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Job Description

This position is located within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Clinical Services (DAD-CSU). This is a non-supervisory position. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates. CONDITIONS OF WORK: Work Schedule: Clinical positions may be required to work various shifts, or combinations of shifts, that may include 8 hour, 10 hour or 12 hour shifts; evenings, weekends and holidays also be required. On-Call Duties: This clinical position may be required to perform on-call duties within the unit to which it is assigned during off shift hours, to in include evenings, nights, weekends and/or holidays. Emergency Response: This clinical position may be required to respond to emergencies at the local facility to which it is assigned during off shift hours, to include evenings, nights, weekends and/or holidays. Telework: This position may not support telework, and will be authorized on a case by case basis by the hiring manager. Remote work: This position may support remote work, and will be authorized on a case by case basis by the hiring manager. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Not currently authorized. Student Load Repayment Program (SLRP) Authorized: Contact the IHSCIPUHQ@ice.dhs.gov Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position. You must successfully pass a background investigation. You must successfully pass a drug screen. Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service. Requirements by Closing Date: Unless otherwise noted, you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement. Service Remaining Requirement Agreement: Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24-month commitment to IHSC. Applicants must be a current USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer or USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidate. Civilians are not eligible for this position. Qualifications PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Required to walk unaided at a normal pace for up to five (5) minutes and maintain balance. Required to jog/fast walk up to ¼ mile. Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling. Must have the ability to assist sick, injured, or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling, or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self). Must be able to see, hear (with hearing aids if necessary), and smell as needed. Must easily alternate between kneeling and standing. Must be able to lift, push, or carry 30 pounds. Must have the ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time (6-8 hours). Must perform the duties of the position in a stressful and often austere environment without physical limitations. Hazardous duty assignment Education REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: Competencies required: Professional clinical nursing experience: 5 years Experience in correctional health care preferred. 3 years direct clinical patient care (e.g., inpatient) nursing experience preferred. 1 year administrative and/or supervisory experience preferred. 1 year experience equal to O4 (GS-12) required. Maintains CPR/BLS certification. Maintains CPR/BLS certification. Obtain CCHP-RN within 2 years of assignment. Cultural competency maintained through agency/other training. Qualifications-Degrees Required: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing. Master's degree in nursing or related field preferred. Qualifications-Licenses and Certifications Required: Nursing License- Must be a Registered Nurse (RN). Maintains current/documented professional licensure. (It is the responsibility of the incumbent to fulfill the obligation(s) of their licensing or certifying body to maintain currency. This position may be required to perform clinical activities with the scope of clinical license in times of critical needs within and at the direction of the agency.) Professional credentials/certification appropriate to current job specialty. Graduate of a professional nursing school approved by the appropriate State accrediting agency. Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and the state in which one practices nursing. Knowledge of a wide range of complex nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform nursing assessments of considerable diversity to include mental health, medical/surgical, ambulatory, and emergency nursing care. Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills, thereby requiring continuing professional clinical support. Knowledge of correctional nursing concepts and principles. Demonstrated evidence of knowledge of nursing management and leadership skills. Knowledge of team building principles. Knowledge of staff development and basic adult learner teaching skills. Maintains clinical professional skills via continuing education opportunities. Ability to assess patients' needs and coordinate the appropriate nursing care plan. Demonstrates leadership and willingness/ability to assume an increased level of responsibility: may be tasked to function as Team Lead. Superior oral/written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and active listening skills. Critical thinking and analytical skills with ability to navigate complex systems. Demonstrates strong problem solving, judgment, and decision-making skills. Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements. Ability to plan and organize own workload and travel schedule utilizing IHSC travel policies. Performs as a punctual and dependent employee for assigned shifts. Required to provide direct patient care to support local nursing operation-at least 50% travel for temporary duty assignments (TDY) within IHSC. Intermediate or advanced knowledge of computerized databases, sources, and reporting methodologies. Proficiency in MS Office applications preferred. Follows supervisory chain of command. Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. Bilingual communication capability. Spanish preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Understanding theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services. Applying a range and depth of knowledge acquired specifically through an intensive learning regimen of the phenomena, theories, and concepts of a scientific body of nursing knowledge. Creating, exploring, evaluating, designing, and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues. Identifying, analyzing, advising, consulting, and reporting on nursing, theoretical, and factual data, conditions, and problems. Staying abreast of, and evaluating nursing subjects, analyses, and proposals in professional literature. Assessing, resolving, and predicting the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions. Reasoning from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena. Nurses collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop the nursing care patient plan and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups of patients. Nurses evaluate execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals. Based on those evaluations, they may recommend to nursing leadership any changes they believe necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients. Nurses may function as consultants providing clinical advisory tasks related to such functions as developing and accessing clinical health outcomes quality measures, evaluating clinical case reviews for adequacy of care, compliance with clinical and regulatory guidelines, overpayment, and audit recovery; and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews conducted by State or Federal health facility surveyors and in collaboration with IHSC Medical Quality Management Unit. TECHNICAL HEALTHCARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field. Applying basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes, standards, methods, and their corresponding scientific principles and results. Carrying out tasks, methods, procedures, and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents, guidelines, and standards. Collecting, observing, testing, and recording factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients. Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results based on experience and practical reasoning. Staying abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training. At least 50% travel is required to provide direct patient care to support local nursing operations through temporary duty assignments (TDY) within IHSC. May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit.

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