Registered Nurse Manager - Blind Rehab

This Nurse Manager-Blind Rehabilitation position is located in Nursing Service at the West Haven location. This position is full-time at 40 hours per week.

Nursing is recruiting for a full-time Nurse Manager for Blind Rehabilitation. The Nurse Manager-Blind Rehab is responsible for executing position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience and management. The Nurse Manager incorporates professional standards and implements broad-reaching evidence-based change. Duties include, but not limited to: Leading and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice; Using advance clinical knowledge/judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes; Functioning as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities; Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise; Guiding, developing, and supporting staff from a leadership perspective; and Using professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate programs and/or service activities. 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: Full-time, Days as needed for unit coverage/supervisory duties. Responsible for 24/7 operations. Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Telework: Ad-hoc as determined by agency policy Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required Notifications: This position is a non-Bargaining Unit position. Selectee may be required to work at any VA Connecticut Healthcare System campus, as needed. Current and former Federal employees must submit copies of their most recent SF-50 (Notice of Personnel Action). The SF-50 must identify the position title, series, grade, step, tenure and type of service (Competitive or Excepted). In some cases, more than one SF-50 may be required to show a higher grade previously held. This position is in the Excepted Service. The salary is based on the grade and step approved for the selected candidate.

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.