RN Community Home Care in horseheads, New York at Bethany Village

Position Overview:

Assist Administrator & Coordinator with case management and ensure appropriate client activities are within Home Care setting. Responsible for supervising and assessing quality and quantity of performance of staff members and oversee care in accordance with the client, physician's orders, and family needs within regulatory guidelines.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Orient and supervise Home Care staff; participate in employment decisions affecting Home Care staff; responsible for the first level of mediation of employee complaints and grievances.
• Participate with the organization and implementation of new hire orientation and ongoing orientation, education, and in-service to staff on a regular basis.
• Ensures that Home Care Aide assignments and reports are completed and communicated to incoming shifts and assist when necessary.
• Supervise/evaluate all home care staff for conformity to Company policies and procedures, law and regulation, and professional standards; complete performance evaluations of all home care employees, to include meetings with each employee to discuss evaluation findings.
• Home visits to assess client/family environment and Personal Care Aide (PCA) and Home Health Aide (HHA) supervisory visits; complete follow-up documentation; maintain client complaint log.
• Monitor client care to ensure quality and appropriateness of services; weekly update on all clients' status with documentation of such in client's chart.
• Initiation and update of physician plan of treatment according to home care policy and applicable law and regulation.
• Communication with referring health care team, including condition, goals, changes in care.

Basic Duties & Responsible:

• Assists with campus wide non-patient specific immunizations and shots and participates as clinical resource for home care and campus staff.
• Serve as a resource person to staffing coordinator, assist in staffing new cases.
• Ensures all reporting requirements are met and completes all required paperwork; ie infection control, accident/incident reports, etc.
• Ensures Home Care equipment is in proper working condition; performs appropriate equipment audits.
• Ensures that care procedures are carried out in compliance with all state, DOH, and OSHA regulations; random audits performed as needed.
• Endorses and complies with the vision, objectives, procedures, and policies of Bethany Village.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education Required:

• RN license
• CPR certified
• Valid Driver's License required

Experience Required:

• 2-4 years home care or supervisory experience preferred.