Home Health Branch Director

About the role

The Branch Director serves as the supervising nurse and is a registered professional nurse who provides oversight of all patient care services and personnel. Ensures quality of patient care in the home.

Responsibilities

• Provides oversight of all patient care services and personnel.
• Ensures quality of patient care in the home.
• Coordinates care with the interdisciplinary team, patient, family and referring agency.
• Coordinates patient care.
• Coordinates and integrates care provided by Agency staff, including contractual providers.
• Completes workflow tasks and other assignments to the BD Responsible Position in the Agency’s electronic medical record.
• Ensures communication with all physicians involved in a patient’s plan of care and other health care practitioners (as appropriate).
• Integrates orders from all relevant physicians involved into the plan of care and ensures the orders are approved by the responsible physician.
• Coordinates referrals.
• Participates in activities relevant to professional services including development of qualifications.
• Recommends resources needed to provide care.
• Makes patient and personnel assignments.
• Assures that patient needs are continually assessed.
• Assures reassessment of the patient’s needs is performed by the appropriate healthcare professional when there is a significant health status change in the patient’s condition, at the physician’s request, and after hospital discharge.
• Assures the development, implementation, and updates of the individualized plan of care in partnership with the patient, representative (if any), and caregiver(s).
• Ensures provision of services as ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care, including patient and caregiver education and patient, caregiver, and family counseling.
• Prepares clinical notes as appropriate.
• Assumes responsibility for continuity, quality, and safety of services delivered in compliance with State and federal regulations.
• Collaborates on development and implementation of policies and procedures which guide and support the provision of care.
• Collaborates with Agency leadership and appropriate staff to develop the organizational plan as it pertains to patient care.
• Monitors and participates in the QAPI Program and assures appropriate corrective measures are performed.
• Promotes compliance with all fiscal intermediary and/or other third-party payors, through education, coaching, and other assistance as necessary.
• Monitors systems and identifies problem areas to Administrator both verbally and through written reports.
• Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
• Promotes and educates regarding the concepts of infection control and standard precautions in coordinating or performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
• Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
• Participates in Agency-sponsored in-service training.
• Ensures the care offered by the Agency, including any branches, is consistently available to all patients.

Requirements

• Graduate