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RN Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Service
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 14 days ago
About the Role
Deputy Associate Director For Patient Care Services position is in Assoc Dir, Patient Care service at the VA Connecticut Medical Center, located at the West Haven campus location. This position is a full-time at 40 hours per week.
What You'll Do
- →Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Services (DADPCS) is an advanced healthcare executive who demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to ensure the continuous and timely availability of quality nursing practice in a variety of complex patient care services and programs.
- →They function as an executive administrator and consultant to the Associate Director for Patient Care Services (ADPCS) to improve care for large groups of Veterans through their influence and collaboration for decisions made at the local, regional, and network levels.
- →This position will serve as the acting ADPCS in the absence of the ADPCS.
- →The scope of the DADPCS is of an executive nature, comprised of complex leadership and administrative components associated with critical health care issues and activities that influence the organizational mission, health care, and policy (VA Handbook 5005, PartII, Appendix G6.).
- →They are accountable to the ADPCS and are an integral part of the senior leadership team.
- →The DADPCS is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and a healthcare executive within nursing services.
- →The incumbent is a spokesperson for organized nursing services and works to ensure the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of optimal Veteran centered organizational goals in the facility.
- →The DADPCS works closely with the ADPCS as a collaborator and partner in strategic planning, organization assessment, and program development.
- →They have the responsibility to assist with the establishment of standards for the practice of nursing at the health care system level to ensure the continuous and timely availability of quality nursing services.
- →The DADPCS is responsible for the practice of nursing 24/7.
- →This includes all registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and allied health staff (LPNs, NAs, etc.) regardless of line authority.
- →They have line authority over the Associate Chief Nurses(ACN) and may have additional duties assigned to them by the ADPCS.
- →The incumbent exercises preliminary approval for the following: job descriptions, policies, and procedures; standards of patient care, treatment, and services; nursing practice standards; staffing plans; functional statements; and standards to measure, assess, and improve patient outcomes.
- →The incumbent appropriately delegates activities to services assigned to them under the purview of the ADPCS.
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 evaluation/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.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
Personality Fit
Job ID: d983717f-698e-411a-9d97-c2f5ee7a879b
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