Registered Nurse - Home Based Primary Care Program Director

<p>The Home Based Primary Care Program Director Registered Nurse position is essential for overseeing the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) program and requires specialized knowledge of HBPC mission, culture, and operational processes to provide safe, patient-centered care for Veterans with geriatric syndromes and palliative/hospice care needs.</p><h3>Major Duties</h3><p>The Home Based Primary Care Program Director requires a highly skilled RN who has excellent home based primary care experience encompassing clinical and administrative skills. Major duties include, but are not limited to: - Provides executive-level oversight of five (5) Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) teams, ensuring effective coordination of care, optimal staffing, and consistent application of evidence-based practice. Serves as operational program director, demonstrating advanced judgment and accountability at the program level. - Serves as the lead for Joint Commission (JC) and other regulatory surveys across the Washington DC VA Medical Center, leading system-wide readiness activities, engaging interdisciplinary partners, and implementing strategies to correct negative trends beyond the immediate practice area. - Provides clinical and administrative oversight of HBPC interdisciplinary teams, using advanced programmatic knowledge to guide practice standards, evaluate outcomes, and ensure high-quality, evidence-based care for complex HBPC patients. - Conducts comprehensive, expert-level assessments of multifaceted medical, behavioral, and psychosocial needs in the home environment, demonstrating advanced clinical judgment and influencing care decisions at the program level. - Develops, evaluates, and adapts individualized care plans, integrating evidence-based guidelines and contributing to program-level improvements in care planning processes. - Implements advanced clinical interventions aligned with patient diagnoses, goals, and evolving health conditions, leveraging broad expertise to ensure safe, effective, and resource-efficient care. - Leads patient, family, and caregiver education strategies, promoting health literacy and population-level improvements in disease self-management through evidence-based teaching methods. - Collaborates and communicates at the expert level with physicians, therapists, social workers, and other interdisciplinary partners, initiating and leading efforts to improve care coordination and Veteran outcomes beyond the immediate team. - Ensures accuracy, timeliness, and comprehensive documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) and promotes system optimization and data integrity that contribute to improved program performance. (Supported under Informatics RN/Nurse III expectations related to documentation quality.) - Ensures HBPC program compliance with regulatory standards-including JC, OIG, CMS-and leads initiatives to maintain continuous survey readiness across the care continuum. - Upholds and enforces HIPAA and privacy safeguards, modeling high-reliability and ethical care principles across all HBPC teams. 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, 08:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.</p><h3>Requirements</h3>U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Subject to background/security investigation. Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents). Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment. Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation. Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP). You may be required to serve a probationary period. Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.