Clinical Nurse Manager (O-6 Billet) Supervisory Job in Tacoma, WA

1. Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
   • Conducts interviews on newly admitted detainees with empathy to accurately identify needs and minimize and alleviate fears and anxieties.
   • Communicates and explains the institution's treatment programs to newly arrived detainees.
   • May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit.
   • Performs multiple complex tasks requiring advanced level of proficiency/independent functioning.
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.
   • Plans and/or collaborates patient care interventions with other health care professionals using in-depth knowledge of the specific patient's status, anticipating physiological and/or psychological appropriate or adverse responses.
   • Maintains patient and health record confidentiality.
   • Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively, efficiently, and effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare team as evidence by improved patient outcomes and improved staff satisfaction.
   • In addition to contacts with patients and patients' families in a clinical setting, and within immediate work environment, communicates and collaborates with outside the immediate work environment with the department, and other federal departments or outside the federal government (e.g., CDC, TB Net, state/local health department and other federal partners. Requires face to face contact and telephone dialogue on a routine basis. Work purpose is primarily to collaborate; supply advice; explain, interpret, and seek support for methods, policies and programs; or render a service of a moderately complex nature requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.
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.
   • Maintains non-involvement in correctional security/custody responsibilities.
   • Coordinates the treatment and transport, if necessary, of acutely ill or injured patients with healthcare team; coordinates referrals to off-site providers as required.
   • Reviews nursing documentation in identified patient records to assess treatment progress, adequacy of record keeping, and implementation of appropriate clinical nursing guidelines/documentation on on-going basis.
4. Carrying out tasks, methods, procedures, and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents, guidelines, and standards.
   • Provides nursing services of a scope, quality, and quantity consistent with IHSC policies.
   • Maintains security when administering medications; maintains cognizance at all times of the potential hazard of drug hoarding and trafficking among detainees.
5. Collecting, observing, testing, and recording factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients:
   • Differentiates between normal/abnormal findings, making appropriate notifications to higher level providers, and implementing appropriate interventions.
   • Applies knowledge of treatments and drug actions when making observations/ reporting patient response to treatments.
6. Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results on the basis of experience and practical reasoning.
   • Collaborates with CD and HSA in identifying/recommending needed modifications/improvements to multiple and complex clinical programs for improved efficiency of patient care.
   • Collaborates with CD and HSA with developing new operating procedures or program plans.
7. Staying abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training.
   • Serves as a team member for analyzing established protocol practices and identifying areas for improvement.
   • Reviews newly issued national directives and guides to identify updates in nursing practice; and implements training and education needed for employing the required process changes.
   • Knowledge of computerized data base, sources, and reporting methodologies.

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.

This position is located within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Clinical Services (DAD-CSU). The Nurse Manager (NM) will report directly to the Regional Nurse Manager (RNM) with the Chief Nurse (CN) as reviewing official. The Nurse Manager serves as part of the local leadership team (TRIAD) the responsible health authority in collaboration with the clinical director and health service administrator. This is a supervisory position.

The nurse manager (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 Nurse Manager (NM) 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 nurse manager supervises the assistant nurse manager, serves as reviewing official for federal nursing staff at their respective facility, and serves as technical monitor for all contract nursing personnel.


SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
The Nurse Manager will be supervised by the Regional Nurse Manager with Chief Nurse as reviewing official. The Nurse Manager serves as part of the local leadership team (TRIAD) the responsible health authority in collaboration with the clinical director and health service administrator.

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.

Serves as the nursing advisor to the local leadership team (TRIAD) regarding the total nursing care program and objectives. In addition to contacts with patients and families, establishes and maintains contacts with persons in other Federal Departments (i.e., outside agency to which assigned) or outside the Federal Government such as local, state, and national groups and organizations and governmental bodies. 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.

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.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.

Email

IHSCRecruiting@ice.dhs.gov

Address

ERO-DRO-IHSC Public Health Service
500 12th Street SW
Washington, DC 20536
US