Nursing Home Adminstrator

Full Spectrum Search Group; Cedar Rapids (IA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator will lead a 63-bed health center within a life plan community in Cedar Rapids, IA, reporting to the Executive Director. This role requires seasoned SNF operations experience, financial acumen, and a dedication to building a cohesive, resident-focused team.

You will drive staffing improvements, reduce contract labor, ensure survey readiness, and collaborate with clinical leadership to maintain high-quality care while navigating regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Current administrator license.
• Significant experience leading skilled nursing operations as an Administrator or Health Center Administrator.
• Strong command of SNF regulations, survey readiness, quality systems, and day-to-day health center operations.
• Demonstrated financial and business acumen within a skilled nursing environment.
• Proven success reducing agency or contract labor and rebuilding, restructuring, or stabilizing in-house staffing.
• Experience leading through staffing-model changes, labor challenges, or nursing-hour initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations for the skilled nursing health center, ensuring quality care, regulatory compliance, resident satisfaction, and operational performance.
• Partner with the Executive Director on campus priorities while maintaining clear accountability for skilled nursing operations.
• Oversee the Assisted Living Manager and collaborate across independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing leadership.
• Maintain survey readiness and ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local skilled nursing regulations.
• Lead staffing strategy, including reducing contract labor, strengthening in-house staffing, and supporting nursing-hour and staffing-model improvements.
• Provide financial oversight for the health center, including labor management, budgeting, expense control, and operational decision-making.
• Build trust and accountability with the DON, ADON, MDS team, unit leadership, and non-clinical department heads.
• Support a positive, high-performance culture that retains strong team members and reinforces resident-centered service.
• Partner with rehabilitation and interdisciplinary teams to support effective care delivery for a standard skilled nursing and rehabilitation population.
• Work with corporate and local leadership to implement operational recommendations associated with the community's management transition.

Skills

Administrator license

SNF operations

Staffing strategies

Labor management

Job description

Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator

CCRC/SNF | Cedar Rapids, IA

Full Spectrum Search Group is a full-service healthcare recruiting agency specializing in post-acute leadership and healthcare administration, serving skilled nursing, senior living, home health, hospice, home care, and the providers and technologies that support the post-acute space.

A community in Cedar Rapids is seeking an experienced Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator to lead its health center and partner closely with the Executive Director.

This is a hands-on operational leadership opportunity for an administrator who knows how to run a strong SNF, develop accountable teams, and improve staffing practices.

Four Uniques

• Lead a 63-bed skilled nursing operation within a full life plan community serving more than 300 residents across independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing.
• Step into a stable, high-census community with occupancy stabilized across skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care.
• Partner with an Executive Director who previously served as the Health Center Administrator and brings direct operational knowledge of the health center.
• Influence the staffing model, strengthen in-house staffing, reduce contract labor, and help elevate operations under a new management arrangement.

Position Summary

The Skilled Nursing Facility Administrator provides operational, financial, regulatory, and team leadership for a 63-bed skilled nursing health center within a broader life plan community. Reporting to the Executive Director, this leader will guide skilled nursing operations, oversee the Assisted Living Manager, and work closely with clinical leadership, department heads, and corporate resources to maintain a resident-centered, survey-ready operation.

The right leader brings a strong SNF operating background, sound financial judgment, and a demonstrated ability to build culture while improving labor management and staffing stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations for the skilled nursing health center, ensuring quality care, regulatory compliance, resident satisfaction, and operational performance.
• Partner with the Executive Director on campus priorities while maintaining clear accountability for skilled nursing operations.
• Oversee the Assisted Living Manager and collaborate across independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing leadership.
• Maintain survey readiness and ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local skilled nursing regulations.
• Lead staffing strategy, including reducing contract labor, strengthening in-house staffing, and supporting nursing-hour and staffing-model improvements.
• Provide financial oversight for the health center, including labor management, budgeting, expense control, and operational decision-making.
• Build trust and accountability with the DON, ADON, MDS team, unit leadership, and non-clinical department heads.
• Support a positive, high-performance culture that retains strong team members and reinforces resident-centered service.
• Partner with rehabilitation and interdisciplinary teams to support effective care delivery for a standard skilled nursing and rehabilitation population.
• Work with corporate and local leadership to implement operational recommendations associated with the community's management transition.

Qualifications

• Current administrator license.
• Significant experience leading skilled nursing operations as an Administrator or Health Center Administrator.
• Strong command of SNF regulations, survey readiness, quality systems, and day-to-day health center operations.
• Demonstrated financial and business acumen within a skilled nursing environment.
• Proven success reducing agency or contract labor and rebuilding, restructuring, or stabilizing in-house staffing.
• Experience leading through staffing-model changes, labor challenges, or nursing-hour initiatives.
• Strong culture-building, team-development, and labor-management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with an Executive Director while operating with meaningful autonomy.
• CCRC or life plan community experience is helpful, but strong standalone SNF administrators will be considered.

Full Spectrum is an equal opportunity search firm. We recruit candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under local, state or federal law