The Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Safety Manager (PSM) provides leadership and detailed planning to strengthen patient-safety programs. The PSM develops innovative safety initiatives, organizes priorities, meets deadlines, and delivers professional presentations across multiple formats. As the facility's lead implementer of NCPS policies, the PSM builds and maintains patient-safety systems and collaborates with staff to promote a culture of safety.
The Registered Nurse (RN) Patient Safety Manager (PSM) functions as an advanced clinician, demonstrating leadership, experience, and creative approaches to managing complex patient care. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates care using age-specific principles. Provides broad leadership that improves care for groups of patients and is accountable for documented program and service-level outcomes across facility, VISN, or VACO levels.
Uses sound judgment, strong interpersonal skills, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to influence outcomes and lead innovative process-improvement initiatives. Duties include but not limited to the following: Collaborates with, trains, and directs patient safety activities of personnel within the facility, such as infection control professionals, risk managers and quality managers.
Responsible for translating the policies, theories, and strategies into action within the complex interrelationships that exist related to patient safety. Responsibility for training and implementing patient safety and RCA process to clinicians, management, and all relevant support personnel within their facilities and associated facilities and operations (i.e., home care).
Responsible for maintaining clear communication between the facility and NCPS, both to communicate relevant patient safety information and lessons learned from the facility which have potential impact beyond the local level and to understand changes at the national level in the Patient Safety Program. Performs duties directly contributing to the administrative management of a health care delivery system.
Duties require the ability to apply the specialized principles and practices of health care management in directing or supporting a health care delivery system.
Preferred Experience: 2-3 years experience MSN, CPHQ, CPPS or other certifications preferred 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: 800 am to 4:30 pm M-F Telework: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Daniel.Aliceacotto@va.gov · 727-238-4911
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $75834 – $136857/yr.
Applications close on 2026-09-04.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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