Registered Nurse Manager - Blind Rehab

• Department: Department of Veterans Affairs

This Nurse Manager-Blind Rehabilitation position is located in Nursing Service at the West Haven location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week.

Nursing is recruiting for a full-time Nurse Manager for Blind Rehabilitation. The Nurse Manager-Blind Rehab is responsible for executing position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience and management. The Nurse Manager incorporates professional standards and implements broad-reaching evidence-based change.

• Leading and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice;
• Using advance clinical knowledge/judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision‑making, and evaluating outcomes;
• Functioning as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities;
• Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise;
• Guiding, developing, and supporting staff from a leadership perspective;
• Using professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities.

• 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, Days as needed for unit coverage/supervisory duties.

• Responsible for 24/7 operations.
• Compressed/Flexible:
  Not Authorized Telework:
  Ad‑hoc as determined by agency policy
• Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position.
• Financial Disclosure Report:
  Not required
• Notifications:
  This position is a non‑Bargaining Unit position.
• Selectee may be required to work at any VA Connecticut Healthcare System campus, as needed.
• 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. This position is in the Excepted Service. The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.

Note:

Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: .

If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.

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The Associate Degree Nursing (ADN), Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN), or Master of Science degree in Nursing (MSN) must be fully accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission On Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Verification of accreditation may be obtained from http:// or .

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