Summary

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 30 - 2027. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications and subsequent cut-off dates are on the 1st of each month. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled

Duties

• Located in the city's historic Southside district - the Birmingham VA Medical Center (BVAMC) is a 313-bed acute tertiary care facility providing medical and surgical services to Veterans across Alabama and neighboring states
• Serving as a regional referral center - the BVAMC currently operates 139 beds and offers care across nearly all medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties
• Most staff physicians hold joint appointments with the VA and its primary academic affiliate - the University of Alabama at Birmingham
• The BVAMC also operates nine community-based outpatient clinics across North Alabama
• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards
• This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program
• You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment
• Program Approval - award amount (up to $200 -000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application
• Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply
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• 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
• Major Duties/Responsibilities for this position include but are not limited to: The Nurse Practitioner (NP) is an advanced practice registered nurse that works under a Scope of Practice and has prescriptive authority to diagnose and treat acute and chronic health problems
• The NP follows established guidelines to provide coordinated health care to the adult and geriatric population
• The NP performs independently or in collaboration with the provider to carry out the plan of care for the Veteran
• He/she appropriately delegates to other Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members - but is responsible for diagnosing and treating medical problems - care coordination to higher level of care - and making complex clinical decisions
• The NP will serve as the leader of the PACT teamlet - that consists of an RN - LPN/Clinical Associate - and Advanced Medical Support Assistant (AMSA)
• The NP optimizes care delivery and provides care to patients with acute problems - patients undergoing transitions of care - and patients with chronic conditions who would benefit in developing and performing self-management skills for chronic conditions especially diabetes - hypertension - CHF - hyperlipidemia - pain - and depression
• The NP utilizes motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate patient development of patient driven goals for health optimization and will be required to attend a formal Motivational Interviewing course
• The NP must demonstrate leadership in delivering and improving holistic care by utilizing health promotion and disease prevention and whole health strategies
• The NP uses face to face - telephone - and video virtual care visits - and secure messaging - to provide care to patients
• The NP develops the appropriate plan of care and tracks patient outcomes to determine if interventions are effective
• The NP will document timely - appropriately - and effectively in the medical record
• ensure the patient's care plan contains medical recommendations for clinically indicated care
• and communicate test results and plans of care to patients or ensure this is accomplished by clinical support staff in a timely and effective manner
• The NP performs clinical assessments
• triages face to face or virtually
• in collaboration with the patient to identify goals for optimizing health
• provides patient/family education to improve outcomes - evaluates patient's progress or lack of progress toward achieving goals
• and performs case management activities and care coordination activities for those patients assigned to the team who require those services
• The NP will participate in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery
• provide leadership to the PACT including shared delegation of appropriate care and care processes to appropriate team members
• The NP will report directly to the Primary Care Director and/or Associate Chief of Staff of Primary Care
• Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM or 7:30am -4:00pm
• Subject to change based on the needs of the agency.