Assisted Living Nursing Director RN LPN

Prestige Care Inc.; Redmond (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pinewood Terrace at Prestige Care and Rehabilitation is seeking a Health Services Director to oversee the health services department and coordinate resident care. The role involves supervising health services staff, ensuring quality care, and collaborating with physicians and families in a fast-paced assisted living setting.

Responsibilities include assessments, care planning, regulatory compliance, infection control, and participation in leadership initiatives.

Qualifications

• Must have a current, unencumbered LPN/LVN or RN license in the state you are practicing.
• RN license strongly preferred; experience in geriatric nursing, medication administration, case management, training/staff development, budgets, and team management is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Creates a resident-centered approach to planning and delivery of services, supporting residents' rights to participate in decision-making and treating residents with dignity and respect.
• Performs health, functional and psychosocial assessments and develops individualized service plans; manages care to maximize resident independence.
• Assesses changes in residents, provides direction to the team, and coordinates care to meet changing needs.
• Collaborates with management on move-in assessments, considering resident needs, acuity, and staffing levels; conducts pre-move-in assessments if needed.
• Coordinates services with physicians, nurses, home health staff, case managers, hospice, and state agencies; arranges ancillary services like pharmacy, podiatry, lab, and x-ray.
• Maintains communication with families regarding health care needs and provides education and support to residents and families.
• Provides supervision and training to health services staff, including delegation of nursing tasks as allowed by state law.
• Participates in incident investigations and root cause analysis, and helps develop interventions.
• Oversees documentation and communication of resident care; maintains records per policies and regulations.
• Supports infection control through training, investigation, reporting, and tracking data.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of rules and trends to adapt resident care practices.
• Provides on-call support and triage for questions about resident concerns.
• Contributes to leadership team initiatives and attends relevant meetings.

Skills

Nursing license

Geriatric care

Case management

Staff development

Budget management

Team leadership

Medication administration

Education

LPN/LVN license

RN license

Associate Degree in Nursing

Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Health Services Director oversees the health services department and ensures resident care needsare met by coordinating resident care, managing health services systems, and providing supervision tohealth services team members. Promotes a positive physical and psychosocial environment for theresidents.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• 1. Creates a resident-centered approach to the planning and delivery of services to residents, supportingresidents' rights to participate in decision-making and treating residents with dignity and respect.
• 2. Performs assessments on health, functional and psychosocial status of residents. Participates in thedevelopment of individualized service plans. Proactively manages care and services for each resident,maximizing the resident’s opportunity to remain in the assisted living environment. Problem-solves aspart of the management team to case manage and meet the needs of residents.
• 3. Assesses or evaluates residents with reported changes of condition. Provides team member direction,service planning, and coordination of care to meet the residents changing needs.
• 4. Collaborates with the management team on the move in of prospective residents, taking intoconsideration the needs of the prospective resident, current community acuity, and staffing levels.Provides in-person pre-move in assessments, if necessary.
• 5. Ensures that resident care needs are met by coordinating services with other professionals, includingphysicians, discharge planners, nurses, home health agency staff, case managers, hospice, and stateagency personnel. Oversees the arrangement of ancillary services such as pharmacy, podiatry, lab, andx-ray as needed.
• 6. Communicates regularly with residents' families regarding health care needs. Provides education andsupport to residents and families.
• 7. Provides supervision and training to health services team members including personal care andmedication management. Manages the delegation of nursing tasks as allowed under applicable statenursing laws and practice acts.
• 8. Partners in the investigation and root cause analysis of incidents. Collaborates with the managementteam on the development and implementation of appropriate interventions.
• 9. Oversees the documentation and communication of resident care and services. Ensures residentrecords are completed in a timely manner and maintained according to company policies and stateregulations.
• 10. Assists in the management of Infection Control. Provides training to staff on infection controlpractices, investigates, and reports incidents of infection and tracks infection data.
• 11. Manages and oversees health services systems. Maintains up-to-date knowledge of all rules,regulations and policies pertaining to resident care. Stays informed of industry and health caretrends and standards, applying new knowledge to meet the changing needs of residents.
• 12. Provides on-call support and phone triage for team members' questions regarding resident concerns.
• 13. Participates in leadership team by actively contributing in decision making, incident follow up, buildingand company-wide initiatives and attending leadership team meetings such as daily stand up, SystemsMonitoring and Resident Tracking (SMART), Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI), andother meetings as required.
• 14. Acts as an ambassador of Prestige by representing the community in a positive manner to outsideagencies and participating in community events and social functions.
• 15. Performs other duties as assigned.

COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES

• 1. Demonstrates Core Values of Respect, Integrity, Commitment, and Trust.
• 2. Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents' families, visitors, and staff.
• 3. Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, team members, thedepartment/center/community, and company information and records.
• 4. Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

Must have a current, unencumbered LPN/LVN or RN license in the state you are practicing. RNstrongly preferred. Experience in geriatric nursing, medication administration, case management,training/staff development, budgets, and team management preferred.

EDUCATION

LPN/LVN, RN, Associate Degree in Nursing, or Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise topersonally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on ourcore values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at thecenter of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforcethat represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures,backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and howwe celebrate what makes us different.

Prestige is proud to be an EqualEmployment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race,religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, orrelated medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability,or other applicable legally protected characteristics.