Wellness Director - Gainesville, GA

Viva Senior Living•Gainesville, GA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wellness Director is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Nursing Department. This role involves ensuring professional development of the Assistant Wellness Director and clinical staff, fostering high-performance teams focused on exceptional customer service, care delivery, and teamwork. The position requires ensuring proper staffing levels, regulatory compliance, adherence to Viva’s Standards, and continuous improvement to align with the company’s mission and vision. The Wellness Director must also comply with standards of business conduct, federal, state, and local health and regulatory standards, and maintain the utmost compassion and dignity for residents, adhering to the Resident Bill of Rights. The role may require on-call availability during exigent circumstances and adherence to Viva Senior Living’s attendance policies and the Employee Handbook.

Requirements

Must possess a valid RN/LPN license issued by the State.
Must possess, at a minimum, a high school diploma or a GED.
Must be able to work well with peers in a congenial work environment.
Must maintain the utmost compassion and dignity to the residents and adhere to the Resident Bill of Rights.
Must be able to read, write, speak and understand English.
Must maintain the highest standards in caring and servicing the needs of the residents and residents' family members and loves ones.
Must adhere to all facility policies and procedures.
Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this facility, which include a medical and physical examination.
Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset, and, at times, agitated residents.
Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of 25 pounds to a minimum height of 5 feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of 50 feet.
May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.

Nice To Haves

In exigent circumstances, the employee may be subject to call back during emergency conditions (e.g., severe weather, evacuation, temporary staffing shortages, etc.).

Responsibilities

Overall leadership and management of the Nursing Department.
Professional development of the Assistant Wellness Director and clinical staff.
Develop high performance teams centered around exceptional customer service, care delivery, and teamwork.
Ensure proper staffing levels, regulatory compliance, Viva’s Standard compliance, and on-going improvement to execute the company mission and vision.
Create and maintain monthly department schedule.
Provide leadership development to Assistant Wellness Director and clinical staff.
Ensure departmental quality assurance with applicable regulations, Viva’s standards, and business performance.
Oversee budget.
Ordering supplies for Nursing Department.
Work with the Business Office Manager to complete interview process for prospective employees.
Meet with new nursing team members to review training and onboarding schedule.
Schedule training for new employees.
Check in with new hires regularly to ensure orientation process is satisfactory.
Work with the Business Office Manager to ensure Relias requirements and job specific orientation checklist has been completed.
Maintain on-call schedule and rotation.
Oversee the management of staff attendance and performance management.
Oversee Wellness Coach and schedule of residents.
Maintain meeting schedules: Primary: Stand up, resident rounds, transition/therapy, staffing, QA (if state required). Oversight: Shift report, Huddle.
Conduct quarterly Clinical Section of the Ops Audit for QA – and reviews to implement action plans/interventions and reviews with Executive Director separately.
Review internal incident reports and post falls to prepare regulatory incident report for ED approval and then submission to state or governing body as necessary per regulations.
Prepare new admission charts and readmission packets.
Maintain medical records including dismantle discharged resident charts, in conjunction with the Business Office Manager.
Provide oversight and guidance for chart audits.
File overflow medical records in active or discharged resident’s records.
Follow up on any internal investigations of theft, abuse, medication errors, falls etc., and collaborates with Executive Director on next steps and interventions.
Maintain incidental billing of services to residents.
Review monthly rent roll to assure proper billing of resident care to assure budgetary income for community.
Schedule monthly department meetings with well-planned out agendas and trainings for departmental needs.
Handle any medical pieces for LTC Insurance Paperwork.
Oversee High Risk residents with potential for move-out due to customer service concerns and care concerns.
Assist with nursing care on the floor, as needed.
Uphold the foundation of care models and philosophy of Viva to include but not limited to Live More, Care Connect, Mosher Gardens Method, Think More and No Fall Zone.
Mentor, discipline, hire, terminate Wellness Staff.
Share On-Call phone every other week with Case Manager.
Share Manager on Duty rotation with Leadership Team.
In the absence of Wellness staff, be prepared to count in the minimum staffing levels/work the shift.
In conjunction with the Case Manager, maintain an adequate staffing schedule and enter into the payroll database.
Act as Manager on Duty via rotation with other managers.
Participate in RCA/Med Tech hiring process, disciplinary actions, terminations, supervision and training of Wellness staff.
Oversee Case Manager.
Perform other duties as required per state regulations.
Adhere to scheduled shifts assigned by Executive Director or Supervisor.
Provide annual verification of a negative TB skin test.