Director of Nursing

CHSGa•Soperton, GA

About The Position

Join Treutlen County Health & Rehab, a non-profit, mission-driven organization known for high-level care, where you will be valued and supported. This Director of Nursing role requires broad management knowledge to lead a large team, including other managers and experienced professionals, within a department or unit. The position demands mastery-level knowledge and skills in a specific technical or professional discipline, coupled with a broad understanding of other departmental areas. The Director will exhibit servant leadership, invest in mentorship, and possess hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within their area, subject to manager approval. The role focuses on tactical and operational plans with a short-to mid-term outlook (1-2+ years), addressing difficult to moderately complex problems. Responsibilities include making moderate to significant improvements to processes, systems, or services to enhance departmental performance, committing to project management processes, and strategically considering business cases, resource investment, change management, and implementation elements. The Director will communicate both internally and externally with partners, customers, and vendors.

Requirements

Broad management knowledge to lead a team within a department or unit.
Mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the department.
Commitment to Servant Leadership, further developing skills identified in our Attitudes & Attributes.
Proficient in using a computer, especially Microsoft Office, Excel and Power Point.
Excellent organizational and prioritizing skills.
Effective and professional verbal, and written communication skills.
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the organization.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram format.
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word.
A RN nursing degree from an accredited college or university.
Current license/certification, as required.

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.
Monitors physician services (documentation and visits etc.) in accordance with current regulations.
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.
Assesses equipment and supply needs and makes recommendations to Administrator.
Establishes an annual budget for submission to the governing body for approval.
Provides for the purchase and availability of all necessary supplies.
Required to participate in the planning and implementation of the nursing service budget.
Develops relationships with community agencies providing services of benefit to the nursing center.
Communicates well with patients and family members providing warm and friendly greeting and an approachable attitude to family/visitors/patients/ and 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.