Tennessee jobs in senior homes and assisted living facilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Supervises the Memory Department Staff including Caregivers and Activity Assistants. 
• Implement and maintain the systems and programs in accordance with state regulations and to Belmont Village Senior Living's standards, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures person-centered programming throughout all activity programs consistent with Belmont Village standards.
• Conducts monthly advanced dementia training for all staff and is the dementia expert for the community.
• Maintains regular and consistent communication with the management team and the Dementia Program staff.
• Supervises the overall duties and responsibilities of the Activity Assistants including monthly calendar, events and Volunteer Program.
• Conducts cognitive assessments on prospective and current residents translating outcomes to service plans related to care and programming.
• Ensures adequate staffing through staff scheduling
• Hires,trains, coaches, mentors and manages Caregivers and Activity Assistants
• Works collaboratively with Director of Resident Care Services to oversee nursing staff assigned to Secured Dementia
• Ensures the quality of meal organization, delivery, and service.
• Ensures complete and consistent documentation with all functions.
• Ensures a safe and secure environment for both residents and staff.
• Ensures communication and involvement with the residents’ family members through special events, scheduled meetings, and quarterly meetings.
• Provides program support including relevant research and background material for Activity Assistants, maintaining inventory of activity supplies, facilitating and trouble-shooting as needed

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Supervises the Memory Program staff including caregivers and Activity Assistants

Overview:

Do you want to become part of a fun, positive, professional team that loves to work with seniors? We currently have an exciting opening for a Director of Nursing with a heart for seniors to join our team at Maple Court! If you believe that exceptional care is more than just clinical, please apply!

Blue Harbor offers a competitive compensation package including:

• Medical, dental, & vision benefits
• 401 (k) with generous company match
• PTO & Holidays

Responsibilities:

The Director of Nursing is responsible for the personal care services provided by the community staff to residents; the health assessment and services planning for all of the community’s residents. This position manages a staff through supervision, education and support.

• Schedule personnel so that all resident needs are met 24 hours a day
• Monitor resident care to ensure corporate and state standards are met and/or exceeded
• Monitor community admissions and discharges to ensure all corporate and state guidelines are met
• Coordinate community ancillary service providers
• Develop and implement quality improvement program, establishing quality improvement team, quality indicator assuring a minimum standard of federal, state and local compliance
• Present a professional demeanor that communicates a corporate philosophy of service, goodwill, and genuine interest in each resident’s needs
• Familiarize yourself with residents of the community
• Participate in resident orientations; explain amenities, routines, and expectations of the Community and your department

Job Summary:

Prepares and cooks family – style meals and snacks and beverages for residents and sometimes employees and family members at nursing facility. Cooks foodstuffs in quantities according to menu and number of person to be served. Washes dishes. Bakes breads and pastry. Cuts meat. May serve meals. Plans menu or follow menu plan taking advantage of foods in season and local availability. May order supplies and keep records and accounts May cook for person centered care facilities where food is cooked as resident’s request. Have understanding of nutrition based meals.

Critical Functions:

Full or part time. Responsible for assisting in preparing and serving meals in the nursing home setting. Cooking and serving correct diet to resident and providing a home like environment or person centered care. Works with dietary staff in keeping the dietary department clean and sanitary as well as a safe working environment. Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment such as stove, dishwasher, warmers, mixers, etc.

Job Summary:

Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to ill, injured, convalescent, and handicapped persons in the long term care or assisted living setting. Takes and records resident vital signs. Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages. Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles. Observes resident and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in charge. Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intermuscular injection, and notes time and amount on resident chart. Assembles and uses such equipment as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers. Collects samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum, from residents for testing and performs routine laboratory tests on samples. Sterilizes equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds residents. Records food and fluid intake and output. Bathes, dresses, and assist residents in walking and turning. Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers resident call lights. Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons. Must pass state board examination and be licensed. May inventory and requisition supplies. Documentation capability with accuracy and understanding of facility, state and federal regulations and policies and procedures. May start and monitor IV’s with appropriate accreditation and licensure.

Critical Functions:

Render or assign resident care according to the needs of the residents under the direction of the supervisor and or director of nursing. Maintain a home like, person centered care environment for all residents. Effectively supervise all staff responsible for resident care. As an interdisciplinary team member and supervising others to meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of the resident.

Job Summary:

Consistently close new business in order to grow or maintain census for 5 communities. This process begins with identifying the sales needs of each facility by establishing the metrics necessary to reach 100% occupancy.

The facility’s sales need are assessed on a monthly basis and reviewed weekly by the administrator and the facility sales representative. The sales representative’s time and effort will be directed toward a combination of lead-generating and prospect management activities. These sales activities include: lead generation through setting appointments with influencers in the community, executing one-on-one sales calls to influencers in the community, setting first appointments with new leads, discovering the prospect’s needs, establishing next steps that are time and date specific and make sense to the prospect, making recommendations that make sense to the prospect and seeing the prospect through to admission.

