Registered Nurse - Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Services - Clinical Programs
Veterans Health Administration
Phoenix, Arizona
Health system employer
- Eligibility
- RNPrimary CarePerioperative CareGeriatricsProsthetics
- Unit
- ER
Posted Jul 23
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Long Term Care
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 4+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Relocation
- Help offered
About this role
This position is located within the Office of the Associate Director, Patient Care Services (ADPCS), Phoenix VA Health Care System (PVAHCS), Phoenix, AZ. It is a Level 1a major interdisciplinary teaching facility with service lines serving medical, surgical, mental health, and long-term care inpatients and outpatients with an Emergency Department and multiple community-based outpatient clinics (CBOC). The Nurse V Deputy Associate Director for Patient Care Service: Clinical Programs (DADPSC: CP) will provide leadership for Primary Care, Specialty Care, Perioperative, Prosthetics, and Geriatrics and Extended Care.
The DADPCS: CP supports the organization's Pathway to Excellence journey by strengthening shared governance, advancing nursing practice standards, and reinforcing a professional, supportive work environment.
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Requirements
- RN
- U.S. Citizenship
- RN License (1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory)
- MSN required; Doctorate preferred
- Bachelor's degree in nursing
- 5+ years of progressive nursing executive leadership (preferred)
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- Experience in Nursing/Outpatient Operations
- Demonstrated change management experience
- Experience with planning organization wide initiatives
Benefits
- Competitive salary with regular salary increases and potential performance awards
- 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days annual leave, 13 days sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays)
- Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting)
- Federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
- Federal health insurance
- Vision insurance
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- Dental insurance
- Term life insurance
Place
- City
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Median rent
- $1,582/mo
- Local household income
- $81,332/yr
- Metro price level
- 3% above the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Phoenix area index 103.3, where 100 is the national average.
Phoenix drops you into the Sonoran Desert — hike Camelback Mountain before a sunrise shift, eat your way down Roosevelt Row, and settle among Arcadia's grapefruit trees. Cost of living sits about 3% above the national average. Trade snow shovels for trail runners year-round and plug into a valley-wide hospital network hungry for bedside RNs.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
Nationally the VA describes itself as the largest U.S. nurse employer, with more than 120,000 RNs, APNs, LPNs, and nursing assistants. The VA has said it is on pace to reduce staff by nearly 30,000 by the end of FY2025…
On your path
Emergency is open from year one. Fellowships take new grads. The windows matter.
Worth asking
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- Can you walk me through the pay period for the posted $205,355-$222,000 range and differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts, weekly hours, weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?