Assistant Director of Nursing

Join us at Northridge Health & Rehab – a place where you’ll be valued, recognized and rewarded for the vital work you do each day. We’ll surround you with a strong team and leadership that supports every aspect of your life – both inside and outside of our centers. And you’ll get to practice your passion in a non‑profit, mission‑driven organization that’s known for the highest level of care in our communities.

• Assist the Director of Nursing with directing, evaluating, and supervising patient care and initiating corrective action as necessary.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with assessing patient‑care needs and developing individualized plans of care.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with assessing patient needs and making recommendations for special rehabilitation programs.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with evaluating patient care as it relates to individualized patient needs, family involvement and the physician’s plan of care for the patient.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with ensuring patient‑care conferences are conducted.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with assessing patient responses to medication and treatment and making appropriate recommendations for nursing action to be implemented.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with providing medications, treatments, diets, rehabilitation and restorative care to patients in accordance with physician orders and the patient’s individual needs.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with reporting problems to the Administrator, conducting daily patient rounds, and initiating corrective action as necessary.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with directing and implementing educational programs, quality assurance programs and infection control programs.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with establishing open lines of communication with consultants and consistently following up on recommendations.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with consistently making recommendations of level of care determinations based on physician documentation and plan of care.
• Assist the Director of Nursing with coordinating the care‑planning/MDS process and committee meetings as necessary.
• Promote the image and reputation of the System by exemplifying servant leadership and maintaining direct open lines of communication.
• Contribute to the work of committees, work groups, project management and other collaborative efforts of the System.
• Perform other duties as necessary to ensure the success of the System.

A minimum of two years of experience in a supervisory capacity in a hospital or long‑term care nursing center. Training experience in rehabilitative and restorative nursing practices is required. Education, training and/or experience in one of the following is preferred: rehabilitative nursing, geriatric nursing and/or psychosocial nursing.

• Registered Nurse (RN) degree from an accredited college or university.
• Active Georgia RN license.

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Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or associates of the organization.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Ability to apply common sense in carrying out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic format. Ability to handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Proficiency with the following applications:
Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word.

Please see minimum qualifications.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The associate is regularly required to sit, talk or hear; frequently required to walk; use hands for finger, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms;

occasionally required to stand. Specific visual abilities required include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

EEO / M / F / D / V / Drug Free Workplace.