Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (O-5 Billet) Supervisory

Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Bowling Green, VA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) supervises nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with national, state, and local nursing laws and regulations. This role is stationed at a complex IHSC facility, typically with over 500 beds and/or more complex medical housing units, and may experience sustained increased operational tempo due to large staging missions or enforcement and removal flights with global public health impact. The ANM works with the facility nurse manager to oversee all nursing services, supervises and serves as the rating official for federal nursing staff, and acts as a secondary technical monitor for contract nursing personnel. The ANM serves as the nursing advisor to the facility administrator in the absence of the Nurse Manager regarding the total nursing care program and objectives. This position requires collaboration with physicians and other healthcare professionals, evaluation of nursing-care plans, and potential recommendations for changes to advocate for patient health and well-being. The role may also involve clinical advisory tasks related to developing and assessing clinical health outcomes quality measures, evaluating clinical case reviews, and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews. The position is considered hazardous duty in a detention setting.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen.
• Must successfully pass a background investigation.
• Must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24-month commitment to IHSC.
• Must not have a current Assignment Pay Agreement. If a current Assignment Pay Agreement exists, it must be fulfilled within 90 days of application submission.
• Must be a current USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer or USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidate.
• Civilians are not eligible for this position.
• Applicants without a USPHS commission must begin the USPHS Commissioned Corps application process before applying to this position.
• Must review the USPHS application requirements and submit an application at www.usphs.gov/apply-now/.
• Continued employment is contingent upon appointment to, and maintenance of, active-duty status in the USPHS Commissioned Corps.
• PHS officers must participate in IHSC TDY On-Call Schedule (ITOS).
• 5 years of professional clinical nursing experience.
• Maintains CPR/BLS certification.
• Obtain CCHP-RN within 2 years of assignment.
• Complete ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 1 year of assignment.
• Recommend Advanced ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 2 years of assignment.
• Cultural competency maintained through agency/other training.
• Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing.
• Must be a Registered Nurse (RN).
• Maintains current/documented professional licensure.
• Graduate of a professional nursing school approved by the appropriate State accrediting agency.
• Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and the state in which one practices nursing.
• Knowledge of a wide range of complex nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform nursing assessments of considerable diversity to include mental health, medical/surgical, ambulatory, and emergency nursing care.
• Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills, thereby requiring continuing professional clinical support.
• Knowledge of correctional nursing concepts and principles.
• Demonstrated evidence of knowledge of nursing management and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of team building principles.
• Knowledge of staff development and basic adult learner teaching skills.
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.
• Follows supervisory chain of command.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in correctional health care preferred.
• 2 years direct clinical patient care (e.g., inpatient) nursing experience preferred.
• Master's Degree in Nursing or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supervises nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with national, state, and local nursing laws and regulations.
• Works with the facility nurse manager to oversee all nursing services.
• Supervises and serves as rating official for federal nursing staff at their respective facility.
• Serves as secondary technical monitor for all contract nursing personnel.
• Serves as the nursing advisor in the absence of the Chief, Complex Nursing Unit (Nurse Manager) to the facility administrator regarding the total nursing care program and objectives.
• Establishes and maintains contacts outside the immediate work environment to collaborate, supply advice, explain, interpret, and seek support for methods, policies, and programs.
• Administers a moderately complex program requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.
• Improves the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services.
• Applies a range and depth of knowledge acquired specifically through an intensive learning regimen of the phenomena, theories, and concepts of a scientific body of nursing knowledge.
• Creates, explores, evaluates, designs, and shares solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues.
• Identifies, analyzes, advises, consults, and reports on nursing, theoretical, and factual data, conditions, and problems.
• Stays abreast of, and evaluates nursing subjects, analyses, and proposals in professional literature.
• Assesses, resolves, and predicts the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions.
• Reasons from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena.
• Collaborates with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop the nursing-care patient plan and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups of patients.
• Evaluates execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals.
• Recommends to nursing leadership any changes believed necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients.
• Functions as consultants providing clinical advisory tasks related to such functions as developing and assessing clinical health outcomes quality measures; evaluating clinical case reviews for adequacy of care, compliance with clinical and regulatory guidelines, overpayment, and audit recovery; and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews conducted by State or Federal health facility surveyors and in collaboration with IHSC Medical Quality Management Unit.
• Uses and/or carries out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
• Applies basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes, standards, methods, and their corresponding scientific principles and results.
• Understands and applies predetermined procedures, methods, and standardized practices in a narrowly specialized healthcare field (nursing), or science, or in performing technical work requiring originality, initiative, and practical judgment in using and adapting standardized medical techniques and methods.
• Carries out tasks, methods, procedures, and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents, guidelines, and standards.
• Collects, observes, tests, and records factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients.
• Foresees the effects of procedural changes or appraises the validity of results based on experience and practical reasoning.
• Stays abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level