Director ALF

Job Details Level: Management

Job Location:

Legal Address - Walla Walla, WA 99362

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: Graduate Degree Salary Range: $75,000.00 - $80,000.00 Salary Travel Percentage:
None Job Shift: Any Job Category:
Health Care Assisted Living Director

Department

Assisted Living Facility

Reports to

Administrator / CEO

Reporting to this position

Assisted Living Managers and staff

Job Classification

Leadership/Management

Position Purpose

Leads, guides, and directs the operations of the healthcare facility in accordance with local, state and federal regulations, standards and established facility policies and procedures to provide appropriate care and services to residents.

• Manage, supervise, leads, and assist the admission teams. Directly responsible assure admissions and census goals.
• Builds and fosters relationships with hospitals, Hospice, Home Health, Community (churches, senior centers, long-term care facilities, Veterans Affairs, and all industries and areas of the senior community).
• Plans, develops, organizes, implements, evaluates, and directs the overall operation of the facility as well as its programs and activities, in accordance with current state and federal laws and regulations.
• Identifies, in conjunction with the care Staff and selected department heads, the facility’s key performance indicators. Establishes an ongoing system to monitor these key indicators such as the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement process throughout the facility.
• Evaluates key performance indicator outcomes with staf to determine the need for action from leadership and/or management such as re-education or revisions related to the facility’s outcomes, regulatory compliance and/or customer satisfaction.
• Serves as the facility representative and spokesperson to the public as well as in the professional arenas. In so doing, must periodically successfully deliver a confident, concise, message on a variety of topics that is understood by a wide range of persons with diverse backgrounds and levels of education.
• Leads and coordinates daily, weekly, bi-monthly or monthly team meetings to discuss priorities and develop solutions with facility such as census, clinical health, survey readiness, customer service satisfaction, activity participation, etc.
• Develops and maintains positive relationships with residents, employees, and family members through scheduled, deliberate positive interactions with them using face to face, phone, or other means of communication.
• Evaluates work performance of department and maintains accountability across the department in concert with Human Resources for expected performance outcomes in each Team Member.
• Facilitates, serves, attends or participates in various committees of the facility as necessary.
• Ensures delivery of compassionate quality care and services across an interdisciplinary team approach as evidenced by adequate, and competent facility staff, employee turnover, general cleanliness, physical plant condition, and optimal resident functioning-physically and psychosocially.
• Identifies and collaborates with members of the interdisciplinary team, physicians, consultants, and community agencies to identify opportunities for enhanced services to the residents and/or resolve issues.
• Recruits talented, qualified individuals in conjunction with Human Resources to fill department positions as a key factor in building and maintaining a strong and capable team.
• Performs rounds to observe residents and ensure overall needs are being met. Knows residents by name and sight. Practices management by walking around. Makes himself/herself available to employees at all levels.
• Knows employees in the department, all shifts by name and makes himself/herself available periodically on a routine, scheduled basis across all three shifts to gain informal employee feedback. We are a 24 hour per day care facility and leaders may be asked to work extended hours depending on business needs and resident care needs.
• Conducts periodic observations of in-service education to ensure staff members delivering the education are competent with the…