Director of Nursing Skilled Services
Job Description Summary:
The Director of Nursing Skilled Services shall be a Registered Nurse (RN) who is responsible for the overall direction of home health clinical skilled services, inclusive of infusions. The DON will have overall responsibility for the quality of care provided, effective communication with families/community partners, adequacy of skilled services provided and supervision of staff through clinical knowledge, operational knowledge and experience with regulatory compliance (state licensure, department of labor laws, Joint Commission accreditation). The DON establishes, implements and evaluates goals and objectives for care services and promotes the standards of quality set forth by Home Instead and the overseeing pertinent regulatory and accrediting bodies. The DON assures coordination of care for the Client when multiple care providers are involved and ensures that all Clients’ needs are identified through the assessment process and that those needs are addressed through the implementation of the plan of care and supervisory process. The DON may at times provide direct care to Clients.
The DON directly supervises nursing personnel-licensed staff reporting directly to the Owner. This can be a part-time (~ 20 hours) position, requiring time in the office and field.
Responsibilities:
- Infusions in the home environment, competency field checks for other nurses
- Stays informed about changes in the field of infusion nursing and home health care and promotes home health referrals in the health care community.
- Assists in the development of organization goals. Develops, recommends, and administers agency policies and procedures.
- Supports talent acquisition needs of agency to build a strong bench of competent care staff