RN Assistant Manager, Home Care Morristown NJ

Overview

The Assistant Manager Home Care is a full-time position with Atlantic Visiting Nurse's (AVN).

Promotes effective case management:

• Collaborates with CRC and nurse educator
• Conducts joint visits for complex patients and performance appraisals
• Makes patient visits when indicated
• Oversees scheduling of team
• Monitors work queues and reports to assure documentation is done accurately and timely
• Conducts case reviews with field staff to assure optimal case management.

Maintains departmental productivity levels for assigned staff:

• Implements measures to assist staff in achieving productivity goals
• Provides regular feedback to staff.

Promotes a safe environment for patients and staff:

• Communicates policies and procedures to staff
• Assists staff with addressing age-related safety concerns.
• Provides feedback and counseling to staff as appropriate
• Participates in annual performance review
• Conducts joint visits with new staff to assure competency.

Participates in the agency's Performance Improvement program:

• Participates in utilization review activities and other audits
• Identifies potential PI initiatives.
• Review and develop action plans to improve team outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations
• Provides timely response, follow up and service recovery to complaints.

Promotes activities to ensure delivery of cost-efficient services:

• Collaborates with Quality Reviewers when indicated
• Review and approve supply outliers.

Assures that staff meets required competencies:

• Participates in orientation of new staff
• Promotes role of preceptor among staff
• Evaluates education needs of staff.

Participates in employee recruitment and retention activities:

• Interviews prospective employees
• Promotes employee engagement and retention.

Assures staff is in a constant survey readiness state:

• Assure staff is meeting agency policies and regulatory requirements
• Assure staff is utilizing appropriate infection prevention techniques
• Assure documentation is completed timely and is comprehensive.

Assists with growing agency business:

• Cross trains to learn new skills required for role
• Accepts other assignments as requested to support agency.

Required:

• Current NJ RN License, BSN or Current PT license
• BLS

Preferred:

• Three years of certified home care experience
• Highly developed computer, critical thinking and communication skills.

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is that anyone who enters any of our facilities, receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. That commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 18,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the state, and committed to creating a Trusted Network of Caring(r).

Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morriston NJ
• Atlantic Rehabilitation
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group. We are part of Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and are a member of All Spire Health Partners.

We receiver awards and recognitions for what we provide to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:

• 100 Best Companies to Work For (r) and FORTUNE(r) magazine (13 years in a row)
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
• Gold-Level "Well Workplace":
  Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• CEO Cancer Gold Standard (tm)
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennia ls" Great Place to Work(r) and FORTUNE(r) magazine
• One of the 20 Best Workplaces in Health Care:
  Great Place to Work(r) and FORTUNE(r) magazine
• Security 500:
  Security Magazine
• Of…