Health Services Administrator- Registered Nurse

Job Details

Job Location:

Woodbury County Jail - IA - Sioux City, IA 51101

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: 2 Year Degree Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year Travel Percentage:
None Job Shift: Day Job Category:
Nursing/Nursing Support

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Reports directly to and meets with the Assistant Regional Nurse Mangers, Regional Nurse Manager or Director Medical Operations, and prepares reports as requested
• Always maintains a professional attitude
• Maintains a good working relationship with correctional personnel, nursing staff, contracted providers, outside provider agencies and corporate office staff
• Is always tactful and diplomatic and functions as a role model for staff
• Utilizes established corporate and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions but uses sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties of the position
• Develops, revises, interprets, and ensures compliance with policies, procedures, aims, and philosophy of ACH and the assigned correctional facility
• Recruits, orients, supervises, and evaluates performance of nursing and clerical personnel
• Assigns, directs, and promotes associates as a supervisory function
• Hires, transfers, lays-off and recalls associates as staffing needs require
• Counsels, disciplines, suspends, and/or terminates associates who violate policies established by ACH or the facility
• Completes a yearly written evaluation on all directly supervised staff, a 30 day and a three (3) month evaluation on nursing associates who are under direct supervision
• Ensures adequate staffing at facility
• Fills in as needed during periods of short staffing
• Ensures appropriate licensure on nursing and certified medical personnel, i.e., nurses, CMAs dental assistants, etc.
• Audits payroll, professional time sheets of nursing personnel, reports hours and reviews use of overtime
• Review adherence to staffing contract.
• Oversees services rendered by contractors and professional staff and reports to the contractors’ supervisor as indicated
• Supplies written job descriptions to nursing staff
• Ensures the proper flow of relevant information (policies, procedures, in-service, problems, etc.) to supervisors and supervised personnel
• Completes and submits monthly statistical, narrative, summary and/or operation reports as requested by facility administration
• Conducts peer reviews for nursing personnel of equal or lesser educational level
• Maintaining a current copy of the facility’s medical policies and procedures and ensures they are readily accessible to nursing staff
• Participates in CQI meetings conducted by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations
• Audits weekly logs and received billing statements/invoices, and forwards them to corporate office
• Maintains absolute security of all medical records
• Audits medical files to ensure that all provided services are documented using the SOAP format
• Screens requests for records and seeks approval/disapproval from jail administration; then responds appropriately
• Reviews, processes, and responds to records requests as directed by ACH attorneys
• Reviews status of inmates with serious health problems ensuring necessary intervention and treatment is completed
• Monitors inpatient hospitalizations and works with jail administration for early release whenever appropriate
• Reviews referrals to outside consultants for necessity of referral and communicates with jail administration for security…