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The Cincinnati, OH VA Medical Center is looking for a well-qualified Registered Nurse (RN) to work in the Women's Health section of the Primary Care Department. This RN will function as a Women's Health PACT RN Care Manager.
Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, day shift hours (8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.).
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
08/02/2020 to 08/13/2020
$54,856 - $105,146 per year
Education and length of practice will be considered by the Professional Standards Board in determining salary (grade and step).
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1 vacancy in the following location:
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Temporary - 13 months
Full-Time
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CBSR-10880846-20-AF
575167900
The RN Care Manager is self-directed in assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating patient care activities. This RN demonstrates leadership and mastery of practice in delivering and improving efficient, comprehensive, and continuous patient-driven holistic care through active collaboration, communication and coordination of resources. She/he works in partnership with an assigned panel of patients and Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Teamlet members for effective disease and chronic care management. She/he demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex client care. The RN Care Manager is directly supervised by the Primary Care Chief Nurse or Nurse Manager assigned to Women's Health.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
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.
This RN position is temporary, not to exceed 13 months and does not confer permanent status as a VA employee for purposes of continued employment. Once the 13 months is over, your employment with the Cincinnati VA Medical Center will end unless additional funding and or approval is granted to extend your appointment / position. If additional funds/approval is approved, this appointment may be extended or possibly converted to permanent without further competition. Since this position is a temporary one, it is not a guarantee that it will be available for the entire 13 months. If selected for this temporary position, your employment with the VA can end at any time.
Annual leave shall accrue for full-time Nurses, and Nurse Anesthetists at the rate of 8 hours for each full biweekly pay period.
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
It is the policy of the VA to not deny employment to those that have faced financial hardships or periods of unemployment.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38, and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
Veterans and Transitioning Service Members: Please visit the VA for Vets site for career-search tools for Veterans seeking employment at VA, career development services for our existing Veterans, and coaching and reintegration support for military service members.
If you are unable to apply online view the following link for information regarding an Alternate Application.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Your application, résumé, C.V., and/or supporting documentation will be verified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect consideration for employment.
NOTE: Candidate's education and length of nursing practice (experience) will be considered by a Nurse Professional Standards Board in determining the grade and salary of the applicant selected. The recommended salary may be at any point in the range listed for this vacancy.
Experience as an RN will be evaluated to determine if the experience is of an acceptable level of quality with regard to the following four dimensions of nursing: Practice, Professional Development, Collaboration and Scientific Inquiry. Each dimension of practice has criteria that demonstrate essential core competencies for VHA Nursing Personnel.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
NOTE: THE INFORMATION LISTED ON YOUR 10.2850a APPLICATION FORM THAT YOU SUBMIT MUST MATCH THE INFORMATION LISTED ON YOUR RESUME THAT YOU SUBMIT.
To apply for this position, you must provide a complete Application Package which includes:
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
All applicants are encouraged to apply online. To apply for this position, you must complete the full questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below. The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (ET) on 08/13/2020 to receive consideration. To preview the questionnaire click https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/10880846.
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After we receive application packages (including all required documents) and the vacancy announcement closes, the HR Specialist will review applications to ensure qualification and eligibility requirements are met.
After the review is complete, a referral certificate is issued to the selecting official of this position and applicants will be notified of their status by email. Referred applicants will be notified as such.
The applicants that are referred may be contacted directly by the selecting official (not HR) for an interview.
All referred applicants will receive a final notification once a selection decision has been made.
Please Note: The selected applicant will be required to complete an online onboarding process. If you are selected you will receive a email to start the online onboarding process. This will need to be completed within 48 hours of receiving the email.
The selected applicant will also need to complete the following pre-employment tasks: a physical, the credentialing process (VetPro), a background investigation which includes fingerprints.
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The Cincinnati VA Medical Center is a two-division campus located in Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Thomas, Kentucky serving fifteen counties in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Southeast Indiana with six Community Based Outpatient Clinics located in Bellevue, KY; Florence, KY; Lawrenceburg, IN; Hamilton, OH; Clermont County, OH, and Georgetown, OH. Cincinnati VAMC also supports a secondary campus located in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky and two off main campus locations in the Cincinnati area via an Eye Center and Mental Health Outreach Community Division. For more information please visit our website at www.cincinnati.va.gov or find us on Facebook at Cincinnati VA Medical Center.
