Nurse Practitioner- Primary Care

Job Title

Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

Job Description

This is a multi-discipline recruitment that will result in the hiring of one of the following disciplines: Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant. All Physician Assistants applicants should apply to posting: CBTD-12983890-26-CB. There are 2 Nurse Practitioner positions located in Primary Care Service. One Nurse Practitioner position is located at the Manchester VA NH location. One Nurse Practitioner position is located in Women's Health at the Portsmouth NH VA CBOC location. Both positions are full-time at 40 hours per week. Included but not limited to:

• Independently manages a panel of patients with acute and chronic health conditions with an emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based practice.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan to achieve optimal population health and disease management
• Demonstrates leadership and works collaboratively with Primary Care Team and other interdisciplinary team members.
• Orders and interprets labs, tests, and diagnostic studies.
• Prescribes pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions
• Initiates referrals and consults to specialty services.
• Provides education to patients and their families.
• Assesses and adjusts the plan of care as needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes
• Exemplifies the ICARE core values of-Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence

Work Schedule: Full time, Monday- Friday 7:30am-4:00pm

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Telework: Not Authorized

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized to highly qualified applicant

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact, View email address on click.appcast.io. the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Notifications:

• This position is not in the bargaining unit
• This position is in the Excepted Service.
• 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.

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

US Department of Veterans Affairs