Summary
This position serves as the Associate Medical Center Director reporting to the Director for the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS). The incumbent exercises line authority for multiple administrative and allied health services and sections. This position reports directly to the Director of the VAPHS. The incumbent shares a level of responsibility for the direction and management of the Medical Center with the SES Director, SES Deputy Director and rest of the leadership team.
Duties
The incumbent has direct authority and leadership responsibility for assigned service lines which currently include: Employee Engagement; Health Administration Service, Logistics, Nutrition and Food Services, Privacy, Prosthetics, Safety, Liaison to Veterans Center, and oversight of Resource Management Board. The duties include but are not limited to:
- Participates on a day-to-day basis in top level Executive discussions, decisions, policy making and actions.
- May serve as the Acting Medical Center Director or acting Deputy Director in the absence of the Director and Deputy Director with full responsibility and concomitant authority to carry out the duties and functions.
- Responsible for taking an active leadership role in coordinating and developing customer and stakeholder support and resourcing to meet Medical Center objectives.
- Determines operational services and programs goals and objectives, develop short-and long-range plans for achieving them.
- Establishes local policy in such areas impacting facility operations as program emphasis and operating guidelines.
- Develops short and long range fiscal year plans that meet the objectives of current and proposed programs.
- Manages allocated resources to provide the best possible patient care in line with established priorities…
