Registered Nurse - Deputy Chief of Quality Management

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Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Demonstrates performance that is broad enough to improve the care for a group of patients.
• Assumes a leadership role in facilitating regulatory compliance for internal and external oversight.
• Ensures that services have systems and processes in place to provide safe, quality care that is consistent with external benchmarks.
• Leads performance improvement initiatives by identifying quality metrics, trending data, maintaining the quality metric dashboard, and acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in data analysis and data display.
• Consults and acts as a resource to leadership and staff in standards interpretation implementation, patient safety, infection control, risk management, and re-design of processes and structures to improve care outcomes.
• Develops and implements policy and procedures, collaborating with service departments, and works toward meeting the strategic plan of the organization.
• Responsible for completing clinical quality reviews, clinical data analysis, and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with the Accreditation Coordinator for the coordination of accreditation readiness activities focused on standards compliance, education of staff on standards, VHA requirements, and customer satisfaction for internal and external stakeholders.
• Oversees monitoring of corrective actions from survey findings and assists services who are performance outliers.

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

Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Telework: Ad Hoc

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.

US Department of Veterans Affairs