Nurse; Assistant Nurse Manager Geriatrics Extended Care

Position: Nurse (Assistant Nurse Manager) Geriatrics Extended Care
The Central Texas Veteran's Healthcare System is hiring for Registered Nurse Assistant Manager for the Geriatric Extended Care (GEC) Service, Community Living Center (CLC). The CLC is a short stay rehabilitation, hospice, and dementia care unit focusing on assisting Veterans to return home with their highest level of function after receiving excellent nursing care and therapy as needed in a home-like environment.

The CLC Assistant Nurse Manager (ANM) demonstrates leadership that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients. In collaboration with the Nurse Manager, the ANM is responsible for documented outcomes at the program or service level. The program or outcomes must demonstrate a coordinated group of activities that impacts the patients and/or employees. The CLC ANM shows progressive ability to execute position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience and creative approaches to the management of complex client care.

You will be assigning work to subordinates based on priorities, selective consideration of the difficulty and the requirements of the assignments, and the capabilities of subordinates. Additionally, the ANM will:

* Provide input into performance. Hear and resolve complaints of subordinates and referring more serious complaints not resolved to higher level supervisors. Recommend disciplinary action as appropriate.

* Demonstrate expertise in performing charge nurse duties.

* Provide leadership in coordinating admissions, Coordinate care, transfers, and discharges, overseeing desk and staff, etc.

* Demonstrate professional communication skills with all staff. Enforce facility policies / procedures.

* Participate in the coordination of all nursing staff training and assessment of own and staff educational needs.

* Collaborate with the employee and Nurse Manager in the evaluation process.

* Collect data for quarterly reports on process improve activity and program evaluations (i.e. wound care, infection control, patient complaints, medication errors, equipment location, etc.) and presents data as indicated.

* Ensure medical records are maintained, current and complete by monitoring the Nursing Service documentation to verify the entries are descriptive of care rendered and all physician orders have been properly carried out.

* Initiate and/or participate in multi-interdisciplinary teams when appropriate. Other responsibilities as assigned.

Pay:
Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

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

Work Schedule:

3:30pm-12:00am (midnight), rotating weekends and other tours as needed

Telework:
Not Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized

Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required

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