Nurse Practitioner - Primary Care

This Nurse Practitioner
- Primary Care position is located in Primary Care Service at the Augusta - ME location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week. Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

May Be Authorized

• NOTE:
  
  This recruitment will result in the hiring of one of the following disciplines:
  Physician Assistant
  - Primary Care Physician or Nurse Practitioner
• Duties include but are not limited to:
  Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice
• Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management
• Demonstrates leadership and works collaboratively with Primary Care Team and other interdisciplinary team members
• Orders and interprets labs - tests - and diagnostic studies
• Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
• Initiates referrals and consults to specialty services
• Provides education to patients and their families
• Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity
  - Commitment
  - Advocacy
  - Respect - and Excellence
• 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
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  Full-Time - 8:00am-4:30pm
  - Monday-Friday Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  May Be Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
  Not Authorized Notifications:
  This position is an AFGE Bargaining Unit position This position is in the Excepted Service This position is covered by a special rate Veterans' preference does not apply for internal or other current permanent Federal agency employees
• Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 - (Notice of Personnel Action)
• The SF-50 must identify the position title - series - grade - step - tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted)
• In some cases - more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held.