Serves as a non-supervisory Flight Registered Nurse and Medical Aircrew Member supporting ICE removal missions. Provides direct patient care and emergency response during land, air, and sea operations; supports program activities; and may assist IHSC facilities as a senior staff nurse. Requires frequent travel, short-notice deployments, and independent clinical judgment. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Incumbent's primary duties are to serve as a flight nurse and a program assistant. Operate as a Medical Aircrew Member and First Responder during ICE removal missions and provide direct patient care for individuals in ICE custody on land, air or sea, IHSC clinics, or during DHS missions in accordance with agency procedures, nursing guidelines, and/or clinical protocols.
Serve as medical aircrew member on a national level, with responsibilities of performing a variety of unusual and complex professional tasks without the benefit of close guidance in remote and austere conditions. Impact of error may cause serious impairment to program, agency, and division and diplomatic relations. The incumbent works in small aircrafts, business jets, large airliners, or helicopters, which may be civilian, military and U.S.
government local, state, or federal assets. The operations may also include care and transfers on ground vehicles, as well as on sea vessels in inclement weather. Be in frequent contact with individuals outside the department and high-level personnel (i.e., diplomatic), Represent U.S government as an ICE health official while overseas and with other federal agencies, military, and law enforcement when necessary. Must be able to travel 50% of the time or more if needed.
Capable of performing short- or long-term deployment with short notice. Accept responsibilities and perform duties above the clinical nurse intermediate level in professional nursing. Serve as 24/7 on call medical consultant to IAO for one week at a time or more if needed. Assume responsibility for providing care to patients with complex physical, mental, or social needs. Develop and implement a comprehensive plan for meeting actual and anticipated patient needs.
Assist with management of ISOU specific programs objectives to ensure sustainability and growth. In addition, program assistants serve as a local and national programs subject matter experts, coordinate activities related to policy development, program assistant, research updates, program implementation and evaluation subject to regulations, policies, procedures, and pertinent laws.
Advise local and department level officials regarding policy development, program assistant, review reports, identify and analyze problems, provide formal written analysis or reports and presentations; participate in the design and development, program assistant of procedures to follow-up on reports. Perform specialized or complex professional tasks without benefit of detailed guidelines, independently establish criteria, formulate approaches and evaluation efforts.
Active participation in conferences, meetings, or presentations involving problems or issues of maximum consequences or importance. When primary duties as flight nurse and program assistant are met, incumbent may serve as a senior staff nurse (secondary duty) in a facility in support of IHSC as needed. Performs other program duties and responsibilities as assigned.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: Be Actively Boarded or New Call to Duty commissioned in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Able to pass Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Class III Flight Physical. Bachelor of Science or Master of Science in nursing from a program accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
Current, unrestricted, and valid Registered Nurse (RN) license from any U.S. state, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, or Guam. Minimum of 4 years of direct patient care experience as a registered nurse. Knowledge of the Nurse Practice Act for the licensing state and/or the state in which one practices nursing. Knowledge of a wide range of nursing concepts, principles, and practices.
Ability to follow and strictly adhere to established policies, guidelines, instructions, procedures, and protocols. Knowledge of Microsoft office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Strong foundational nursing background and skill set. Knowledge of medication, administration guidelines, and pharmaceutical agents and their desired and adverse effects to recognize untoward effects and take appropriate corrective measures.
Comprehensive knowledge of managing non-compliant patients, special needs populations, and patients with significant deficits in coping skills. Knowledge of requirements for safety, infection control, quality assurance, maintenance of records of patients seen, statistical information gathering, etc. Knowledge or experience of nursing management and leadership skills. Knowledge of teaching patient health education skills.
Must be able to attain and maintain DHS Secret Clearance. Must be able to attain and maintain a U.S. Government Official Passport. Must maintain minimum flight hours per Official Non-Aircrew member flight orders. Maintain CPR/Basic Life Support and Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification. Preferred but not required, knowledge, skills, and abilities: a) Emergency Department, Intensive Care, Trauma Care, First Responder Care or Flight Nursing experience.
b) Experience in immigration health system. c) Correctional health care experience. d) Certification as Correctional Health Care Professional (CCHP). e) Knowledge and/or experience with IHSC policies, NCCHC and PBNDS requirements. f) Knowledge of public health preparedness, infection control and tuberculosis management.
g) Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS), Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC), Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS), Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC), Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS), Emergency Pediatric Care (EPC) or National Registered Emergency Medical Responder (NREMT) certification. Flight Medical Provider Training.
h) Certified as Certified Transport Registered Nurse (CTRN), Certified Flight Registered Nurse (CFRN) i) Department of Defense trained in Aerospace Medicine, Flight Nursing (FN) or Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT). j) Prior Immigration/Correctional Flight Nursing. k) Last 2 employment years in direct patient care. l) ANCC Certification as National Healthcare Disaster Professional (NHDP-BC). m) Proficient other secondary language.
n) Knowledge of writing USPHS individual and unit awards.
This position is with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security.
The posted pay range is $1 – $150000/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Other security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-12.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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