LTCR Nursing Facilities Nurse Surveyor (Nurse III)

TX-HHSC-DSHS-DFPS • Arlington, TX

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About The Position

If you are looking for a place to work where you can establish a career that is filled with purpose, this is the job for you!
Nursing Facilities Nurse Surveyor – Starting Market Rate Salary $89,690.71
As part of a collaborative team of public servants, a nurse III protects residents’ health and safety by conducting on-site inspections and investigations in Texas long-term care settings (nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and day activities health services) to assess their compliance with state and federal laws and rules. This position offers a competitive starting salary; excellent state benefits, including health insurance and retirement; and the opportunity to regularly travel to different facilities within a region and across the state – Please see the Additional Information section below for more detail on travel. In this front-line field position, a surveyor is mobile and flexible and performs minimal work at an office, though the role does require writing reports detailing any deficiencies/violations against a facility and narrative to support regulatory determinations. See below for details.

Requirements

• Knowledge of issues, concerns, and needs of populations at risk in various health care and/or institutional environments (elderly, mentally ill, developmentally disabled, functionally dependent, medically frail, etc.).
• Knowledge of nursing principles and acceptable professional standards of patient care.
• Skill in interpersonal relations.
• Skill in performing quality assurance monitoring, program review, certification, survey, or investigations.
• Skill in providing guidance, policy clarifications, and information to others.
• Skill in preparing detailed written reports.
• Skill in oral, written, and electronic communications, including computer word processing software.
• Ability to multi-task and track multiple activities with competing priorities.
• Ability to collect and analyze data
• Ability to integrate complex concepts, difficult procedures, or complicated processes.
• Ability to analyze and solve work problems.
• Ability to interpret regulatory policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to use the computer for writing reports.
• Ability to exercise professional judgment and reach sound decisions.
• Ability to be task organized and punctual.
• Must be licensed as a registered nurse by the State of Texas or a state that recognizes reciprocity through the Nurse Licensure Compact.
• Applicant must complete all training (federal/state) for Nursing Facilities, including completing Surveyor Minimum Qualification Training (SMQT) within one year of hire date.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a Long-term Care Regulatory program is preferred.
• Experience in assessment and documentation of health status.
• Prefer two years of experience providing services in a health care setting as a registered nurse.

Responsibilities

• Conducts on-site licensure inspections, complaint and incident investigations, and annual comprehensive surveys in facilities to determine compliance with federal and state health and safety regulations in the following areas: admissions, transfers, and discharges; resident rights; staffing and census; quality of care assessment; quality of life assessment; resident care plans; social, psychological and rehabilitative services; provision of medical services; and therapeutic activity programming.
• Communicates clearly and accurately with others (internally and externally) to provide, exchange, or verify information, answer inquiries, or resolve issues or complaints in Texas long-term care facilities.
• Conducts exit conferences with facility staff regarding findings. Completes inspection or survey reports detailing deficiencies.
• Revisits long-term care facilities to verify correction of previously cited regulatory violations. Performs quality assurance reviews of documents prepared by others, for example, publications, assessments, and reports.
• Might supervise the work of team members during inspections, provide technical assistance to facilities, and lend expertise to a survey team in the areas identified above.
• Occasionally might need to testify at hearings or in court proceedings to provide information regarding policy/procedures, history, findings, or activities.
• In the event of emergency licensure action, be available to assist with non-skilled care, oversight to residents in a facility and there is a potential that skilled care will be necessary.
• Be available for on-call duties for emergencies such as weather events or high-priority situations in facilities or at providers.

Benefits

• excellent state benefits, including health insurance and retirement
• HHSC is a qualifying organization for the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which forgives the remaining balance on college student Direct Loans after making 120 qualifying monthly payments.
• excellent health benefits
• lifetime monthly retirement annuity
• 401(k) and 457 Programs under the Employees Retirement System of Texas

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed