The Registered Nurse Care Coordination & Integrated Case Management Co-Champion position is located in the Social Work Service at the Brockton Campus location. This is a full-time position at 40 hours per week.

Duties

The Nurse Program Lead Care Coordination & Integrated Case Management (CC&ICM) Co-Champion utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to coordinate care required by patients with chronic, catastrophic, or complex high-risk or high-cost health issues. The CC&ICM develops and coordinates the seamless transitioning of patients throughout the inpatient and outpatient care process with a focus on discharge planning needs. The CC&ICM possesses knowledge of current nurse case management standards of care, clinical documentation requirements, and compliance guidelines. Accountable for utilizing critical thinking skills and sound judgment to ensure positive outcomes. Demonstrates knowledge and ability to apply principles of evidence-based practice. The CC&ICM will provide support at the unit, service, and organizational levels. A key aspect of the role will be discharge planning assessment and implementation of home health services, supplies, and activities required to successful transition the patient to the appropriate non-acute care setting. The CC&ICM will serve as a representative on medical center and service committees. Duties include, but are not limited to: Serving as consultants and subject matter experts on CM practice, including keeping abreast of VA policies, laws, and regulations that affect CM delivery to Veterans, their families, and caregivers. Coordinating and collaborating with the VA medical facility level Sponsor(s), care coordination, care management, and CM service area and program leads. Collaborating with internal stakeholders to assess CM composition, structure, and services to identify promising practices and gaps in CM services and identifying opportunities to enhance communication, collaboration, and coordination across the care continuum. Facilitating the completion of a Readiness Assessment, Ensuring a CCRT is in place to facilitate safe transitions of care from one level of care coordination or setting to another and with the appropriate assignment of staff as LC. Establishing collaborative relationships with all clinical disciplines and all support staff to foster a culture wherein care coordination is the responsibility of all staff. Developing procedures and processes to support cost effective, high quality CM across the VA medical facility to eliminate duplication of services where appropriate. Serving as a VA medical facility consultant regarding quality assurance pertinent to monitoring CM performance measure and meeting CM performance metrics. Identifying and monitoring CM metrics in collaboration with health informatics and preparing program and performance metric reports for VA medical facility leadership on a quarterly basis. Researching community resources (i.e., local, State, and national) available to provide continuity of care and to enhance the quality of life for the Service member or Veteran and disseminating this information annually to Care Coordinators, Care Managers, and Case Managers within the VA medical facility. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 7:30 am - 4:00 pm Compressed/Flexible: NotAuthorized Telework: Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Notifications: This position is a NAGE Bargaining Unit position. This position is covered by a special rate. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is in the Excepted Service. The Professional Standards Board (a peer-review group) will recommend the grade and salary for new appointments based on the candidate's education and experience. For internal selectees being promoted, the board will determine grade and HR will determine step in accordance with policy. Veterans' preference does not apply for other current permanent Federal agency employees. Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Requirements

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d), no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English. Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate State-accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of current, full, active and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement of graduation from an approved school of professional nursing. OR The completion of coursework equivalent to a nursing degree in a MSN Bridge Program that qualifies for professional nursing registration constitutes the completion of an approved course of study of professional nursing. Students should submit the certificate of professional nursing to sit for the NCLEX to the VA along with a copy of the MSN transcript. (Reference VA Handbook 5005, Appendix G6) OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing, possession of a current, full, active and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing. Current, full, active, and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the United States, or the District of Columbia. Preferred Experience: Experience providing clinical supervision, assigning duties and tasks, budget and resource management, and collaborating with leadership Experience with Program Evaluation/Design/Development/Process Improvement, and data collection Community-based/Home-based care and Case Management experience Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams Experience working with Geriatrics, Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders (SUDS), and other high-risk Veterans Grade Determinations: The following criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates, and if appropriate, the level within a grade: Nurse I Level I - An Associate Degree (ADN) or Diploma in Nursing, with no additional nursing practice/experience required. Nurse I Level II - An ADN or Diploma in Nursing and approximately 1 year of nursing practice/experience; OR an ADN or Diploma in Nursing and a bachelor's degree in a related field with no additional nursing practice/experience; OR a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) with no additional nursing practice/experience. Nurse I Level III - An ADN or Diploma in Nursing and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR an ADN or Diploma in Nursing and a Bachelor's degree in a related field and approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a BSN with approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Master's degree in nursing (MSN) or related field with a BSN and no additional nursing practice/experience. Nurse II - A BSN with approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR ADN or Diploma in Nursing and a Bachelor's degree in a related field and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Master's degree in nursing or related field with a BSN and approximately 1-2 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Doctoral degree in nursing or meets basic requirements for appointment and has doctoral degree in a related field with no additional nursing practice/experience required. Nurse III - Master's degree in nursing or related field with BSN and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience; OR a Doctoral degree and approximately 2-3 years of nursing practice/experience. Note regarding MSN degrees: If your MSN was obtained via a Bridge Program that qualifies for professional nursing registration, a BSN is not required. Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-6 Nurse Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. Physical Requirements: This position requires visual acuity, keen hearing, clear distinctive speech, and manual dexterity. This position requires potentially long periods of continued walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling, pushing, and sitting at a keyboard. Transferring patients and objects may be required. The incumbent may be exposed to infected patients and contaminated materials and may be required to don protective clothing in isolation situations or operative/invasive procedures. The incumbent may occasionally be exposed to patients who are combative secondary to delirium, dementia, or psychiatric disorders. The incumbent must be a mature, flexible, sensible individual capable of working effectively in stressful situations, able to shift priorities based on patient needs and able to manage work activities in a highly technological integrated work environment.

Education

IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.

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. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.

Contacts

• Address VA Boston Healthcare System 940 Belmont Street Brockton, MA 02301 US
• Name: Heather Lemme-Whorf
• Phone: (781) 687-2000 X6762
• Email: [email protected]