ISOU Flight Registered Nurse (O-5 Billet) Non-Supervisory

About the role

The ISOU Flight Registered Nurse serves as a Medical Aircrew Member, providing in-flight, ground, and sea medical care during ICE missions and DHS operations. Responsibilities include emergency response, patient care, and supporting IHSC facilities. The role requires advanced nursing expertise, adaptability in austere environments, frequent travel, and readiness for rapid deployment domestically and globally.

Responsibilities

• Emergency response and patient care during ICE removal missions and IHSC clinics.
• Supporting medical aircrew member responsibilities in remote and austere conditions.
• Providing direct patient care to migrants aboard cutters, small boats, fixed and rotary-wing aircrafts during AMIO.
• Ensuring official representation of U.S. government health services at sea.
• Representing U.S. government as an ICE health official overseas and with other federal agencies, military, and law enforcement.
• Assisting with providing direct patient care to individuals in ICE custody, IHSC clinics, or during DHS missions.
• Assuming responsibility for providing care to patients with complex, physical, mental, or social needs.
• Managing ISOU specific programs objectives to ensure their sustainability and growth.
• Performing specialized or complex professional tasks without benefit of detailed guidelines, independently establishing criteria, formulating approaches, and evaluating efforts.

Requirements

This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.

Qualifications

• Treats others with courtesy, sensitivity, and respect.
• Makes rapid decisions based on limited clinical information, frequently under time constraints and with sensitivity to cultural and international relations.
• Strong emotional intelligence ability.
• Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively; clarifies information as needed.
• Behaves in an honest, fair, and ethical manner. Shows consistency in words and actions. Exhibits high standards of ethics.
• Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.
• Knowledge of teaching, training, research, making presentations, lecturing, testing, and other instructional methods.
• Ability to interface within other uniformed services components, federal law enforcement agencies, and NGOs.
• Deals effectively with pressure; remains optimistic and persistent, even under adversity. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Demonstrate strong diplomatic skills in adversity.
• Demonstrate strong organizational and time management skills.
• Is open to change and new information; rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles.
• Must have the ability to assist sick, injured, or aging illegal aliens or staff during ingress and egress (e.g., may require lifting, dragging, wheeling, or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than oneself). The officer must be able to lift and carry 50 lbs. of medical equipment 100 yds. without assistance.
• Able to pass the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Class III Flight Physical for Altitude Physiology Chamber orientation.
• Must be able to see, hear, and smell with aids if necessary. Must be able to don full face mask, breathing apparatus or emergency fire escape mask or hood without difficulty for prolonged periods.
• Must be able to easily alternate between kneeling, standing, and walking in the confined space of small aircraft.
• Phone and computer use for extended periods of time.
• Sitting and/or standing for extended periods of time (8 Hours or more).
• Must be able to perform duties in a stressful and often austere environment, with inclement weather and altitudes without physical limitations.
• Must be able to climb ladders and stairs without impediment while carrying medical equipment and supplies as well as personal gear.
• Must be able to work extended hours and remain in aircraft in confined cabin space during inclement weather, ground delays, and/or extenuating circumstances during extended trans-global flights.
• Must be able to have basic swimming skills to allow for safe swimming at least one pool length and remain head out of water while treading water for at least 5 minutes for mandatory aircrew safety training events.

Education

• Be Actively Boarded or New Call to Duty commissioned in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
• Able to pass Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Class III Flight Physical.
• Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in nursing from a program accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Current, unrestricted, and valid Registered Nurse (RN) license from any U.S. state, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam.
• Minimum of 4 years of direct patient care experience as a registered nurse.
• Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and/or the state in which one practices nursing.
• Knowledge of a wide range of nursing concepts, principles, and practices.
• Ability to follow and strictly adhere to established policies, guidelines, instructions, procedures, and protocols.
• Knowledge of Microsoft office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong foundational nursing background and skill set.
• Knowledge of medication, administration guidelines, and pharmaceutical agents and their desired and adverse effects to recognize untoward effects and take appropriate corrective measures.
• Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills.
• Knowledge of requirements for safety, infection control, quality assurance, maintenance of records of patients seen, statistical information gathering, etc.
• Knowledge or experience of nursing management and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of teaching patient health education skills.
• Must be able to attain and maintain DHS Secret Clearance.
• Must be able to attain and maintain a U.S. Government Official Passport.
• Must maintain minimum flight hours per Official Non-Aircrew member flight orders.