Clinical Nurse Manager-Skilled Care

Overview

Why become a NURSE at Willow Valley Communities????

You'll instantly be an integral and empowered part of a professional team.

Our Culture is summed up by our MORE values: Make a Difference, Own Excellence, Respect Relationships, Enhance Wellbeing

You'll be working for the best of the best.

Year after year Willow Valley Communities consistently achieves the highest rankings in care, lifestyle, and excellence from such trusted organizations as Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. Our residents move here from across the nation because of our stellar healthcare reputation.

The residents you will care for live here.

You'll have the opportunity to nurture warm and caring relationships with them and their families as you manage their care through the years. You'll experience the love and gratefulness our residents have for our nurses every day.

You'll also experience how Willow Valley Communities respects and appreciates our Team Members.

We show them every chance we get with fun, family-friendly events like Team Member picnics, socials, and grocery bags filled with complementary Thanksgiving and Spring Holiday dinner items.

Plus, every Willow Valley Communities Team Member enjoys a wide array of great benefits!! Including:

-Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits

-Generous PTO package with a day off for your birthday

-Flexible schedule with shift differentials and Weekend Program

-Tuition reimbursement, scholarship opportunities, and CNA training available

-On-Site amenities: fitness center, pool, spa, cafes, and more
Willow Valley is hiring a Clinical Nurse Manager to oversee the operations for a unit/floor in Skilled Care. The Nurse Manager is responsible for staffing levels and quality of care on a unit.

Wage:

• From $43.00/hr-$50.00/hr; based on experience

Responsibilities:

• Creates a positive, encouraging, and educational environment for Team Members.
• Ensures consistency among Supportive Living Communities in all operations, policies and procedures.
• Coordinates Resident care from admission to discharge, maintaining facility standards of care, Willow Valley Communities policy and procedures, and Department of Health regulatory requirements.
• Supervises and monitors Resident care delivery daily.
• Supervises and manages nursing team member performance through education, performance appraisals, counseling, and disciplinary actions in collaboration with the Director of Nursing and Human Resources.
• Responsible for unit compliance with facility policies, procedures and protocols, and quality statistics on their floor.
• Responsible for interviewing, hiring, orientation, retention and management of turnover of nursing Team Members.
• Participates in Resident care planning process in collaboration with RNAC and unit staff in care plan development and attends care plan conference as appropriate.
• Identifies staff education and training needs and collaborates with Supportive Living Education to provide training programs.
• Performs quality assurance monitoring, including tracking and trending clinical issues (i.e. falls, medication errors, etc.) for assigned areas.
• Acts as Resident and Resident family member resources for nursing issues, including follow-up on Concern forms.
• Maintains excellent relationships with Team Members, Residents and family members.
• Demonstrates strong organizational, time management and communication skills.
• Responsible for agency tracking and usage, and is expected to use very little agency.
• Responsible for monitoring nursing practices and equipment for compliance in federal, state and local regulations.
• Responsible for Team Member and Resident satisfaction on unit(s).
• Responsible for following up on all unsatisfactory/average reviews and/or comments of Resident Satisfaction Surveys and document follow-up call.
• Serves as liaison and resource for nursing unit issues with physicians and other members of interdisciplinary care team.
• Assists the Director of Nursing with program/protocol development and implementation on nursing units.
• Provides on-call nursing supervisor coverage to the facility's Skilled Nursing Department as needed.
• Acts as Director of Nursing in the absence of the Director of Nursing.
• Participates in daily, weekly and monthly management meetings, staff meetings, various committees, and task forces as assigned.
• Provides Resident care and other emergency nursing duties when necessary to meet the goals and Resident care standards of the Nursing Department.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages subordinate Nurse Team Leaders and Nursing Assistants in the Skilled Nursing Department.
• Is responsible for overall direction, coordination and evaluation of the clinical care of Residents on the assigned units.
• Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies, regulations, and applicable laws.
• Responsible for periodic on-call nursing supervision of Skilled Nursing Department.

Qualifications:

• RN Licensed in PA
• 3-5 years clinical experience, preferably Long-Term Care setting
• Supervisory experience preferred

Hours:

• 40 hrs/week

Schedule:

• Mon-Fri.
• Occasional Weekends
• Rotational On Call

Location:

• The Glen of Willow Valley Communities
• 675 Willow Valley Square, Lancaster, PA 17602