Nurse Consultant 1

Alaskajobs; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework options

Flexible hours

Learning opportunities

Job summary

The Alaska Department of Health is seeking a Nurse Consultant 1 to inspect health facilities across Alaska, ensuring compliance with state and federal standards and investigating complaints. The role requires Alaska RN licensure eligibility and strong analytical skills.

The position involves travel within the state, rigorous competency requirements, and opportunities for professional development within the Health Care Services Division.

Qualifications

• Eligibility for licensure to practice as an RN in Alaska.
• Competencies in applying regulations, standards, and policies.
• Ability to communicate clearly in reports and testimony.

Responsibilities

• Inspect health facilities to ensure state and federal standards.
• Investigate complaints against licensed facilities or providers.
• Assess providers' ability to deliver safe, quality care.
• Prepare oral or written reports and testimony.
• Travel within Alaska for inspections and related duties.

Skills

Technical Credibility

Evidence-Based Practice

Standards

Reasoning

Decision Making

Education

Post-secondary education in nursing or related field

RN licensure eligibility in Alaska

Job description

Job Description

Welcome to the Department of Health!

We’d be delighted to have you join our team.

This position is open to Alaskan Residents only.

Please check out the

residency definition

to determine if you qualify.

What you will be doing:

We inspect certain health facilities throughout the state to determine whether they meet state and federal standards, and we investigate complaints made against health facilities and agencies licensed or certified under our program. The purpose of our inspections is to determine a health care provider's ability to provide services which are safe and of an acceptable quality.

Our organization, mission, and culture:

The Health Care Services

mission

is to: Provide to all eligible Alaskans access and oversight to the full range of appropriate Medicaid services. We also protect Alaska’s most vulnerable populations through our certification and licensing sections.

The Health Care Services

vision

is to: Innovate health plans that improve quality of health care for all Alaskans, attract excellent providers, and be known for outstanding customer service.

Division of Health Care Services’

core values

: Through quality service, prudent use of resources, and satisfied, productive employees, we will promote good health for the people we serve, via

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The benefits of joining our team:

This position can offer opportunities for telework, flexible hours, or other work-life balance initiatives that help team members maintain a healthy balance between their personal and professional lives. Applicants will have the chance to work alongside talented, motivated individuals in a collaborative and supportive setting. This creates a sense of community and belonging, which is key to both job satisfaction and personal well-being. You will have learning opportunities and access to a wealth of knowledge from colleagues and leadership. Whether it’s through formal training, mentorship, or on-the-job experience, joining the team can enhance your skills and accelerate career growth.

The working environment you can expect:

Our work environment involves traveling across the state of Alaska and offers a unique and multifaceted experience that is both professionally enriching and personally rewarding. Alaska’s sheer size, spanning over 663,000 square miles, makes travel across the state inherently dynamic. Your day-to-day activities could span remote villages in the Arctic tundra, bustling port towns along the Southeast coast, or the mountainous interior. This diversity provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain exposure to various industries and regional cultures, making every day in the field both a new challenge and a learning opportunity.

Who we are looking for:

The ideal candidate will possess some or all of the following position-specific competencies in addition to the minimum qualifications listed below:

• Investigation: Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with investigation, including interviewing, evidence detection, locating, gathering, and handling, and drawing appropriate factual inferences and conclusions. Provide oral or written reports of findings. Presenting evidence and providing testimony
• Compliance Inspection: Knowledge of the guidelines, regulations, and procedures associated with compliance inquiries, including application of compliance rules and criteria and ability to make appropriate decisions and issue citations, fines, or orders
• Written Communication: Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience

Special Notice

:

Requires frequent travel within the state, up to one week at a time, one to two times per month

RN, Alaska License - AS 08.68.

Valid Alaska Driver's License, required

To view the general description and example of duties for this job class, please go to the following link and search for

Nurse Consultant 1

:

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/Alaska/classspecs.

Minimum Qualifications

Competency-Based Minimum Qualifications Instructions

This job class uses competency-based minimum qualifications.

Please ensure your application

(through work history, volunteer experience (duties summary), training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports how you have gained the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors (competencies) and that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Competency Description

The competency description(s) listed below have been designed to promote a common understanding of the essential elements of the job class. They highlight the more general and customary knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), tasks, and behaviors used to describe the competency. They typically list expectations rather than specific tasks and are to be used only as parameters and guidelines. A competency’s description is not intended to exclusively define every KSA, task, and behavior needed to successfully meet the competency, but rather to provide the manager/agency with a broad reference of options as to how an applicant can meet the job expectation.

Please ensure your application (through work history, training, education, licenses, certifications, etc.) supports/demonstrates that you possess the minimum required competencies for the job class.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Eligibility for licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Alaska.
• AND
• Any combination of education, certification, and/or experience that provides the applicant with competencies in
• Technical Credibility:
• Understands and appropriately applies principles, procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Evidence-Based Practice:
• integrates best research practices with clinical expertise and patient values for optimum care and participates in learning and research activities to the extent feasible.
• Standards:
• Knowledge of standards that either are compliant with or derived from established standards or guidelines.
• Reasoning:
• Identifies rules, principles, or relationships that explain facts, data, or other information; analyzes information and makes correct inferences or draws accurate conclusions.
• Decision Making:
• Makes sound, well-informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• equivalent to those typically gained by:
• Completion of a post-secondary education program in nursing, public health, healthcare services, healthcare administration, or a closely related field;
• AND
• Progressively responsible professional nursing experience that includes responsibility in health care, public health, health care delivery systems, nursing administration, consultative nursing, and/or teaching capacity that is relevant to the position's area of nursing specialty.

Special Note

Candidates not currently licensed by the State of Alaska, who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Alaska and requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities, may apply for vacancies in this job class. Applicants qualifying under this option may receive a conditional job offer; however, proof of licensure will be required prior to final appointment and reporting for duty.

Some positions require eligibility for specific professional certifications in a specialty field or licensure in the State of Alaska, such as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Most positions require expertise in a health specialty field; recruitment and selection for these positions will be from among only those candidates who have the appropriate specialty background and experience.

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