What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Wellness Director position at Sonida Senior Living?
Find your joy here, at Cottonwood Village, a Sonida Senior Living community! We offer a comprehensive benefits package to include competitive wage/salary, health and dental insurance, 401k with company match and so much more!
Cottonwood Village, a premier retirement community in Cottonwood, AZ, provides quality care to residents in an Independent Living, Assisted Living, and Memory Care community.
What we offer you:
- Flexible scheduling**
- Cutting edge technology to enhance the lives of our residents and make your job easier and more effective.
- SafelyYou - AI video technology that detects and prevent falls
- Advanced EHR Technologies - automated care assessments eliminating busy work, helping you deliver better care
- Sage - Improve call light response time and improvement to service and care
- Microsoft Power BI - one stop for all data needs
- Company support for educational and learning opportunities
- Paid referral programs for Team Member and Resident referrals
- Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances*
- 401k retirement savings offering a discretionary match determined each year based on company performance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Dependent Care and FSA saving accounts
- PTO available day one
- Paid Training
*Benefit eligibility dependent on employment status
**Eligibility based on location
Assistant Wellness Director (Licensed or Registered Nurse) Responsibilities include:
- Maintains and implements nursing policies and procedures that reflect current standards of nursing practice, company, and facility philosophy of care and practices while maintaining compliance with state and federal laws and regulations. Communicates and interprets policies and procedures to nursing staff. Monitors practices for effective implementation and achievement of results.
- Conducts resident assessments, suggesting level of needed service packages to residents and their families, as directed.
- Ensures delivery of compassionate quality care evidenced by adequate services and staff coverage for the facility, appropriateness of staff, absence of odors, cleanliness, absence of pressure wounds, and apparent maintenance of optimal physical, mental and, psychosocial function.
- Demonstrates knowledge of and application of Key Clinical Quality Indicators. Proactively monitors and implements systems to achieve and/or surpass company thresholds.
- Reviews 24-hour report from every unit daily to ensure timely, effective responses to significant changes in condition, transfers, discharges, use of physical or chemical restraints, unexplained injuries, potential abuse or neglect, medication errors, loss of resident property, or any evidence of resident or family dissatisfaction, as directed.
- Gathers and analyzes facts, assesses situations, develops, and implements appropriate actions to investigate, notify appropriate parties, resolve issues, record facts properly, and prevent future reoccurrence. Communicates findings/results to the Wellness Director or Executive Director.
Education and Experience:
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Two-year professional nursing experience in a senior living care setting.
- Two-years supervisory/management experience with direct care staff.
- Some states may allow for this to be an unlicensed position (WI, TX, SC)
