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Deputy Chief of Quality Management - Registered Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
About the Role
The Deputy Chief of Quality Management (QM) - Registered Nurse (RN) executes leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for population groups or integrated programs that cross services and/or discipline lines and, influence the organizational healthcare mission.
What You'll Do
- →Start your career here.
- →The George E.
- →Whalen VA Medical Center is a Complexity Level 1A facility with inpatient, outpatient, mental health, and community-based services.
- →The Deputy Chief of Quality Management functions as a key nursing leader supporting these organizational priorities through delegated responsibilities, program coordination, and expert consultation.
- →Duties of the position include, but are not limited to: Function as an advisor, administrator, educator, consultant, and mentor who has a wide range of experience and leadership ability.
- →Demonstrate performance broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
- →Supervise QM staff.
- →Assess plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the quality and safety of the delivery of care for the organization.
- →Ensure services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
- →Lead performance improvement initiatives by the identification of quality metrics, trending data, maintenance of the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a subject matter expert in data analysis and data display.
- →Consult and act as a resource to leadership and staff in standards interpretation, implementation, patient safety, infection control, risk management, and re-design of processes and structures to improve care outcomes.
- →Develop and implement policy and procedures, collaborate with service departments, and work toward meeting the strategic plan of the organization.
- →Oversee and monitor corrective actions from survey findings and assist services who are performance outliers.
- →Provide oversight for programs such as the Joint Patient Safety Reporting (JPSR), Tort Claims, and Peer Review.
Requirements
- ✓Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 5ec1cca0-e1b3-41a7-b1e4-19f28f8ea248
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