What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Nursing Home Administrator position at Compunnel Inc.?
The interim Nursing Home Administrator will accomplish this by:
- Providing vision, direction, and leadership for the home, utilizing input from all stakeholders (e.g. residents and staff)
- Maintaining the facility’s Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program and measuring its effectiveness
- Ensuring census development is adequate to meet fiscal expenditures
- Developing and maintaining an organizational culture congruent with the principles of Just Culture
- Performing other duties as required or assigned
More specific job duties for the interim NHA are listed below.
Home Administration (35%)
- Directly supervise all department managers; the position is the final signature authority for the selection, development, correction, and disciplinary processes for approximately 110 total staff
- Conduct strategic planning to develop and implement long and short term training, recruitment, retention, and census goals
- Foster a positive work environment to enhance staff morale and productivity
- Maintain operational understanding of all departments and their performance
- Maintain and apply current knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations
- Develop personnel recruiting and marketing strategies to build resident census and maintain appropriate staffing
- Attend facility meetings such as: resident council, advisory board, employee relations meetings
- Occurrence and Sentinel Event reporting
- Investigation of care concerns / staff concerns / family concerns
- Employee and resident conflict resolution
- Represent interests of facility within the community
- Maintain good working relationships with community partners, educational institutions, veteran organizations, and other stakeholders
- Travel for meetings both in-state and outstate when necessary
Financial Administration (30%)
- Ensure the facility is financially solvent at all times
- Ensure that all expenses are covered by cash
- Maintain accurate financial and resident health records at all times
- Build, brief, and justify budget and operational performance to Division Director
- Establish an annual operating budget with input from department managers that balances day to day expenses with knowledge of upcoming capital / equipment needs
- Brief and justify annual budget to outside stakeholders, if requested
- Implement the division approved budget adjusting facility operations as needed to ensure financial health of the organization
- Oversee and ensure the development of needed contractual services provided by medical staff, dentistry, rehabilitative, and laboratory services, etc.
- Maintain current knowledge of procurement and contracting under state and CDHS policies and procedures
Regulatory Compliance (30%)
- Ensure that all facility practices and procedures are in accordance with the parameters set by CDPHE, HCPF, CMS, and the VA or any other applicable state or federal regulations
- Implement policies and procedure changes necessitated by CDPHE and the VA surveys and changes in regulations
- Ensure that staffing ratios of the facility are within guidelines set forth by these agencies and the needs of the resident
- Identify the need for and direct implementation of Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI)
- Identify and resolve facility quality of care issues
- Establish acceptable thresholds and facility goals; monitor compliance, care outcomes, and practice environment metrics
