The Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Medical Asset Support Team (MAST) at ICE Health Service Corps provides expert nursing care, administrative support, and training across detention facilities. Requires RN licensure, 5+ years of experience, BLS certification, and 50% travel. Focuses on quality care, compliance, and leadership in a correctional healthcare setting. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Required to walk unaided at a normal pace for up to five (5) minutes and maintain balance. Required to jog/fast walk up to ¼ mile. Required to perform CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling. Must have the ability to assist sick, injured, or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling, or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self). Must be able to see, hear (with hearing aids if necessary), and smell as needed. Must easily alternate between kneeling and standing. Must be able to lift, push, or carry 30 pounds. Must have the ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time (6-8 hours). Must perform the duties of the position in a stressful and often austere environment without physical limitations. Hazardous duty assignment
PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Understanding theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services. Applying a range and depth of knowledge acquired specifically through an intensive learning regimen of the phenomena, theories, and concepts of a scientific body of nursing knowledge. Creating, exploring, evaluating, designing, and sharing solutions and the validity of their predicted performance to resolve problems, conditions, and issues. Identifying, analyzing, advising, consulting, and reporting on nursing, theoretical, and factual data, conditions, and problems. Staying abreast of, and evaluating nursing subjects, analyses, and proposals in professional literature. Assessing, resolving, and predicting the relationships and interactions of data and findings under varying conditions. Reasoning from existing knowledge and assumptions in the nursing field to unexplored areas and phenomena. Nurses collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to develop the nursing care patient plan and determine how best to serve the nursing needs of particular patients or groups of patients. Nurses evaluate execution of nursing-care plans to determine whether they are effectively meeting their goals. Based on those evaluations, they may recommend to nursing leadership any changes they believe necessary to advocate for the health and wellbeing of patients. Nurses may function as consultants providing clinical advisory tasks related to such functions as developing and accessing clinical health outcomes quality measures, evaluating clinical case reviews for adequacy of care, compliance with clinical and regulatory guidelines, overpayment, and audit recovery; and developing policy guidance for nursing care reviews conducted by State or Federal health facility surveyors and in collaboration with IHSC Medical Quality Management Unit. TECHNICAL HEALTHCARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field. Applying basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes, standards, methods, and their corresponding scientific principles and results. Carrying out tasks, methods, procedures, and computations based on oral or written instructions and/or precedents, guidelines, and standards. Collecting, observing, testing, and recording factual and scientific data to monitor care of patients. Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results based on experience and practical reasoning. Staying abreast of existing and new practical methods and applications through on-the-job and classroom training. At least 50% travel is required to provide direct patient care to support local nursing operations through temporary duty assignments (TDY) within IHSC. May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit. CONDITIONS OF WORK: Work Schedule: Clinical positions may be required to work various shifts, or combinations of shifts, that may include 8 hour, 10 hour or 12 hour shifts; evenings, weekends and holidays also be required. On-Call Duties: This clinical position may be required to perform on-call duties within the unit to which it is assigned during off shift hours, to in include evenings, nights, weekends and/or holidays. Emergency Response: This clinical position may be required to respond to emergencies at the local facility to which it is assigned during off shift hours, to include evenings, nights, weekends and/or holidays. Telework: This position may not support telework, and will be authorized on a case by case basis by the hiring manager. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Not currently authorized. Student Load Repayment Program (SLRP) Authorized: Contact the IHSCIPUHQ@ice.dhs.gov Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required.