Assistant Health and Wellness Director

Description

Job Title: Assistant Health and Wellness Director

Position Scope: The Assistant Health and Wellness Director is responsible for providing nursing support as directed by the Health and Wellness Director. Assists to ensure that Ciel Senior Living standards and state requirements for resident care are met. Assists with managing staff and helps to ensure regulatory compliance.

Reports to: Health and Wellness Director

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Non-exempt

At Ciel Senior Living, we exist to make remarkable impacts on the lives we touch. We accomplish this by delivering superior care to our residents, by empowering our associates with an enriching career and growth opportunities, and by providing peace of mind to our residents’ loved ones. Our communities are beautifully built and designed for the resident who does not want to compromise what is important to them as they deal with the new realities of aging.

Every resident and employee have a unique background and with our connection together we create a stronger community.

A compassionate leader who seeks an opportunity to do what you love, while touching the lives of those people we have the honor to care for and serve. This role can be amazing and rewarding; and it can also challenge you in a variety of ways. It can help you to grow personally and professionally. As the Assistant Health and Wellness Director you will have the unique experience of touching the lives of associates, residents and their loved ones who are on emotional journey and are looking for kindness, compassion, and excellence.

The Assistant Health and Wellness Director must have a strong desire to serve our associates and our residents.

• Supports the mission, vision and goals of the organization, upholding and promoting company culture and vision.
• Participate in oncoming/ outgoing shift report.
• Assists with the monitoring of documentation systems to ensure that all regulatory time frames for review of assessments and service plans are met and that resident needs are met. Write and review residents’ assessments/evaluations and care/service-plans with appropriate staff.
• Directly supervises all associates of the nursing department while on shift.
• Assists in completion of the Quality Services report in absence of Health and Wellness Director
• Supervises or participates in as appropriate narcotic count at shift change, ensuring accurate documentation of inventory count.
• Observes medication pass.
• Completes administration of medication as directed ensuring compliance with “Rights of Medication Administration.”
• Participates in weekly medication cart audits, as assigned.
• Assists in re-ordering of medication.
• Supervises and maintains cleanliness of medication room.
• Ensures that all new medication orders are faxed to the pharmacy in an effort to obtain medication timely and accurately.
• Informs families when mail order medicines need to be reordered.
• Communicates with physician offices as needed to obtain phone orders or change orders for a resident.
• Follows Physician Order Protocol to ensure proper processing of orders.
• Documents resident change of condition / status per policy.
• Assists in completing chart audits and thinning per policy.
• Assist with the completion of required assessments and service plans.
• Assist with the development and maintenance of resident service plan / care plan.
• Assists with documenting incident reports correctly and timely.
• Updates DNR'S as needed
• Assists Health and Wellness Director in creating and maintaining of resident charts/care files
• Visits residents in hospital/rehab. as assigned.
• Participates in annual flu clinics, TB testing of associates/residents.
• Participates in community Wellness Programs as assigned.
• Participates in MOD weekend and holiday coverage, as assigned.
• Member of the backup sales team
• Participates in on-call schedule as assigned.
• Obtains and records residents’ vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration), weight, as directed.
• Observes resident to detect response to specified types of medications and prepares report or notifies designated personnel of unexpected reactions.
• Counsels residents in identifying and…