Director of Healthcare

Job Details

Job Location
Franklin - Franklin, WI

Description

SUMMARY: Provides nursing care for residents according to established standards and practices relating to basic nursing, restorative, and personal care services where quality assurance, resident safety, and infection control are inherent responsibilities of the position.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Adheres to the scope of practice for nursing licensure per state regulatory guidelines.
•Monitors residents' safety on a continuing basis, seeks assistance in emergencies, assists family members in times of stress or crisis, and performs established notification procedures during emergency situations.
•Prepares, administers, and charts the administration of prescribed medications; documents effectiveness and adverse reactions.
•Maintains and monitors MARs and EMARsEnsures and performs personal comfort of residents during bathing, cleaning, feeding, bed rest and all other activities.
•Maintains a close working relationship with community leadership to foster resident family support and resident welfare.
•Attends meetings as required; works cooperatively with members of the management and care team, maintains effective interdepartmental and interpersonal relations with residents, staff, and visitors.
•Works to coordinate, support, and supervise home healthcare and hospice services for our residents.
•Ensures all resident documentation is complete and current while maintaining the standards set by the state and the company.
•Reviews incident reports and follow up notes regularly to ensure state reportable incidents are being reported, proper procedure is being followed and documented.Processes and implements physician's orders accurately and promptly, using nursing judgment.
•Conducts inventory of all medical/nursing supplies and places monthly order for needed medical supplies.
•Monitors the careful and efficient use of supplies; checks medical supplies and sees that equipment is clean, disinfected and functions prior to use.
•Communicates changes of resident's conditions, status, and questions/challenges with community leadership and their responsible party.
•Prepares for and participates in care conferences. Takes and records, at predetermined intervals, vital signs such as temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, and blood pressure and measures intake as needed. Collects sputum, urine, and stool, discharge drainage and other specimens as ordered.
•Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints, and resolving problems.
•Must be available to staff 24 hours to answer questions regarding residents.
•Participates in all new resident admissions.
•Performs monthly supervisory visits to all Med Technicians in states where RN delegation is permitted.
•Verifies the training and competency of certified medication aides in states where permitted.
•Provides training and orientation to the caregivers and medication room for personal care supervisors and medication nurses in applicable regions.Provides accurate and timely information regarding resident assessments and status to regional RN for HSS data collection; submits monthly healthcare reports.
•Performs other administrative duties such as answering phones and other related duties.

MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Supervises the Assistant Director of Healthcare as well as on-duty nurses and caregivers.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
•Completion of a Professional Nursing Program, approved by the state of which you are employed, and licensed to practice as a registered or licensed nurse. RN license preferred.
•Minimum of three years' experience in Memory Care preferred. Some supervisory or leadership experience strongly desired.
•Demonstrates appropriate judgment skills to be able to make independent clinical decisions in routine and emergency resident care matters.
•High level of interpersonal skills to handle sensitive and confidential situations and documentation, and interaction with residents' families and families experiencing loss.Attention to detail to ensure accuracy.
•Must have a valid driver's license.
•Ability to work evenings, weekends and flexible hours when necessary to meet the needs of our residents.
•Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating procedures, policies and employee manuals. Ability to write reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively in front of others.
•Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations.
•Excellent verbal, oral and written communication skills.
•This position requires monthly local travel and occasional out of town travel for visits with Medication Technicians.

COMPETENCIES:
•Constructive Conflict - Manages conflict as it arises. Listens well, diffuses conflict before it starts, finds causes of and solutions to problems, handles difficult people.
•Developing Others - Facilitates the development of others. Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; remains aware of each direct report's career goals; assists in the creation of impactful development plans; motivates direct reports to embrace developmental opportunities; removes barriers to development; brings out the best in people.
•Hiring and Staffing - Hires the best people available from inside or outside. Uses a consistent and valid selection process that involves the appropriate people; assesses competencies and fit (job and organization); demonstrates an accurate assessment of talent; is not afraid of selecting strong people.
•Knowledge Sharing & Application - Shares and leverages knowledge and encourages others to do the same. Creates, identifies, organizes and shares knowledge/information freely and encourages others to do the same - leverages knowledge and prior experience to develop workproducts/services; proactively seeks and applies learning and best practices from though leaders internally and externally; contributes to knowledge management processes through people connections, awareness and application of related technology and tools.
•Managing & Measuring - Sets objectives and monitors progress. Clearly assigns responsibility for tasks and decisions; sets clear objectives and measures; monitors process, progress and results appropriately; delivers timely and objective feedback on accomplishments.
•People Management - Focuses and guides others in accomplishing work objectives. Sets performance goals and expectations; tracks and evaluates performance; creates a learning environment; collaboratively establishes development plans; manages all people equitably; supports equal and fair treatment and opportunity for all.
•Priority Setting - Spends time on what is important. Quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial aside; quickly senses what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
•Process Management - Determines the processes necessary to get things done. Knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient work flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; sees opportunities for synergy and integration where others cannot; simplifies complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
•Required to stand and walk regularly, occasionally sit, lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
•The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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