Position Summary

Assists the Director of Nursing in directing activities of licensed and non-licensed personnel whom provide health care and nursing services to residents on a 24-hour, 7- day per week basis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Assists the DON in planning, developing and supervising the activities of the nursing staff.
• Assists in the development and implementation of nursing services, objectives, policies and procedures.
• Works with the DON to recruit, hire and train nursing staff.
• Assists DON with employee appraisals, and resolving problems including disciplinary action.
• Acts as the back-up for the DON, RN and LVN staff.
• May be required to provide direct resident care as needed.
• Oversees clinical operations, including making daily rounds and monitoring resident conditions.
• Responsible for ensuring resident safety, and ensuring residents are treated with the utmost respect.
• Liaison between the residents, family members and the physicians.
• Attends staff meetings and conducts staff meeting if the DON is unavailable.
• Provides reports and recommendations to the DON concerning the operation of nursing services
• Assists the DON in the design, implementation and evaluation of nursing systems that ensure consistent delivery of care and maintains and promotes resident rights.
• Assists DON with conducting ongoing in-services for the nursing staff
• Maintains confidentiality in all aspects of the position regarding residents and employees.
• Must keep abreast of regulatory changes and communicate changes appropriately

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Physical demands
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
  • Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, calculator
  • Travel by auto or airline may be required.

Education & Experience

• Minimum requirements to perform this position include graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing preferred.
• Must be in good standing with the State Board of Nursing and maintain all required continuing education/licensing requirements.
• 3-5 years of nurse management, preferably in a long term care facility.
• To preform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products.
• Knowledge and experience with PCC preferred.
• Must maintain all required continuing education/licensing.
• Must remain in good standing with the State Board of Nursing at all times.