Wellness Director

Job Description

Job Description

Wellness Director
Oliver Woods Assisted Living & Memory Care

Join a team that is passionate about creating meaningful moments and providing exceptional care for seniors every day. We are seeking a compassionate, hands-on clinical leader to serve as our next Wellness Director / Resident Care Director. In this impactful leadership role, you will guide our clinical team, support resident wellbeing, and help create a warm, safe, and engaging environment for both residents and staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for a nurse or experienced healthcare professional who thrives in senior living and is passionate about leading with empathy, accountability, and heart.

Who We’re Looking For:
• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) preferred
• We also welcome candidates with strong clinical backgrounds, including Respiratory Therapists or other healthcare professionals with leadership experience in senior living, assisted living, memory care, or healthcare settings
• Strong leadership, communication, and team-building skills
• Passion for serving seniors and creating an outstanding resident experience

Position Summary:
As the Wellness Director, you will oversee the overall direction, coordination, and delivery of resident care services within our community. This role is responsible for leading and supporting the clinical team, ensuring quality care and regulatory compliance, fostering meaningful employee and resident connections, and creating a true “1440 experience” — where every minute matters for our residents and team members alike.

Required Experience for Wellness Director:

• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) registered within the State preferred. CDP required prior to or upon hire within 90 days. Assisted Living/Memory Care experience preferred.
• Leadership experience preferred.
• Proven ability to manage revenue and financials successfully.
• Proven high performer.
• Ability to work successfully through complex issues; problem solve.

Accountabilities for Wellness Director:

• Lead, manage, and overall accountability for your team and their performance.
• Revenue for Wellness, Evaluations & Care Conferences and Service Plans: Responsible for ensuring right care, at the right price with the right staff.
• Alzheimer and Dementia Program Coordinator.
• Understanding and leading to our 1440 care standards.
• Clear Communication of Vision: Ability to translate how our organizational, community and wellness goals relate to our team, staff and residents.
• Community Leader Partnership (including skilled care): Leading relationships with fellow community leaders and external partners by meeting and following through on action items.

Other Key Responsibilities for Wellness Director:

• Wellness Marketing: Own the relationships with your Executive Director and Sales Team and market wellness throughout the community by increasing, visibility, credibility and trust.
• Perform admission and ongoing evaluations of residents every 6 months, upon return from Hospital or skilled environment, or change of condition (initiate care conference) and use this information to set measurable goals and outcomes for residents that meet the physical, mental, and psychosocial needs.
• Manage all appropriate state regulations and auditing to ensure our community is in compliance.
• Obtain written orders for any necessary changes to care plan.
• Verification of MARS/TARS and communicate with pharmacy to assure accuracy of medication and treatment administration.
• Reviews incident reports submitted by staff members to determine if an assessment/care conference needs to be performed on an existing resident & address any personnel issues which are identified.
• Communication of all emergency policies and provision of updated information to staff.
• Work toward continual improvement of the overall organization.
• Available to work a flexible schedule including on call, weekends, and holidays when necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills for Success:

• Applying knowledge of our business and competition to advance organization.
• Managing complex situations
• Building strong resident relationships, 1440 Care Standards.
• Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.
• Planning, scheduling and prioritizing to meet community needs
• Building strong teams and applying a diverse skill set to achieve goals
• Managing conflict resourcefully while minimizing drama.
• Sharing our vision and strategy to motivate others to action.
• Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Understanding our organizational structure and navigates through policies, regulations, functional, community and home office team relationships.
• Communicating clearly and frequently.
• Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Being open to try new things and learns from successes and failures.

General Working Conditions:

This position entails standing for long periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The work environment requires appropriate interaction with others. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Occasional travel to different locations may be required.

We are fortunate to serve seniors, employers, employees, patients, and each other.

StoryPoint and Independence Village have over 35 years of experience working and living with seniors creating a deep understanding of their unique needs and desires. It’s this combination of technology, understanding, appreciation, and commitment that sets us apart and makes our culture so special for both our employees and our residents. Everyone in our communities commits to appreciating our residents as individuals who deserve to shine, every day.

We have comprehensive benefit packages that include health, dental, vision, 401(k), income protection, and extraordinary work- life benefits.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

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