Registered Nurse (Assistant Nurse Manager)

Assistant Nurse Manager

The Community Living Center (CLC) in Kerrville, Texas is located on the campus of the Kerrville VA Medical Center at 3600 Memorial Blvd. The effective ANM candidate will demonstrate a high level of clinical expertise, leadership, and creative approaches to management of employees providing complex care for cardiology patients. In addition, they will apply skills necessary to identify, coordinate, and/or identify discipline-specific education, as well as training in leadership, professional staff development and emerging needs, to all levels of staff. The ANM provides first line supervision and oversight for assigned staff in collaboration with the Nurse Manager. The ANM assists in the design, implementation and evaluation of unit-based Nursing programs and goals. These are congruent with the service mission, philosophy, policies and procedures and the Standards of Nursing Care and Practice. There are 9 major responsibilities of the Assistant Nurse Manager:

1. Assists the Nurse Manager in managing patient care operation at the unit level.
2. Role models collaborative leadership and communicates effectively.
3. Monitors quality of patient care and nursing practice.
4. Develops and/or provides education for staff to meet specific patient care needs.
5. Participates in the unit-based staffing methodology activities.
6. Complies with Organizational Expectations.
7. Participates heavily in unit resource/equipment utilization and management.
8. Assures compliance with standards and regulations related to clinical practice through audits, data collection, interpretation, and reporting of findings with appropriate recommendations including VANOD and other nurse sensitive data bases.
9. Assures that customers are treated in a professional manner with tact, courtesy, and respect.
10. Other duties as assigned.

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 pm with rotating evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. Other Tours may be added as needed. Must be flexible with scheduling and duty assignments.

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized