NURSING PROGRAM SPECIALIST - SD - 50556024

Requisition No: 847872 

Agency: Veterans Affairs

Working Title: NURSING PROGRAM SPECIALIST - SD - 50556024

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 50556024 

Salary:  $69,628.00 

Posting Closing Date: 03/01/2025 

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Requisition #847872

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NURSING PROGRAM SPECIALIST / STAFF DEVELOPER

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Alwyn C. Cashe State Veterans’ Nursing Home

Orlando, Orange County

Annual Salary: $69,628.00

Paid Bi-Weekly

This position is eligible for overtime pay!

The Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs is an agency ‎dedicated to ‎serving those who served U.S.  Our ‎skilled nursing ‎facility boasts a loyal team of long-term employees and a ‎fantastic ‎work culture.‎

Excellent retirement package and optional deferred compensation ‎plan.  ‎Health, vision, dental, ‎disability, and other supplemental ‎insurance ‎available at reasonable premium rates.  Paid vacation ‎and ‎sick leave. ‎Nine (9) paid holidays and personal day.  Tuition ‎waiver available for ‎State Universities and ‎Community Colleges ‎‎(up to 6 credits per semester).‎ ‎

The FDVA State Veterans’ Nursing Homes and Domiciliary are designated employment sites for the Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program. From funds available, the program may make nursing education loan repayments of up to $4,000 per year, per nurse enrolled in the program, for a maximum of four years.  Payment is made at the end of each 12-month enrollment period and made directly to the participant’s lender.  Enrollment and payment of awards is based on available funds.

Education and employment history must be verifiable.  Please attach any credentials you claim (degrees, certifications, etc.) to your application.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a current Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs employee.
• Licensed in Florida as a Registered Professional Nurse
• Current CPR certification
• Must have excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word and Excel)
• Must be willing and able to work weekends and holidays as needed
• Successful completion of the due diligence process to include, but not ‎limited to, a Level II background check and drug test

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in a long-term health care environment (assisted living facility, nursing home, skilled nursing facility)
• Experience in staff development / staff education
• Supervisory experience

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The incumbent is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining a written ‎framework of staff educational plan that promotes the growth and development of its ‎licensed and unlicensed staff.‎

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• Develop, coordinate and monitor facility orientation
• Lead the nursing assistant training ‎program; and continuing education program, including preparation of comprehensive ‎curriculum, pre-testing and post-testing materials, scheduling, and recordkeeping ‎requirements‎ ‎
• Identify, analyze, and provide training for individualized needs identified as a result of ‎post-test/performance monitoring ‎
• ‎Arrange and conduct orientation classes for all newly hired personnel
• ‎Maintain current certification in Basic Life Support, and perform this skill when ‎necessary
• ‎Research and development of regularly updated resource guide of professional training ‎opportunities available to facility personnel
• ‎‎Perform all duties assigned in a cooperative, effective, timely and professional manner
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Nursing

This position is in the Career Service system.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.