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Clinical Nurse Manager (O-6 Billet) Supervisory

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Miami, Florida On-site Full Time Posted May 13, 2026

Job Overview

The Clinical Nurse Manager oversees nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and standards. Responsibilities include supervising staff, managing operations, and conducting training.

The role requires advanced nursing expertise, leadership, and adaptability in high-tempo environments, including detention & staging facilities. This position is only open to current USPHS officers.

Job Description

USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position. TECHNICAL HEALTHCARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.

Conducts interviews on newly admitted detainees with empathy to accurately identify needs and minimize and alleviate fears and anxieties. Communicates and explains the institution's treatment programs to newly arrived detainees.

May serve as medical escort of detainees as needed for domestic/overseas travel under the direction of the IHSC Special Operations Unit. Performs multiple complex tasks requiring advanced level of proficiency/independent functioning.

Maintains patient and health record confidentiality. Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively, efficiently, and effectively with multidisciplinary healthcare team as evidence by improved patient outcomes and improved staff satisfaction.

In addition to contacts with patients and patients' families in a clinical setting, and within immediate work environment, communicates and collaborates with outside the immediate work environment with the department, and other federal departments or outside the federal government (e.

g. , CDC, TB Net, state/local health department and other federal partners. Requires face to face contact and telephone dialogue on a routine basis.

Key Responsibilities

  • The Clinical Nurse Manager oversees nursing services at ICE facilities, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and standards.
  • Responsibilities include supervising staff, managing operations, and conducting training.
  • The role requires advanced nursing expertise, leadership, and adaptability in high-tempo environments, including detention & staging facilities.
  • TECHNICAL HEALTHCARE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Using and/or carrying out standard procedures for a specialized healthcare field.
  • Work purpose is primarily to collaborate; supply advice; explain, interpret, and seek support for methods, policies and programs; or render a service of a moderately complex nature requiring a moderate amount of explanation and tact.
  • Maintains non-involvement in correctional security/custody responsibilities.
  • Must have the ability to assist sick, injured or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self).
  • PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Understanding theories, concepts, principles, and their relationships underlying the practices of professional nursing to improve the efficiency and quality of work performed or to protect the quality of life or healthcare services.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Applying basic nursing knowledge acquired through practical experience and on-the-job activities of accepted processes, standards, methods, and their corresponding scientific principles and results.
  • Plans and/or collaborates patient care interventions with other health care professionals using in-depth knowledge of the specific patient's status, anticipating physiological and/or psychological appropriate or adverse responses.
  • Understanding and skill in applying predetermined procedures, methods, and standardized practices in a narrowly specialized healthcare field (nursing), or science, or in performing technical work requiring originality, initiative, and practical judgment in using and adapting standardized medical techniques and methods.
  • Coordinates the treatment and transport, if necessary, of acutely ill or injured patients with healthcare team; coordinates referrals to off-site providers as required.
  • Applies knowledge of treatments and drug actions when making observations/ reporting patient response to treatments.
  • Foreseeing the effects of procedural changes or appraising the validity of results on the basis of experience and practical reasoning.
  • Reviews newly issued national directives and guides to identify updates in nursing practice; and implements training and education needed for employing the required process changes.
  • Knowledge of computerized data base, sources, and reporting methodologies.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as On-site with location information shown as Miami, Florida. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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