McKendree Village is searching for a Unit Manager-RN to join our team!

All Your Needs. All Our Hearts.

McKendree Village is located on a beautiful 40-acre campus offering all levels of care: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Skilled Nursing, and Long-term Care. The healthcare center and retirement community offer care for our residents and patients who rely on us for life enrichment and quality of care.

We offer an array of employment opportunities for all types of professional interests. We offer competitive wages and benefits, tuition assistance and professional advancement programs.

Days: Monday thru Friday

Weekends: rotating manager on duty

Location: 4347 Lebanon Pike, Hermitage, TN, 37076

Compensation: $80,000-$85,000 annually

Your Role in the Company

The primary purpose of your job position is to lead and supervise the day-to-day nursing activities of the facility to ensure that the highest degree of quality care is maintained at all times.

As a Nurse Supervisor, you will be afforded the opportunity to lead, mentor, and develop the nursing team assigned to their individual units.

Too often, Nurse Supervisors are given the responsibility without all the tools they need to be successful. At McKendree Villagewe understand the importance of investing in great leaders. Not only do you help select team members, but you also have a voice in company policy necessary to support premier care delivery. Our best ideas and greatest success has come from our Nurse Supervisors who challenge the mundane, love a challenge, serve as a charge agent, and demand clinical excellence.

We pride ourselves by investing in people who want to make a difference.

It’s not just a promise, It’s our Passion.

Elements of your Job

• Assist the Director of Nursing Services in directing the day-to-day functions of the nursing department in accordance with current rules, regulations, and guidelines that govern the long-term care facility.
• Participate in developing, maintaining, and updating written policies and procedures that govern the day-to-day functions of the nursing service department.
• Make written and oral reports/recommendations to the Director as necessary/required, concerning the operation of the nursing service department.
• Periodically review the department’s policies, procedure manuals, job descriptions, etc. Make recommendations for revisions to the Director.
• Assist in developing methods for coordinating nursing services with other resident services to ensure the continuity of the residents’ total regimen of care.
• Participate in the development, maintenance and implementation of the facility’s quality assurance program for the nursing service department.
• Participate in facility surveys inspections made by authorized government agencies as requested by the Administrator or Director of Nursing Services.
• Participate in the safe admission and discharge of our patients.
• Meet with the nursing staff, as well as support personnel, in planning the department’s services, programs, and activities.
• Complete accident/incident reports as necessary.
• Perform administrative duties such as completing medical forms, reports, evaluations, studies, charting, etc., as necessary.
• Attend various committee meetings of the facility i.e., Infection Control, Policy Advisory, Pharmaceutical, Quality Assessment, etc. as required and necessary.

Personnel Functions

• Ensure adequate staffing on each unit is maintained.
• Oversee work assignments and adjust as necessary.
• Make daily rounds of the nursing service department to ensure that all nursing service personnel are performing their work assignments in accordance with acceptable nursing standards. Report findings to the Director.
• Monitor absenteeism to ensure that an adequate number of nursing care personnel are on duty at all times. Report problem areas to the Director.
• Review complaints and grievances made or filed by department personnel. Make appropriate reports to the Director as required or as may be necessary.
• Develop and maintain a good working rapport with inter-department personnel, as well as other departments within the facility to ensure that nursing services and activities can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift on a regularly scheduled basis to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas and/or to assist in the improvement of services
• Review and evaluate your department’s workforce and make recommendations to the Director.
• Participate in employee performance evaluations, transfer, promotion, or dismissal.

Nursing Care Functions

• Inform nursing staff of new admissions, their expected time of arrival, room assignment, etc.
• Greet newly admitted residents upon admission.
• Make rounds with physicians as necessary.
• Encourage attending physicians to record and sign progress notes, physicians’ orders, etc., on a timely basis and in accordance with current regulations.
• Notify the resident’s attending physician and next-of-kin when there is a change in the resident’s condition.
• Ensure that direct nursing care is provided by a licensed nurse, a certified nursing assistant, and/or a nurse aide trainee qualified to perform the procedure.
• Review nurses’ notes to ensure that they are informative and descriptive of the nursing care being provided, that they reflect the resident’s response to the care, and that such care is provided in accordance with the resident’s wishes.
• Provide direct nursing care as necessary.
• Monitor medication passes and treatment schedules to ensure that medications are being administered as ordered and that treatments are provided as scheduled.
• Review EHR for completeness of information, accuracy in the transcription of physician orders, and adherence to stop order policies.
• Meet with residents, and/or family members, as necessary. Report problems to the Director.

Staff Development

• Develop, implement, and maintain an effective orientation program that orients the new employee to your shift, its policies, and procedures, and to his/her job position and duties.
• Provide leadership training and mentor new hires.
• Assist the Director in developing and revising the nursing assistant training curriculum used by the facility.
• Attend and participate in continuing education programs designed to keep you abreast of changes in your profession, as well as to maintain your license on a current status.

C ourage and Commitment to Exceed Expectations

O ptimistic about our Future

M otivate Yourself and Others

P atient Hearts Giving Passionate Care

A chieve Success with Integrity

S ervant Leadership, Valued Employees

S trength Through Perseverance

I nspired Excellence

O neness with Teamwork

N urture with Loving Kindness

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.