Critical Functions and Success Factors:

In order to be successful and reach the objective of the position, compliance with the following activities and reporting will be expected:

1.Analyze the sales needs of the facility

• Evaluate the number of leads necessary to generate the needed number of admissions month to month to either achieve or maintain full occupancy.
• Understand the average selling cycle in a particular facility, evaluate the time averages required to move generated leads through the sales process (from initial inquiry, to first appointment, to 25%, 50%, 90% and closed)
• Reporting: Responsible for gathering necessary data in order for the administrator and sales representative to determine course of action.
• Compliance: Understands how to analyze the necessary selling activities that need to take place at a particular facility in order to achieve full occupancy and communicates a plan to execute those activities to the administrator.

2.Generate Leads

• Ensure that enough contacts are made with influencers and referral sources within a particular community to create the needed number of leads required to achieve full occupancy.
• Sales calls to community influencers and referral sources will be made through one-on-one fact to face meetings. The sales representative will participate in pertinent networking events and community education programs in order to secure more appointments with potential referral sources.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of sales calls made in the community by tracking resulting referrals made by those contacts and adjust efforts accordingly.
• Reporting: Responsible for reporting number of executed referral source sales calls each week. Also reports the number of networking/marketing activities and the number of potential referral sources identified.
• Competency: The objective of sales calls to referral sources will be to inspire confidence to recommend the facility’s services to those looking for care outside the home. The referral source should understand this objective and agree to it in order for the meeting to be considered a success.

3.Prospect Management

• Perform or ensure performance of needed follow-up on new and existing prospects at a facility and continue moving prospects through the sales process through one-on-one discovery in order to secure the admission.
• Keeps accurate sales notes on each active prospect complete with date/ time specific new step.
• Ensure that each prospect is placed in the correct category of the sales activity board by complying with definitions within each category (continuance, new lead, FA, 25%, 50%, 90%, closed.)
• Secures agreed upon next step/agenda with all leads in active columns (25%, 50%, 90%)
• Directs the necessary effort to develop relationships with prospects considered in continuance in order to secure a date and time next step when it makes sense for the prospect to do so.
• Validate prospects to determine when to drop as invalid or non-qualified.
• Reporting: Responsible for reporting what has started and what has moved in the facility’s sales effort each week on the sales activity board.
• Competency: Effectively moves valid prospects through the sales process from initial inquiry through first appointment, through 25% to closed, 50% to closed, 90% to closed and closed. Is complaint with definitions of sales board common language and has a date/time specific next step with all active prospects.

4.Non Selling Activities: Non- selling activities should occupy no more than 20% of the sales representative’s time. These non-selling activities include:

• Travel to / from referral source sales calls and prospect home visits
• Relationship building with facility management / staff
• Staff education in the area of inquire handling
• Required corporate training / meetings

Job Summary:

Prepares and cooks family – style meals and snacks and beverages for residents and sometimes employees and family members at nursing facility. Cooks foodstuffs in quantities according to menu and number of person to be served. Washes dishes. Bakes breads and pastry. Cuts meat. May serve meals. Plans menu or follow menu plan taking advantage of foods in season and local availability. May order supplies and keep records and accounts May cook for person centered care facilities where food is cooked as resident’s request. Have understanding of nutrition based meals.

Critical Functions:

Full or part time. Responsible for assisting in preparing and serving meals in the nursing home setting. Cooking and serving correct diet to resident and providing a home like environment or person centered care. Works with dietary staff in keeping the dietary department clean and sanitary as well as a safe working environment. Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment such as stove, dishwasher, warmers, mixers, etc.

Job Summary:

Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to ill, injured, convalescent, and handicapped persons in the long term care or assisted living setting. Takes and records resident vital signs. Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages. Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles. Observes resident and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in charge. Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intermuscular injection, and notes time and amount on resident chart. Assembles and uses such equipment as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers. Collects samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum, from residents for testing and performs routine laboratory tests on samples. Sterilizes equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds residents. Records food and fluid intake and output. Bathes, dresses, and assist residents in walking and turning. Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers resident call lights. Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons. Must pass state board examination and be licensed. May inventory and requisition supplies. Documentation capability with accuracy and understanding of facility, state and federal regulations and policies and procedures. May start and monitor IV’s with appropriate accreditation and licensure.

Critical Functions:

Render or assign resident care according to the needs of the residents under the direction of the supervisor and or director of nursing. Maintain a home like, person centered care environment for all residents. Effectively supervise all staff responsible for resident care. As an interdisciplinary team member and supervising others to meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of the resident.

