About This Role
This key position in an award-winning assisted living community focuses on all care-related activities for residents and managing a team of caregiving staff. The role suits a positive, energetic individual with strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills, coupled with care and compassion for seniors.
Responsibilities
- Ensure quality care from caregiving staff
- Create and maintain staffing schedules with limited overtime
- Be on-call for staffing needs, occasional shift fill-ins, and providing directions to staff as needed
- Supervise staff in dispensing medication to residents and ensure related paperwork is completed appropriately
- Assist LVN in pre-appraisal and re-appraisal of residents for appropriateness in the setting
- Attend and contribute to resident care conferences with LVN and families
- Ensure that Med Techs communicate with residents and families to meet all medical needs of residents
- Contact physicians when necessary
- Inform dietary services of any special diet needs of residents under direction from LVN
- Ensure that hospice residents receive quality care, emergency medication, and that staff and family are kept in the communication loop
- Train staff in community policies and procedures, with emphasis on the wellness department procedures
- Oversee all ordering of pharmaceuticals, medical, and caregiving supplies
- Ensure that narcotic medication is maintained under lock and key with limited access and inventoried on a regular basis per licensing regulations
- Ensure that all care staff receive the appropriate training as required by state regulations
- Coordinate the overseeing of training for Med Techs and caregivers
- Review daily care log and address any pending problems
- Ensure that incident reports are submitted to the administrator
- Supervise care staff on the floor on a daily basis
- Be willing to work weekends and holidays
Requirements
- At least 2 years' supervisory experience
- At least 2 years' experience at an Assisted Living facility or equivalent
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office/365, Excel, Word
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with healthcare teams
- Ability to lead a team and foster teamwork with all departments
- Flexibility in availability and additional responsibilities
- Strong written and oral expression skills
- Ability to follow physician’s direction and care plans
- Ability to solve problems effectively
- Ability to coordinate multiple tasks/priorities simultaneously