This position is located within the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Health Systems Support (DAD-HSS), Health Operations Unit (HOU). The Health Services Administrator (HSA) will report directly to the Regional Health Services Administrator (RHSA) with the Chief of Health Operations (CHO) as reviewing official. The Health Services Administrator, as the responsible health authority, serves as chair of the local leadership team (TRIAD) working in collaboration with the clinical director and nurse manager. This is a supervisory position.
Incumbent serves as the Health Services Administrator for one of the ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC) medium to large health care facilities or medium to large staging facilities located across the nation. A medium to large facility and a medium to large staging facility are defined as greater than 400 beds, generally houses complex medical patients, and has 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 41 or more for medium to large facility and 71 or more for medium to large staging facility. The HSA supervises the Assistant Health Services Administrator (AHSA) and the Facility Health Program Manager (FHPM). The HSA serves as the Government Technical Monitor for all contract personnel and collaborates with the CD and NM in monitoring all federal staff.
IHSC provides direct care daily to approximately 15,300 detainees. The health care provided includes medical, dental, and mental health care, and public health services. IHSC provides medical case management and oversight for an additional 22,600 detainees housed at non-IHSC staffed detention facilities daily across the country. In addition, IHSC oversees the financial authorization and payment for off-site specialty and emergency care services for detainees in ICE custody. The ICE detainee population is approximately 34,000 detainees daily, with an average length of stay of approximately 30 days, surpassing 400,000 detainees annually. IHSC provides medical support during ICE enforcement operations in the air, on the ground and at sea.
SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
Incumbent reports to the Regional Health Services Administrator. Assignments are usually of a long-term, recurring or broadly defined nature. Officer plans, and organizes own work, determines sequence of assignments, selects, and develops methods and seeks assistance from experts only rarely. Work is reviewed for attainment of objectives. Guidelines may be applicable to some but not all parts of assignment and may contain some inconsistencies and be partially unconfirmed. Selection and adaptation from available possibilities involving a moderate amount of modification and innovation is required. The officer 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. The officer analyzes requirements and recommends changes in guidelines and program policies. Innovations and modifications to accepted procedures must be approved and clearly documented. The officer keeps the supervisor informed of the status on projects and consults with him/her on any significant problems encountered.
