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Supervisory Health System Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 144 days ago
About the Role
This position is responsible for: working collaboratively with local and VISN leadership to identify and/or implement best practices; advising VAMC leadership of all program requirements pertaining to the Credentialing & Privileging (C&P) program; ensuring quality assurance and providing oversight and supervision for the VAMC C&P program; and ensuring facility C&P documents are reviewed and updated annually (or as needed) to reflect regulations or accreditation standards.
What You'll Do
- →Oversees all functions related to healthcare providers' professional credentials supporting all divisions of the VAMC in accordance with VHA Credentialing and Privileging (C&P), Directives, VA Handbooks, Policies, Memos, and Notices; The Joint Commission (TJC) Standards and State and Federal Regulations.
- →Works collaboratively with local and VISN leadership to identify and/or implement best practices and advising VAMC leadership of all program requirements pertaining to the C&P program.
- →Ensures quality assurance and provide oversight for the VAMC C&P program.
- →Serves as the VAMC's Senior Technical Advisor and as the primary consultant and liaison to the VISN C&P Officer.
- →Outlines VAMC C&P program goals and objectives, identifies risks, supervises all VAMC C&P employees, ensures training and education, and completes second level reviews as appropriate.
- →Determines appropriate actions, including those resulting from VISN and local level reviews, initial and recredentialing processes, including, but not limited to primary source verifications; reporting and data trends, identified issues that require further review, and electronic credentialing database and clinical privilege maintenance.
- →Attends committee meetings and presents providers' credentials, clinical practice histories and red flags.
- →Documents and composes committee minutes, privileging requests and/or actions malpractice payments, tort claims and adverse actions, Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) and Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) reviews and completion timeframes.
- →Contributes to development of local policies; ensures program compliance.
- →Tracks State Licensing Board reporting.
- →Manages VetPro access levels and training.
- →Serves as the Point of Contact (POC) and SME for credentialing updates, Human Resources, providers and hiring services; telehealth teams to ensure C&P requirements are completed prior to patient care activity.
- →Serves as the VAMC SME on the following topics, including, but not limited to credentialing of licensed independent practitioners (LIP) and Non-LIPs; privileging and privileging related matters including focused and ongoing professional practice; adverse privileging actions; Reporting to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB); and reporting to State Licensing Boards (SLB).
- →Monitors and audits the VAMC C&P program utilizing VetPro reports, mandatory auditing and reporting tools.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 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 dentification 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 or 2-year trial 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 or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓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.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
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