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Supervisory Health System Specialist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
On-siteLos Angeles, CA$124K – $161KApply by Jun 5, 2026Health System SpecialistENTJESTJINTJISTJOperations
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The West Los Angeles VA Health Care System is currently recruiting one Supervisory Health System Specialist (Systems Redesign Coordinator) in the Quality Management Service in Los Angeles, California. The incumbent delegates authority as appropriate and holds staff accountable for the performance of the duties associated with organization-wide performance improvement programs, projects, products, under their supervision and management.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to the following: Define a project scope/goals through a collaborative process with subject matter experts and leadership at the facility, service line, program, and/or unit level.
- →Design experiments with process measurement in mind.
- →Incorporate recommendations for the resolution of problems identified in studies e.g. eliminating, adding, changing, or rearranging specific procedures, products or services efficiently and/or effectively utilizing resources.
- →Plan and conduct studies directed at reducing errors due to cognitive overloading and human-computer interaction failure Conduct extensive work in analyzing data and conducting background research on the issue, pulls, isolate and/or manipulate data to identify root causes of a performance issue.
- →Develop control plans, communication plans, risk management plans, and through closeout of the project.
- →Identify metrics performing below benchmarked standards or falling below the upper or lower control limits of a statistically controlled model.
- →Develop benchmarks and assign priority level to a potential project based on the needs of the organization and/or direct consultation with executive leadership.
- →Initiate appropriate personnel actions and resolve differences between key management officials at the facility.
- →Identify various solutions/approaches and prioritize exercises with tools like affinity diagrams, PICK Charts and/or multi-voting.
- →Collect baseline information, identify limitations in current systems, and discover potential improvements.
- →Deliver training materials and curriculum consisting of advanced practices of project management, statistics, coaching, facilitation and/or leadership.
- →Facilitate, coach, and train audiences at all levels of the organizations throughout the life cycle of a performance improvement project.
- →Lead a team of subject matter experts, front line staff/leadership through a rigorous and defined project management process utilizing multiple tools from Lean Six Sigma, and/or other performance improvement disciplines to further define the current state of the process.
- →Develop and refine information for comprehensive reports, cost analysis, work measurements, trend analysis, efficiency, effectiveness, productivity and/or tangible benefits.
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 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 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.
- ✓There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
- ✓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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