Health System Specialist - (Facility Planner)

Department of Veterans Affairs•Phoenix, AZ

43d•Onsite

About The Position

The Phoenix Health Care System is currently recruiting one Health System Specialist (Facility Planner) for the Associate Director in Phoenix, AZ. The incumbent is to assess the productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare systems operations and to analyze problems in the staffing and efficacy of staff activities and administrative support.

Responsibilities

Ensure that Network Health Care Planning Model and priorities are fully integrated into the Facility Strategic Capital Investment Planning by working with the Capital Assets Manager and Chief Engineer.
Provide advice to services on strategic plan development associated with program development and expansion initiatives, coordinating planning activities with Network for VA/DoD Sharing Initiatives, VHA Site Tracking (VAST), Clinical Inventory, Rural Health, Telehealth and Bed Control Programs.
Creates business cases to analyze, evaluate, and provide recommendations on strategic planning of administrative programs or issues.
Identify and collect necessary data including legislative and program data and interviews with senior management, program officials, employees and supervisors; assembles and assesses information gathered; formulates findings, conclusions, and recommendations; presents results in written and/or oral form, which are well-organized, supportable and clearly expressed.
Develop Cost Benefit Analyses of the different strategic and resource alternatives facing the PVAHCS.
Track and monitor a multitude of ongoing projects and briefs senior executives on project status and will interface with Health Care System leadership to insure effective and seamless project integration.
Identify short and long-term planning parameters required to adequately accommodate existing and future healthcare demand.
Engage senior leadership in all aspects of planning, including the development of goals, objectives and performance measures.
Demonstrate problem-solving techniques, to include gathering facts through research and inquiry, conducting an analysis of information for impact and relevance, developing potential solutions or alternatives, and presenting recommended courses of action.
Acts as a data extractor, evaluator, and consultant for the Strategy and Planning Service.
Develops reports & dashboards utilized in the evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of operations throughout the PVAHCS to determine resource and space planning.
The incumbent will analyze market trends, competitive advantage, population health analytics, and demography to support executive-level decision-making and long-term strategic planning.
The incumbent conducts critical studies that provide senior executive leadership with in-depth analyses of specific clinical and operational issues as they relate to best practices and operations.
Creates in depth business plans based of data analytics utilizing knowledge of VistA, CPRS, PowerBI, Pyramid Analytics and VSSC.
Develops project cost estimate analysis and program for design (facility plan) for future capital asset planning, increasing PVAHCS's ability to meet a growing market demand.