Wellness Coordinator

Pinnacle Service Center•Stoughton, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wellness Coordinator joins a team dedicated to making a difference in the lives of residents, their families, and the community within a senior living setting. This role is guided by CAPLICO Core Values: Celebration, Accountability, Passion for Learning, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk Taking, Customer Second (Employee First!), and Ownership. The position involves hands-on supervision of Wellness staff, ensuring quality resident care and promoting resident wellness. It also includes providing direct care services as needed to ensure optimal health and safety. The Wellness Coordinator supports community policies and programs in conjunction with the Wellness Director, engages in personal development, and assumes specific community management responsibilities as assigned. Key aspects include maintaining knowledge of assisted living regulations, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations, actively protecting resident and staff safety, reporting incidents, assisting with infection control, participating in staff meetings and continuing education, maintaining required licenses/certifications, and participating in the recruitment, hiring, training, evaluation, and coaching of Wellness staff. The role also assures that medication associate training and monitoring meet regulatory requirements and community quality standards.

Requirements

Current license/certification as required by the regulatory bodies governing the community.
Minimum of one year experience in assisted living or health care.
Current CPR certification.

Nice To Haves

Prior supervisory experience in the health care environment strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provides hands-on supervision of assigned Wellness staff.
Ensures provision of quality resident care and the promotion of resident wellness.
Provides direct care services to the residents as needed, ensuring optimal health and safety.
Supports all community policies and programs in conjunction with the Wellness Director.
Engages in ongoing personal development in leadership skills, communication skills, and management skills.
Assumes specific community management responsibilities as assigned by the Wellness Director and/or Executive Director.
Maintains knowledge of current assisted living regulations.
Ensures compliance with community policies/procedures, pharmacy policies/procedures, and state and federal agency regulations in conjunction with the Wellness Director.
Actively protects resident and staff safety by recognizing, reporting and taking immediate action to minimize risk of accident or injury.
Reports incidents according to community policy and state and federal laws.
Assists Wellness Director to assure all infection control guidelines are met and appropriate tracking and surveillance procedures are followed according to community and state requirements.
Participates in staff meetings and continuing education in-services.
Maintains valid licenses/certifications as required by state and/or federal regulatory bodies.
Participates in the recruitment, hiring, training and on-going education of Wellness staff.
Participates in evaluations and coaching of Wellness staff as assigned.
Assures medication associate training and monitoring meets regulatory requirements and community quality standards.