Wellness Director-LPN

Director Of Health Care

The Director of Health Care is responsible for providing 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 their nursing licensure per state regulatory guidelines.
• Maintains a close working relationship with community leadership to foster resident family support and resident welfare.
• Works to coordinate, support, and supervise home health care and hospice services for our residents.
• Demonstrates appropriate judgment skills to be able to make independent clinical decisions in routine and emergency resident care matters.
• Ensures all resident documentation is complete and current while maintaining the standards set by the state and the company.
• 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, administers, and charts the administration of prescribed medications; documents effectiveness and adverse reactions.
• Maintains and monitors MARs and EMARs on a daily basis and ensures accuracy.
• Ensures and performs personal comfort of residents during bathing, cleaning, feeding, bed rest and all other activities
• Prepares for and participates in care conferences.
• 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 situation.
• 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.
• 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 all Clinical Care Team members.
• 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.
• Performs other administrative duties such as answering phones and other related duties.

Managerial And Budgetary Responsibilities:

This job has no budgetary responsibilities.

This job supervises the Clinical Care Team.

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.
• Experience in Memory Care preferred.
• 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.
• 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 be able to speak, read, write and understand English.
• This position requires local travel and occasional out of town travel.

Competencies:

Organization Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize; Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time;

Teamwork Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit.

Business Acumen - Understands business and implications of decisions on the business.

Ethics Follows through on commitments; Inspires the trust of others; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.

Professionalism Approaches others in a tactful manner; Reacts well under pressure; Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions.

Dependability Follows instructions, responds to management direction; results oriented and committed to achieving objectives and tasks as required.

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.

Jasmine Estates Holdings, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit, qualifications, and abilities.

The Company shall recruit, hire, train, and promote in all job titles, including interns, apprentices, and volunteers, without regard to race, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, national origin (including language use and possession of a driver's license issued to persons unable to prove their presence in the United States is authorized under federal law), ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity (including transgender identification), gender expression, age for individuals over forty years of age, military and veteran status of any person, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws ("protected characteristics").