Communications Director jobs in Texas

Job Description

POSITION:

We are looking for a team builder to join us. We are looking for the right person, not just the right experience. If you are ready to step up to the DON position and know how to lead others, we want to talk to you. The DON assists with planning, coordinating, leading, controlling, and evaluating home health clinical services. The Director of Nursing is responsible for coordinating with appropriate staff, patients, and outside agencies. The DON will help to develop policies and guidelines and provide professional input to related administrative systems. The DON directs and supervises professional and paraprofessional personnel rendering client care services, fosters public relations for the company by consulting and planning with healthcare facilities regarding staffing needs, and communicates the concept of quality client care to the general community. The DON interprets service needs to the Administrator and acts as a client services administrative liaison.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Extensive home health care services and regulations background. Ability to demonstrate self-confidence and positive attitude toward self and others; maintains commitment and enthusiasm to goal achievement. Attempts development and implementation of better methods. Identifies and evaluates personal strengths and weaknesses of self and others. Supervises objectively without personal bias towards individuals.

EDUCATION:

Licensed Registered Nurse, preferably with a Bachelor's degree with at least two years of experience. At least two years of supervisory or management experience in home health care or related health programs.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Be available at all times during operating hours or have a qualified alternate in writing.
• Consults, plans, and works with the Administrator in policy formulation and implementation, including assessing adequate and qualified staffing.
• Consults with supervisors and staff, individually or in groups, regarding patients or families, special programs, or service programs.
• Supervises and evaluates the program, services, and field personnel.
• Directs the implementation of service goals and objectives.
• Develops standards that ensure safe and effective services to clients and families.
• Assure a reassessment of a client's needs is performed by the appropriate health care professional when:
• The client's condition has a significant health status change.
  
  

II. At the Physician's request

III. After hospitalization

• Establishes and maintains effective channels of communication.
• Keeps program personnel up to date with state-of-the-art clinical information and practices staff development, including orientation, in-service education, and continuing education.
• Maintains policy and procedure manuals.
• Directs staff in the performance of their duties.
• Oversees the implementation and evaluation of client care services, inclusive of regulatory licensure and certification criteria and accreditation standards.
• Coordinates with other program areas and senior management as appropriate according to the organizational structure.
• Acts as liaison with Staff Development for program areas.
• Assesses appropriate staff supervision during all service hours.
• Assists in the evaluation of community needs and plans programs and services to meet with identified needs.
• Oversees all Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) and utilization review activities.
• Coordinates with the QAPI Committee. Implements corrective action plans and controls.
• Assists in agency evaluation activities.
• Serves on and periodically reviews policies relevant to patient care with the Professional Advisory Committee.
• Assists in fostering community relations by providing quality care.
• Consults with physicians in matters relating to patient care services.
• Consults and plans with health care facilities regarding staffing needs.
  
  

JOB CONDITIONS:

The position is stressful in meeting deadlines. Physical activity on the job includes minimal and occasional lifting of medical records, reports, etc. A desk job involves sitting, standing, stooping, and walking. Excessive telephone communication. Traveling by car or airplane to local or out-of-town meetings, seminars, and conferences. Must be able to read 12-point or larger type. Must be able to hear and speak in a manner understood by most people. Must be able to communicate both verbally and in writing. Home visits may also be part of the job function. The position requires the ability to drive extensively in a geographic area. Must be able to access clients' homes, which are not routinely wheelchair accessible. Hearing, eyesight, and physical dexterity must be sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the client's condition and to perform and demonstrate client care. On occasion, may be required to bend, stoop, reach, and move client weight up to 250 pounds; lift and/or carry up to 30 pounds.

Company Description

Amatus Healthcare strives to provide superior service to our patients, as well as their families, helping to bring them hope, peace, and the best quality of life possible. Amatus Healthcare strives to provide the best systems and processes so our team members can focus on patient care. Amatus believes if we serve and care for our team, our patients will then receive the best care possible.

Amatus Healthcare strives to provide superior service to our patients, as well as their families, helping to bring them hope, peace, and the best quality of life possible. Amatus Healthcare strives to provide the best systems and processes so our team members can focus on patient care. Amatus believes if we serve and care for our team, our patients will then receive the best care possible.