Assistant Director of Nursing

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Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) / Infection Preventionist / Staff Education Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) to join our leadership team. This role also serves as the Infection Preventionist and Staff Education Coordinator to help ensure clinical excellence, regulatory compliance, quality resident care, and ongoing staff development throughout the facility.

The Infection Preventionist is responsible for overseeing infection control practices, monitoring compliance with safety standards, and promoting a healthy environment for residents and staff. The Staff Education Coordinator provides orientation, training, and ongoing educational programs to support staff competency, professional growth, and quality patient care.

The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership abilities, long‑term care experience, and a passion for mentoring nursing staff while maintaining high standards of infection prevention and quality assurance.

Ybor City Center for Rehabilitation and Healing is an 80-bed Skilled Nursing Facility offering post-acute healing and rehabilitation facility conveniently located in Tampa, FL.

We are located at 1709 N Taliaferro Ave, Tampa, FL

This role requires Florida AHCA Clearinghouse background screening.

• Risk Manager Responsibilities.
• Participates in internal audits of nursing practices and in developing and implementing a plan of correction when deficits are identified.
• Participates in ensuring all facets of the nursing budget are within established parameters.
• Participates in the quality assessment and improvement process and activities (ie. audit of MD orders monthly).
• Assists with tasks to ensure the nursing department is adequately staffed to provide quality care to patients/residents.
• Establishes and facilitates effective employer/employee relations.
• Recruits and selects nursing service personnel based on facility needs, as directed by the Director of Nursing.
• Maintains employee hiring forms and processes and ensures completion for new employees.
• Maintains Nursing Department staffing at a level congruent with patient/resident needs, budgeted positions and employee requests.
• Schedules Nursing Department staffing levels to support individual and group activities for patients/residents out of the facility.
• Participates in orientation sessions for nursing service personnel.
• Evaluates performance for all levels of nursing service personnel. Participates in "on-call" schedule for nursing supervisory personnel to ensure 24/7 nursing support for staff nurses.
• Assists the DON in maintaining the provision of in-service/staff development programs to meet nursing objectives and policies and procedures in compliance with state and federal regulations.
  
  Note:
  
  If the full-time Staff Development Coordinator is available, then the ADON assists in the DON's absence.
• Ensures that all nursing assistants complete or have completed the certified training program.
• Ensures staff development programs address the needs of patients/residents and nursing staff.
• Evaluates processes related to staff development programs to determine success of the programs and future needs.
• Provides clinical expertise to facilitate and support the nursing process in patient/resident interventions in compliance with the State Nurse Practice Act for RN, LPN or LVN.
• Makes nursing rounds in a manner that identifies specific patient/resident problems and monitors plan of action implemented by nursing staff.
• Assesses technical skills of nursing personnel through observation of various nursing procedures, as directed by the Director of Nursing.
• Assesses nursing judgment made in specific situations to determine nursing staff competency and to identify nursing staff knowledge and performance deficits, as directed by the Director of Nursing.
• Acts as a clinical expert or facilitator in specific patient/resident situations.
• Identifies clinical problem areas on behalf of the Director of Nursing and assists with development of plans of correction.
• Acts as a clinical expert in facilitating the patient/resident care planning process.
• Assists in the development of daily…