Director of Staff Development

The primary purpose of this position is to plan, implement, and evaluate educational programs and training for interdisciplinary staff in accordance with established guidelines for Skilled Nursing Facilities, Assisted Living Facilities, and Memory Care services, as well as facility established policies and procedures.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Coordinate and conduct health services orientation for all new personnel who will work in the health facilities.
2. Develop and implement annual education plans, in-service schedules, and competency evaluations
3. Plan and monitor CPR/BLS and IV certification renewals and compliance with organizational policy.
4. Ensure staff are trained on infection control, resident rights, abuse prevention, emergency procedures, dementia, and other mandated topics
5. Provide ongoing education related to clinical skills, policy updates, and best practices.
6. Identify learning needs and adjust training methods accordingly.
7. Maintain documentation of all in-services, competencies, and training attendance.
8. Provide support during survey processes and implement training-related corrective actions when necessary.
9. Perform return demonstrations and clinical skill validations to ensure staff competency.
10. Participate in quality improvement initiatives, audit programs, and root cause analyses as needed.
11. Support the Infection Preventionist in training staff on infection control practices such as standard precautions, PPE usage, hand hygiene and monitoring compliance.
12. Act as a resource and mentor for nursing staff.
13. Promote a culture of continuous learning and professional development.
14. Participates in the nursing supervisor on-call rotation.
15. Perform any other related duties as assigned.

Licensed Nurses (i.e. Charge Nurses, Staff Nurses, Clinic Manager, Supervisors, Director of Nurses) who are assigned to the Health Center are placed in Category I due to their direct contact with bodily fluids in accordance with their assigned duties as follows:

1. Catharizing residents, obtaining and handling laboratory specimens of urine, feces, sputum drainage,

blood etc.

2. Giving injections with the potential for accidental needle sticks.

3. Starting intravenous infusion lines and maintaining I.V. lines.

4. Performing various wound care type treatments.

5. Handling of urine, feces, vomitus, mucus, and drainage, from wounds, while performing hygiene care for the residents.

6. Emptying and cleaning urinals, bedpans, emesis basins, drainage receptacles.

7. Inserting changing and irrigating catheters, nasal gastric tubes, and gastrostomy tubes, irrigating

intravenous tubing's, INT type needles.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk hear, and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, and crouch. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus as well as work on a computer for extended periods of time. The employee must be able to communicate verbally with other on the phone or in person.

1. Must possess a valid and current R.N. License in the State of Florida.
2. Must be able to write, read, and speak the English language.
3. Must possess a valid and current CPR certification.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.

2. Must be able to speak the English language is an understandable manner.

3. Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.

4. Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to assure that the requirements of this position are fully met.

5. Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.

6. Must be in good general health and demonstrate emotional stability.

7. Must be able to relate to work with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotional upset, and at times, hostile people within the facility.

8. Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds.

9. Must be free of communicable diseases.

EXPERIENCE:

1. Must have, as a minimum, one (1) years’ experience in Skilled Nursing Facility/Long-term Care Facility, or Assisted Living Facility.

2. Must be knowledgeable of nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long term care.

3. Must possess leadership and supervisory ability.