Health Systems Specialist (Quality Improvement Program Specialist)

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Corrections professionals who foster a humane and secure environment and ensure public safety by preparing individuals for successful reentry into our communities.

To be considered for the position, you must meet the following qualification requirements.

Basic Requirements: Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study - hospital administration, public health administration, or related fields such as business or public administration with course work in health care administration.

OR Specialized Experience: Progressively responsible analytical or administrative, or clinical management or supervisory experience in the health care field.

This work may have been performed in an operating health care facility or a higher organizational echelon with advisory or directional authority over such facilities.

Work must have involved a close working relationship with facility managers and analysis and/or coordination of administrative, clinical, or other service activities, and provided knowledge of the following: Missions, organizations, programs, and requirements of health care delivery systems Regulations and standards of various regulatory and credentialing groups Government-wide, agency, and facility systems and requirements in various administrative areas such as budget, personnel, and procurement.

AND In addition to meeting the Basic Requirements, applicants must have the following: Education: There is no substitution of education for specialized experience for this position.

Experience: You must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level.

To be creditable, this experience must have equipped the applicant with the particular qualifications to successfully perform the duties of the position, and must typically be in or related to the position to be filled.

Some examples of this qualifying experience are: Experience in developing and implementing complicated policies and procedures in compliance with Joint Commission, federal, state and local government regulations.

Experience in training staff in accreditation processes, quality management activities, and infection control.

Experience in assisting in the development of a data management system that measures morbidity, mortality, and other clinical parameters.

Experience collecting, analyzing, and interpreting medical data/information and recommending proposals for action. If applicable, credit will be given for paid and unpaid experience.

To receive proper credit, you must show the actual time (such as the number of hours worked per week) spent in activities.

**Your eligibility for consideration will be based on your responses to the questions in the application.** Major Duties:

This position is located within the Health Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and may be located in either the Health Technology Branch or the Medical Director's Branch.

Serves as the Quality Improvement Program Specialist for the Health Services Division.

This responsibility includes assisting in all activities associated with accreditation and quality management in the Health Services Division, in its support responsibility to all health care facilities in the Bureau's 122 field institutions.

Ensures that the Bureau of Prisons maintains compliance with Public Law 99-660, Title IV, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, which established the National Practitioner Data Bank, and any subsequent amending legislation.

Responsible for maintaining a credentialing process system and privileging system for use of the Health Services Division, especially the Medical Director assist the institutions in these activities.