Registered Nurse - Nurse Manager

Community Care Nurse Manager

Bring your leadership expertise to a role where you can shape the future of Community Care nursing and make a lasting difference for Veterans. As the Community Care Nurse Manager, you will create an environment where nursing professionals are supported, developed, and empowered to deliver exceptional care. Through collaboration with interdisciplinary partners, you will strengthen clinical operations, promote evidence-based practice, improve the Veteran experience, and lead initiatives that enhance safety, quality, efficiency, and employee engagement. This position offers the opportunity to influence care delivery, mentor emerging leaders, and build a high-performing team committed to service excellence.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Lead, supervise, and provide strategic direction to nursing staff and the assistant nurse manager, when assigned, to support safe and effective Community Care operations.
• Strengthen patient outcomes, satisfaction, and safety by evaluating care delivery, performance indicators, and the effectiveness of nursing services.
• Improve clinical workflows, operational efficiency, and resource utilization by reviewing work processes and implementing meaningful changes.
• Develop staffing schedules, complete employee performance evaluations, and address performance or conduct concerns in accordance with established procedures.
• Identify employee development needs and coordinate education, training, competency validation, mentoring, and reorientation to build a highly skilled nursing team.
• Create and implement action plans that respond to changing service needs, care-delivery challenges, and opportunities for performance improvement.
• Foster a collaborative, respectful, and high-reliability work environment by modeling servant leadership, resolving conflicts, and promoting shared purpose across the interdisciplinary team.
• Advance evidence-based nursing practice by encouraging staff participation in quality-improvement activities, supporting sound clinical decision-making, and promoting effective use of resources.

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 - Friday 7:30am - 4:00pm

Telework: Not approved

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.