Director of Nursing ( Suffolk County, NY)

Life's WORC • Village of Garden City, NY

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Life's WORC is seeking a Director of Nursing to oversee residential RNs in an assigned cluster. This role involves functioning as a coach, collaborator, facilitator, and support system for Residential Nurses. The Director of Nursing will collaborate with the RN Educator to ensure AMAP training, certification, and supervision, and to develop specialized medical training. They will also provide orientation training for new nurses, cover RN vacancies, ensure medical department regulatory compliance, and act as a hospital discharge planner. This position works closely with the agency QA team to ensure a functional QA system and regulatory compliance, participates in various committees, and assumes basic responsibilities during RN vacancies. The role requires responding to emergency situations via 24-hour on-call status, Monday-Friday.

Requirements

• Must be a current NYS Licensed Registered Nurse.
• Minimum of five years of nursing experience with three of those years in the ID/DD field.
• Knowledge of OPWDD regulations.
• Valid driver’s license

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Previous training and Quality Assurance experience preferred.
• Experience working with people with Autism is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervises Residential RN’s in the assigned cluster.
• Functions as a coach, collaborator, facilitator and support system for Residential Nurses.
• Collaborates with RN Educator to ensure AMAP training, certification and supervision of AMAPs within the assigned cluster. Completes AMAP Certifications as needed.
• Collaborates with RN Education to develop specialized medical training, including medical guidelines and procedures. Ensures a PCP approach to trainings and guidelines. Ensures all program staff receives adequate medical training. Supports Residential Nurses with additional training needs (ie: AMAP practicums, PEG tube training, etc.)
• Provide orientation training of newly hired nurses, as assigned.
• Functions as the Residential RN for RN vacancy or leave of absence in the assigned cluster
• Ensures medical department regulatory compliance by the oversight of treatment and documentation. Monitors compliance of medical systems within the assigned cluster.
• Functions as a hospital discharge planner for hospitalized individuals in the assigned cluster. Initiates Surgical Review Committee (if indicated), conduct ongoing collaboration with hospital personnel, visits hospitalized individual regularly, and assist RN’s with discharge training of all staff.
• Works closely with agency QA team to ensure a functional, effective QA system and ensure regulatory compliance and successful DQA audit outcomes.
• Participates and follows through on recommendations from committees as assigned (i.e., Training Committee, IRC, BRC and Directors Committee)
• Assumes basic responsibilities during RN vacancy to include report writing, incident reporting, and attendance at review meetings.
• Responds to emergency situations via 24 hours, Monday – Friday on-call status.

Benefits

• Very affordable health and dental & vision insurance (this position includes family coverage)
• Company Matching 403(b) program
• Generous Paid Time Off policy
• Tuition and text book reimbursement
• regular incremental bonuses
• paid training
• opportunities for advancement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager