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VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

The Mental Health Supervisor has broad programmatic responsibilities for a specific service delivery (CBOC) that are designed to deliver specialized, complex, highly professional services that are important program components of the facility and that significantly impact the health care provided to Veterans.

Major duties include but are not limited to:

• Projecting future program needs, creating clinical justification and Business Case Analysis for future hiring needs as appropriate, productivity and performance management encounters, clinical documentation auditing, functional statement development in collaboration with discipline leads as appropriate.
• Development, implementation and coordination of measurement-based care program-wide.
• Responsible for policy development and implementation for the CBOC. Data driven monitoring for quality assurance and implementation of new policies and process changes as needed to ensure high quality care.
• Develop and implement programs, policies, and procedures to meet program goals, VHA policy, and external accreditation requirements. Monitor outcomes using data-driven quality assurance processes and implement strategies for improvement based on data analysis.
• Collaborate with other Service/Service Line Chiefs and Medical Center Senior Leadership and Lead Professional Psychologist to assess the need for Psychological Services and resources to meet those needs. Develop policies for collaboration between the CBOC and other specialty mental health programs.
• Develop processes to increase access to general mental healthcare for high-risk veterans, including increasing access slots for the CBOC staff to facilitate availability for patients who are high risk or in crisis.
• Representation of the CBOC to other programs/care teams, including in-services for other teams, consultation on referrals to the CBOC, and representation of both clinical teams at MH Board and team lead meetings.
• Facilitate EBP training for clinical staff including advocacy for training slots and managing coverage for staff engaged in EBP training. Training for all new CBOC staff members, development of CBOC-specific new employee orientation program and schedule.
• Internal mental health consult management, tracking and assignment. Manage internal consults for CBOC team.
• Develop mental health position descriptions and functional statements in CBOC. Interview candidates for positions, recommend appointments, advancements, or disciplinary actions when appropriate.
• Responsible for professional and administrative management of assigned area/program. Identify continuing education and training needs of staff with a particular focus on ethics, diversity, and EBP topics relevant for the CBOC. Serve as a mentor to help employees develop their full potential.
• Ensures efficient operation of CBOC involving both day-to-day operations and long-term planning and growth.
• Develop and initiate new treatment programs, workflows, policies, and procedures. Independently provide psychological services at all levels of complexity and consult with peers and supervisors as appropriate.
• Policy development for the CBOC to ensure program practices are in line with facility and national SOPs and standards for care, including implementing changes based on national.
• Encourages and promotes EBPQI and/or clinical research activities in the CBOC staff of CBOC relevant topics to include investigations which address culturally relevant variables, EBP, and telehealth.
• Responsible for congressional, patient advocate complaints, and behavioral contact meetings for Veterans who engage in disruptive behavior within the CBOC.
• Provides a full range of psychological services as needed, including providing evidenced based psychotherapy and assessment for individuals, couples, and groups.
• Consults with medical center staff on a wide variety of patient care issues; routinely provides recovery-oriented consultation to Mental Health and other medical center staff.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details.

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements:

• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a master's level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelor's level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license, the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active, and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements, but do not possess the required licensure, may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your application, resume, C.V., and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment.

NOTE: Candidate's education, scope, and length of nursing practice (experience) will be considered in determining the grade and salary of the applicant selected. The recommended salary may be at any point in the range listed for this vacancy.

Experience as an RN will be evaluated to determine if the experience is of an acceptable level of quality with regard to the following four dimensions of nursing: Practice, Professional Development, Collaboration and Scientific Inquiry. Each dimension of practice has criteria that demonstrate essential core competencies for VHA Nursing Personnel.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

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It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.

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