Supervisory Health System Specialist (Physical Evaluation Board Liaison Officer)

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About the Position This position is located at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, serves as Physical Evaluation Board Liaison Officer (PEBLO) for the Medical Treatment Facility (MTF), and provides technical and administrative supervision to civilian and military employees assigned to the organization.

This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or 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: One year of specialized experience which includes applying policies, regulations and/or directives applicable to a disability evaluation system; planning and/or preparing medical evaluation board processing and/or disability reevaluations; and assisting with workload distribution among subordinates.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09). OR Education: Ph.

D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 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 second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages. Major Duties:

• Counsel military personnel from all branches of the uniformed services, retirees, and the Families of those being processed through the Army Physical Disability Evaluation System (APDES) on their rights, benefits, privileges or obligations.
• Coordinate evaluation appointments; schedule follow-up appointments for National Guard and Reserve Component (RC) personnel for approved line of duty (LOD) related injuries.
• Advise Soldier of the necessity of obtaining sufficient documentation (medical and non-medical) concerning the Soldier's ability to perform military duties and the severity of the Soldier's disease or injury.
• Interpret and assist in other benefits such as vocational rehabilitation, clothing allowance, aid and attendance, prosthetics and appliances, and aid for the blind.
• Provide information to MTF/MEDCOM on the status of all activities under his/her supervision (e.g. MEB/PEB processing, LOD management, decedent affairs, correspondence, birth registration, workload accounting/medical statistical reporting, etc.).
• Provides, reports, briefings, training, and responds to inquiries from senior leaders, DA or Department of War.
• Plan work to be performed by subordinates lead specialists of a staff of two or more, sets and adjust priorities, and prepare schedules for work completion.
• Assign work based on priorities, difficulty and requirements of assignments, and capabilities of employees.
• Approve leave. Establish performance standards, and evaluate work performance of subordinates. Advise, counsel and/or instruct employees on both work and administrative matters.