What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (O-5 Billet) Supervisory position at U.S. Department of Homeland Security?
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Requirements
Conditions of Employment
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
IHSC provides direct care daily to approximately 15,300 detainees housed at 20 designated facilities throughout the nation. 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 approximately 112 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 on a daily basis, 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
The incumbent functions independently to ensure planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of entire projects or provision of complete services; may supervise programs or services that encompass several professional fields. Impact of error can cause impairment of a departmental level service or program.
The incumbent plans and organizes his/her own work, determines the sequence of assignments, selects and develops methods, and seeks assistance from experts only rarely. Assignments are usually long-term, recurring, or broadly defined. Work is reviewed for feasibility, compatibility with other work, and effectiveness in meeting requirements or expected results.
An extensive number of well-defined guides, methods, theories, and precedents are available. Situations to which existing guidelines cannot be applied or which require significant deviations from existing guidelines are referred to higher authority.
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
- You must successfully pass a background investigation.
- You must successfully pass a drug screen.
- Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
- Requirements by Closing Date: Unless otherwise noted, you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
- Service Remaining Requirement Agreement: Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve a new 18-month commitment to IHSC .
- Applicants must be a current USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer who works at IHSC. USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position. Civilians are not eligible for this position.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- This position is considered hazardous duty in a detention setting.
- Requires physical exertion such as lifting objects greater than 30 pounds.
- Must have the ability to assist sick, injured, or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self).
- The work may necessitate some physical characteristics that will be required when responding to an emergency situation, such as running short distance, prolonged standing and working in an austere environment.
- Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling.
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Competencies required:
- Professional clinical nursing experience: 5 years
- Experience in correctional health care preferred.
- 2 years direct clinical patient care (e.g., inpatient) nursing experience preferred.
- Administrative experience in a supervisory capacity: Relevant Training Only.
- Maintains CPR/BLS certification.
- Obtain CCHP-RN within 2 years of assignment.
- Complete ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 1 year of assignment and recommend Advanced ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 2 years of assignment.
- Cultural competency maintained through agency/other training.
- Qualifications-Degrees Required:
- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing.
- Master's Degree in Nursing or related field preferred.
- Qualifications-Licenses and Certifications Required:
- Nursing License- Must be a Registered Nurse (RN).
- Maintains current/documented professional licensure. (It is the responsibility of the incumbent to fulfill the obligation(s) of their licensing or certifying body to maintain currency. This position may be required to perform clinical activities with the scope of clinical license in times of critical needs within and at the direction of the agency.)
- Professional credentials/certification appropriate to current job specialty.
- 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.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
- Some travel may be required.
IHSC provides direct care daily to approximately 15,300 detainees housed at 20 designated facilities throughout the nation. 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 approximately 112 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 on a daily basis, 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
The incumbent functions independently to ensure planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of entire projects or provision of complete services; may supervise programs or services that encompass several professional fields. Impact of error can cause impairment of a departmental level service or program.
The incumbent plans and organizes his/her own work, determines the sequence of assignments, selects and develops methods, and seeks assistance from experts only rarely. Assignments are usually long-term, recurring, or broadly defined. Work is reviewed for feasibility, compatibility with other work, and effectiveness in meeting requirements or expected results.
An extensive number of well-defined guides, methods, theories, and precedents are available. Situations to which existing guidelines cannot be applied or which require significant deviations from existing guidelines are referred to higher authority.
Read more
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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
