Summary This role involves coordinating medical, mental health, dental, and durable medical equipment services for detained non-citizens at non-IHSC facilities, ensuring compliance with ICE standards, conducting site visits, case monitoring, and providing medical expertise. Travel and 24/7 availability are required. This is a non-supervisory position.
This position is only open to current USPHS officers.
USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates are not eligible for this position. Duties Help
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Provides medical consultation services for the incumbent's assigned area of responsibility (AOR) Field Office Director (FOD) and relevant field office staff regarding the health care of incoming or detained non-citizens in the custody of ICE at non-IHSC facilities.
- Serves as the medical subject matter expert and medical liaison for the FOD and field office, contract facility medical staff, and IHSC headquarters.
- Recommends and assists with determination and coordination of alternative placement options for detained non-citizens with complex medical and mental health care needs.
- Conducts routine and ad hoc site visits at ICE/ERO designated facilities within the Field Office Director's AOR and formally reports site visit findings to ICE/ERO and IHSC for review and approval of medical compliance findings related to ICE National Detention Standards (NDS) and Performance-Based NDS (PBNDS) standards.
- Evaluates ongoing non-IHSC facility medical compliance with ICE NDS, and PBNDS through tracking and trending facility performance and internal and external site visit findings.
- Initiates, monitors, and evaluates success action plan (SAP) for areas of noncompliance with ICE NDS and PBNDS standards.
- Conducts independent medical reviews as requested by IHSC headquarters or the FOD.
- Investigates complaints, conducts formal medical record reviews, and devises formal response reports related to detained non-citizen health care in response to inquiries as assigned by IHSC Taskings and Program Support Unit or IHSC leadership.
- Provides AOR case monitoring and reporting.
- Ensures appropriate safe release plan for continuity of care is established prior to release or removal of ICE detained non-citizens with complex health care needs.
- Provides orientation and ongoing training and guidance to respective custody and medical staff in non-IHSC facilities regarding medical standards and any relevant IHSC policies, procedures, and directives.
- Notifies and updates IHSC and ICE/ERO via the Unified Patient Tracking System (UPTS) on reportable incidents to include emergency department referral, hospital admission/discharge, psychiatric emergency, death, pregnancy, transgender, hunger strike, suicide attempt, abuse or neglect, and sexual assault per designated process.
- Reviews and assists in adjudicating specialty appointment requests for outside medical, mental health, dental, and DME services.
- Provides guidance, recommendations, and support to ICE regarding appropriate placement of detained non-citizens with special/complex medical and mental health needs.
- Assists contract medical facilities with the provider recruitment approval process for detained non-citizens in the custody of ICE.
- Liaises with the FOD/field office, medical staff at non-IHSC staffed detention facilities and IHSC headquarters on Serious Mental Illnesses (SMI), serious mental disorders/conditions, and patients deemed incompetent per designated process.
- Collaborates with the Behavioral Health Unit (BHU) for notification and ongoing monitoring for suicide watches.
- Collaborates with the BHU to coordinate safe release planning for SMI cases.
- Provides AOR case monitoring and reporting on all Serious Detainee Illnesses (SDI) cases per designated process.
- Provides tracking notifications and updates via IHSC PHSP tracking sources on infectious disease cases.
- Notifies and updates IHSC and ICE on AOR reportable incidents regarding detained non-citizens via the IHSC Incident Reporting System and other designated processes.
- Devises and submits formal reports and responds to non-routine and informal requests from leadership/ IHSC Taskings and Program Support Unit.
- Accesses interpretation and/or translation services as needed to ensure optimal communication with detained non-citizens or others who are not proficient in the English language.
- Liaises with non-IHSC facility/IHSC and outside pharmacies to acquire medications for detained non-citizens to include travel packs,
