Health System Specialist - Buffalo, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

The Health Systems Specialist functions in the Medicine Department at the VA Western New York Healthcare System. The incumbent serves as the nexus between the clinical and administrative operations of the Medicine Department.

Duties

***THIS IS NOT A VIRTUAL POSITION, YOU MUST LIVE WITHIN OR BE WILLING TO RELOCATE WITHIN A COMMUTABLE DISTANCE OF THE DUTY LOCATION***

The duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

Administrative/Budget Responsibilities:

• Develops the need for and maintains an awareness of available budgetary resource, makes recommendations to the Chief of Medicine, service chiefs and the Health System Specialist to the Chief of Staff.
• Develops, monitors, and makes recommendations to adjust plans to accomplish the mission and enhance the delivery of health care services with budgetary constraints effectively and cost-efficiently.
• Provides active and well-informed administrative support for the delivery of health care by taking the initiative to identify needs and potential issues/concerns, then devising flexibilities in operations and constructive, cost-effective approaches to the resolution of problems.
• Serves on various department and/or facility committees.
• Analyzes the workload, finance/budget, staffing, space utilization, and other data used in resource planning.
• Conducts training relative to business practices, operations management, data gathering and analysis, and improvement strategies to facility staff and other as needed.

• Analyzes management techniques, processes, and styles for improving departmental effectives and to further the delivery of exceptional health services to Veterans.
• Studies and implements management improvement in administrative areas identified through such means as internal control views and management studies.
• Provides direction and oversight of all Medicine Department Specialties in assessing performance monitors and measures that best support quality health care delivery service.
• Forms teams to address problems areas, collect data referring to the problem, identifies external benchmarks or best practices and presents final recommendations to Senior Leaders.

• Assists with planning functions, including the collection of required information and materials.
• Performs strategic planning analysis of the internal and external environment including demographics, productivity, and resources to develop goals and objectives consistent with the needs of VAWNYHS, the Network 2 goals and VA National performance measures and constituent needs.