DIRECTOR OF NURSING

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• Bonus based on performance
• Competitive salary
• Paid time off
• Training & development

Core Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for all clinical services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high‑quality, patient‑centered home health care in compliance with federal, state, and accreditation standards.
• Oversee the intake, review, and clinical appropriateness of all case referrals by evaluating patient information, required disciplines, and care complexity to determine service needs.
• Direct clinician assignment and staffing decisions to ensure optimal patient outcomes, staff utilization, and regulatory compliance.
• Lead and manage all clinical staff, including hiring, onboarding, training, competency validation, performance evaluation, and retention strategies.
• Establish and oversee structured onboarding and hands‑on field training programs for newly hired clinicians to ensure clinical proficiency and regulatory readiness.
• Perform and oversee OASIS assessments and field visits as necessary to support quality assurance, risk mitigation, and operational continuity.
• Maintain accountability for clinical excellence by reviewing cases through documentation audits, case conferences, record reviews, and direct collaboration with clinical staff.
• Guide clinicians in interpreting clinical findings, validating impressions, and strengthening clinical decision‑making to improve patient outcomes and survey readiness.
• Ensure continuous availability of clinical leadership during operating hours to support clinicians with complex cases, urgent concerns, and care coordination needs.
• Review and evaluate patient diagnoses, medications, procedures, and clinical progression to ensure accurate care planning and compliance with standards of care.
• Lead the development, implementation, and oversight of individualized plans of care, ensuring alignment with patient goals, physician orders, and regulatory requirements.
• Chair or actively participate in interdisciplinary case conferences to promote collaboration, continuity of care, and quality improvement.
• Drive recruitment efforts by leading or supporting clinician interviews, selection decisions, and onboarding recommendations in alignment with organizational needs.
• Oversee clinician orientation programs and ensure staff competency with agency policies, procedures, clinical protocols, and documentation standards.
• Ensure full compliance with professional practice standards, Conditions of Participation (CoPs), state regulations, and agency Standard Operating Procedures.
• Uniformly enforce agency policies and procedures, modeling accountability, consistency, and professionalism across the clinical team.
• Lead by example in alignment with the agency’s Four Core Tenets, fostering a culture of integrity, excellence, accountability, and patient advocacy.
• Implement ongoing competency assessments and performance monitoring to ensure clinicians’ adherence to policies, procedures, and evidence‑based practice.
• Conduct joint field visits with clinicians to provide mentorship, reinforce clinical best practices, and support continuous quality improvement.
• Collaborate closely with the Administrator and executive leadership to support operational goals, survey readiness, risk management, and organizational growth.
• Assume responsibility for additional clinical and administrative initiatives as delegated by the Administrator.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Registered nurse with an active license and able to practice in Florida state.
• Two years of experience in a home health is mandatory 
• Well organized, and have excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Experience using any EMR (we use Synergy).
• Knowledge of AHCA regulations and CHAP standards.
• Knowledge of OASIS