Nursing Assistant-Transitional Care and CIIRP - Milwaukee, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs

Description

Summary

OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?

*A Recruitment or Relocation Incentive is authorized of up to $10,000 for a highly qualified candidate.*

Duties

Valor Point (9A) is located within the Community Living Center and is a 40-bed unit consisting of two programs, Transitional Care and Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program (CIIRP).

Transitional Care is a short stay (less than 90 day) interdisciplinary program which serves medically and psychiatrically stable veterans and provides nursing and medical care prior to their return to a community setting. This program provides wound care/healing IV therapy/TPN, various orthopedic diagnoses, respiratory care: veteran and family education and veterans waiting title 19 approval and guardianship.

The Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program is an acute care inpatient rehabilitation program providing comprehensive care by an interdisciplinary team to maximize function and abilities. This program provides an opportunity for appropriate veterans to improve deficits in mobility, self-care or safety concerns with attainable goals. Length of stay is determined by goals of care.

The patient population is dynamic and complex providing opportunities for nursing staff to experience a vast amount of diagnosis and hone assessment skills.

Major Duties:

• Personal patient care including bathing, feeding, grooming and mobilizing with demonstration of skills which reflect the needs of the older adult.
• Appropriate support duties: Individualized patient care, proper implementation of policies and procedures, use of good body mechanics, and assists in application and operation of specialized functional equipment
• Supports duties for treatment services, such as specimen collection.
• Provides Veteran centric care according to the individualized care plan.

Work Schedule: Full-time and part-time/40 hours every 2 weeks, all with weekend and Federal holiday rotations required and shift rotation for Days/1st shift and Intermittent work.

Hours/shift preference will be discussed during interviews.

Recruitment or Relocation Incentive: is authorized of up to $10,000 for a highly qualified candidate

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Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of existing pay, higher or unique qualifications, or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.

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): Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-