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Regsitered Nurse - Spinal Cord Injury & Disorder (SCI/D) Telehealth Coordinator
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 6 days ago
On-site Albuquerque, NM $78K – $138K Apply by Jun 26, 2026 Nurse ESFJINFJISFJISTJ OperationsHealthcare
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The New Mexico VA Health Care System is looking for a Registered Nurse for the Spinal Cord Injury & Disorder (SCI/D) Telehealth Service Team!
What You'll Do
- →The Spinal Cord Injury & Disorders (SCI/D) Telehealth Coordinator, Registered Nurse (RN), is responsible for providing competent, evidence-based, and compassionate care to assigned patients with spinal cord injuries and related disorders.
- →This role integrates clinical expertise with telehealth technology to deliver coordinated, patient-centered care across the continuum of service.
- →The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator, in collaboration with the VISN Telehealth Office maintains linkages and effective communications with the telehealth national training centers to ensure optimal care coordination and telehealth educational opportunities for facility staff.
- →The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator develops specific telehealth applications in collaboration with VISN and station telehealth oversight councils, clinical, administrative, and technical staff as needed.
- →The SCI/D Telehealth Coordinator demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others.
- →Duties include but not limited to the following: Organizes and facilitates the station Telehealth Oversight Committee as well as other committees and task forces as assigned.
- →Serves and/or represents the facility on various VISN telehealth groups.
- →Engages in outreach planning and activities, including work with potential non-VA community partners to improve access to rural and highly rural Veterans to healthcare services via telehealth initiatives and programming.
- →Establishes guiding processes, principles, and policies for the development and implementation of patient and family centric telehealth programs at the facility, and for the operation, management and oversight of telehealth programs.
- →Ensures functional linkages across the telehealth continuum, regarding the various telehealth clinical applications, including but not limited to telemental health, teleretinal imaging, teledermatology, home telehealth, etc.
- →Advocates for telehealth program needs at the facility and brings matters requiring higher level intervention to the attention of facility leadership.
- →Facilitates communication across care lines and facilities to achieve maximum fulfillment of telehealth program goals and objectives.
- →Assures that the facility establishes and utilizes appropriate Veterans Health Administration (VHA) workload reporting and data management systems for telehealth programs.
- →Monitors core quality and performance measures for all telehealth programs.
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.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 2-year probationary 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.
Personality Fit
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