Director Nursing Services | Long Term Care (Creighton, NE)

Avera Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus up to $15,000

Job summary

Avera Creighton Care Center in Sioux Falls is seeking a hospital leader to oversee department operations during the day shift. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide safe, efficient, and cost-effective patient care while supporting staff.

You will develop short- and long-range plans, manage resources, and ensure regulatory compliance, training, and performance development, aligning with Avera’s strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified and communicate effectively.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Ability to understand and apply applicable laws and regulations; cooperate with the team.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the ability to facilitate staff and resources to reinforce the vision of Avera.
• Cultivates relationships across functions and departments of local facility, region, and system.
• Develops short and long range plans for the department, community and health system.
• Demonstrates the ability to establish benchmark goals to guide the department’s activities and effectively deal with variances.
• Manages the resources of department and hospital to achieve outcomes with minimum resources.
• Develops positive relationships with customers to promote Avera’s referral base.
• Utilizes teamwork to improve operation within the department, hospital, and Avera.
• Maintains knowledge of Medicare reimbursement principles and applicable regulations; updates departmental policies.
• Supports Avera’s strategic goals and develops department goals accordingly.
• Interviews, hires, develops, trains, and retains employees; plans and leads work; evaluates performance; handles complaints.

Job description

Location

Avera Creighton Care Center

Worker Type

Regular

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Position Highlights

This position may be eligible for a $15,000 sign-on bonus!

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Collaborates with appropriate interdisciplinary team members in assuring that services are provided in a safe, efficient, and cost effective manner that enhances patient, staff, and physician satisfaction. Accountable for department success through sound decision making, fiscal financial planning, maintaining appropriate staff levels, monitoring competency and quality of services.

What you will do

• Demonstrates the ability to facilitate staff and resources to reinforce the vision of Avera.
• Cultivates relationships across functions and departments of local facility, region, and system.
• Develops short and long range plans for the department, community and health system.
• Demonstrates the ability to establish benchmark goals to guide the department’s activities and effectively deal with variances. This includes developing data, analysis, setting thresholds, and developing action plans which resolve discrepancies.
• Manages the resources of department and hospital in a way that provides effective outcomes while at the same time only using minimum resources to achieve those outcomes.
• Develops positive relationships with customers (physicians, patients, families, and referral sources) that help to promote Avera’s referral base.
• Utilizes teamwork to help achieve objectives and improve operation within the department, hospital, and Avera.
• Maintains basic knowledge of Medicare reimbursement principles, understands and addresses to applicable laws and regulations, reviews and updates departmental policies and practices to reflect current regulations.
• Supports Avera’s strategic goals and develops the departmental goals accordingly.
• Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.