Chief Nurse-NASA Johnson Space Center Clinic

Description

Belong. Connect. Grow.

We are a team of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers who share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely.

On the Human Health and Performance Contract 2, we are at the forefront of safeguarding astronaut health, supporting human performance, and advancing technologies for human space exploration.

JES Tech is seeking an experienced Chief Nurse to provide clinical and operational leadership for nursing and clinical support services at the NASA Johnson Space Center Clinic in Houston, Texas.

The Chief Nurse serves as the senior nursing leader for clinic operations and is responsible for the supervision, coordination, and professional oversight of the nursing team, clinic paramedic personnel, and other assigned clinical support staff.

This position is responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care, clinical readiness, regulatory compliance, staff competency, and operational performance. The Chief Nurse works collaboratively with physicians, advanced practice providers, occupational health professionals, clinic leadership, NASA representatives, and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to ensure safe, effective, timely, and mission-responsive healthcare services.

The Chief Nurse also serves as a primary on-site management representative for JES Tech.

In addition to leadership responsibilities, the Chief Nurse maintains clinical competency and may provide direct patient care as operational needs require, including assessment and management of occupational injuries and illnesses, urgent clinical conditions, employee health concerns, and other services within the individual's professional scope of practice.

• Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision, and professional oversight of nursing personnel, clinic paramedics, and other assigned clinical support staff.
• Establish clear performance expectations and promote accountability, professionalism, teamwork, effective communication, and patient-centered care.
• Coordinate clinical staffing and assignments to maintain appropriate coverage, continuity of operations, and responsiveness to NASA mission requirements.
• Participate in employee selection, onboarding, orientation, competency assessment, performance management, coaching, corrective action, and professional development.
• Identify staffing, training, equipment, and operational needs and provide recommendations to clinic and contract leadership.
• Serve as a clinical resource and escalation point for nursing, paramedic, and clinical support personnel.

• Provide nursing support for patients seen in the JSC Clinic and maintain clinical competency to provide direct patient care when operationally necessary.
• Oversee the delivery of safe, appropriate, evidence-based clinical care consistent with professional standards, clinic protocols, patient needs, and applicable scopes of practice.
• Oversee patient intake, assessment, treatment, monitoring, documentation, follow-up, and disposition.
• Support the evaluation and management of occupational injuries and illnesses, employee health concerns, and other conditions addressed within the JSC Clinic.
• Ensure appropriate clinical response, documentation, notification, follow-up, and disposition associated with workplace injuries, illnesses, exposures, and other reportable clinical events.
• Collaborate with physicians and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team in clinical decision-making and continuity of patient care.

• Provide nursing leadership in the development, review, implementation, and maintenance of clinical policies, procedures, protocols, workflows, and standards of practice.
• Ensure clinical practices align with evidence-based standards, contractual requirements, Texas Board of Nursing requirements, applicable federal and state regulations, NASA/JSC requirements, and JES Tech policies.
• Support execution of the Quality Assurance Plan and monitor clinical quality, patient safety, documentation, and compliance.
• Participate in audits, incident…