Nursing Home Administrator

Description
The purpose of the Nursing Home Administrator is to administer, coordinate, and direct all activities and operations of the Sauk County Health Care Center.

Essential Duties
Interview, train, direct, advise, monitor, evaluate, promote, and discipline department employees, and approve payroll and leave time.
Review all units within the Sauk County Health Care Center (SCHCC) for compliance with County, State, and Federal laws.
Ability to interact with family members and residents.
Appoint and manage/supervise department supervisors.
Review facility resident nursing care, laundry services, resident activities, housekeeping, resident nutrition services, building maintenance for compliance with facility, County, State and Federal nursing home policies, codes and regulations.
Review and negotiate contracts for service. Monitor consultants and service contract performance.
Monitor and update department policies and procedures.
Supervise annual facility operating budget preparation. Lead strategic planning process for facility. Monitor expenditures, revenues, inventory supply, and resident census.
Represent the facility during State Surveys, to the community and professional organizations. Direct implementation of corrections of cited deficiencies.
Develop and implement facility personnel policies in conjunction with the Human Resources Director. Participate in recruitment, interview and selection of employees. Monitor staffing levels, staff credentials, work assignments. Approve employee transfers/promotions, discipline and salary increases. Review incident/accident reports.
Attend and participate in Board of Trustees, County Board and duly constituted committees as required.
Provide information regarding the facility to County officials, news media representatives, State and Federal regulators, auditors and the general public.
Additional Tasks
Additional Duties and Responsibilities

Distribute State regulation bulletins.
Attend professional and industry association meetings and in-service training. Monitor staff in-service training requirements.
Act as Board of Trustees’ secretary ex-officio, and member of foundation.
Attend committee meetings as required.
Represent facility in unemployment and worker’s compensation matters, grievance hearings, and arbitrations as requested.
Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Maintain all relevant certifications.
Advisory data and information such as census reports, incident/accident reports, technical drawings and plans, employee grievances, purchase orders, invoices, bills, audit summaries, budgets, contracts, various manuals, State and Federal nursing home rules and regulations, policies and procedures, and routine and non-routine correspondence.
Verbally and in writing with County personnel, medical personnel, attorneys, residents, and resident’s families, news media representatives, vendors, contractors, and the public.
By managing, directing, teaching, controlling, counseling, mediating, convincing and persuading others.
Explain, demonstrate, and clarify to others established policies, procedures, and standards.
Computer skills such as word processing and spreadsheets.
Calculating percentages, fractions, and decimals, and interpreting basic descriptive statistical reports.
Decide the time, place, and sequence of operations within a system or organizational framework and oversee its execution.
Compare, count, differentiate, measure, sort, classify, compute, tabulate, and/or categorize data and/or information.
Assemble, copy, record, and transcribe data and/or information.
Analyze data and information using established criteria to define consequences and consider and select alternatives.
Apply functional and situational reasoning by exercising judgement, decisiveness, and creativity in everyday routine and non-routine situations.
Use fine and gross motor skills to perform tasks such as operating a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator, and computer printer.
Exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, involving lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling.
Recognize and identify degrees of similarity and differences between characteristics of colors, forms, sounds, odors, textures, etc. associated with objects, materials, and ingredients.

Environment

Safe and comfortable in respects to violence, noise, and disease.
On-call status in order to respond to emergencies.

Required Working Hours

Standard working hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am until 4:30 pm. Please note these hours are subject to change and additional hours may be needed or required. Compensation for additional hours beyond normal working hours are subject to applicable state and federal regulations.

Minimum Training and Education
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, or another related field

3 years of health care management experience

Certifications/License: Wisconsin Nursing Home Administrator’s License

Preferred: Master’s degree in Health Administration, Business Administration, or another related field.

Prior experience with assisting living facilities and evidence based decision-making.

Any combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge, skills and abilities may be considered.

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