Unit Manager - Ashley

Position Summary: 

The Unit Manager is responsible for providing administrative support and clinical expertise for a designated unit, area, or time period in the skilled nursing facility with the goal of assuring compliance with federal, state and local standards, guidelines and regulations that are required and directed to ensure the highest quality of care for the residents/patients. The Unit Manager is delegated specific clinical and administrative duties, acts as a clinical expert on the off shift, and assumes first line responsibility for the nursing care and the services provided in the absence of the Director of Nursing and Administrator.  

Core Responsibilities:

• Responsible for and adheres to the standards of care for the area, manages the environment to maintain resident/patient safety, and supervises the resident/patient activity performance by nursing assistants and staff nurses.

• Maintains staff accountability for clinical and customer service standards at all times.  Addresses non-compliance with policy, procedure, and standards of practice and behavior with staff in a respectful and professional manner when non-compliance is observed.  

• Make daily rounds on unit to ensure resident care needs and environmental standards are met; this includes monitoring of dining room during meal times.

• Participates in the development and implementation of new policies and procedures based on identified needs.

• Oversee care to promote the highest level of physical, mental and psychosocial functioning possible. 

• Actively participates in the Quality Assurance Process, including completing routine quality audits, coaching staff, assisting with report preparation, and participating in the facility Quality Assurance Meeting when requested.

• Participates in the clinical admission process.

• Make frequent rounds to ensure nursing personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards.

• Gives/receives the nursing report upon reporting in and ending shift duty hours.

• Ensures assigned work area (I,e. nurse station, med cart, medication room, etc.) Residents/Patient care rooms and treatment area are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner.

• Attends regular conducted staff meeting as scheduled by the Director of Nursing 

• Conducts  continuing education in-service programs.

• Participates in Performance Improvement Process

• Participates in the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care and Care Conferences.

• Monitors wound healing and assesses effectiveness of prescribed regimen.  Communicates progress with physician. 

• Assist in monitoring, identifying, preventing, and control outbreaks of infection in the facility.

• Weekend house supervisor in absence of Administrator and DON.

• Handle on-call responsibilities as required.

• Receives and handle employee complaints

• Ensure the facility is well stocked with supplies, including medications and equipment.

• Compile information for and populate infection surveillance logs, Labs, TB test to maintain compliance within the facility.

• Ability to perform wound assessment, reassessment and management for all patients and per policy. This includes adults and geriatric in the general population.

• Utilizes principles of current wound management theory when providing care to patients with acute and chronic wounds.

• Demonstrates thorough knowledge of staging system of wounds.

• Develops skin care programs to prevent skin breakdown of patients.

• Knowledgeable of surgical procedures and postoperative course of patients undergoing bowel surgery.

• Demonstrates knowledge and skill to develop and implement policies and procedures to manage patients with draining wounds, fistulae and/or tubes; wound prevention, wound care, ostomy care and incontinence.

• Identifies and addresses psychosocial needs of patients and families; communicates with social service/discharge planner as appropriate.

• Is a resource person to physicians, nursing and other hospital staff. Provides in-services on wound prevention, wound care, ostomy care and incontinence for the nursing staff

• Consults other healthcare professionals/departments as appropriate to provide interdisciplinary approach to the patient's needs.

• Documentation meets current standards and practices.

• Attends seminars, conferences, continuing education classes in the areas of wound prevention, wound management and ostomies   Participates in professional societies.  Stays current with changes, new advances/treatment in wound care.

• Serves as a liaison between physicians, patients and manufacturers of clinical products.

• Knowledgeable of the clinical products currently available on the market.  Meets with sales representatives, evaluates products; makes recommendations for products/equipment. 

• Demonstrates an ability to be flexible, organized and function under stressful situations.

• Provides direct patient care when not engaged in administrative duties as designated by facility schedule.

• Generates, manages and updates schedule templates

• Adjusts schedule templates according to census, PTO, and pre-planned leaves of absence to create the current schedule

• Posts the current schedule each scheduling period

• Reviews staff schedule change requests and grants even trades resulting in no overtime

• Updates current schedule to reflect actual hours worked, and unscheduled absences

• Finds coverage for unscheduled absences and scheduling deficits

• Reviews staff timecards and resolves discrepancies on a daily basis

• Keeping meticulous attendance records and makes the Director of Nursing aware when thresholds for progressive discipline has been reached

• Communicating with unit managers and the Director of Nursing regarding floor orientation scheduling for newly hired employees in the nursing department

• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must hold a current State of Michigan LPN or RN License 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred, Master’s Degree in Nursing highly desirable.

• One year leadership/charge/supervisory experience in a SNF/LTC setting required; three years preferred

• Must be able to read, write and understand the English language

• Computer literacy skills including Word and basic mouse and keyboard operations.  Electronic clinical documentation experience preferred.