Immigration Specialist jobs in Tacoma, WA

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Competencies required:
  • Professional clinical nursing experience: 5 years
    • Experience in correctional health care preferred.
    • 2 years direct clinical patient care (e.g., inpatient) nursing experience preferred.
  • Administrative experience in a supervisory capacity: Relevant Training Only.
  • Maintains CPR/BLS certification.
  • Obtain CCHP-RN within 2 years of assignment.
  • Complete ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 1 year of assignment and recommend Advanced ICE Supervisory Leadership Training within 2 years of assignment.
  • Cultural competency maintained through agency/other training.

• Qualifications-Degrees Required:
  • Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing
    • Master's Degree in Nursing or related field preferred.

• Qualifications-Licenses and Certifications Required:
  • Nursing License- Must be a Registered Nurse (RN).
    • Maintains current/documented professional licensure. (It is the responsibility of the incumbent to fulfill the obligation(s) of their licensing or certifying body to maintain currency. This position may be required to perform clinical activities with the scope of clinical license in times of critical needs within and at the direction of the agency.)
  • Professional credentials/certification appropriate to current job specialty.

• Graduate of a professional nursing school approved by the appropriate State accrediting agency.

• Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and the state in which one practices nursing.

• Knowledge of a wide range of complex nursing concepts, principles, and practices to perform nursing assessments of considerable diversity to include mental health, medical/surgical, ambulatory, and emergency nursing care.

• Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills, thereby requiring continuing professional clinical support.

• Knowledge of correctional nursing concepts and principles.

• Demonstrated evidence of knowledge of nursing management and leadership skills.

• Knowledge of team building principles.

• Knowledge of staff development and basic adult learner teaching skills.

• Flexibility and ability to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.

• Follows supervisory chain of command.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• Some travel may be required.

This position is located within the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, ICE Health Service Corps, Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Clinical Services. The Assistant Nurse Manager will report directly to the Nurse Manager, with the Regional Nurse Manager serving as the reviewing official. This is a supervisory position.

The assistant nurse manager is stationed at a complex larger IHSC facility usually having over 500 beds and/or may have more complex medical housing units and/or sustained increased operational tempo due to large staging mission or staging large enforcement and removal flights with global public health impact. The Assistant Nurse Manager works with the facility nurse manager to oversees all nursing services and ensures that nursing practice, principles, and procedures are implemented in accordance with national, state, and local nursing laws and regulations. The assistant nurse manager supervises and serves as rating official for federal nursing staff at their respective facility (nurse manager serves as reviewing official) and serves as secondary technical monitor for all contract nursing personnel.

IHSC provides direct care daily to approximately 15,300 detainees housed at 20 designated facilities throughout the nation. The health care provided includes medical, dental and mental health care, and public health services. IHSC provides medical case management and oversight for an additional 22,600 detainees housed at approximately 112 non-IHSC staffed detention facilities daily across the country. In addition, IHSC oversees the financial authorization and payment for off-site specialty and emergency care services for detainees in ICE custody. The ICE detainee population is approximately 34,000 detainees on a daily basis, with an average length of stay of approximately 30 days, surpassing 400,000 detainees annually. IHSC provides medical support during ICE enforcement operations in the air, on the ground and at sea.

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
The Assistant Nurse Manager will be supervised by the Nurse Manager, with the Regional Nurse Manager serving as the reviewing official.

The incumbent functions independently to ensure planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of entire projects or provision of complete services; may supervise programs or services that encompass several professional fields. Impact of error can cause impairment of a departmental level service or program.

The incumbent plans and organizes his/her own work, determines the sequence of assignments, selects and develops methods, and seeks assistance from experts only rarely. Assignments are usually long-term, recurring, or broadly defined. Work is reviewed for feasibility, compatibility with other work, and effectiveness in meeting requirements or expected results.

An extensive number of well-defined guides, methods, theories, and precedents are available. Situations to which existing guidelines cannot be applied or which require significant deviations from existing guidelines are referred to higher authority.

Serves as the nursing advisor in the absence of the Chief, Complex Nursing Unit to the facility administrator regarding the total nursing care program and objectives. In addition to contacts with patients and patients' families in a clinical setting, establishes and maintains contacts with persons outside the immediate work environment, but within the Department.

• Cover Letter/Letter of Interest. Please include location preference here.

• Degrees. (Place under "Diploma/GED")

• Professional license. (If applicable)

• Additional professional certificates. (If applicable)

• Three professional references. (i.e., name, title and contact information)

• CV - e.g., relevant experience, education, training. (Place under "Resume")

• A copy of your Certificate of Investigation (located in your eOPF).

• For IHSC USPHS officers only, a copy of your current Service Remaining Requirements Agreement.

• Indicate if you have an Assignment Pay (AP) Agreement and the date of the end of your AP Agreement.

• Cover letter/Letter of Interest. Please include location preference here.

• Degrees. (Place under "Diploma/GED")

• Professional license. (If applicable)

• Additional professional certificates. (If applicable)

• Three professional references (i.e., name, title, and contact information)

• CV - e.g., relevant experience, education, training. (Place under "Resume")

• U.S. Public Health Service - Appointment Board Decision Letter/Email.

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.