Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (O-5 Billet) Supervisory

The Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager supervises nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with laws, policies, and standards. Responsibilities include staff supervision, quality assurance, and patient care. Requires RN licensure, 5 years of clinical experience. Reports to the Nurse Manager (NM) and Regional NM, serving as acting NM as needed.

This position is only open to current USPHS officers.
USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position.

Qualifications:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

1. This position is considered hazardous duty in a detention setting.
2. Requires physical exertion such as lifting objects greater than 30 pounds.
3. 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).
4. 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.
5. Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling.

Responsibilities:

The assistant nurse manager (Associate Chief, Complex Unit) is stationed at a complex larger IHSC facility usually having over 500 beds and/or may have more complex medical housing units (sub-acute inpatient) and/or sustained increased operational tempo due to large staging mission or staging large enforcement and removal flights with global public health impact. The Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) works with the facility nurse manager to oversees all nursing services and ensures that nursing practice, principles, and procedures are implemented in accordance with national, state, and local nursing laws and regulations. The assistant nurse manager supervises and serves as rating official for federal nursing staff at their respective facility (nurse manager serves as reviewing official) and serves as secondary technical monitor for all contract nursing personnel.

The Assistant Nurse Manager will be supervised by the Nurse Manager, with the Regional Nurse Manager serving as the reviewing official.

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. In addition to contacts with patients and patients' families in a clinical setting, establishes and maintains contacts with persons outside the immediate work environment, but within the Department. Contacts are required in order to collaborate, supply advice, explain, interpret, and seek support for methods, policies and programs, and to provide personalized nursing services and administer a moderately complex program requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Understanding theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services,
2. Applying 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.
3. Creating, exploring, evaluating, designing, and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues.
4. Identifying, analyzing, advising, consulting, and reporting on nursing, theoretical, and factual data, conditions, and problems.
5. Staying abreast of, and evaluating nursing subjects, analyses, and proposals in professional literature.
6. Assessing, resolving, and predicting the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions.
7. Reasoning from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena.
8. Nurses collaborate 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.
9. Nurses evaluate execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals. Based on those evaluations, they may recommend to nursing leadership any changes they believe necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients.
10. Nurses may function 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.

TECHNICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
2. Applying basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes, standards, methods, and their corresponding scientific principles and results.
3. Understanding and skill in applying 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.
4. Carrying out tasks, methods, procedures, and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents, guidelines, and standards.
5. Collecting, observing, testing, and recording factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients.
6. Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results based on experience and practical reasoning.
7. Staying abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training.