Health System Specialist

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located within Tripler Army Medical Center in the Directorate of Executive Quality Management in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Tripler Army Medical Center is a tobacco-free workplace. Tobacco products include, but are not limited to, smoking, smokeless tobacco, and electronic nicotine delivery devices.

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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: One year of specialized experience which includes 1) Using computerized systems to perform routine checks of healthcare provider qualifications to verify providers meet basic organizational requirements; 2) Assisting in preparing reports to identify discrepancies in routine quality assurance reviews; 3) Providing support in identifying credentialing or privileging issues to senior staff, following established hospital or clinic policies and procedures.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-07).

OR Education: Master's or equivalent graduate degree or 2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree with a major study in hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or equivalent) beyond the first year (total graduate semester hours minus 18) by 18. Add the two percentages. Major Duties:

• Serves as team leader ensuring that operational components of the Professional Affairs Branch are planned, coordinated, implemented and evaluated.
• Reviews and updates local policies on credentials review and clinical privileging.
• Researches and reviews literature relating to credentialing and clinical privileging in order to keep abreast of trends, governing regulations and directives, and requirements for obtaining/maintaining appropriate credentials.
• Ensures that only personnel designated have access to the practitioner credentials file and that no material is inserted or removed without appropriate approval.
• Responsible for ensuring that the subordinate staff understands and appropriately use databases supporting the credentialing processes and personnel management systems found within Professional Affairs Branch.
• Refers issues involving health care providers (HCPs) who have civilian actions that affect licensure and or clinical practice to the Risk Manager and assists in the management of those cases.