Job Summary:

Prepares and cooks family – style meals and snacks and beverages for residents and sometimes employees and family members at nursing facility. Cooks foodstuffs in quantities according to menu and number of person to be served. Washes dishes. Bakes breads and pastry. Cuts meat. May serve meals. Plans menu or follow menu plan taking advantage of foods in season and local availability. May order supplies and keep records and accounts May cook for person centered care facilities where food is cooked as resident’s request. Have understanding of nutrition based meals.

Critical Functions:

Full or part time. Responsible for assisting in preparing and serving meals in the nursing home setting. Cooking and serving correct diet to resident and providing a home like environment or person centered care. Works with dietary staff in keeping the dietary department clean and sanitary as well as a safe working environment. Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment such as stove, dishwasher, warmers, mixers, etc.

Job Summary:

Consistently close new business in order to grow or maintain census for 5 communities. This process begins with identifying the sales needs of each facility by establishing the metrics necessary to reach 100% occupancy.

The facility’s sales need are assessed on a monthly basis and reviewed weekly by the administrator and the facility sales representative. The sales representative’s time and effort will be directed toward a combination of lead-generating and prospect management activities. These sales activities include: lead generation through setting appointments with influencers in the community, executing one-on-one sales calls to influencers in the community, setting first appointments with new leads, discovering the prospect’s needs, establishing next steps that are time and date specific and make sense to the prospect, making recommendations that make sense to the prospect and seeing the prospect through to admission.

Critical Functions and Success Factors:

In order to be successful and reach the objective of the position, compliance with the following activities and reporting will be expected:

1.Analyze the sales needs of the facility

• Evaluate the number of leads necessary to generate the needed number of admissions month to month to either achieve or maintain full occupancy.
• Understand the average selling cycle in a particular facility, evaluate the time averages required to move generated leads through the sales process (from initial inquiry, to first appointment, to 25%, 50%, 90% and closed)
• Reporting: Responsible for gathering necessary data in order for the administrator and sales representative to determine course of action.
• Compliance: Understands how to analyze the necessary selling activities that need to take place at a particular facility in order to achieve full occupancy and communicates a plan to execute those activities to the administrator.

2.Generate Leads

• Ensure that enough contacts are made with influencers and referral sources within a particular community to create the needed number of leads required to achieve full occupancy.
• Sales calls to community influencers and referral sources will be made through one-on-one fact to face meetings. The sales representative will participate in pertinent networking events and community education programs in order to secure more appointments with potential referral sources.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of sales calls made in the community by tracking resulting referrals made by those contacts and adjust efforts accordingly.
• Reporting: Responsible for reporting number of executed referral source sales calls each week. Also reports the number of networking/marketing activities and the number of potential referral sources identified.
• Competency: The objective of sales calls to referral sources will be to inspire confidence to recommend the facility’s services to those looking for care outside the home. The referral source should understand this objective and agree to it in order for the meeting to be considered a success.

3.Prospect Management

• Perform or ensure performance of needed follow-up on new and existing prospects at a facility and continue moving prospects through the sales process through one-on-one discovery in order to secure the admission.
• Keeps accurate sales notes on each active prospect complete with date/ time specific new step.
• Ensure that each prospect is placed in the correct category of the sales activity board by complying with definitions within each category (continuance, new lead, FA, 25%, 50%, 90%, closed.)
• Secures agreed upon next step/agenda with all leads in active columns (25%, 50%, 90%)
• Directs the necessary effort to develop relationships with prospects considered in continuance in order to secure a date and time next step when it makes sense for the prospect to do so.
• Validate prospects to determine when to drop as invalid or non-qualified.
• Reporting: Responsible for reporting what has started and what has moved in the facility’s sales effort each week on the sales activity board.
• Competency: Effectively moves valid prospects through the sales process from initial inquiry through first appointment, through 25% to closed, 50% to closed, 90% to closed and closed. Is complaint with definitions of sales board common language and has a date/time specific next step with all active prospects.

  4.Non Selling Activities: Non- selling activities should occupy no more than 20% of the sales representative’s time. These non-selling activities include:

•   Travel to / from referral source sales calls and prospect home visits
• Relationship building with facility management / staff
• Staff education in the area of inquire handling
• Required corporate training / meetings

Job Summary:

Provides prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to ill, injured, convalescent, and handicapped persons in the long term care or assisted living setting. Takes and records resident vital signs. Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and massages. Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles. Observes resident and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in charge. Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intermuscular injection, and notes time and amount on resident chart. Assembles and uses such equipment as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers. Collects samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum, from residents for testing and performs routine laboratory tests on samples. Sterilizes equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds residents. Records food and fluid intake and output. Bathes, dresses, and assist residents in walking and turning. Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers resident call lights. Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons. Must pass state board examination and be licensed. May inventory and requisition supplies. Documentation capability with accuracy and understanding of facility, state and federal regulations and policies and procedures. May start and monitor IV’s with appropriate accreditation and licensure.

