Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager (O-5 Billet) Supervisory

The assistant nurse manager (Associate Chief, Complex Unit) is stationed at a complex larger IHSC facility usually having over 500 beds and/or may have more complex medical housing units (sub-acute inpatient) 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 (ANM) 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 (Nurse Manager) 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. Contacts are required in order to collaborate, supply advice, explain, interpret, and seek support for methods, policies and programs, and to provide personalized nursing services and administer a moderately complex program requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.