Health and Wellness Director

Job Description

Job Description

Come join the ONELIFE Senior Living team! We are looking for compassionate and dedicated team members with a common purpose of making a difference in the lives of seniors.

The Laurel at Vernon Hills Memory Care, located in Vernon Hills, IL is seeking a passionate and experienced Health and Wellness Director to manage our Health Services program and ensure high-quality care is being provided to the residents in our community.

We offer competitive wages with advancement opportunities!

Responsibilities of the Health and Wellness Director

• Exhibits leadership qualities and communicates professionally with employees, residents, family and / or responsible parties, and other healthcare professionals.
• Overall supervision, provision, and quality of nursing and supportive services for the Community.
• Perform assessments of residents and identify needs related to the physiological, psychological, environmental, and social needs upon move in and when a change of condition has occurred.
• Ensure routine resident assessments are conducted on a quarterly basis.
• Ensure the resident safety needs are met, utilizing specific assessment and evaluation tools.
• Oversee and participate in the development of care plans.
• Ensuring communication between residents are reported to families and / or responsible parties, physicians, Executive Director, and State, as necessary.
• Investigate incidents and behavior changes that require a licensed nurse assessment and document all incidents and changes in the resident’s progress notes.
• Perform medication room and medication cart audits as needed.
• Monitor the 24-hour communications and alert system for compliance. Appropriately and timely assess residents who have been put on alert status. Remove residents from alert after appropriate assessment of their condition.
• Review all physician’s transcriptions, progress notes, discharge orders, move in orders, and hospital notes.
• Assist the Executive Director to ensure that policies, procedures, and state regulations are being followed.
• Hires, trains, and evaluates all health services employees ensuring that all direct care staff are compliant with state-required training.
• Participate in new employee orientation and monthly in-services.
• Responsible for staff scheduling to ensure there is adequate coverage to meet resident care needs, supply purchasing, budgetary forecasting, and compliance.
• Ensure residents are provided with privacy, respect, and dignity.
• Follows standard precautions and infection control procedures.
• Completes state required training upon hire and annually.

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Benefits

The Laurel at Vernon Hills Memory Care is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates must be able to pass a criminal background check and a comprehensive reference check.