Critical Functions:

Render or assign resident care according to the needs of the residents under the direction of the supervisor and or director of nursing. Maintain a home like, person centered care environment for all residents. Effectively supervise all staff responsible for resident care. As an interdisciplinary team member and supervising others to meet the physical, psychological, and social needs of the resident.

Job Summary:

Prepares and cooks family – style meals and snacks and beverages for residents and sometimes employees and family members at nursing facility. Cooks foodstuffs in quantities according to menu and number of person to be served. Washes dishes. Bakes breads and pastry. Cuts meat. May serve meals. Plans menu or follow menu plan taking advantage of foods in season and local availability. May order supplies and keep records and accounts May cook for person centered care facilities where food is cooked as resident’s request. Have understanding of nutrition based meals.

Critical Functions:

Full or part time. Responsible for assisting in preparing and serving meals in the nursing home setting. Cooking and serving correct diet to resident and providing a home like environment or person centered care. Works with dietary staff in keeping the dietary department clean and sanitary as well as a safe working environment. Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment such as stove, dishwasher, warmers, mixers, etc.

Job Summary:

Employee to care for physical and emotional needs of residents in an Americare skilled or assisted living facility. Employee provides residents with direct care to assure quality of life in a home like environment while offering additional support to family and visitors. Maintains professional behavior while functioning as an interdisciplinary team member meeting state and federal guidelines.

Critical Functions:

Administers personal care to residents and maintains resident’s medical record. Employee responds to a variety of resident needs including answering call lights, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, monitoring and recording vital signs, monitoring and recording food intake and output, transporting via wheel chair, assisting with ambulation in a safe manner. Included is general housekeeping such as changing linens and room organization. Position includes turning, repositioning and providing proper body alignment to prevent pressure sores and to aide in comfort of resident. Employee is to assist and support professional nurses as requested. Responsible to assist resident in obtaining quality of life in a safe living environment and be supportive to resident’s family members while projecting professional behavior.

Job Summary:

Employee to care for physical and emotional needs of residents in an Americare skilled or assisted living facility. Employee provides residents with direct care to assure quality of life in a home like environment while offering additional support to family and visitors. Maintains professional behavior while functioning as an interdisciplinary team member meeting state and federal guidelines.

Critical Functions:

Administers personal care to residents and maintains resident’s medical record. Employee responds to a variety of resident needs including answering call lights, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, monitoring and recording vital signs, monitoring and recording food intake and output, transporting via wheel chair, assisting with ambulation in a safe manner. Included is general housekeeping such as changing linens and room organization. Position includes turning, repositioning and providing proper body alignment to prevent pressure sores and to aide in comfort of resident. Employee is to assist and support professional nurses as requested. Responsible to assist resident in obtaining quality of life in a safe living environment and be supportive to resident’s family members while projecting professional behavior.

Job Summary:

Employee certified to care for physical and emotional needs of residents in an Americare skilled or assisted living facility. Employee provides residents with direct care to assure quality of life in a home like environment while offering additional support to family and visitors. Maintains professional behavior while functioning as an interdisciplinary team member meeting state and federal guidelines.

Supervision:

Under supervision of facility Administrator and / or Director of Nursing. Unless specifically noted does not supervise others.

Critical Functions:

Administers personal care to residents and maintains resident’s medical record. Employee responds to a variety of resident needs including answering call lights, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, monitoring and recording vital signs, monitoring and recording food intake and output, transporting via wheel chair, assisting with ambulation in a safe manner. Included is general housekeeping such as changing linens and room organization. Position includes turning, repositioning and providing proper body alignment to prevent pressure sores and to aide in comfort of resident. Employee is to assist and support professional nurses as requested. Responsible to assist resident in obtaining quality of life in a safe living environment and be supportive to resident’s family members while projecting professional behavior.

Job Summary:

Prepares and cooks family – style meals and snacks and beverages for residents and sometimes employees and family members at nursing facility. Cooks foodstuffs in quantities according to menu and number of person to be served. Washes dishes. Bakes breads and pastry. Cuts meat. May serve meals. Plans menu or follow menu plan taking advantage of foods in season and local availability. May order supplies and keep records and accounts May cook for person centered care facilities where food is cooked as resident’s request. Have understanding of nutrition based meals.

Critical Functions:

Full or part time. Responsible for assisting in preparing and serving meals in the nursing home setting. Cooking and serving correct diet to resident and providing a home like environment or person centered care. Works with dietary staff in keeping the dietary department clean and sanitary as well as a safe working environment. Knowledge of operating kitchen equipment such as stove, dishwasher, warmers, mixers, etc.