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Lead Licensed Vocational Nurse_PACT
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
The VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS) is a Level 1a major interdisciplinary teaching healthcare system, offering a variety of Inpatient and Outpatient services to Veterans at the medical center in La Jolla and at the six Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) located in Chula Vista, Escondido, Imperial Valley, Kearny Mesa, Oceanside, Sorrento Valley, and Rio Clinic. The VASDHS provides high quality care with advanced technologies and a compassionate service to Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Work of considerable difficulty and responsibility is performed under general supervision.
- →LPN/LVNs GS-07 are, to a considerable extent, expected to exercise independent technical judgments and to possess and apply comprehensive working knowledge of the principles, art and science of practical nursing.
- →LPN/L VNs at this grade level are expected to perform practical nursing duties of considerable difficulty and responsibility under very general supervision.
- →To be advanced, employees must meet all the following standards: Carries out more specialized patient care duties, including assignments in selected, more complex care settings.
- →Incorporates current patient care data in actively contributing to the development of the patient's overall health plan and in carrying out assigned nursing interventions.
- →Utilizes broader knowledge and skills because supervision is more general and employees are expected to be involved to a greater degree in the development and modification of treatment plans.
- →Assists RN and/or provider to appropriately prioritize overall patient care needs and adjust plans for care delivery.
- →Makes astute observations of subtle, less obvious changes, both physical and emotional, in patient's condition, and accurately and thoroughly documents care delivered and patient's response to care that could require immediate modification of the patient's care plan.
- →Appropriately seeks assistance and guidance by informing RN or provider of changes in patient's condition requiring higher-level intervention.
- →Participates to a greater degree in prioritizing, and, as appropriate, modifying patient care treatment.
- →Observes more subtle physical and emotional changes in patients and demonstrates taking appropriate action based on those observations.
- →Proactively assists the RN or provider in addressing patient's needs for medication/treatments, accurately administering prescribed medications/treatments according to established policies/procedures and appropriately recording administration and patient's response to medications/treatments received.
- →(This may include restricted medication locally authorized for administration by employees at this grade level).
- →Readily recognizes the more subtle signs and symptoms of potential or actual drug reactions, promptly informs the RN or provider of observed changes in patient's condition and initiates appropriate, prescribed interventions.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓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.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓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.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Benefits
- ★Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).
- ★Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
- ★Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- ★Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
- ★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) Telework: N/A Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 99e41607-d19b-4b18-96db-e9fcadc86c40
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