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Nurse Practitioner (Deputy Chief) Huntsville
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 9 days ago
About the Role
The Birmingham VA Health Care System is recruiting for a Nurse Practitioner - Deputy Chief Mental Health Service Line (MHSL) located at the Huntsville Clinic with supervisory responsibility of staff at multiple locations. The incumbent reports to the Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) Mental Health the MHSL for all clinical, administrative, and quality performance matters. The incumbent provides direct supervision to a group of staff who provide support to the MHSL.
What You'll Do
- →The Nurse Practitioner - Deputy Chief Mental Health has programmatic responsibilities for the delivery of mental health services at the Huntsville Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) and additional outpatient sites of care and for supporting and executing the mission and vision of the Chief (ACOS) of Mental Health for the Birmingham VA Health Care System (VAHCS).
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Provides support to the ACOS, MHSL in all areas of management, leadership and oversight of mental health clinical, educational, and research activities at the Birmingham VAHCS.
- →Ensures observance of federal, national, and local regulatory policy and accreditation requirements governing the medical center.
- →Supports strategic planning, budget oversight, staff recruitment and management, and quality assurance.
- →Functions as a liaison to the ACOS, MHSL for Education and affiliated health professional schools for undergraduate and graduate education issues.
- →Ensures that mental health practitioners demonstrate effectiveness in teaching and comply with necessary trainee supervision requirements.
- →Maintains all necessary credentials in his/her respective discipline to provide clinical care approximately ten percent (10%) of the time.
- →Assists the ACOS in planning, organizing, developing, implementing, coordinating, and refining a comprehensive patient management/clinical support/administrative program which provides services and technical counsel necessary to meet clinical, procedural, legal and administrative requirements relating to the care and treatment of inpatients and outpatients.
- →Provides a climate in which clinicians can care for patients with an awareness of administrative implications of his/her actions, without feeling he/she is working under unnecessary constraints.
- →Contributes in implementing VA Headquarters policies and regulations governing broad administrative aspects of the medical center.
- →Serves on a variety of medical center planning committees, advisory groups and chartered action teams.
- →Oversees clinical and administrative performance measures.
- →Assists with service line strategic planning and resource management.
- →Assists with developing formal, systematic improvement plans for quality measures, access and medical services delivery.
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.
- ✓English Language Proficiency.
- ✓In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(f), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- ✓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
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