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Health System Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
About the Role
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY: This position is being filled using Direct-Hire Authority (5 CFR 337.205) for this occupation.
What You'll Do
- →This position is organizationally aligned to the Office of the Executive Director at the Clement J.
- →Zablocki Health Care System (CJZ HCS) (695)- a Level 1a Complexity VHA Facility.
- →The primary purpose of this position is to develop, implement, maintain and provide leadership, strategic direction, and oversight of compliance and training activities for the Research Program.
- →The CJZ HCS is a healthcare system with one (1) hospital, four (4) community-based outpatient clinics of care located in Oconomowoc, Appleton, Union Grove, Cleveland (WI), and one (1) Health Care Center in Green Bay.
- →The Research Compliance Officer (RCO) evaluates compliance with Federal and VA requirements for the conduct of research, which may include requirements in one or more of the following areas: the protection of human research subjects, laboratory animal welfare, and research safety and security.
- →Incumbent may also be assigned responsibilities related to facility programs for research information security, research privacy, conflict of interest in research, training of research personnel. research program accreditation, research misconduct, and/or other research compliance activities consistent with VHA requirements.
- →Major Duties: Develops procedures and systems for establishing, operating, and assessing the effectiveness of· research compliance control systems and the accomplishment, evaluation, and/or monitoring of audits, inspections, and other reviews as needed.
- →Effectively uses Research Service and research review committee information systems such as VAIRRS/IRBNet to complete audits.
- →Uses audit worksheets and auditing tools for the informed consent audits and regulatory audits that incorporate national requirements and may include local requirements.
- →Develops, uses, and maintains spreadsheets or other tools to track audits of facility research.
- →Performs a variety of duties to assure full compliance in each of the five compliance programs human studies, animal studies, laboratory safety and radiation safety, conflict of interest, information security and privacy.
- →Reports data related to research program compliance with regulations as required by the national program office.
- →Prepares consolidated reports for management functions and higher echelon review, within and outside of the facility.
- →Performs thorough auditing that identifies apparent systemic deficiencies that have a reasonable likelihood of substantially compromising the VA medical facility's research protection programs or information security processes, ensures prompt reporting to the relevant research review committees, and ensures reporting of determined systemic deficiencies to ORO and applicable federal agencies.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job To be considered for this position, you must complete all required steps in the process.
- ✓In addition to the application and questionnaire, this position requires an online assessment.
- ✓The online assessment measures critical general competencies required to perform the job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Physical Requirements: Work is mainly sedentary.
- ✓Traveling off station to other sites of care or various meetings is necessary and working overtime and odd hours, to include weekends may be necessary.
- ✓There may be some walking, standing, bending, carrying of light items, such as instructional material, manuals, papers, and books.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation 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.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 54348b72-41f4-42fa-ac12-2b84c8705a88
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