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Advanced Practice Provider (O-3/O-4/O-5 Billet) Non-Supervisory
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Posted today
About the Role
The Physician Assistant (PA) or Nurse Practitioner (NP) provides direct detainee care, including evaluations, minor procedures, and medication prescriptions. The incumbent reports directly to the Supervisory APP. If no Supervisory APP is on-site, the incumbent reports to the facility Clinical Director. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.
What You'll Do
- →DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (O-3 & O-4 Billet): A physician assistant or nurse practitioner who practices in conformance with established criteria, guidelines, and agency procedures.
- →Efforts are directed toward the enhancement of the physical, emotional, and social well-being of individuals.
- →Judgmental failure could seriously affect the health status of one or more individuals.
- →Decisions are reviewed as needed with medical officers or other advanced practice providers.
- →Provides health care of a scope, quality, and quantity consistent with agency and PHS policies.
- →Primary contact is with persons outside the immediate work environment, but within the agency.
- →This includes the general public and patients.
- →The primary mission is to meet their health care needs, obtain and provide information, present reports, and further the goals and objectives of the PHS and the agency.
- →Performs comprehensive history and physical evaluations, behavioral health care, and minor outpatient surgical procedures for detainees as required by IHSC policy, or as required for detainee medical complaint.
- →Coordinates health care needs of detainees including referrals to off-site consultants.
- →Takes appropriate infection control actions in accordance with IHSC policy and guidance.
- →Completes all training as required/assigned.
- →Attends on-site, regional, and national meetings as required.
- →O-4 level participates in the APP Peer Review process.
Requirements
- ✓REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES (O-3 & O-4 Billet): Individuals applying for an O-3 billet / GS equivalent are a new graduate or have no clinical experience.
- ✓Upgrade to O-4 is dependent upon adequate performance.
- ✓Individuals applying for O-4 / GS equivalent have one year of clinical experience as a PA or NP, are officers currently in an O-4 billet, or approved by the Deputy Medical Director.
- ✓Meet the minimum education and certification requirements for either a nurse practitioner or physician assistant.
- ✓Nurse practitioner.
- ✓Requires unrestricted Family Nurse Practitioner or Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner state license, national board certification through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) or the American Nurse Credentialing Center (ANCC).
- ✓Current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner - Certified by a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
- ✓Certified advance practice nurse practitioner degree from a graduate school of training program approved for this qualifying degree.
- ✓Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and/or the state in which one practices nursing.
- ✓Physician assistant.
- ✓Must possess an accredited bachelor's, or master's degree, and completed a physician assistant training program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA), national certification through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), and an unrestricted physician assistant state license.
- ✓Fulfills the obligation(s) of their licensing or certifying body to maintain currency.
- ✓Must be licensed by a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or territory of the United States.
- ✓If applicable, maintains unrestricted license with state of licensure and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to prescribe controlled medications.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 97336e3a-1bcb-4ab9-9dbc-7711f1b87007
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