RN Chief Quality and Patient Safety Management Service

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Chief Quality and Patient Safety Management Service (QPSM) executes leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for population groups and integrated programs that cross services and discipline lines and influence the organizational healthcare mission.

• The incumbent is an advanced healthcare executive who executes responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and innovative approaches in the guidance and direction of a variety of complex patient care programs and services. He/she functions as a leader, administrator, and consultant with a wide range of experience and authority that is broad enough to improve care for Veterans through their influence over policy development and decisions at the national level for staff at the Veterans Integrated Systems Network (VISN) and the facility levels. The focus of this position is to optimize effectiveness of patient care delivery and management in support of the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) mission and goals. This position is under the Office of the Director with the VA Caribbean Healthcare System. The Incumbent achieves leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for an integrated program that crosses services and/or discipline lines and influences the organizational mission. This leader is responsible for providing facility level leadership in the development and use of quality tools and solutions to support all clinical and administrative domains. 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, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.

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