Resident Care Director
About The Position
Full Spectrum Search Group is a full-service healthcare recruiting agency specializing in post-acute leadership and healthcare administration, serving skilled nursing, senior living, home health, hospice, home care, and the providers and technologies that support the post-acute space. A family-owned senior living operator is seeking an experienced Resident Care Director to lead clinical operations at its established community in San Jose, CA. This is a hands-on clinical leadership role for a senior living nurse who can independently manage resident-care compliance while building accountability, cohesion, and confidence across the caregiving team. You will inherit a solid community foundation and help elevate the resident and employee experience. Three Uniques - Lead clinical operations in a right-sized, approximately 95-unit community serving independent living, assisted living, and memory care residents. - Join a family-owned senior living organization focused on resident quality of life and long-term relationships, without public-market ownership pressure. - Step into a refreshed, well-maintained community that recently completed a deficiency-free regulatory survey and is positioned for continued improvement.
Requirements
- Prior experience as a Resident Care Director, Wellness Director, Director of Nursing, or comparable clinical leadership professional in senior living.
- Demonstrated ability to independently oversee resident care, clinical compliance, documentation, assessments, and changes in condition across a multi-resident setting.
- Strong working knowledge of assisted living regulations and resident-care operations.
- Proven people leadership experience with caregivers, medication technicians, or comparable frontline clinical staff, including scheduling, training, accountability, onboarding, and staff development.
- Clinical judgment and communication skills to operate effectively as the primary nursing resource within the community.
- A track record of improving team stability, morale, accountability, retention, resident experience, or other meaningful operational outcomes.
- Experience partnering with a General Manager or other non-clinical operational leader.
- Skilled nursing, rehabilitation, or staff-development leadership experience may be considered when supported by meaningful multi-resident oversight and frontline team leadership.
- Must be local to, or have a realistic long-term commute plan for, San Jose, CA.
- Ability to work a site-based schedule, preferably Sunday through Thursday, with availability to address as-needed issues in a 24-hour, seven-day senior living operation.
Nice To Haves
- Direct memory care leadership experience is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the community's clinical leader and nursing resource for assisted living and memory care residents.
- Maintain compliance with applicable assisted living regulations, community policies, resident assessments, care plans, clinical documentation, and changes-in-condition processes.
- Provide clinical nursing oversight, including wound review and follow-up as needed.
- Lead, coach, schedule, orient, and develop medication technicians and caregivers.
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, consistency, and resident-centered service.
- Monitor staffing needs, call-offs, assignments, and labor utilization to support safe and consistent resident care.
- Partner with the General Manager and sales team on resident needs, move-in readiness, service planning, and overall community operations.
- Collaborate with memory care supervisors on caregiving concerns, staffing coordination, resident needs, and community-wide priorities.
- Conduct staff education, in-services, performance coaching, and onboarding to strengthen clinical practices and team capability.
- Communicate clinical needs clearly and effectively to non-clinical operational leadership, residents, and families.
- Help stabilize team morale and retention while advancing a stronger resident and employee experience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
