Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (O-5 Billet) Supervisory

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• Supervises and serves as rating official for federal nursing staff at the facility (nurse manager serves as reviewing official).
• Serves as secondary technical monitor for all contract nursing personnel.
• Works with the facility nurse manager to oversee all nursing services and ensures that nursing practice, principles, and procedures are implemented in accordance with national, state, and local nursing laws and regulations.
• 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.
• Maintains contacts with patients and patients' families in a clinical setting and with persons outside the immediate work environment but within the Department to collaborate, supply advice, explain, interpret, seek support for methods, policies and programs, and provide personalized nursing services.
• Administers a moderately complex program requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.
• Understands theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying professional nursing practices to improve efficiency and quality of work or protect quality of life or healthcare services.
• Applies a range and depth of knowledge acquired through intensive learning of nursing phenomena, theories, and concepts.
• 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 nursing-care patient plans and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups.
• Evaluates execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting goals and may recommend changes to nursing leadership to advocate for patient health and wellbeing.
• Functions as a consultant providing clinical advisory tasks related to 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