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Health System Specialist - Facility Systems Redesign Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 12 days ago
About the Role
The primary purpose of this position is to implement a Performance Improvement program at the Health Care System level. The position is responsible for delivering Performance Improvement techniques to a broad array of programs and services throughout the Medical Center, including Lean, Six Sigma, Coaching, Project Management, and Training. It also involves advising leadership in the formulation of planning complex facility wide Strategic Plans and facility wide projects.
What You'll Do
- →Duties to include but not limited to the following: Analytics and Project Management Duties: Organizes, directs, controls and coordinates group activities in a timely and effective manner.
- →Conducts extensive work in analyzing data and conducting background research on the issue.
- →Pulls, isolates and manipulates data to identify root causes of a performance issue.
- →Develops statistical models to measure successful performance improvement actions.
- →Converts data into numerous formats using advanced statistical models including statistical process control charts, histograms, paretto charts, and many more.
- →Defines a project scope and goals through a collaborative process with subject matter experts and leadership at the facility, service line or program, or unit level.
- →Leads a team of subject matter experts, front line staff and leadership through a rigorous and defined project management process utilizing multiple tools from Lean Six Sigma, Lean VA-TAMCCS and other performance improvement disciplines to further define the current state of the process.
- →Internal Consultation for System Engineering Duties: Provides consultation to executive, service line, and program leadership by leveraging VA data analytics resources.
- →Identifies metrics performing below benchmarked standards or falling below the upper or lower control limits of a statistically controlled models such as SAIL.
- →Plans and conducts studies directed at reducing errors due to cognitive overloading and human-computer interaction failure.
- →Identifies systems designs problems that contribute to human errors.
- →Identifies alternative systems and processes based on Lean/Systems Redesign/Systems Engineering principles to mitigate these types of errors.
- →Collects baseline information, identifies limitations in current systems, and discovers potential improvements.
- →Develops statistical, graphical, and narrative reports, and communicates these studies to medical center executive leadership, service chiefs, supervisors and other staff.
Requirements
- ✓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.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period/Trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period (OR INSERT "2-year trial period") during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 2d860389-79d7-4866-a1ca-44df520e2d09
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