Healthcare Director

Harmony Senior Services•Mount Juliet, TN

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Health Care Director (HCD) leads health and wellness activities for the community’s residents and manages day-to-day healthcare operations. As the community clinical leader, the HCD manages nurses, medication technicians, and nursing assistants to provide quality care and services while ensuring compliance with applicable local, State, and Federal regulations and Harmony Senior Services policies and standards. The HCD evaluates residents before move-in and as needed, develops and revises individualized service plans, and participates in interdisciplinary reviews with residents, families, physicians, healthcare providers, and community team members. The role collaborates with residents’ healthcare teams and is responsible for the community medication management program, including oversight of medication administration, physician orders, controlled drugs, audits, and related safety activities. The HCD supervises and trains medication technicians, other approved medication personnel, nursing assistants, and direct care staff; delegates within the scope of the nursing license; and ensures regulatory compliance, complete documentation, and ongoing survey readiness. The HCD also serves as the community infection preventionist, monitors care and quality indicators, contributes to improvement plans and regulatory plans of correction, and builds and develops the resident care team through hiring, onboarding, training, performance evaluation, coaching, and feedback. The position collaborates with the Executive Director on department budgeting and with the Director of Sales and Marketing on external business development. Other duties may be assigned. The role may require occasional weekends, off-shifts, and after-hours calls, and includes lifting, carrying, and pushing up to 50 pounds.

Requirements

Current, valid, unencumbered RN or LPN license in accordance with State regulations and requirements.
Completion of any State-required training courses related to nursing practice in assisted living.
Ability to think critically and apply nursing-process knowledge and principles to promote safe, quality care.
1–2 years of experience required.
Current CPR certification required.
Ability to work occasional weekends and off-shifts and take after-hours calls as needed.
Ability to lift, carry, and push up to 50 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Three or more years of experience preferred.
Supervisory or management experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Evaluate residents before move-in to determine whether their care and service needs can be met in the community.
Conduct resident reevaluations as indicated by residents’ conditions or State regulations.
Develop and revise individualized resident service plans based on evaluations, resident preferences, and applicable regulations.
Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of resident service plans with residents, families, physicians, healthcare providers, and community team members.
Collaborate with residents’ physicians, pharmacists, and other healthcare team members to coordinate care and services.
Manage the community’s medication management program, including pharmacy collaboration, audits, physician orders, controlled drugs, and medication-use safety.
Supervise medication technicians, Approved Medication Assistive Personnel (AMAP), and other approved personnel who administer resident medications.
Provide training and conduct skill or competency validations and medication pass observations as required by State regulations.
Supervise, train, and oversee C.N.A.s and other direct care personnel.
Delegate duties appropriately and within the scope of the nursing license held.
Maintain knowledge of applicable regulations and ensure documentation meets requirements and the resident care department remains survey ready.
Participate in developing and complying with plans of correction, as applicable.
Serve as the community’s infection preventionist and oversee activities to prevent or limit the spread of communicable illness.
Monitor resident care and quality indicators, identify trends, and discuss them at weekly At-Risk or monthly QAPI meetings.
Build and develop the resident care team through interviewing, hiring, onboarding, training, performance evaluation, coaching, and feedback.
Collaborate with the Executive Director to operate the resident care department within its established budget.
Collaborate with the Director of Sales and Marketing on external business development opportunities.
Perform other duties as assigned.