Come join our team as a clinical team leader at our state of the art, skilled nursing facility. The Nurse Unit Manager directly oversees the care delivery and process implementation on the nursing care units. The position ensures the needs of the residents, resident families and staff are met during the care delivery process.
Salary range: $72,500 to $85,000 annually with opportunity of further growth.
Responsibilities
- Oversees the care delivery of patients on the nursing care units and acts as a resource nurse for the nursing staff
- To expedite the patient and family adaptation to the geriatric environment through communication and education
- Creates an environment of excellent care delivery by the nurses and nurse aides on the nursing care units.
- Monitors patient care and environment by making daily rounds independently and with the DON
- Oversees implementation of proper infection control, wound care management and fall reduction processes
- New patient admissions - assists with the new patient admission process and promotes the initiation of the new patient care plan (48-hour care plan) to ensure the needs are being met
- Assists nurses with the education new and/or inexperienced nurse aides in proper methods of patient care
- Provides ongoing in-service training on the spot as problems are identified
- Assists charge nurses during busy times
- Accepts, researches and solves complaints/concerns per policy and procedure
- Performs chart/charting audits to ensure proper care treatments and documentation of same as delegated
- Acts as a member of the Infection Control, Skin Integrity Team and Fall Reduction Management
- Performs on-call services as required, ensuring adequate and safe staffing
- Is directly accountable to DON and ADON and is committed to keeping the director informed of all occurrences in the facility
- All other duties as delegated by the DON and ADON
QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing, RN, and have a current license in the state in which he/she is practicing.
- Needs to be able to work well directly with residents, staff and families.
- Possesses good organizational skills and follow-up when issues occur.
- High level problem solving, system/process analysis, critical thinking skills
- Needs clinical leadership experience and good attention to detail to ensure the facility has appropriate clinical oversight and leadership to promote excellent care delivery
Doverwood is an EOE/M/F/D/V and Smoke-Free Workplace
Equal Opportunity Employer
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Skills Required
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing (RN) with current state license
- Clinical leadership experience
- Ability to work well with residents, staff, and families
- Good organizational skills and follow-up
- High-level problem solving, system/process analysis, and critical thinking skills
- Attention to detail to ensure appropriate clinical oversight and care delivery
What We Do
Carespring: Professional. Personal. Positive. These three words hold enormous significance to Carespring communities. In our communities we employ experienced teams of licensed therapists who are educated in cutting edge, state of the art and professional transitional and long term nursing care. We pride ourselves in our professional, compassionate Caregivers. We engage our patients on a personal level. Every patient in our communities is a part of our Carespring family. We get to know them-their stories, their families, what they need to maximize the care we provide. This kind of personal care is second nature to our Caregivers. We work toward the common goal of positive outcomes. We develop cohesive and custom treatment plans and make it our mission to partner with our patients in accomplishing their therapy goals in a positive and consistent manner. At its heart, care is a bond between patients and their caregivers. Care is what we provide at Carespring.
