The Health Services Department is requesting to cancel one vacant (1) Eligibility Worker III (XHTB) position #6736 and add one (1) Health Services Administrator - Level B (VANG) position. Since 2018, the County California Children's Services (CCS) program has been subject to additional mandates to perform services that were previously completed at the State level. This position would provide the necessary additional support and management for a successful organizational structure, and to allow for a breadth and depth of leadership to maintain these critical functions of their program serving the most vulnerable infants, children and youth in our community. This role is specifically related to health administration and would be best served with someone in this field (utilization review, HIPAA compliance, medical records databases, physical therapy, health insurance, clinics, etc). There is a high level of administrative program management work to be performed where personnel matters and managing the program will be handled.
This position would provide direct support to the CCS Program Administrator to help oversee 75 employees in six locations; one administration office and five Medical Therapy units (both personnel administrator and program management), assess programmatic organizational needs, improve processes, personnel transaction tracking, contracts and grants tracking and oversight, including non-monetary agreements such as access to EPIC and SutterLink medical records; attend quarterly state meetings to represent the department, understand overall operations and oversight of special projects (one being to oversee shifting all paper documentation to electronic). This position would also work with three budgets (two state and one county). The budget will include performance measures, state requirements, auditing of data and quality assurance; and create desk procedures for the new California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM), oversee accounting, spending, budget tracking, and increase connection with Finance.
If this request is not approved, this administrative management position will not be properly allocated to California Children's Services and will negatively affect program activities.