NURSING PROGRAM SPECIALIST - SD - 50556024 1

Requisition No: 867306 

Agency: Veterans Affairs

Working Title: NURSING PROGRAM SPECIALIST - SD - 50556024 1

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 50556024 

Salary:  $71,020.56 Annually 

Posting Closing Date: 01/04/2026 

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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: $71,020.56

 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:

• 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.‎

• 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

 

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