Director of Nursing (RN) - Home Health and Home Care
About The Position
BrightStar Care of Honolulu is seeking a Director of Nursing (RN) to lead the clinical department for home care and skilled nursing services across Oahu. This role offers clinical authority, the opportunity to be a working director with a team, support from the COO, a seat on the leadership team, and a chance to build and improve clinical systems. The Director of Nursing will be responsible for assessments, plans of care, managing changes in condition, overseeing nurses and caregiver training, investigating incidents, ensuring Joint Commission readiness, managing the clinical on-call roster, and performing direct clinical work when necessary. Success in this role means clinical requirements are met accurately and on time, staff are skilled and understand expectations, problems are resolved permanently, and leadership has a clear view of clinical performance and risk.
Requirements
- Unrestricted Hawaii RN license and current BLS/CPR
- Three or more years of nursing leadership, clinical management or supervisory experience, including direct accountability for staff performance
- Experience with a Joint Commission or state survey
- Current clinical skills and willingness to work in the field alongside your team
- You earn trust before you use authority, and you treat caregivers, nurses and office staff with the same respect
- You have built or fixed a clinical system, and you can walk us through it
- You have dealt with a performance problem directly, and you can tell us how it ended
- Reliable transportation and auto insurance
Nice To Haves
- BSN preferred
- Home health, home care or hospice experience preferred
Responsibilities
- Assessments, plans of care, orders and supervisory visits: current, and scheduled two weeks ahead
- Changes in condition: urgent concerns acted on immediately, and every routine alert reviewed by a nurse within 24 hours
- Your nurses: clear expectations, coaching, checked work, and direct conversations when performance falls short
- Caregiver training and skills validation
- Incidents and complaints: investigated promptly and followed through until the fix holds
- Joint Commission readiness all year, including chart audits and quarterly quality meetings
- The clinical on-call roster
- Direct clinical work when it is needed
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, prescription, dental and vision for eligible employees
- 401(k) match
- paid time off
- free continuing education
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
