What are the responsibilities and job description for the Safety and Loss Prevention Specialist position at Diversicare Healthcare Services?
Overview
Smile, You’ve Found Us!
Are you passionate about caregiving? Would you like to work with the best team in the world? If so, Diversicare invites you to apply.
We build on trust, respect, customer focus, compassion, diplomacy, appreciation and strong communication skills to shape the culture in our workplace. Diversicare team members play a critical role in fostering an environment of Service Excellence, which we extend to all those we are privileged to serve.
If you wish to make a difference in the lives of our patients and residents, APPLY NOW!
Full Time Benefits include:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Excellent 401k plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Vacation, Holiday, and Sick Time
- Long and Short Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Referral Bonuses
- DiversICARE - employee hardship fund
- Pay advancement program - OnShift Wallet
Diversicare provides post-acute care services to patients and residents at 61 skilled nursing and long-term care centers in eight states, primarily in the Southeast, Midwest and Southwest United States. Together, with our team of dedicated healthcare professionals, we leverage our diverse strengths to provide each patient and resident with healthcare serves that best meet their needs.
It is Diversicare’s Mission to “Improve every life we touch by providing exceptional healthcare and exceeding expectations.”
We are guided to excellence by five Core Values: Integrity, Excellence, Compassion, Teamwork and Stewardship, as well as 12 Service Standards.
We build on trust, respect, customer focus, compassion, diplomacy, appreciation and strong communication skills to shape the culture in our workplace. Diversicare team members play a critical role in fostering an environment of Service Excellence. Our Service Standards are in place to offer support. They lead us to what matters most to our company: creating a warm, caring, safe and professional environment for our customers and each other.
Our culture of impassioned service delivery is the Diversicare Difference.
Responsibilities
- Assist with tracking emergency operation plan requirements (emergency exercises, evacuation receiving sites, transportation agreements).
- Implement and distribute emergency operations plan policy revisions.
- Assist centers with annual review of their emergency operations plans.
- Review and track Mississippi emergency operations plans as required before submittal to Emergency Planners.
- Assist with emergency operations training.
- Review workers’ compensation accident investigation forms.
- Follow-up with centers on accident investigation to identify causes and minimize recurrence.
- Track and trend monthly workers’ compensation injuries, claims, and cost.
- Ability to provide training for center staff on safety committee effectiveness.
- Track, review, and follow-up with centers based on monthly safety committee participation.
- Assist center personnel with OSHA recordkeeping to include OSHA 300 Log and 300 A Summary as required by federal and state OSHA.
- Guide centers on OSHA related programs to include hazard communication, hazard assessments, mock OSHA audits, personal protective equipment, and other OSHA related items as required.
- Assist with all requests related to the patient lift program and guidelines (training, parts requests, investigations, etc.)
- Collaborate on other safety related items - fleet safety, corporate office safety/maintenance as directed
Qualifications
- 2-5 years of experience in a minimum of one of the following: Emergency Operations, Workers’ Compensation, Patient Mechanical Lifts, Fleet Safety, OSHA, OSHA Logs, and Corporate Office/Facility Safety.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.
- Basic computer skills and working knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Proficiency in communication skills both in writing and in a classroom setting to all levels of management and team members.
- Ability to work autonomously on assigned projects and be self-directed.
- Develop and implement written policies and procedures.
- Willingness to travel up to 10%-20% of the time.
- Ability to walk, kneel, stand, push and pull equipment frequently throughout the day.
- Exertion up to 25 pounds.
(EOE)
