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Nurse Manager - (Purple Clinic) Primary Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
On-site Part-time Indianapolis, IN $99K – $149K Apply by Jun 22, 2026 Nurse ESFJINFJISFJISTJ Healthcare
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The Primary Care service (Purple Clinic) is recruiting for a Nurse Manager at the Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. This role requires a professional Registered Nurse with strong clinical expertise and proven leadership in both clinical and administrative practice. The Nurse Manager provides oversight to ensure high-quality care for Veterans and is accountable for developing, implementing, and following established policies and standards.
What You'll Do
- →The Head Nurse provides leadership, supervision, and direction to nursing staff.
- →Performs delegated duties, i.e., develops time schedules, completes performance evaluations, and initiates or recommends disciplinary actions, responsible for performance improvement, customer service/patient satisfaction, patient and employee safety, employee relations, standards of care and practice, the work environment, and accreditation and regulatory standards.
- →Actively develops and manages collaborative partnerships with physicians and other clinicians, and influences care outcomes by collaborating with members of the interdisciplinary team.
- →The incumbent demonstrates expert knowledge and active leadership in unit, program, and service level quality improvement processes and initiatives as well as customer service programs.
- →Duties included but are not limited to: Leads/delegates group activities to solve problems or accomplish a specific task.
- →Serves as a role model in the delivery of comprehensive patient/family care and the resolution of issues.
- →Applies a collaborative team approach in identifying, analyzing and resolving patient flow issues.
- →Promotes continuity of care through collaboration with patients, families and healthcare teams Applies problem-solving skills leading to resolution of barriers to patient flow.
- →Evaluates staff performance and provides feedback as appropriate Implements an educational plan to meet changing program or service needs for self and others.
- →Maintains knowledge of current techniques, trends and professional issues.
- →Facilitates open exchange of ideas between peers, management, and staff; creatively responds to and evaluates suggestions for improvement.
- →Participates in educational assessment of unit staff and recommends priority of topics for staff development.
- →Supports participation in professional organizations.
- →Conducts staff meetings to facilitate communication, disseminate information /lead and promote interdisciplinary interaction and problem solving.
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 evaluation.
- ✓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: 1337b537-fe34-4901-a143-bc6865ae773c
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