Health and Wellness Director

WHO ARE WE?

Come join our dedicated team at South Port Square, a wonderful place to work! South Port Square is a 40-acre campus in Port Charlotte close to Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda and is one of Florida’s best kept secrets! You’ll join a team with a strong work ethic, with management and co-workers who want to make a positive impact on our residents’ lives.

These extraordinary leaders and role models will help you craft a long, satisfying, and fruitful senior living career at South Port Square. For over 30 years, South Port Square has been addressing the growing needs of the retiring and senior communities. Today, South Port Square is one of twelve retirement communities in Florida managed by Life Care Services (LCS), the nation’s leading developer and manager of senior living communities.

We continually strive to create an environment of trust and transparency by helping employees find a sense of purpose in their job and achieve their highest potential while providing hospitality to those who work and live at South Port Square.

South Port Square is recruiting for Director of Health Services. This role manages the day-to-day healthcare operations of the community to ensure residents’ healthcare needs are met. It ensures residents are treated with respect and dignity and ensures quality care as residents’ healthcare needs change. It supervises licensed nurses and other direct care staff within the community.

This role involves supervising licensed nurses and direct care staff, ensuring quality care for residents, and managing day-to-day healthcare operations.

• Responsible for the direct supervision of community-based licensed nursing staff (LPN, RN), Med Techs/CNAs (if required by State regulation) and/or Lead caregiving employees. May also supervise Resident Care staff.
• Assigns and directs work of subordinates; appraises performance; rewards and disciplines employees; addresses complaints and resolves problems.
• Provides training, supervision, and monitoring of employees in the administration of medications as described by the Nurse Practice Act, including auditing medication administration records.
• Provides training and education to resident care employees on an ongoing basis with classroom in-services and situation-specific training.
• Supervises the maintenance of resident charts and reviews documentation performed by caregiving staff.
• As described and allowed in the Nurse Practice Act, assesses health, functional, and psycho-social status of residents, initiates individualized service plans, proactively manages care and services for each resident, evaluates effectiveness, and maximizes the resident’s opportunity to remain in their environment.
• Manages the health care of residents, including the dissemination of information to families and employees; ensures that family members are aware of resident’s needs for scheduled appointments.
• Participates in pre-admission screening of prospective new residents; assures that required documentation is completed prior to or upon resident admission, including nursing assessments, service plans, and other assigned forms; updates assessments as required by policy and as described in the Nurse Practice Act.
• Performs on-site evaluations of residents admitted to alternate care environments for treatment and maintains contact with resident families with the intent of returning resident to the Community.
• Performs ongoing assessment/observation of resident’s physical and psycho-social needs and coordinates with other departments to assure quality, proactive care.
• Evaluates residents; documents changes in condition, and notifies the executive director, physician, and the resident’s legally responsible party/family of the resident’s condition and reactions.
• Communicates with physicians regarding resident’s status and condition changes; ensures residents prepared for physician appointments; prepares Physician Visit Form and reviews and updates resident chart.
• Facilitates continuity of care for those residents receiving home health care, hospice services, and other third-party healthcare-related services.

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