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Director Nursing Services | Long Term Care (Creighton, NE)

Avera Health

Creighton, NE 68729

Posted/Updated: Today

Job Description

Location:

Avera Creighton Care Center

 

Worker Type:

Regular

 

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

 

Position Highlights

This position may be eligible for a $15,000 sign-on bonus!


You Belong at Avera


Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

 


A Brief Overview

Collaborates with appropriate interdisciplinary team members in assuring that services are provided in a safe, efficient, and cost effective manner that enhances patient, staff, and physician satisfaction. Accountable for department success through sound decision making, fiscal financial planning, maintaining appropriate staff levels, monitoring competency and quality of services.

What you will do

  • Demonstrates the ability to facilitate staff and resources to reinforce the vision of Avera.
  • Cultivates relationships across functions and departments of local facility, region, and system.
  • Develops short and long range plans for the department, community and health system.
  • Demonstrates the ability to establish benchmark goals to guide the department’s activities and effectively deal with variances. This includes developing data, analysis, setting thresholds, and developing action plans which resolve discrepancies.
  • Manages the resources of department and hospital in a way that provides effective outcomes while at the same time only using minimum resources to achieve those outcomes.
  • Develops positive relationships with customers (physicians, patients, families, and referral sources) that help to promote Avera’s referral base.
  • Utilizes teamwork to help achieve objectives and improve operation within the department, hospital, and Avera.
  • Maintains basic knowledge of Medicare reimbursement principles, understands and addresses to applicable laws and regulations, reviews and updates departmental policies and practices to reflect current regulations.
  • Supports Avera’s strategic goals and develops the departmental goals accordingly.
  • Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, developing, training, and retaining employees; planning, assigning, and leading work; appraising performance; rewarding and coaching employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.


Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Job Requirements
Required Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

Registered Nurse (RN) - Board of Nursing An active license in the state of practice Upon Hire
4-6 years RN
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Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

Some College in leadership or healthcare administration
Avera Health
Whitney Martens
1000 East 41st Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
6053224858

 

Avera offers great employee benefits.
• Competitive pay ranges • A full lineup of life, health and dental insurance • Generous paid-time off (PTO) package • Tuition assistance • Employee health and wellness program