
Care Director
Required skills
- Healthcare staff management
- resident service plans
- quality of care
- resident
- family
- physician
- health care issues
- care team members
- Care Managers
- Medication Care Managers
Nice to have
- Memory Care
- training and development
- geriatric population
- memory care programming
Role summary
The Care Director, reporting to the General Manager, leads and manages all care team members including Care Managers, Medication Care Managers, and Associate Care Directors. This role partners with the Health Services Director to ensure residents receive assessed care services and to foster positive relationships with residents and families through professional communication. Key responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, training, and motivating caregivers, assisting with resident assessments, customizing service plans, setting care standards, and facilitating health care information sharing among residents, families, and physicians. Healthcare staff management experience is required, with preferred experience in Memory Care, training and development, and working with the geriatric population.
Overview
The Care Director is an integral member of the health services team who reports to the General Manager (GM). The Care Director leads and manages all care team members to include Care Managers (CM), Medication Care Managers (MCM) and Associate Care Directors (ACD). The Care Director works in partnership with the Health Services Director to ensure residents receive assessed care services and to build positive relationships with residents and families through professional and timely communication.
Responsibilities
As a Care Director, your contributions to the team may include:
- Interviewing, hiring, training and motivating paraprofessional caregivers
- Assisting nursing team to complete assessments
- Customizing resident service plans to ensure quality of care
- Setting standards that create a sense of security for residents
- Facilitating information sharing among resident, family and physician on residents’ health care issues
Qualifications
Qualifications and Requirements:
- Healthcare staff management experience required
- Memory Care experience preferred
- Experience in training and development
- Ability to build a team that works hard, supports one another and builds fun into the job
- Experience working with geriatric population is preferred
- Understanding memory care programming is desired
- A willingness to work the floor and lead by example
Other cool stuff you might want to know:
- Competitive pay, excellent benefits (medical/dental/vision/401k/tuition assistance and more!), and an enjoyable work/life balance. Please feel free to ask us for a benefits summary during your interview process.
- Excellent orientation and communication with management
- Ongoing training programs and a well-defined career path. Ask us about the path to your bright future!
- Employee appreciation days (additional vacation time)
Min Salary
USD $90,000.00/Yr.Max Salary
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