Registered Nurse - Assistant Nurse Manager

Assistant Nurse Manager

Build your nursing leadership career while helping shape an environment where Veterans receive safe, coordinated, high-quality care. As an Assistant Nurse Manager with the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System, you will partner closely with the Nurse Manager to support daily operations, develop nursing staff, strengthen team performance, and advance improvements in care delivery. This role offers the opportunity to influence both the employee and Veteran experience through collaborative leadership, staff development, quality improvement, and hands-on clinical support. You will help create a culture of accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, and professional growth while contributing to the success of an interdisciplinary care team.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide leadership, supervision, and direction to nursing staff while supporting the operational needs of the assigned unit.
• Partner with the Nurse Manager to develop staff schedules, complete performance evaluations, address performance concerns, and support effective employee relations.
• Identify staff development and competency needs and implement education, coaching, reorientation, or performance improvement plans to strengthen nursing practice.
• Evaluate patient care delivery, unit workflows, and work processes to identify opportunities that improve safety, efficiency, quality, and the Veteran experience.
• Develop and participate in action plans that address changing patient care needs, service requirements, and opportunities to strengthen standards of nursing practice.
• Promote a collaborative, high-reliability culture by modeling effective nursing leadership and working with interdisciplinary teams to advance excellence in Veteran care.
• Support staff recognition, professional growth, continuing education, and development while maintaining awareness of emerging nursing trends and practice needs.
• Deliver direct nursing care at the bedside when needed, applying the nursing process and evidence-based practice to support safe, individualized care for Veterans

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 6:00am - 2:30pm

Telework: ADHOC-May be authorized (Employee who telework on an occasional, episodic, or short-term, and have completed required telework training and telework agreement).

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.

US Department of Veterans Affairs