Director of Health Services (RN)

Director Of Health Services

The Director of Health Services (DHS) is responsible for overseeing the clinical operations of the Assisted Living and/or Memory Care community while ensuring exceptional resident care, regulatory compliance, and quality outcomes. The DHS provides leadership and support to nursing staff, medication technicians, caregivers, and other clinical team members while promoting a culture of compassion, teamwork, accountability, and person-centered care.

Working closely with the Administrator/Executive Director, the Director of Health Services ensures residents receive individualized care that promotes dignity, independence, and quality of life.

Responsibilities include participating in infection prevention and control activities, ensuring medication management practices meet regulatory standards, training, coaching, and supervising nursing and clinical staff, providing ongoing education and competency evaluations, conducting performance evaluations and corrective action when appropriate, promoting employee engagement, teamwork, and professional development, assisting with staffing plans and scheduling to ensure adequate clinical coverage, building trusting relationships with residents and their families, communicating changes in resident condition promptly, participating in care conferences, performing and overseeing nurse delegation in accordance with applicable state regulations, including resident assessments, caregiver training, competency validation, and ongoing supervision, addressing resident and family concerns professionally and compassionately, overseeing medication administration systems, ensuring medications are ordered, stored, administered, and documented appropriately, collaborating with consulting pharmacists, monitoring medication passes and providing coaching as needed, partnering with the Administrator/Executive Director to support overall community operations, collaborating with Life Enrichment, Dining Services, Maintenance, Housekeeping, and other departments, fostering a positive, resident-centered culture, responding to medical emergencies and critical incidents, participating in emergency preparedness planning and drills, serving as the clinical leader during emergency situations, and other duties as assigned.

Requirements include Registered Nurse (RN) Licensure in the State of practice, minimum of two years of nursing leadership experience preferred, experience in Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, or Geriatric Care preferred, thorough understanding of state regulations governing Assisted Living and Memory Care communities, strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills, excellent leadership, communication, and organizational abilities, proficient with electronic health records and Microsoft Office, experience supervising clinical teams, experience with dementia care and memory support programming, knowledge of infection prevention and quality improvement initiatives, CPR/BLS certification, and must successfully complete a required background check in accordance with applicable federal, state, local laws and organization policy.