Unit Manager (RN)

Green Hill Senior Living and Rehabilitation -

OVERVIEW :

Unit Managers are primarily responsible for overseeing day to day patient care, supervising,

directing and developing nurse staff, and reporting to the Director of Nursing to ensure quality

patient care within a long-term care center, skilled nursing facility or assisted living community.

Unit Managers are liaisons between residents and their families. Unit Managers are tasked with

ensuring their unit complies with federal and state regulatory standards and follows company

policies and procedures.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

Identifies patient service requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and

actual patients and other persons in a position to understand service requirements.

• Maintains nursing guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures.
• Maintains nursing operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational,

and personnel policies and procedures.

Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting hospital and nursing division's

philosophies and standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state

nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations; measuring health

outcomes against standards; making or recommending adjustments.

• Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff.
• Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning nursing and staff; following up

on work results.

Maintains nursing staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees;

planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.

Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual

support to patients, friends, and families.

Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching and counseling

patient, friends, and family and reinforcing their understanding of disease, medications, and

self-care skills.

• Provides information to patients and health care team by answering questions and requests.
• Resolves patient needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by designing and implementing procedures,

rules, and regulations; calling for assistance from other health care professionals.

Protects patients and employees by developing and interpreting infection-control policies and

protocols; enforcing medication administration, storage procedures, and controlled substance

regulations.

Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by monitoring confidential information

processing.

• Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records.
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing

variances; initiating corrective actions.

Ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment

availability; completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's

instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment

inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.

Maintains nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports; identifying trends; anticipating

needed supplies; approving requisitions and cost allocations.

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing

professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.

Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information;

responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods.

Assist in the Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) process

QUALIFICATIONS :

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE :

• Must hold valid RN License instate working
• LTC Experience Preferred
• Basic computer skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Minimum 5+ years nursing experience in a hospital, nursing home or other healthcare setting

and a minimum 1-year experience as a nurse supervisor

• CPR / BLS certified
• Strong knowledge of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations,

and guidelines that pertain to nursing care centers.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES :

Supervises the nursing personnel and the day-to-day nursing activities of the facility during an

assigned tour of duty

WORK ENVIRONMENT :

This job operates in a health care setting. This role requires regular walking to various locations

around the care center

Incumbent may be exposed to virus, disease and infection from patients and specimens in

working environment

Incumbent may be required to work extended periods of time at a video display terminal

Incumbent may experience traumatic situations, including psychiatric, and deceased patients

• Works beyond normal working hours and on weekends and holidays when necessary
• Must be able to stay or return to facility during emergency conditions

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an

employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision,

peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping,

crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and

patients weighing over 50 pounds.

TRAVEL :

• No travel is expected for this position
30+ days ago