Nursing Supervisor

Job Purpose:

 

Family Home Health Services, a growing home health agency in West Palm Beach is looking for a Nursing Supervisor with at least two years of home health management experience. The successful candidate will assist in overseeing all clinical operations of the team and ensure that patients are cared for with excellence.

 

Duties Include:

 

*Assures quality of care by developing and interpreting standards of care; enforcing adherence to state board of nursing and state nurse practice act requirements and to other governing agency regulations.

 

*Maintains home health staff by assisting in recruiting, selecting, and orienting and training.

 

*Completes patient care requirements by scheduling and assigning patient care staff; following up on home care results.

 

*Responsible for compliance of paper work from staff, Timely, complete and able for data entry to read. (All Oasis and visit notes)

 

*Maintains home health operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures to clinical staff.

 

*Assists in growing and developing employees 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.

 

*Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient records.

 

*Achieves financial objectives by managing utilization, employee productivity and supply cost then analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.

 

*Establish and maintain relationships with referring hospitals; social services, physical and occupational therapy, and other support services.

 

*Resolves patient care issues by working with patient care staff to personalize patient home care assessments; collecting relevant information; conferring with patient care teams; assessing patient homecare needs.

 

*Provides information by responding to queries from hospitals, attending physicians and their practice staffs; sorting and distributing messages and documents; answering questions and requests; preparing information for care gives; preparing statistical reports related to referral and intake activities; maintaining databases.

 

*Keeps physicians informed of patient status by monitoring and reporting home care services rendered and/or modified; monitoring home care progress; documenting care visits; anticipating additional home care services needed, i.e., infusion therapy, wound therapy, physical therapy, psychiatric care and/or other specialty programs.

 

*Improves home care outcomes by assisting in evaluating, and re-designing home care procedures.

 

*Serves and protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and professional and licensing standards.

 

*Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; marinating personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

 

Skills/Qualifications:

 

Judgment, Supervision, Communication, Nursing skills, Creating a Safe, Effective Environment, Medical Teamwork, Managing, Training and Developing clinical and office team.