Nurse Practitioner Caregiver Support Programs (CEAT

Nurse Practitioner

The incumbent is assigned to the VISN within the Caregiver Support Program (CSP), which provides a state-of-the-art continuum of services, education and resources to caregivers of Veterans with complex needs. As a Nurse Practitioner and member of the VISN CEAT, your duties and responsibilities will include:

• Uses knowledge of the CSP to matrix Veteran level of functioning with the appropriate CSP services (i.e., Program of General Caregiver Support Services [PGCSS]; PCAFC; and/or Veteran entitlements and benefits) in order to ensure patient safety, recovery, and program stewardship. and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning.
• Applies advanced nursing clinical knowledge / judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating PCAFC eligibility.
• Evaluates, systematically, current practice and formulates outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within area of expertise.
• Works with interprofessional team members at Regional, VISN and facility levels to ensure PCAFC eligibility determinations PCAFC are delivered objectively with strong, consistent inter-rater reliability with documentation and communication of outcomes in a direct and coordinated manner.
• Coordinates with other Regional CEATs and VACO CSP to develop and implement strategies for PCAFC eligibility, tier level, discharge, and appeals process and performance improvement.
• Conducts comprehensive clinical review of patient records to identify the presence of Veteran need for assistance with personal care services and/or the presence of supervision or protection needs daily.
• Documents information utilized in clinical eligibility determination and eligibility assessment tools.
• Assists the VISN with MISSION Act implementation, as it relates to CSP and PCAFC expansion.
• Receives, reviews, and dispositions PCAFC initial eligibility decisions; reassessments; and appeal decisions for clinical eligibility determinations. Anticipated process:
  Reviews packets with eligibility documents submitted, by facilities, to VISN within 45 days.
• Renders reassessment decisions to include ongoing program eligibility, tier changes, and discharges. (Notifications of rendered decisions are communicated, by VISN, back to the CSC, at referring facility.)
• Adjudicates first-level appeals for alternate VISN CEATs and second-level appeals for one of the other three CEAT Regions.
• Executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.
• Maintains full clinical privileges as a member of the Medical Staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:

• 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:
  
  7:30am to 4:00pm Monday-Friday
• Telework:
  At supervisory discretion and as determined by the agency policy.
• Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position.
• Functional Statement #: PD10086F
• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  Not Authorized
• Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
  Not Authorized
• PCS Appraised Value Offer (AVO):
  Not Authorized
• Financial Discloser Report:
  Not required