Director Nursing Services | Long Term Care
About the role
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.
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 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.
- Includes responsibilities such as interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Requirements
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.
Qualifications
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing
- An active license in the state of practice
- Upon Hire: 4-6 years RN
- Some College in leadership or healthcare administration
Skills
Required Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience
Benefits
Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced, healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.