Nursing Manager Clinical Coordinator-DSD Full Time Days

At Hi-Desert Medical Center (HDMC) we've been caring for our community for over 40 years. Our Continuing Care Center (CCC), located on the campus of HDMC, provides specialized care to residents close to their own communities, with spectacular panoramic views of desert landscapes for both residents and their guests 

The Continuing Care Center has 120 beds and offers three distinct levels of service in semi-private rooms: 

Subacute care: This is the highest level of care available in our long-term care setting. The CCC provides 25 beds dedicated to residents with ventilator and tracheostomy requirements. Clinical staff is specially trained to meet the unique needs of these patients. The CCC is one of the few facilities in Southern California providing this level of care. 

Skilled nursing care: We provide long-term skilled nursing care to residents who require assistance with personal and medical needs. Care is provided to our patients who require rehabilitative therapies, wound care or recovery from accidents or invasive procedures. 

Long-Term Care: We provide long-term care to residents who require assistance with personal and medical needs. 

General Duties:

The Manager has a 24-hour, 7 days a week responsibility to provide leadership for the Continuing Care Center. This includes planning, organizing, staff development, performance management, quality fiscal and information management, regulatory compliance, building and enhancing relationships through customer relations, and appropriate professional involvement.  The Manager is accountable for the management of the cost center(s) within the established budget.  The Manager will work closely with medical directors, ther disciplines to develop services and ensure quality.  Access to all Patient Health Information.

Shift: Days 

Days Off:

Department Specific Duties:

• Provides leadership of the Continuing Care Center staff related to care of the residents and/or patients and associated education management 
• Obtains information and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development. 
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Ensures standards of care, policies, and procedures are appropriate and current and that they have been reviewed with all staff members.     
• Reviews and revises policies and procedures as necessary, but not less than every three years.
• Develops short-term goals and objectives consistent with those of the organization.  Submits and discusses established goals and objectives with administration at least annually.  Assures departmental action plans meet departmental and organizational goals, problem solving effectively within the department and with other departments to achieve these goals.
• Assures regulatory compliance with Title XXII.
• Assures regulatory compliance with TJC
• Regularly volunteers for and completes special projects.
• Achieves YTD compliance with labor hour benchmark per unit of service. 
• Reviews statistical analysis information and corrects any errors monthly.
• Identifies and implements cost savings through labor and supply utilization efficiencies.
• Promotes sound staffing practice by optimizing the utilization of human resources.        
• Ensures that current criteria-based job performance standard and applicable competencies exist to each member of the staff. 
• Ensures annual performance evaluations are completed timely for both annual and evaluations.
• Continually monitors the department’s activities and takes appropriate action to ensure efficient and effective operation. 
• Observes ongoing operations and analyzes performance to identify potential problems.
• Assesses and implements staff development and cross training as needed.
• Coordinates timely attendance at hospital orientation and all mandatory continuing education programs for department employees. 
• Assures current, comprehensive, and timely department specific orientation for all new employees.
• Supports all hospital programs to include, but not limited to, risk management, safety, infection control.
• Maintains personal current knowledge and expertise in the specialty field of the department, and of regulatory requirements of the department.
• Productively criticizes and effectively counsels staff in a timely manner.
• Obtains feedback on a regular basis from other departments.      Develops action plans to achieve improvement.
• Maintains a good working rapport with all staff, and other departments, which require frequent interactions and coordination of efforts.
• Establishes and maintains a routine mode of communication with staff, e.g., monthly staff meetings and written communications.
• Communicates self and staff concerns and problems through proper written and verbal channels.
• Communicates, cooperates, and performs related duties with other members of the hospital staff and administration in a courteous and efficient manner to actively contribute to overall hospital goals and objectives.
• Assists with the development of and execution of a plan of staff involvement and growth through delegation of appropriate authorities.
• Acts as a team member within the department and within the organization.
• Demonstrates effective and responsible relationships with patients, families, medical director and key physicians, employees, management and administration, and related outside agencies.
• Assures timely follow up of patient, family, staff, and physician concerns.
• Assures effective staff recognition.
• Schedules the collection of data for these initiatives, and other ongoing reviews, which serve as quality trending.  Monitors and reviews the results with department staff on a regular basis.
• Achieves measurable improvement in key quality initiatives, which include both processes, e.g., documentation, and outcome measures.
• Achieves measurable improvement in customer service.
• Reports at least annually to the designated hospital quality committee,
• Assures department compliance with TJC and other accrediting body standards as they are updates/revised.

Physical Demands:

• Prolonged standing/walking
• Frequent reaching, stooping, bending
• Frequent computer use
• Occasional kneeling and crouching
• Occasional physical effort (lift/carry up to 25 pounds)

Working Conditions:

• May be exposed to bodily fluids and waste
• Exposure to blood borne pathogens and infectious diseases
• Regular contact with residents/visitors/family members

Position Qualifications:

Required:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in acute or post-acute care
• Current California RN license
• DSD certification required or should qualify within 30 days of hire
• Current American Heart Association BLS Certification (maintain current at all times)
• Three (2) years clinical experience
• Current knowledge of the field, with evidence of ongoing continuing education 
• Progressive healthcare experience including at least two years’ supervisory experience
• Basic computer competence
• Demonstrated competence as a leader/ previous management experience required

Preferred:

• MDS Certification 
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing 
• Master’s degree in Nursing

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