Registered Nurse- Supervisory Assistant Nurse Manager

Veterans Health Administration • Fayetteville, AR

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About The Position

The Supervisory Assistant Nurse Manager supports the Nurse Manager in overseeing nursing-unit operations, developing the team, ensuring compliance with clinical-practice standards, and serving as a liaison between staff and leadership. The role functions as a clinical expert and is accountable for the nursing process when providing or overseeing direct patient care, including assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care delivery.

As a first-line supervisor, the Supervisory Assistant Nurse Manager oversees nursing personnel in the patient-care area. This includes approving schedules and leave, appraising performance, recommending performance standards and awards, serving as hiring official, and recommending discipline or grievance adjustments for directly supervised employees. For other unit personnel, the role assists the Nurse Manager with scheduling, performance input, candidate selection, work assignments, and fact-finding.

The position applies clinical judgment to guide staff participation in planning, decision-making, and outcome evaluation, and provides feedback to the Nurse Manager regarding timely care that meets accepted practice standards. It promotes accountability, ethical decision-making, high-quality and cost-effective outcomes, collaboration across the care continuum, and evidence-based, accessible, affordable, and equitable care. The role supports care-delivery models and environmental design, aligns clinical objectives with organizational strategy, and ensures compliance with regulatory, accreditation, policy, directive, and standard operating procedure requirements. Professional engagement and continued leadership and career development are encouraged.

The stated schedule is Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., subject to change based on facility needs. Telework is available; the position is not virtual. Relocation and recruitment incentives and permanent change of station are not authorized.

Requirements

• Proficiency in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduation from an appropriately accredited school of professional nursing, or an applicable qualifying education pathway described in the announcement.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registered nurse licensure in a U.S. State, Territory, or Commonwealth, or the District of Columbia; an exception may apply for Graduate Nurse Technicians appointed temporarily while pursuing licensure.
• Meet the education and professional nursing experience requirements for the applicable Nurse grade and level.
• U.S. citizenship, except where non-citizen appointment is permitted under VA policy when qualified citizens cannot be recruited.
• Applicants tentatively selected for a testing-designated position must undergo urinalysis for illegal drug use; refusal results in denial of employment.
• Selective Service registration for males born after December 31, 1959.
• Successful background/security investigation and completion of online onboarding and pre-employment identification requirements.
• Pass a pre-employment physical evaluation.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program for VA Health Care Personnel.
• May be required to serve a probationary period.
• Complete the application requirements listed in the announcement's Required Documents section.
• Meet the stated physical capabilities, including heavy lifting and carrying of 45 pounds or more, pushing and pulling, reaching, walking, standing, bending, kneeling, manual dexterity, vision, color discrimination, hearing without aid, and mental and emotional stability.
• Work with detergents and antiseptic solutions and in the environmental conditions described, including indoor and outdoor areas, dust, moving machinery, water, close proximity to others, and potentially protracted or irregular work hours.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first-line supervisor of nursing personnel in the patient-care area.
• Approve schedules and leave for directly supervised employees.
• Appraise employee performance and recommend performance standards and awards.
• Serve as hiring official during recruitment for directly supervised employees.
• Recommend proposed discipline or grievance adjustments for directly supervised employees.
• Assist the Nurse Manager with scheduling and leave planning for other unit personnel.
• Provide performance input for employees whose final evaluations are completed by the Nurse Manager.
• Assist in recommending candidates for employment.
• Apply clinical knowledge and judgment to lead staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluation of outcomes.
• Provide feedback to the Nurse Manager to support timely nursing care that complies with accepted standards of practice.
• Oversee work assignments and provide contact reports or assist with fact-finding to inform counseling or disciplinary recommendations.
• Promote staff accountability and equip staff with tools to provide competent care and achieve high-quality, cost-effective outcomes.
• Build alliances across the care continuum through active listening, engagement, and emotional intelligence.
• Contribute to care-delivery models and environmental design that support evidence-based, accessible, affordable, and equitable care.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards, directives, policies, and standard operating procedures.
• Align nursing and clinical objectives with organizational strategic outcomes and participate in strategy planning and execution.
• Engage in professional organizations to support leadership and career growth.
• Adhere to ethical principles in decision-making and promote a workplace that advances the organization's vision and mission.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care delivery when providing or overseeing direct patient care.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, regular salary increases, and potential performance awards.
• 50 days of paid time off per year: 26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, and 11 paid Federal holidays.
• Traditional federal pension with five-year vesting.
• Federal 401(k) with up to 5% in contributions by VA.
• Federal health, vision, dental, term life, and long-term care insurance; many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree