Clinical Nurse Manager; O-Billet Supervisory

Summary

The Clinical Nurse Manager oversees nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and standards. Responsibilities include supervising staff, managing operations, and conducting training. The role requires advanced nursing expertise, leadership, and adaptability in high‑tempo environments, including detention and staging facilities.

This position is only open to current USPHS officers. USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position.

• Understanding theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services.
• Applying a range and depth of knowledge acquired specifically through an intensive learning regimen of the phenomena, theories, and concepts of a scientific body of nursing knowledge.
• Creating, exploring, evaluating, designing, and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues.
• Identifying, analyzing, advising, consulting, and reporting on nursing, theoretical, and factual data, conditions, and problems, as evidenced by demonstrating strong oral/written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Staying abreast of, and evaluating nursing subjects, analyses, and proposals in professional literature.
• Assessing, resolving, and predicting the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions.
• Reasoning from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena.
• Nurses collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop the nursing care patient plan and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups of patients.
• Nurses evaluate execution of nursing‑care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals. Based on those evaluations, they may recommend to nursing leadership any changes they believe necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients.
• Nurses may function as consultants providing clinical advisory tasks related to such functions as developing and assessing clinical health outcomes quality measures; evaluating clinical case reviews for adequacy of care, compliance with clinical and regulatory guidelines, over payment, and audit recovery; and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews conducted by State or Federal health facility surveyors and in collaboration with IHSC Medical Quality Management Unit.

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Requirements by Closing Date:
  Unless otherwise noted, you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24‑month commitment to IHSC.
• You must not have a current Assignment Pay Agreement. However, if you have a current Assignment Pay Agreement, it must be fulfilled within 90 days of your application submission.
• Applicants must be a current USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer.
• PHS officers must participate in IHSC TDY On‑Call Schedule (ITOS). ITOS is either an entire month or two 16‑day periods a year where, depending on the needs of the agency, the officer is required to be available to serve.
• USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position.
• Civilians are not eligible for this position.

• Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
• Conducts interviews on newly admitted detainees with empathy to accurately identify needs and minimize and alleviate fears and anxieties.
• Communicates and explains the institution's treatment programs to newly arrived detainees.
• May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit.
• Performs multiple complex tasks requiring advanced…