Summary
Supervisory Regional Advanced Practice Provider oversees nurse practitioners and physician assistants within an assigned region. Provides clinical guidance, Advanced Practice Provider program support, policy input, training, credentialing, peer review, recruitment support, and clinical care. This position is only open to USPHS officers who are currently IHSC employees. USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position.
Duties
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Through the direction of the Chief APP, the incumbent carries out APP program goals, objectives, priorities, and guidelines. Serves as subject matter expert and consultant for national standards and policies, and for urgent, short-term, and long-term planning to meet the agency needs. Critically reviews healthcare data, reports, and prepares reports of findings as required by the Chief APP. Serves as subject matter expert, author, editor for agency reports, policies, and programs as required despite dynamic format and deadline requirements. Serves as member of APP senior clinical leadership and advisor to the IHSC Chief APP for all matters related to APP practice. Supports the Chief APP by serving in the acting role as needed. Assists in the credentialing of APPs, peer review process, medical assistant program, and the MAST program as directed by the Chief APP. Participates in development, implementation, and revision, of orientation, training, and electronic health record tools for APPs. Represent the agency for APP related care and authors written or verbal communication in contact with other government agencies including local, state, and federal entities. Possesses high degree of professionalism and tact and the ability to coordinate complex and/or controversial communications that address high-level agency concerns including responses to legal challenges. Assists Chief APP by providing expertise for policy, standards, programs, and critical agency missions that involve APPs. Maintains working knowledge of both nurse practitioner and physician assistant credentialing and collaborative practice requirements. Regional supervision includes developing, planning, and critically evaluating the clinical practice and skills as it relates to APPs in the incumbent's region. Supervision: Provides APP oversight in their respective region. Provides oversight for PHS, federal civil servants, and contract employed APPs. Reviewing official for PHS and GS APPs in their respective region. Subject matter expert for evaluation of APP clinical practice, job performance, or misconduct concerns. Participates in recruitment, hiring, retention, and recognition of APPs. At the direction of the Chief APP, works with Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and vendor leadership as required to address government contracting concerns that affects all contract employed APPs in IHSC. Judgement failure can result in ineffective or inappropriate use of resources and delays in meeting public health objectives of the program or the agency. This may impair development of national guidance, affect clinical care, and compromise patient safety. Failure can also result in loss of credibility and embarrassment for the agency. The purpose of work contacts includes collaboration with all agency components to advance agency strategic goals, address clinical care challenges, and provide high-quality, efficient, and effective patient-centered healthcare for ICE non-citizens: Performs other duties as assigned to support the agency mission. Position may require travel up to 30% of the time in support of the mission to include site visits, site clinical support, mission critical staffing, and travel to IHSC headquarters.
Education
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: 1. Educational Requirements: Qualifying degree for the officer's category from an accredited institution in a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory. The degree issuing institution and/or program must be accredited by an entity recognized by the U.S. Department of Education Physician Assistant minimum: Master's degree. Nurse Practitioner minimum: Master of Nursing. 2. Unrestricted, current, and valid license from any U.S. state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or other U.S. territory. It is the responsibility of the incumbent to fulfill and maintain the obligation(s) for their licensing or certifying body and to maintain continuing medical education.3. National Certification: Physician Assistant - Must have and maintain certification as a Physician Assistant from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). Nurse Practitioner - Must have and maintain board certification as Family Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurse Credentialing Center (AANC) or American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). 4. Must have and maintain CPR/BLS certification. 5. Must have and maintain clinical practice proficiency and credentials for patient care. 6. Must possess at minimum six years of full-time clinical experience as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner or approval of the IHSC Medical Director. 7. Must possess at minimum two years of team lead or supervisory experience. Demonstrated ability to perform O-5 Supervisory duties. 8. Must be able to attain and maintain DHS security clearance. 9. Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements. 10. Knowledge of a wide range of complex patient care concepts, principles, and practices to perform assessments of considerable diversity to include mental health, medical surgical, ambulatory and emergency care. 11. Possesses a high degree of independence and initiative with minimal oversite. Resolves complex, sensitive, national issues and work product must conform with multiple accrediting and guiding standards. 12. Strong writing skills to include document formulation, editing, review along with intermediate or advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office programs. Preferred, but not required: Experience supervising clinical staff within the IHSC health system. Experience or training in government contracts. Experience in clinical leadership of correctional healthcare at regional or national level. Certification as Correctional Healthcare Professional (CCHP). Knowledge and/or experience with IHSC policies, National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) requirements.
How you will be evaluated
We will review your resume and supporting documentation to ensure you meet the minimum qualification requirements. You may be selected for an interview at the hiring authority's discretion. You will be notified of selection or non-selection.