RN - Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse (RN) – Skilled Nursing and Subacute Rehabilitation

Elderwood at Cheektowaga is seeking Registered Nurses to join our skilled nursing and rehabilitation team. This is more than a traditional long-term-care nursing position. Our RNs care for long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients transitioning from hospital to home, creating an environment with meaningful clinical variety, interdisciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to strengthen your assessment and technical skills.

You will provide direct nursing care, coordinate with providers and rehabilitation professionals, guide CNAs, respond to changes in condition, and develop relationships with residents and families that often extend beyond a brief hospital encounter.

Whether you are an experienced post-acute nurse, coming from a hospital or another clinical setting, or looking to build your skilled nursing experience, Elderwood at Cheektowaga offers an opportunity to remain clinically engaged while making a visible difference in recovery, comfort, safety, and quality of life.

Potential earnings of up to $48.00 per hour, based on experience and including applicable shift differentials.

Experience credit reflected in your individual rate

Shift differentials for qualifying evening, overnight, and weekend hours

Additional 10% premium-pay opportunity for eligible employees who opt out of certain elective benefits

Employee referral bonus opportunities of up to $2,000

Full-time, part-time, and per diem scheduling options

Day, evening, and overnight shifts available

Ask our recruitment team to explain the available compensation programs and how your experience, shift, employment status, and benefit elections may affect your individual rate.

Elderwood at Cheektowaga is a 172-bed skilled nursing community providing long-term care, memory care, and comprehensive subacute rehabilitation.

Our clinical teams care for individuals recovering from illness, injury, surgery, orthopedic procedures, and cardiac conditions. Facility capabilities include:

• IV therapy
• PICC-line management
• Wound-vac therapy
• Complex wound care
• Ostomy care
• Enteral feeding
• Dialysis coordination

Depending on your assignment, resident needs, physician orders, and demonstrated competencies, you may care for patients receiving these treatments while managing medications, completing assessments, monitoring clinical progress, coordinating services, and preparing patients for a safe transition to their next level of care.

For RNs who enjoy med-surg-style clinical variety but also value continuity, teamwork, and meaningful patient relationships, this is an engaging post-acute nursing environment.

Registered Nurses at Elderwood have meaningful clinical responsibility - but they are not expected to practice without support. You will work with onsite nursing leaders, including Unit Managers, RN Supervisors, the Assistant Director of Nursing, and the Director of Nursing. You will also collaborate with providers, rehabilitation professionals, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

Facility clinical leadership receives additional support from Elderwood Administrative Services, including organization-wide direction from the Chief Nursing Officer and an assigned Regional Nurse Consultant. This broader structure supports clinical standards, quality, regulatory readiness, leadership development, and problem-solving throughout the facility—giving bedside nurses the benefit of working within an established clinical organization.

A staff RN position at Elderwood can be both meaningful clinical practice today and a foundation for future growth. Registered Nurses may have opportunities to develop as preceptors, RN Supervisors, Unit Managers, Nurse Educators, ADONs, DONs, and other clinical leaders. Tuition-reimbursement and professional-development programs are available to eligible employees pursuing continued education and career advancement.

RNs who demonstrate strong performance, leadership potential, and an interest in future Director of Nursing opportunities may also be considered for advanced development experiences, including Widener University's Director of Nursing Leadership Academy.

Whether you want to deepen your bedside practice or begin preparing for leadership, Elderwood offers multiple ways to continue developing your nursing career.

Elderwood at Cheektowaga offers a convenient nursing opportunity for RNs throughout Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Depew, Lancaster, Sloan, South Buffalo, and Buffalo's eastern neighborhoods.

Located near I-90 and accessible from Route 33 and other major local corridors, the facility may also be within a practical commute of Lackawanna, Williamsville, Amherst, Clarence, Elma, Alden, Orchard Park, and surrounding Erie County communities.

If you want an RN position that combines clinical variety, team leadership, interdisciplinary practice, and meaningful relationships, we would like to meet you. Apply today to join the nursing team at Elderwood at Cheektowaga.

What You'll Do as a Registered Nurse (RN) at Elderwood:

• Assess, monitor, and evaluate the clinical status of assigned residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients
• Administer medications, treatments, and other ordered nursing services safely and accurately
• Identify and respond promptly to symptoms, risks, and changes in condition
• Communicate clinical changes and concerns to providers, nursing leaders, residents, and families
• Follow individualized plans of care and contribute information needed to keep those plans current
• Support admissions, care transitions, rehabilitation goals, and discharge planning as assigned
• Maintain accurate nursing notes, medication-administration records, treatment records, and other required documentation

Collaborate with providers, rehabilitation professionals, social work, dietary, pharmacy, and other members of the interdisciplinary team

Coordinate care and follow-through for residents with complex treatments and appointments

Help ensure that physician orders, treatment plans, and clinical recommendations are implemented appropriately

Support safe communication during shift report and transitions of care

Educate residents and families regarding care needs, treatments, medications, and recovery goals within the RN's role

Direct and monitor personal-care duties and nursing procedures completed by CNAs on the assigned team

Establish clear expectations and provide guidance throughout the shift

Assist CNAs with direct resident care when resident or unit needs require it

Monitor implementation of each resident's plan of care

Promote respectful communication, teamwork, reliability, and accountability

Escalate staffing, clinical, safety, or performance concerns to the appropriate nursing leader

Protect resident rights, dignity, preferences, confidentiality, and independence

Support infection prevention, medication safety, fall prevention, skin integrity, and other quality priorities

Maintain readiness for regulatory surveys and clinical-quality reviews

Respond to resident and family concerns professionally and with appropriate follow-through

Contribute to a safe, organized, respectful, and resident-centered care environment

What You'll Need as a Registered Nurse (RN) with Elderwood:

• Current license and registration to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State
• Ability to assess residents, administer medications and treatments, respond to changes in condition, and document nursing care accurately
• Ability to direct, support, and work collaboratively with CNAs and other members of the care team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Sound clinical judgment, organization, and problem-solving abilities
• A caring, mature, diplomatic, and respectful approach to residents, families, and coworkers
• Physical stamina for an active, hands-on nursing position
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at the level necessary for safe care and effective workplace communication

Nursing experience in skilled nursing, subacute rehabilitation, long-term care, geriatrics, medical-surgical nursing, or another clinically complex setting

Experience caring for residents with dementia or cognitive impairment

Experience with IV therapy, PICC lines, wound care, enteral feeding, dialysis coordination, or post-acute recovery

Experience directing or supporting CNAs as part of a nursing team

Nurses from hospital, rehabilitation, medical-surgical, dialysis, home health, assisted living, and other clinical settings are encouraged to apply. Previous skilled nursing experience is valuable, but clinically capable RNs interested in developing post-acute expertise should also be considered.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender,