Nursing Home Administrator, Long Term Care

About the Role

This position is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the location, including meeting established goals and outcomes, ensuring regulatory and organization compliance, directing and coordinating work, financial and operational stability, and demonstrating leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages Resident Service:
• Communicates, interacts, and responds to customers effectively and accurately.
• Proactively communicates necessary changes, issues, and concerns to families, staff, and other members of the medical community.
• Responds quickly and openly to resident's physical, mental, and needs, assuring they are being met by self or others.
• Ensures effective marketing and communication for all service levels.
• Is accessible and practices active listening.
• Manages Risk:
• Assigns responsibility for daily management of infection prevention and control activities.
• Provides equipment, supplies, and access to information to support the infection prevention and control program.
• Sets expectations for data collection and use to monitor and control infections.
• Creates and maintains a culture of safety.
• Ensures a safety program is in place with scheduled inspections and necessary corrections.
• Provides equipment and supplies to ensure a safe environment.
• Assures resident rights are protected and that all residents, families, and significant others are made aware of those rights.
• Ensures HIPAA compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring a Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Program is in place.
• Assigns responsibility for daily management of QAPI.
• Ensures leadership of monthly QAPI committee meetings.
• Sponsors performance improvement projects and reviews, approves, or rejects performance improvement team findings and recommendations.
• Provides access to information and equipment/supplies to support QAPI efforts.
• Acts as the Compliance Liaison, supporting the Chief Compliance Officer in carrying out the Compliance Program.
• Manages Communication and Documentation:
• Expresses ideas clearly, concisely, and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Requests ongoing feedback on task performance.
• Communicates upward and downward within the organization appropriately and in a timely fashion.
• Ensures documentation and reports are completed as required by regulations and/or policy and procedure.
• Seeks clarification of assignments and asks questions when needed.
• Keeps supervisor informed and follows chain of command as appropriate when reporting issues or concerns.
• Manages Financial and Operational Objectives:
• Works with department teams and consultants to oversee operations of the campus.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Nursing Home Administrator license in the state of practice.
• Other licenses as appropriate by state requirements and facility needs.
• Full-time, 40 hours per week.
• Day shift.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree is strongly preferred, preferably in healthcare administration, including coursework in business and human resources.
• Location will determine experience required.