Director of Nursing

About the role

Join us at Stevens Park Health & Rehab – a place where you’ll be valued, recognized and rewarded for the vital work you do each day. We’ll surround you with a strong team and leadership that supports every aspect of your life – both inside and outside of our centers. And you’ll get to practice your passion in a non-profit, mission-driven organization that’s known for the highest level of care in our communities.

Role Overview

Knowledge and Experience Requires broad management knowledge to lead a team within a department or unit. Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the department. Exhibits servant leadership by serving to negotiate and compromise with parties who may have conflicting objectives.

Team Oversight, Leadership & Talent Management

• Commits to Servant Leadership, further developing skills identified in our Attitudes & Attributes.
• Invests in mentorship – as a mentee and mentor.
• Manages a large team typically comprising of other Managers and/or experienced professionals.
• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with manager review and approval.

Strategy and Organizational Impact

• Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.
• Focuses on tactical and operational plans with short-to mid-term focus (1-2+ years).
• Problems faced may be difficult to moderately complex.
• Influences others outside of own job area regarding policies, practices, and procedures.

Focus, Innovation and Complexity

• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or services to enhance performance of department.
• Strategically considers business case, resource investment, change management, and implementation elements at all stages of projects when a part of a project team.
• Communicates within and outside of the System, including partners, customers, or vendors.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Directs, evaluates, and supervises patient care and initiates corrective action as necessary.
• Assesses patient care needs and the development of individualized plans of patient care.
• Assesses patient needs and making recommendations for special rehabilitation programs.
• Evaluates patient care as related to individualized patient needs, family involvement and the physician's plan of care for the patient.
• Maintains effective lines of communication with attending physicians.
• Maintains knowledge of documentation procedures including appropriate use of forms, timelines, and Medicare documentation etc.
• Maintains a working knowledge of current licensure standards and the survey process.
• Conducts or provides that patient care conferences are conducted.
• Assesses patient responses to medication and treatment, and makes appropriate recommendations for nursing action to be implemented.
• Provides that medications, treatments, diets, rehabilitation and restorative care is provided to patients in accordance with physician’s orders and the patient’s individual needs.
• Reports problems to the Administrator, conducts daily patient rounds, and initiates corrective action as necessary.
• Directs and provides implementation of educational programs, quality assurance program and infection control program.
• Establishes open lines of communication with consultants and consistently takes follow up action on recommendations.
• Consistently makes recommendations of level of care determinations, based on physician’s documentation and plan of care.
• Coordinates the care planning/MDS process and committee meetings as necessary.
• Establishes an annual budget for submission to the governing body for approval.
• Provides for the purchase and availability of all necessary supplies.

Required Qualifications

• A RN nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Responsible for the supervision of the Nursing Services department.

Skills And Abilities

• Proficient in using a computer, especially Microsoft Office, Excel and Power Point.
• Excellent organizational and prioritizing skills required.
• Effective and professional verbal, and written communication skills.
• Communicates well with other associates, patients, family members, and visitors providing warm and friendly greeting and an approachable attitude. Responds to expressed concerns while displaying a helpful, caring demeanor, answers questions when appropriate in a professional manner.
• Operates the nursing department in accordance with the organization’s established guidelines, and in compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Demonstrates appropriate/effective supervisory skills that include fair and uniformly applied corrective actions administered without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap or marital status.
• Attends and participates in continuing educational programs to keep abreast of changes in your field as well as to maintain current license/certification, as required.

Computer Application Skills

• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Please See Minimum Qualifications

Physical Demands

• Sit, talk or hear.
• Walk.
• Use hands to finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms.
• Stand.
• Close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

EEO / M / F / D / V / Drug Free Workplace

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