Job Summary

Hope Home Health has the perfect job for you:

We are currently hiring a full-time alt. DON for our Lake and Porter county Home Health Agency. We are a family owned business and work hard to accommodate our team. We believe if we recognize our team for hard work, good comes back to us. This position allows you to use your supervisory/clinical experience and work together with a great team of professionals who will support you along the way.

If this is your next job, please forward you resume. We are looking to fill this position immediately.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Participates in developing standards which ensure safe and therapeutically effective service to patients and families. Has joint responsibility with the Administrator for seeing that standards are met.
• Participates in developing objectives for Agency.
• Is responsible for seeing that objectives are implemented.
• Consults with the Administrator to determine a staffing pattern which will accomplish stated objectives and promote maximum level of utilization of health personnel.
• Is responsible for recruiting, hiring, evaluating and terminating service personnel.
• Participates in planning for the orientation of new employees. Conducts selected orientation classes.
• Plans and arranges for consultation needs of staff; prepares and maintains current policies and procedures which meet Medicare, Medicaid, accrediting bodies, state, etc. laws and implements such; revises concurrently.
• Displays a willingness to support the policies and procedures and uses appropriate channels for change of such policies; establishes criteria and procedures for selection, promotion and termination of employment of service personnel.
• Participates in establishing the functions and qualifications for each service position; coordinates interdisciplinary team services:
• Assures ongoing assessment of patient/family needs and implementation of interdisciplinary team plan of care.
• Assures physician approval of plans for continuity of medical care.
• Provides individual or group support concerning job related stress or issues.
• Organizes the Agency to delineate and delegate authority, functional responsibility, lines of relationship and communication to provide safe and therapeutically effective service.
• Develops a cooperative relationship and communicates effectively and professionally with the physicians.
• Investigates and reports any problem relating to patient care or conditions which might harm the patient and/or employee well-being.
• Immediately reports any accident, incident, lost articles or unusual occurrence to the Administrator.
• Attends pertinent continuing education programs other than routine inservices and shares information with staff.
• Works with Administrator in identifying budgetary requirements and determining appropriate use of allocations.
• Ensures compliance with federal, state, accrediting bodies, local and Agency policies in all patient care aspects of the Agency.
• Oversees staffing and visit assignments.
• Addresses and corrects all patient concerns.
• Qualifications and Skills
• Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of Indiana.
• Must have, as a minimum, two (2) year of recent experience in supervisory role in a home health.
• Must have knowledge of Medicare, Medicare, and third payer carriers.

Job Type: Full-time

Required experience:

• Nurse Management: 1 year

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $30.00 - $40.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person