Health System Assistant (Office Automation)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, Colorado in the Directorate of RM Clinical Support and Operations.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

30 Percent or More Disabled Veterans Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) Interchange Agreement Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Executive Order (E.O.) 12721 Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible People with Disabilities, Schedule A Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Reinstatement Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized experience for the GS-07: One year of demonstrated experience writing reports to recommend improvements for healthcare program operations; performing a variety of automation functions to maintain healthcare administrative data; AND answering recurring questions to resolve administrative problems.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-06).

Time in Grade Requirement for GS-07: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-06).

This position requires a typing proficiency of at least 40 words per minute (WPM) based on a 5 minute sample with 3 or fewer errors. Major Duties:

• Provide direct support to Health System Specialists by organizing, collecting, analyzing and presenting information related to the current and future workload
• Prepare correspondence, reports, and other documents in draft and final form using a Word, PowerPoint or Excel Spreadsheets.
• Use accepted workload measurement methodologies such as operational audit, work sampling or time and motion studies.
• Coordinate plans with affected officials and personnel; resolves most problems; refers unresolved or controversial matters to higher grade employee or supervisor.
• Conduct interviews or brief studies to obtain, verify, or clarify information relating to functions.
• Conduct work measurement studies to ascertain existing manpower staffing levels and needs.