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Supervisory Assistant Nurse Manager PACT
Job Location:
Job Location:
Monterey, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 121909 - 121909
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
6 October 2026 (4 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
3 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Summary
The Supervisory Assistant Nurse Manager supports the Nurse Manager (NM) in overseeing operations of a nursing unit/patient care area. Fosters team development ensures compliance with standards of clinical practice and serves as a key liaison between staff and leadership. This role combines clinical expertise with leadership responsibilities and is often considered part of the succession plan for future NM positions providing development opportunities to prepare for higher-level leadership.
The Supervisory ANM is typically responsible for assisting the NM but is not responsible for independently carrying out the expectations of a NM on a routine basis. Exercises the authority to direct work assign duties evaluate employee performance recommend employee awards approve or deny leave recall employees to duty propose discipline and to adjust their grievances or to effectively recommend such proposed discipline or grievance adjustments for employees under their direct supervision.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Uses the nursing process and evidence-based practice to collaborate with the Teamlet (Patient Primary Care Provider RN Care Coordinator and Patient Support Technician) and Larger Team (family/caregiver internal and community-based services involved in providing care to the patient) in developing the patient-centered care plan for life.
- Collaborates with services internal and external to the VA to facilitate care transition in order to effectively meet the patients needs.
- Provides patient and family health education with a focus on self-management prevention and wellness based on the patients goals.
- Demonstrates leadership by serving as an advocate for patients team player to colleagues as she/he continues to enhance his/her own and the teams professional growth development and practice.
- Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge in assessing planning implementing documenting and evaluating care for a designated group of patients across the continuum of care: Recognizing the age related cognitive physical emotional and chronological maturation needs of the adult and geriatric patient.
- Participates in interdisciplinary opportunities to improve patient care at the program level.
- Provides oversight to the functions of Nursing in the PACT teamlet.
- Demonstrates leadership in delivering and improving holistic care through collaborative strategies with others; in executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership experience and creative approaches to management of complex client care.
- Applies skills necessary to identify coordinate and/or identify discipline-specific education as well as training in leadership professional staff development and emerging needs to all levels of staff.
- Provides oversight for the administration of leave counseling and disciplinary actions in collaboration with the Nurse Manager. - Acts as the Nurse Manager during times of Nurse Manager absences. The Assistant Nurse Manager works in collaboration with the Clinic Medical Director to provide oversight for clinical administrative and operational needs.
- Implements action plans to assure performance measures are met to improve organizational performance.
- Assures a safe patient environment and immediately corrects deficiencies.
- Submits reports and data in a timely manner.
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: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Conditions of employment
- U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
- All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- Subject to background/security investigation.
- Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- You may be required to serve a probationary period.
- Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements:
- English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7403(f) no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
- Graduate of a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant: The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE); OR Individuals attending a masters level bridge program in nursing who have completed coursework equivalent to a bachelors level degree in Nursing may have opportunity to become registered as a nurse with a state licensing board prior to completion of the bridge program. Upon achievement of a State license the individual may be appointed on temporary basis and later converted to a permanent appointment upon successful completion and graduation from the bridge program. (Reference VA Handbook 5005 Appendix G6); OR In cases of graduates of foreign schools of professional nursing possession of a current full active and unrestricted registration will meet the requirement for graduation from an approved school of professional nursing to warrant an appointment as a Nurse who has completed an associated degree/entry level Nursing education program. Credit for foreign nursing education higher that associate degree/entry level requires a formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized equivalency evaluation accepted by VA such as International Consultants of Delaware (ICD).
- Current full active and unrestricted registration as a graduate professional nurse in a State Territory or Commonwealth (i.e. Puerto Rico) of the United States or the District of Columbia. Graduate Nurse Technician (GNT) Exception: Candidates who otherwise meet the basic education requirements but do not possess the required licensure may be appointed at the entry step of the grade and level applicable to the completed nursing education as a GNT on a 120-day temporary appointment while actively pursuing licensure (may be extended up to two years on a case-by-case-basis.)
Grade Determinations: The following Scope Education and Dimension criteria must be met in determining the grade assignment of candidates and if appropriate the level within a grade. The Dimension requirements (Practice Veteran/Patient Driven Care Leadership Professional Development and Evidence-Based Practice/Research) are detailed for each grade and level within the online assessment: I Level I
Reference: For more information on this qualification standard please visit Requirements: This position includes a level of physicality normally associated with duties performed by nurses such as direct patient care and potentially long periods of walking standing sitting moderate lifting repeated bending or kneeling. Examples may include but are not limited to:
- Significant amounts of time standing assisting assigned patients
- Utilization of safe patient handling and mobility protocols
Preferred Experience:
- BLS certification
- Flexibility in schedule and assignments
- Experience in ambulatory care settings
- Prior leadership experience
Additional information
This job opportunity announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies.
This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer competitive status.
VA encourages persons with disabilities to apply. The health-related positions in VA are covered by Title 38 and are not covered by the Schedule A excepted appointment authority.
If you are unable to apply online or need an alternate method to submit documents please reach out to the Agency Contact listed in this Job Opportunity Announcement.
Under the Fair Chance to Compete Act the Department of Veterans Affairs prohibits requesting an applicants criminal history prior to accepting a tentative job offer. For more information about the Act and the complaint process visit Human Resources and Administration/Operations Security and Preparedness (HRA/OSP) at The Fair Chance Act.
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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Required Experience:
Manager
