Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration - Nurse - Accreditation Manager in Chillicothe, Ohio
Summary: The Quality Management (QM) Registered Nurse (RN) is located at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center in the Quality and Patient Safety Service Line. The position is responsible for their assigned quality management program area activities for the Medical Center and all off-site locations.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to improvement in quality-of-care outcomes.
- Collects data, monitors staff compliance with relevant policies, directives, and standards, provides reports detailing trends, and provides direct staff support to all services in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying, and administering a comprehensive quality management program area.
- Participate in several facility councils, committees, and workgroups.
- Works in concert with leaders and others to sustain a culture of safety, modeling High Reliability Organization (HRO) practices.
- Supports facility leadership in areas of planning, organization, development, direction, and evaluation of the quality program within the facility.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package:
- 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.
- Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Telework: Available. Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.
Requirements:
- U.S. 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.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- 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).
- Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP).
Qualifications:
- English Language Proficiency.
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency.
- 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.
Physical Requirements: Physical qualifications require the ability to stand, walk, bend, and move freely. Must have good hearing, eyesight, and physical dexterity. Must be clean and neat in appearance. Must be emotionally stable and cooperative.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies. VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply.
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