Area Director of Nursing Services - Assisted Living

POSITION SUMMARY The Area Director of Nursing Services helps create a joyful and vibrant community by supporting the nursing function across assigned Fieldstone Communities. This position requires frequent travel and work location flexibility.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Fosters a resident-centered approach to the planning and delivery of services to residents, supporting residents’ rights to participate in decision-making and treating residents with dignity and respect.
• Provides interim nursing leadership and operational support to assigned communities during vacancies, leaves of absence, transitions, surveys, and other periods of clinical need.
• Assists with Quality Assurance in collaboration with the Executive Director
• Assesses health, functional and psychosocial status of residents, initiating individualized service plans, proactively managing care and services for each resident, and maximizing the resident’s opportunity to remain in the assisted living or memory care environment.
• Ensures that residents’ care needs are met by coordinating with other community professionals, including physicians, discharge planners, nurses, home health agency staff, case managers, and state agency personnel. Arranges ancillary services, such as pharmacy, podiatry, lab, and x-ray as needed. Provides or arranges intermittent or temporary nursing services for the residents.
• Delegates nursing tasks as allowed under applicable nursing laws and practice acts, communicating regularly with residents, their families, and their health care practitioners.
• Seeks out additional expertise and advice when needed to assure residents’ needs are met and proper practices followed.
• Provides training, supervision, monitoring of staff as they provide personal care, medication management, and other health related services, assuring philosophy of care is practiced.
• Communicates regularly with residents’ families regarding health care needs. Provides instruction and reassuranc...