Regional Advanced Practice Provider (O-6 Billet) Supervisory

This Regional Advanced Practice Provider (O-6 Billet) Supervisory position is with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Department of Homeland Security) in Phoenix, AZ. Supervisory Regional Advanced Practice Provider oversees nurse practitioners and physician assistants within an assigned region. Provides clinical guidance, Advanced Practice Provider program support, policy input, training, credentialing, peer review, recruitment support, and clinical care. This position is only open to USPHS officers who are currently IHSC employees. USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position. Key duties: • DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Through the direction of the Chief APP, the incumbent carries out APP program goals, objectives, priorities, and guidelines. Serves as subject matter expert and consultant for national standards and policies, and for urgent, short-term, and long-term planning to meet the agency needs. Critically reviews healthcare data, reports, and prepares reports of findings as required by the Chief APP. Serves as subject matter expert, author, editor for agency reports, policies, and programs as required despite dynamic format and deadline requirements. Serves as member of APP senior clinical leadership and advisor to the IHSC Chief APP for all matters related to APP practice. Supports the Chief APP by serving in the acting role as needed. Assists in the credentialing of APPs, peer review process, medical assistant program, and the MAST program as directed by the Chief APP. Participates in development, implementation, and revision, of orientation, training, and electronic health record tools for APPs. Represent the agency for APP related care and authors written or verbal communication in contact with other government agencies including local, state, and federal entities. Possesses high degree of professionalism and tact and the ability to coordinate complex and/or controversial communications that address high-level agency concerns including responses to legal challenges. Assists Chief APP by providing expertise for policy, standards, programs, and critical agency missions that involve APPs. Maintains working knowledge of both nurse practitioner and physician assistant credentialing and collaborative practice requirements. Regional supervision includes developing, planning, and critically evaluating the clinical practice and skills as it relates to APPs in the incumbent's region. Supervision: Provides APP oversight in their respective region. Provides oversight for PHS, federal civil servants, and contract employed APPs. Reviewing official for PHS and GS APPs in their respective region. Subject matter expert for evaluation of APP clinical practice, job performance, or misconduct concerns. Participates in recruitment, hiring, retention, and recognition of APPs. At the direction of the Chief APP, works with Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and vendor leadership as required to address government contracting concerns that affects all contract employed APPs in IHSC. Judgement failure can result in ineffective or inappropriate use of resources and delays in meeting public health objectives of the program or the agency. This may impair development of national guidance, affect clinical care, and compromise patient safety. Failure can also result in loss of credibility and embarrassment for the agency. The purpose of work contacts includes collaboration with all agency components to advance agency strategic goals, address clinical care challenges, and provide high-quality, efficient, and effective patient-centered healthcare for ICE non-citizens: Performs other duties as assigned to support the agency mission. Position may require travel up to 30% of the time in support of the mission to include site visits, site clinical support, mission critical staffing, and travel to IHSC headquarters. Qualifications: PHYSICAL DEMANDS: IHSC operates 24/7/365. Response is required during an emergency activation. Average manual dexterity for computer operation. Tele and video conference call meetings for extended period of time. May require rotational on-call duties and work during evenings, weekends, and holidays. View the full announcement and apply on USAJOBS.gov.