Resident Assessment Manager:

Essential Job Functions:

Our employees are expected to promote an atmosphere of teamwork with other employees and hospitality and comfort for its residents. Therefore, the following list of duties is not all-inclusive:

• Assess/Oversee assessment of all residents through the RAI process and ensure coding accuracy, capturing needs and level of assistance, in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines
• Review all care plans on a regular basis for accuracy, appropriateness, and case mix validity
• Oversee and/or complete care plans for all residents process according to standard of nursing practice, including nursing restorative plans
• Establish documentation approaches and instruct nursing and ancillary staff to document properly
• Communicate MDS due date so that interdisciplinary team members complete their portions appropriately and on time.
• Instruct all disciplines in proper procedures, completion of MDS items, and CAAs, Care Mix payment and Quality Indicators.

Resident Assessment Manager Minimum Qualifications:

• Must have MDS and ICD-10 coding experience, RAC-CT certification preferred
• Current, active, Maine RN licensure or current active, Maine Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
• Strong nursing clinical assessment, care planning, and delivery of care skills, with a long term care population

Skills and Abilities:

• Working knowledge:
• Geriatric health care needs
• Federal and State regulations pertaining to long term care and the resident assessment process
• Medicare and MaineCare regulations, as well as the application of the State Operations Manual, and Principles of Reimbursement
• MDS manual and updates; Quality Indicator System
• Strong computer literacy. Experience with and ability to document within electronic medical records.
• Work and communicate tactfully with residents, staff; administration, families, physicians, ancillary services, allied health care professionals, surveyors, regulators, other business contacts, the public and the community