Registered Nurse - Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Services - Clinical Programs

Department of Veterans Affairs

This position is located within the Office of the Associate Director, Patient Care Services (ADPCS), Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS), Phoenix, AZ. It is a Level 1a major interdisciplinary teaching facility with service lines serving medical, surgical, mental health, and long-term care inpatients and outpatients with an Emergency Department and multiple community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC).

• Duties Include but not limited to: The Nurse V Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Service: Clinical Programs (DADPSC: CP) will provide leadership for Primary Care, Specialty Care, Perioperative, Prosthetics, and Geriatrics and Extended Care. The DADPCS: CP is expected to provide support to additional service areas as needed to ensure continuity of operations and alignment with organizational goals. The DADPCS: CP supports the organization's Pathway to Excellence journey by strengthening shared governance, advancing nursing practice standards, and reinforcing a professional, supportive work environment. The role helps maintain momentum, ensures alignment with Pathway requirements, and promotes consistent engagement across units as the facility progresses toward designation. The Nurse V DADPCS is of an executive nature, comprised of complex leadership and administrative components associated with critical health care issues and activities that influence the organizational mission, health care, and policy. They are accountable to the ADPCS/NE and are an integral part of the senior leadership team. The DADPCS is a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and a healthcare executive within nursing services. The incumbent is a spokesperson for organized nursing services and works to ensure the integration and collaboration of nursing with other professional disciplines and functional areas in the mutual achievement of optimal Veteran centered organizational goals in the facility. The DADPCS works closely with the ADPCS/NE as a collaborator and partner in strategic planning, organization assessment, and program development. They have the responsibility to assist with the establishment of standards for the practice of nursing at the health care system level to ensure the continuous and timely availability of quality nursing services. The DADPCS is responsible for the practice of nursing 24/7. This includes all registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and allied health staff (LPNs, NAs, etc.) regardless of line authority. They have line authority over the Associate Chief Nurses (ACN) and may have additional duties assigned to them by the ADPCS/NE. The incumbent exercises preliminary approval for the following: job descriptions, policies, and procedures; standards of patient care, treatment, and services; nursing practice standards; staffing plans; functional statements; and standards to measure, assess, and improve patient outcomes. The incumbent appropriately delegates activities to services assigned to them under the purview of the ADPCS/NE. Ensures a competency process is in place to evaluate individual practice, as well as a review process for annual performance ratings. The DADPCS promotes shared decision-making to ensure a healthy work environment for nursing; a spirit of inquiry and the use of evidence-based practice; and an academic environment supportive of education and research to promote the profession of nursing. The incumbent champions a High Reliability Organization (HRO) founded on a collective mindfulness approach to develop evidence-based health care solutions that promote prevention and safety. The responsibilities of the DADPCS role are allocated across the designated service lines, with each Deputy assuming oversight aligned with the established distribution of FTE and functional domains. The Deputy ADPCS, Care Operations, will provide leadership for Acute Care, Nursing Operations, Education, Nutrition, and Mental Health. The Deputy ADPCS, Clinical Programs, will provide leadership for Primary Care, Specialty Care, Perioperative, Prosthetics, and Geriatrics and Extended Care. Each Deputy is expected to provide support to additional service areas as needed to ensure continuity of operations and alignment with organizational goals. A 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: 7:00AM to 3:30PM (Monday through Friday), may vary to meet facility needs Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized

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