Health & Wellness Director RN
About The Position
The Health & Wellness Director is a Registered Nurse that is responsible for the overall supervision of the health and wellness department and services. The Health & Wellness Director provides health and wellness assessments and screening, nursing interventions, emergency care, education, and referral services in conjunction with health and wellness staff and health subcontractors. This role involves ordering and maintaining pharmaceuticals and clinic supplies, ensuring monthly inventories and proper storage. The Director also initiates workers’ compensation documentation, maintains OSHA logs, and performs follow-up on cases. Key responsibilities include performing physical and emotional wellness assessments, establishing individualized student health and wellness plans, documenting student encounters, and ensuring quality assurance audits. The role requires working closely with counselors, residential staff, and wellness instructors to provide wellness education. The Director must interpret and ensure compliance with PRH and Federal Register policies pertinent to the health and wellness component, report mandated diseases and child abuse cases, and ensure proper protocols for hazardous waste disposal, infection control, and handling of specimens and equipment.
Requirements
- Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse License to practice in state of Georgia
- Minimum of an Associates degree in nursing required.
- Required to pass a drug screen in compliance with our Substance Abuse and Drug-Free Workplace policy.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a nationwide criminal background check.
Nice To Haves
- Prefer three years of experience as a practicing nurse, one of which was in a lead or supervisory capacity.
Responsibilities
- Overall supervision of the health and wellness department and services.
- Provides health and wellness assessments and screening, nursing interventions, emergency care, education, and referral services.
- Orders and maintains current dated pharmaceuticals and clinic supplies.
- Ensures that assigned staff perform monthly inventories of supplies to include expiration dates.
- Monitors and ensures the proper storage and condition of supplies and specimens.
- Initiates workers’ compensation documentation and maintains secondary OSHA logs.
- Performs follow-up check on workers’ compensation cases.
- Performs physical and emotional wellness assessments.
- Establishes individualized student health and wellness plans according to protocol outlined in the center’s Health Standing Orders.
- Documents each encounter with students in their health records and ensures quality assurance audits.
- Works closely with counselors, residential staff, and wellness instructors in providing wellness education to students.
- Interprets all expected outcomes, policies and procedures outlined in the PRH and Federal Register Pertinent to the center’s health and wellness component.
- Ensures the reporting of all communicable diseases, child abuse cases, etc., as mandated by state and county regulations.
- Ensures the proper storage, handling and disposal of hazardous wastes generated by the health and Wellness center.
- Ensures the proper protocol is followed for infection control.
- Ensures the proper handling of specimens and equipment, as well as the appropriate sterilization of equipment.
Benefits
- Low-Cost Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 19 days of Paid Time Off the first year
- 11 paid holidays
- Retirement savings plan with employer match up to 5%
- Flexible spending accounts
- Paid short-term and voluntary long-term disability
- Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary term life insurance
- Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Eligible Employer
- PTO Exchange
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
