What are the responsibilities and job description for the WELLNESS DIRECTOR RN position at Prestige Care - Riverwood Senior Living?
Information About Prestige Senior Living -Riverwood
Located at 18321 SW Pacific Highway in Tualatin, OR, PrestigeSenior Living - Riverwood has 60 apartments of all assisted living care.
Riverwood is a clean, vibrant community of healthcareproviders and residents. We offer a highly impactful work environment where youcan collaborate with other team members to offer the best in care for ourresidents. If getting to know those you serve is important to you, you get thatin spades with us! We offer a strong promote-from-within culture, a home-like workenvironment, a robust and comprehensive medical / dental / vision / EAP benefitspackage, lots of different career options, and more.
If working in a home-like setting, with a strong teamatmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a greatpromote-from-within culture, then Riverwood is the place for you.
Who Is Prestige Care / Prestige Senior Living?
Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communitiesin 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members whoserve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personallytouching their lives every day.
We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment,and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment tocareer development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can helpyou achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career atPrestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment whereyour work truly matters at the end of every day.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Wellness Director RN partners with Health Services leadership to oversee the clinical aspects of thehealth services department for assigned community and ensures that residentcare needs are met by completing assessments, coordinating resident care,managing health services systems, and delegating nursing tasks. Promotes a positive physical and psychosocial environment for the residents.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Creates a resident-centered approach to the planning and delivery of services to residents, supporting residents' rights toparticipate in decision-making and treating residents with dignity and respect
- Performsassessments on health, functional and psychosocial status of residents.Participates in the development ofindividualized service plans. Proactively manages care and services for eachresident, maximizing the resident's opportunity to remain in the assisted living environment. Problem-solves as partof the management team to case manage and meet the needs of residents
- Assesses or evaluates residents with reported changes of condition. Provides direction, service planning,and coordination of care to meet the residents' changing needs
- Collaborateswith the management team on the move in of prospective residents, taking intoconsideration the needs of the prospective resident, current community acuity, and staffing levels. Provides in-person pre-move inassessments, if necessary
- Ensuresthat resident care needs are met by coordinating services with otherprofessionals, including physicians, discharge planners, nurses, home healthagency staff, case managers, hospice, and state agency personnel. Oversees the arrangement of ancillary services such as pharmacy, podiatry, lab, andx-ray as needed
- Delegatesnursing tasks as allowed under applicable state nursing laws and practice acts,communicating regularly with residents, their families, and their health care practitioners
- Oversees the documentation and communication of resident care and services. Assists the leadership team to ensure resident recordsare completed in a timely manner and maintained according to company policiesand state regulations
- Maintains and oversees medication services including staff training, staff oversight, pharmacycoordination, medication room, and medication systems
- Partners in the investigation and root cause analysisof incidents. Collaborates with the management team on the development and implementation of appropriate interventions
- Assists in the management of Infection Control. Assists with providing training to staff on infection controlpractices, investigates, and reports incidents of infection and tracksinfection data
- Provides on-call support and phone triage for team members' questions regarding resident concerns
- Participates in leadership team by actively contributing in decision making, incident follow up, building and company-wide initiatives and attending leadership team meetings such as daily stand up, Systems Monitoring and Resident Tracking (SMART), Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI), and othermeetings as required
- Acts as an ambassador of Prestige by representing communities in a positive manner to outside agencies and participating incommunity events and social functions
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of all rules,regulations and policies pertaining to resident care. Responsible to stayinformed of industry and health care trends and standards, applying newknowledge to meet the changing needs of residents. Seeks out additional expertise and advice when needed to assure residents' needs are met and proper practicesfollowed
- Performs other duties as assigned
COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Must have current, unencumbered RN license in the state of practice. Delegation experience in thestate assigned preferred. Experience in geriatric nursing, medicationadministration, case management, and training and staff development preferred.
EDUCATION
Registered Nurse license with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing or Associate Degree in Nursing, may also be a diploma RN.
EOE / M / F / VETS / DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise topersonally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on ourcore values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at thecenter of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforcethat represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures,backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and howwe celebrate what makes us different.
Prestige is proud to be an EqualEmployment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race,religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, orrelated medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability,or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
