What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nursing Staffing Coordinator position at Saunders Nursing and Rehabilitation Center?
Saunders Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is located in Wynnewood, PA on SEPTA bus routes G and 105. The staff at Saunders are dedicated to working as a professional team providing a caring and compassionate, home-like environment for all residents. We now have an excellent opportunity for a skilled Nursing Staff Coordinator.
What we look for in a Nursing Staff Coordinator:
Reporting into the Director of Nursing and Administrator, this position plays a critical role in establishing and maintaining proper staffing levels for a 24/7, 180 bed skilled nursing facility. It is essential that applicants have experience in working collaboratively with the nursing staff, staffing agencies, the DON, Administrator and Human Resources to anticipate current and future staffing needs and implement a strategy to secure staff on a timely basis.
Responsibilities include:
- Accepts initial responsibility for managing the scheduling of staff for all units and shifts. Provides evening and night supervisors with procedure and contact information for use when needing to fill any call outs that occurred during those shifts.
- Assures that adequate staffing requirements are consistently met in accordance with the Department of Health regulations.
- Serves as a point of contact for RN’s, LPN’s and CNA’s relative to schedule changes, assignment changes, vacation requests, etc. Consistently manages all changes.
- Serves as liaison with staffing agencies as approved by the Director of Nursing or Administrator. Obtains pre-approval by Director of Nursing before agency staff is engaged.
- Monitors scheduling issues weekly relative to department call-outs, resignations, leaves of absence so that recruitment needs may be anticipated. Anticipates and works to prevent problems proactively.
- Develops and maintains a current master schedule for all nursing units and shifts.
- Identifies trends. Provides data relative to nursing care hours per patient day, use of per diem fulfillment of schedule requirements, regular staff fulfillment of scheduled shifts, overtime and facility staffing plan.
- Participates in on-going preparation for State surveys.
- Additional related assignments.
Qualifications required:
- Minimum 2 years of skilled nursing staffing coordinator experience in a long-term care setting. Supervisory experience is a plus.
- Experience in using On-Shift staffing application or similar staffing tool.
- Professional verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven willingness to work as part of a team or independently as needed.
Saunders offers:
- Competitive pay
- Benefits such as health, dental, vision and 401 (k)
- Paid time off for vacation sickness and holidays
- Voluntary benefits such as short-term disability, live insurance, hospital indemnity, etc.
- Employee engagement through Town Hall meetings, Newsletters, Seasonal Celebrations and more.
- Professional office environment.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Saunders is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
