The incumbent will report directly to the IHSC Medical Asset Support Team (MAST) Regional Director in the Clinical Services Support Unit.
The incumbent serves as the Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical Asset Support Team (MAST) member, for the IHSC Clinical Services Division. The incumbents' primary duty will be to serve as expert resources to support nursing staff, nursing practice, and the IHSC Health Care Mission. This will require direct nursing patient care at various IHSC facilities as assigned. The incumbent will provide clinical and administrative nursing support. This includes working with the IHSC Chief Nurse within the NSU to complete tasks designed to improve clinical nursing care within IHSC.
IHSC has a multi-sector, multidisciplinary workforce of more than 1100 employees, including U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) commissioned officers, federal civil servants, and contract staff. The IHSC provides on-site direct patient care to ICE detainees at 21 detention facilities throughout the country and manages the provision of off-site medical care for detainees housed in approximately 240 additional Intergovernmental Service Agreement (IGSA) facilities. The ICE detainee population is approximately 34,000 detainees on a daily basis, with an average length of stay of approximately 30 days, and over 400,000 detainees annually. The IHSC also provides medical support during ICE enforcement operations in the air, on the ground and at sea
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT:
U.S. Public Service Commissioned Corps officers are detailed to Department of Homeland Security as described in a Memorandum of Agreement.
SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
The Clinical Senior Nurse Specialist, Medical Asset Support Team (MAST) member works under the IHSC Medical Asset Support Team (MAST) Regional Director's general supervision with oversight provided by the Nurse Manager, Clinical Director or designee, and Health Services Administrator at a TDY site.
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.
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.