Registered Nurse- Community Care

The John D. Dingell VA Medical Center is recruiting for a Registered Nurse - Community Care (CC) Coordinator. The CC RN is responsible for executing a streamlined approach to receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the effectiveness of the Veteran's care. Serves to support delivery of high quality, timely care to the Veteran receiving services in the community.

Major duties include, but are not limited to: Responsible for receiving, triaging, and directing timely, coordinated care through a streamlined approach. Demonstrates proficient clinical practice, sound decision-making, deliberate planning, and critical-thinking skills. Maintains comprehensive knowledge of: Internal referral and care processes. Clinical review criteria. Utilization-management standards. Clinical documentation requirements. Community-care regulations. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) standards and guidelines. Uses nursing knowledge and systems theory to assess, organize, facilitate, and guide Veterans through available care options, including: Internal or direct care within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Community care. Serves as a liaison between internal VA providers and community providers. Manages the Veteran's care throughout the consult process. Supports the medical center's mission by: Improving timely access to care. Ensuring Veterans who choose community care are appropriately referred and scheduled. Supporting the delivery of high-quality, timely community services. Collaborates within the Office of Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) to triage Requests for Services (RFS). Coordinates care processes outlined in the IVC Field Guidebook, including: Developing care-coordination plans. Reviewing medical documentation from community providers. Communicating care-coordination needs. Supporting the Veteran through completion of the episode of care. Influences care outcomes by collaborating with interdisciplinary team members within the VA and community settings. Complies with VA-mandated processes and uses health-information solutions to: Assess care-coordination needs. Document care. Exchange information. Track care-coordination activities. Utilizes delegation of authority, when applicable, to function at the highest level of role performance. Aligns high-quality care with key performance indicators to ensure practice standards meet patient-care needs. Other duties as assigned. 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, 8:00a-4:30p. Schedule subject to change based on needs of the Agency. Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized

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.