assists in preparing and approving solicitation documents for distributed information technology, and the technical evaluation of information technology and services offered by the general information technology community.
• Establishes quality assurance standards and delivery requirements, ensures compliance with all contract clauses, and administers technical aspects of the contract.
• Develops acquisition program requirements, ensures competitive sources are solicited, evaluated, and selected, and the price the government pays is reasonable.

• Develops and conducts presentations and technical briefings for Stakeholders, Program Management, and OIT leadership.
• Presents project status briefings and recommendations concerning long-range information resources management plans to top-level management.

Leadership in Medical Imaging and Archiving Informatics:

• Serve as a recognized informatics expert in the areas of medical imaging and PACS.
• Convene and lead groups of subject matter experts (SME) in radiology and related healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as a liaison between the Office of Information Technology and select Indian Health Service Headquarters offices and divisions.
• Responsible for programmatic guidance of imaging related disciplines to ensure that the data needs of these programs are considered in health information technology system selection and configuration.
• Perform in a professional manner when conducting duties between Indian Health Service, Tribal, Urban (I/T/U) users, state, local healthcare organizations, external and internal stakeholders and software development staff.
• Represent the Office of Information Technology on specific professional specialty groups (PSG) or technical advisory groups (TAG) as assigned.
• Prepare briefing papers, presentations, or other documents concerning activities, progress, goals, accomplishments, or risks in areas of responsibility that may be used to inform senior staff, Indian Health Service area leadership, Tribes and Urban Indian organizations or other agencies.

Leadership in Pharmacy and General Clinical Informatics:

• Convene and lead groups of Subject Matter Experts (SME) in pharmacy and other healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as liaison between the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Agency Offices, Divisions and Stakeholders on programmatic guidance of various disciplines including pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology/imaging to ensure data and informatics programs are considered in health information technology system programming, selection and configuration.
• Coordinate clinical informatics collaboration with performance standards with Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban entities on data standard developments and provide oversight of advisory groups and health information technology software and application programming and development for interface and integration between clinical practice and information systems.

• Conduct market research independently and in collaboration with appropriate O.I.T and program colleagues on products and systems that may be useful in improving health care delivery initiatives for Indian Health Service facilities.
• Document health information technology findings and recommendations in accessible formats to business sponsors and leaders.
• Assist with technical informatics business mechanisms.
• Facilitate fact-finding and systems analysis relative to the implementation of health information technology clinical software applications.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to support implementation and modification of planned or proposed software changes or administrative policies for clinical software.
• Evaluate, interpret, and implement regulations, mandates, and industry standards for health information technology system functionality, performance, interoperability, security, and usability.
• Interface with health information technology product vendors and/or support contractors regarding Indian Health Service system configuration requirements or product enhancement requests.

Leadership in Pharmacy and General Clinical Informatics:

• Convene and lead groups of Subject Matter Experts (SME) in pharmacy and other healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as liaison between the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Agency Offices, Divisions and Stakeholders on programmatic guidance of various disciplines including pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology/imaging to ensure data and informatics programs are considered in health information technology system programming, selection and configuration.
• Coordinate clinical informatics collaboration with performance standards with Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban entities on data standard developments and provide oversight of advisory groups and health information technology software and application programming and development for interface and integration between clinical practice and information systems.

• Works closely with the Contracting Officer (Procurement Office) throughout the solicitation process; develop and monitor timelines/milestones, lead or participate on contract technical proposal evaluation panels, tracks the delegation, and service contract funding prepare supporting documentation for decisions reached; and coordinate the phase in and closeout of contracts.
• Serve as liaison between contractors and the government Contracting Officer to identify and resolve issues.
• Provide timely, consistent and comprehensive oversight of assigned contracts, delivery orders and task orders.
• Prepare complex action plans and schedules to support project accomplishment. Ensures that plans are consistent with service goals, schedules, and policies.