Resident Care Director

Full Spectrum Search Group; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Full Spectrum Search Group is seeking a Resident Care Director to lead clinical operations at a 95-unit senior living community in San Jose, CA. This role reports to the General Manager and oversees resident-care compliance, clinical oversight, labor management, and the day-to-day leadership of medication technicians and caregivers.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned senior living nurse with strong regulatory knowledge, visible people leadership, and a focus on morale, retention, and service

Qualifications

• Experience as a Resident Care Director or similar in senior living.
• Ability to oversee resident care, compliance, documentation, and changes in condition.
• Strong knowledge of assisted living regulations and memory care operations.
• Proven people leadership with caregivers and medication technicians.
• Excellent communication with clinical and non-clinical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the community's clinical leader and nursing resource for assisted living and memory care residents.
• Maintain compliance with assisted living regulations, policies, assessments, care plans, and documentation.
• Provide clinical nursing oversight, including wound review and follow-up.
• Lead, coach, schedule, orient, and develop frontline staff.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, and resident-centered service.
• Monitor staffing needs, scheduling, and labor utilization to support safe care.
• Partner with General Manager on move-ins, service planning, and operations.
• Collaborate with memory care supervisors on staffing and resident priorities.
• Conduct staff education, coaching, and onboarding to strengthen practices.
• Communicate clinical needs clearly to non-clinical leadership, residents, and families.
• Help stabilize morale and retention while improving resident and employee experience.

Job description

Resident Care Director

Senior Living | San Jose, CA

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 family-owned senior living operator is seeking an experienced Resident Care Director to lead clinical operations at its established community in San Jose, CA.

This is a hands-on clinical leadership role for a senior living nurse who can independently manage resident-care compliance while building accountability, cohesion, and confidence across the caregiving team. You will inherit a solid community foundation and help elevate the resident and employee experience.

Three Uniques

• Lead clinical operations in a right-sized, approximately 95-unit community serving independent living, assisted living, and memory care residents.
• Join a family-owned senior living organization focused on resident quality of life and long-term relationships, without public-market ownership pressure.
• Step into a refreshed, well-maintained community that recently completed a deficiency-free regulatory survey and is positioned for continued improvement.

Position Summary

The Resident Care Director is the community's primary clinical leader and sole nurse. Reporting to the General Manager, you will oversee resident-care compliance, clinical oversight, labor management, and the day-to-day leadership of medication technicians and caregivers.

This opportunity requires a senior living operator who can balance clinical judgment with visible people leadership. You will manage changing resident needs, guide staff through accountability and development, partner closely with community leadership, and help strengthen morale, retention, collaboration, and service delivery across assisted living and memory care.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the community's clinical leader and nursing resource for assisted living and memory care residents.
• Maintain compliance with applicable assisted living regulations, community policies, resident assessments, care plans, clinical documentation, and changes-in-condition processes.
• Provide clinical nursing oversight, including wound review and follow-up as needed.
• Lead, coach, schedule, orient, and develop medication technicians and caregivers.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, consistency, and resident-centered service.
• Monitor staffing needs, call-offs, assignments, and labor utilization to support safe and consistent resident care.
• Partner with the General Manager and sales team on resident needs, move-in readiness, service planning, and overall community operations.
• Collaborate with memory care supervisors on caregiving concerns, staffing coordination, resident needs, and community-wide priorities.
• Conduct staff education, in-services, performance coaching, and onboarding to strengthen clinical practices and team capability.
• Communicate clinical needs clearly and effectively to non-clinical operational leadership, residents, and families.
• Help stabilize team morale and retention while advancing a stronger resident and employee experience.

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Resident Care Director, Wellness Director, Director of Nursing, or comparable clinical leadership professional in senior living.
• Demonstrated ability to independently oversee resident care, clinical compliance, documentation, assessments, and changes in condition across a multi-resident setting.
• Strong working knowledge of assisted living regulations and resident-care operations. Direct memory care leadership experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven people leadership experience with caregivers, medication technicians, or comparable frontline clinical staff, including scheduling, training, accountability, onboarding, and staff development.
• Clinical judgment and communication skills to operate effectively as the primary nursing resource within the community.
• A track record of improving team stability, morale, accountability, retention, resident experience, or other meaningful operational outcomes.
• Experience partnering with a General Manager or other non-clinical operational leader.
• Skilled nursing, rehabilitation, or staff-development leadership experience may be considered when supported by meaningful multi-resident oversight and frontline team leadership.
• Must be local to, or have a realistic long-term commute plan for, San Jose, CA.
• Ability to work a site-based schedule, preferably Sunday through Thursday, with availability to address as-needed issues in a 24-hour, seven-day senior living operation.

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.