What are the responsibilities and job description for the Memory Care Director – Expressions Director position at Prestige Healthcare?
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What does the Expressions
Director (Memory Care Director) do?
The Expressions Director is a high impact, visible leadership
role within our community. You would be responsible for planning, directing and
implementing Expressions memory care programming, overseeing Expressions staff
members, training them, ensuring care plans are being kept up to date and
followed closely, and provide oversight of personal care services for the
residents in the Expressions neighborhood. If you want to see the impact
of your work every day, in a home-like setting, while serving in a leadership role,
this job is for you.
Why join the
Prestige Care Family in the Expressions Director role and what can we offer you?
The ability to serve in a leadership role
overseeing a high-impact area of our community.
Collaborate with a strong team of health care
providers, all while working in a home-like setting.
Build relationships with your residents and
their families for months and years at a time.
Strong promote-from-within culture: the
possibilities are endless.
Our 35 year old, family-owned and operated
organization (with over 80 locations in 8 states) means we aren’t too small,
but not too big. You are known here.
In this job, every
day you will…
1.
Evaluates health, functional and psychosocial
status of Expressions residents. Participates in the development of
individualized service plans for residents when they move into our community.
Proactively manages care and services for each resident, maximizing the
resident’s opportunity to remain in the assisted living environment.
2.
Provides day to day supervision to Expressions
(memory care) team members including hiring, training, scheduling and
performance management.
3.
Creates and leads monthly programming for the
Expressions neighborhood utilizing the Expressions focus plan and product
materials.
4.
Ensures the daily delivery of life enrichment
activities in the Expressions neighborhood incorporating the 5 Signature areas
of programming.
5.
Provides initial and ongoing training of new
team members to Expressions neighborhood using the Passport Training program as
well as completing any required state specific training(s). Ensures ongoing
compliance with Prestige policies and procedures.
6.
Directs team members in the delivery of personal
care services utilizing Expressions materials. Utilizes resident’s Life Story
information to expand cooperative service plan to provide exceptional
personalized care.
7.
Provides on-call support for staff questions and
staffing coordination.
8.
Drives financial performance of Expressions
neighborhood by effective management of labor and supply budgets against census
numbers.
Education & Experience
you need to qualify:
You will need a Two-year Associates degree or
equivalent knowledge and skills obtained through a combination of education,
training and experience in a relevant field such as Healthcare Administration
or Business Administration.
You will need to have at least two years of
experience in a memory care setting in a senior living environment.
Certification or License as required by local and state regulations.
One year of previous supervisory experience
preferred. Previous experience with planning and leading senior living
activities preferred.
Ways you can advance
beyond the Expressions Director role:
Once you master this role, you could consider the Health
Services Director, Resident Services Director, or Executive Director jobs with
Prestige Care.
EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED – At Prestige, it is our promise to
personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our
core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the
center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce
that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures,
backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how
we celebrate what makes us different.
Prestige is proud to be an Equal
Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race,
religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or
related 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. Information About Prestige Senior Living at Orchard
Heights
Located at 695 Orchard Heights Road NW in Salem, Oregon, Prestige
Senior Living - Orchard Heights has 61 apartments of assisted living, as well as 18 units.
Our community is right off of Wallace Road in West Salem, so it’s near all
sorts of services and more. Our community itself is beautiful – tons of ambient
light, tall ceilings, and a clean community.
We have a cohesive team that loves to work hard, but
loves to have even more fun. We are motivated to serve our residents to live a
fulfilled life. Our culture is one of collaboration, promote-from-within, and
doing whatever it takes to serve our residents. Our team members are enabled to
be creative, independent, problem solving “managers” who can “manage” their
role to the best of their ability. Our leadership is there to train those who
are struggling or are unsure how to execute a task – we want to do it right! We
love to collaborate on all the teaching, as well as coming to creative
solutions.
If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team
atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer (Orchard Heights is a
former national-award winning community!) that has a great promote-from-within
culture, then Prestige Senior Living - Orchard Heights 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 communities
in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who
serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally
touching 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 to
career development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can help
you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at
Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where
your work truly matters at the end of every day.