Facility Health Program Manager (O-5 Billet) Non-supervisory

Incumbent serves as the Facility Healthcare Program Manager (FHPM) for one of the ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC) for one of the ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC) small health care facilities located across the nation. A small facility is defined as less than 300 beds, generally houses non-complex medical patients, and has minimal medical housing unit (sub-acute inpatient) capacity. Staffing is a complement of Public Health Services (PHS) Officers, federal General Schedule (GS) employees, and contractors totaling 40 or less.

As the Facility Healthcare Program Manager (FHPM), the incumbent is responsible to support the Health Services Administrator (HSA) in the day to day managing, assessing, planning, developing, and evaluating clinical programs that align with IHSC policy, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC), ICE Performance Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS), American Correctional Association (ACA), and/or Family Residential Standards (FRS). Serves as the subject matter expert on the implementation and monitoring of program requirements at the local level as developed by Medical Quality Management Unit (MQMU) and Public Health Safety and Preparedness Unit (PHSP), supporting the safe, quality provision of care for the detained population, promoting an environment of safety and security for detainees, employees, and visitors, and ensuring emergency preparedness and response readiness of the local clinical team.

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
Incumbent reports to the Health Services Administrator keeping the supervisor informed on the status of projects, and consulting on successes and obstacles. Reviewing official (second line supervisor) is the Regional Compliance Specialist.

Performs specialized or complex professional tasks without the benefit of close supervision or detailed guidelines; independently establishes criteria, formulates approaches, and evaluates efforts.

Uses judgment in interpreting and adapting guidelines such as policies, regulations, accreditation standards, precedents, and work direction for application to specific situations and work products.

Assignments are usually of a long-term, recurring or broadly defined nature and are not accompanied by instructions; however, objectives, priorities and deadlines are provided on new assignments. The incumbent selects his/her own methods and solves most normal problems arising during the course of work. Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to professional standards and PHS requirements.

Utilizes available guides, methods, theories, and precedents. Situations to which existing guidelines cannot be applied or which require significant deviations from existing guidelines are referred to the HSA, higher authority and/or subject matter expert.

Contact with persons in other federal departments or outside the federal government, such as state or local government officials. Requires face to face contact and telephone dialogue on a routine basis to explain, coordinate, interpret and seek support for policies, procedures, programs, plans or individual actions (often of a controversial and complex nature) in which an extensive amount of explanation and tact is required.