Health System Administrator (Assistant Director)

Department of Veterans Affairs•Huntsville, AL

38d•Onsite

About The Position

This position serves as the Assistant Medical Center Director located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN), VA Medical Center (VAMC). The Assistant Medical Center Director exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections and is directly responsible for facility operations.

Responsibilities

Plans, coordinates, supervises, and directs various administrative and health related services.
Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions of all administrative functions and indirectly of all clinical matters impacting patient care.
Resolves complex and unusual health care administration issues by independent analysis and action, with the potential to set precedent, and lead organizational change.
Development of plans, programs, direction, and monitoring of clinic and health plan management.
Applies specialized principles and practices of health care management to coordinate, direct, and control programs and resources for both clinics and health plan administration.
Performs financial management and resource decision making analysis, ensuring operational spending and resources stay in balance.
Exercises full authority for establishing priorities for healthcare operations and allocating available resources accordingly.
Serves as fiscal advisor to the Medical Center Director in preparing formal budget submissions for approval.
Exercises a full range of managerial and supervisory authorities and responsibilities related to human capital management.
Represents the healthcare system by establishing and maintaining community partnerships, and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Serves as a facilitator between clinical providers and administrators to meet the medical center's goals and objectives.
Responsible for developing and maintaining good working relations with other medical centers in the local area and throughout the region, medical schools, accrediting agencies, volunteer worker groups, and the community at large.
Lead facility implementation and oversight of President's/VA/VHA/VISN initiatives includes but not limited to Strategic Planning, High Reliability Organization, ICARE, Modernization, Veteran Experience, Whole Health and/or Community Care.
Serves as an essential capacity for developing and coordinating internal measures to assure that both clinical and administrative operations are in within governing standards.