The Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) V Deputy Chief of Staff (DCOS) provides a full range of services emphasizing quality, timeliness, and advancing the Veterans Affairs (VA) mission. Their practice is of an executive nature, comprised of senior leadership and administrative components, associated with critical healthcare issues and activities that drive meeting the organizational mission, healthcare, and policy.

Duties

The APN V Deputy Chief of Staff is a key member of the senior executive leadership team of the organization, involved in strategic planning, organizational assessment, and program development. They have the authority and responsibility for establishing standards of practice and ensuring the continuous and timely availability of quality clinical and administrative services. The APN Senior Leader is the catalyst for the integration of healthcare services and champions a High Reliability Organization (HRO) with a culture of safety. The Deputy Chief of Staff reports directly to the Chief of Staff (COS). She/he functions as a member of the senior executive leadership team of the organization for strategic planning, organizational assessment, and program development. The DCOS the has responsibility for ensuring continuous and timely availability of quality of care by licensed independent providers and support staff, making clinical recommendations, being actively involved in decisions to support performance, and ensuring achievement of the facility's clinical, research and educational goals. She/he provides senior leadership and oversight for daily clinical and administrative operations as directed by the COS. The DCOS is the catalyst for the integration and collaboration of medicine and other clinical services with various professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of patient-centered and organizational goals. The DCOS is a dynamic, highly innovative, and motivated senior leader with experience in addressing complex system issues who contributes to the advancement of clinical programs and performance. She/he represents medicine/clinical services at senior department/medical staff committees. The DCOS works collaboratively with Nursing and other disciplines to address issues across the healthcare system. This position is responsible for working with clinical service chiefs and performance measure champions to improve processes to meet the performance measure goals and improve utilization management. The DCOS will serve and provide oversight on medical center committees and work groups. This position has direct oversight for medicine service, primary care service, geriatrics and extended care service, and employee health. The DCOS holds self and others accountable for mutual professional expectations and outcomes and helps to educate the patient care team members on the financial implications of patient care decisions. She/he participates in and fully supports workforce and succession planning, and employment decisions. The DCOS supports efforts to promote systems-thinking amongst all levels of staff across the health care system to involve clinicians to include nurses, and other staff in decisions that affect their practice to improve employee engagement, performance, and staff satisfaction and retention. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards 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 Telework: Ad-Hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized

Requirements

Qualifications

Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner) Basic Requirements Education: A post-master's certificate or master's or doctoral degree as a Nurse Practitioner. (Applicants pending the completion of educational requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until the education requirements are met.) Must be a graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate 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). NOTE: Foreign Education. Graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing programs, the nurse practitioner degree equivalency must be validated through an Agency recognized degree equivalency evaluation agency, such as the International Consultants of Delaware (ICD). Candidates with equivalent nurse practitioner masters or doctorate level degrees who possess current, full, active, and unrestricted registration and certification will meet the requirement of graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant appointment. License and Certification: License. All APN (NPs) must possess and maintain an active, current, full, and unrestricted APN license to practice as an NP in a State, Territory or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia. Basic Certification. All APN (NPs) must maintain full and current board certification in an area of clinical specialty from one of the following: the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB), or other nationally recognized certifying body in the area in which the Nurse Practitioner is academically prepared. NOTE: Grandfathering Provision - All persons currently employed in VHA in 0610 series and an APN (NP) assignment that are also performing the duties as described in the qualification standard on the effective date of the standard (1/29/2024) are considered to have met all qualification requirements for the grade held including positive education and licensure/certification. The following Scope, Education and Experience, and Dimension criteria must be met to qualify for Advanced Practice Nurse (Nurse Practitioner) V: Scope. Practice of an executive nature, comprised of complex leadership and administrative components, associated with critical health care issues and activities that drive meeting the organizational mission, health care and policy. Education and Experience Requirement. Meets basic education requirement for an APN (NP). AND Five years of APN (NP) experience, one of which is specialized experience equivalent to Nurse IV AND Meets all Nurse V dimension requirements. Dimension Requirement. APNs (NPs) at Level V must meet ALL the following dimension requirements: Practice. Serves at an executive level, applying complex clinical, leadership and administrative skills, demonstrating substantial and continuing responsibility that drives the organizational mission, health care delivery and policy at the local, regional and/or national level. Outcome Focus. Applies clinical/business principles and research/evidence-based practice, including systems thinking, to the healthcare environment to improve the care delivery system at the organization or enterprise level. Leadership. Drives enterprise-wide organizational excellence through a shared vision, leading change to achieve the mission and strategic goals of the organization. Professional Development. Provides executive leadership in creating governance structures to establish an environment where professional and personal growth is expected and fostered. Professionalism/Collegiality. Strategically deploys various communication channels and platforms to nurture a healthy culture, influence, motivate and empower people while building collaborative relationships at an enterprise level. Preferred Experience: Leadership Experience Physical Requirements: Walking, bending, stooping, and some lifting in the direct care of patients. There may also be extended periods of sitting.

Contacts

• Address Oscar G Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility 325 East H Street Iron Mountain, MI 49801 US
• Name: Cherri Varisco
• Phone: 414-530-4548
• Email: cherri.varisco@va.gov