Health System Administrator, (Health Services Administrator)

Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

Manages and directs a multidisciplinary team providing medical, dental, and allied health services—including pharmacy, laboratory, and x-ray services—to an inmate population. Serves as a cost center manager, preparing estimates and administering an annual budget. Provides administrative supervision, directly or through the Assistant Health System Administrator, to subordinate staff, including mid-level practitioners, EMTs, pharmacists, clinical nurses, medical record technicians, dental assistants, and contract medical staff. Develops and coordinates internal review systems to ensure compliance with American Correctional Association (ACA) and Joint Commission standards, as well as requirements of other regulatory groups and higher agency authorities. The position also carries recurring responsibility for maintaining institutional security, which takes precedence over the position’s other duties. This is a supervisory/managerial federal position. Initial appointment to a supervisory/managerial position requires a one-year probationary period. The incumbent may be relocated geographically to meet agency needs and must complete required medical, background, and correctional training conditions.

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
Meet the basic requirements through relevant undergraduate or graduate education, progressively responsible health care analytical, administrative, clinical-management, or supervisory experience, or qualifying agency-sponsored on-the-job training with a formal individualized plan.
Demonstrate management ability to delegate authority, evaluate and oversee people and programs, and recognize and adapt to changing priorities.
Have knowledge of the interrelationships and interdependencies among medical and administrative services and programs.
Meet the specialized experience requirement: at least one year of experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the next lower grade level; education cannot substitute for this specialized experience.
Qualifying GS-13 experience includes knowledge of Joint Commission ambulatory care standards, ACA standards, and program review standards; managing multidisciplinary health care teams serving inmates; formulating, implementing, and monitoring administrative and clinical health-services policies and programs; developing and administering medical budgets and contracts and monitoring expenditures; and advising management on health-services operations and medical programming.
Provide actual time spent in relevant experience, such as hours worked per week, for proper experience credit.
Complete a one-year probationary period upon initial appointment to a supervisory/managerial position.
Be subject to geographic relocation, satisfactory urinalysis, physical examination, background investigation, NCIC and credit checks, and, when applicable, a qualification inquiry regarding misdemeanor domestic-violence convictions for firearm authorization.
Complete the three-week Introduction to Correctional Techniques course at Glynco, Georgia.
For education used to meet a requirement, provide legible transcripts with identifying information; academic work must be from an institution accredited or pre-accredited by a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accrediting body.
For CTAP selection priority, meet CTAP eligibility criteria, be rated well-qualified with at least half the possible points for vacancy KSAs or competencies, and submit the required agency notice, latest performance appraisal, and latest SF-50.

Responsibilities

Manage and direct a multidisciplinary team responsible for medical, dental, pharmacy, laboratory, x-ray, and other allied health services for inmates.
Prepare budget estimates and administer an annual budget as a cost center manager.
Provide administrative supervision to subordinate staff, directly or through the Assistant Health System Administrator.
Develop and coordinate internal review systems to ensure compliance with ACA, Joint Commission, other regulatory, and higher agency standards.
Maintain institutional security as a regular and recurring responsibility, with security duties taking precedence over other position duties.