Director of Wellness

_**Responsibilities**:_
- Provide professional nursing care to all residents and supervise care given in the nursing unit.
- Assess all resident needs and planning, implementing and ensuring that their plans of care are accurate and up to date
- Work closely with multidisciplinary care team to ensure the highest level of quality care and services are provided to the residents.
- Lead and engage the Wellness team, to include ongoing training, support, and performance reviews.
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- Provide directions and supervision of all Wellness Team Members
- Assess residents' conditions by recognizing signs and symptoms and where necessary initiates remedial health measures.
- Contacting resident's attending physician when there is a change in resident's physical or mental condition.
- Responsible to ensure safekeeping of drug and narcotic keys.
- Oversee the medication administration program.
- Monitors staff performance and completes performance appraisals during probation period and annually thereafter.
- Responsible for leadership, coaching, and mentoring to all regulated and Unregulated Care Providers.
- Teaches good health habits.
- Deals courteously with staff, residents, residents' families and visitors.
- Responsible for admission and discharge of residents.
- Maintain liaison with families of residents.
- Takes prospective residents and other interested persons on tours of the retirement residence.
- Ensures medical records are maintained.
- Ensures all personal health information is maintained as per PHIPA.
- Ensures daily/weekly and monthly duties are completed and rosters are maintained.
- Organizing and ensuring medications are reviewed in keeping with the residence’s medication review cycle, where medications are provided.
- Coordinates and/or participates in the staff development, quality assurance, safety, environment and infection control programs.
- Ensures staff involvement in fire and safety procedures and communication to all staff of inspection reports and follow up actions.
- Knowledgeable of the Residential Tenancies Act.
- Ensures nursing documentation is complete as per College of Nurses' Nursing Documentation guidelines.
- Assists with arranging transportation for residents.
- Answers call bells and assist where necessary. Lead/initiate/monitor emergency response protocol and effectiveness for the department.
- Orders medications from pharmacy as per Doctor's orders.
- Receives medications and ensures safe storage of medications.
- Serves and supervises at meals - assist with resident satisfaction.
- Adheres to all established policies and procedures.
- Responsible for making the appropriate plans for discharge as necessary.
- Completes and follows up on incident reports where necessary.
- Supervises resident's personal hygiene and bathing as per schedule, or assisting when necessary.
- Assists residents with ambulation when necessary.
- Provides emergency medical care.
- Responsible for maintaining accurate records for extra care charges, when applicable.
- Assists residents and/or families in obtaining the services of a physician when necessary.
- Ensures a resident care plan is established and reviewed/revised at least every six months.
- Accesses, facilitates and orientates community agencies and/or resources.
- Facilitates contact with other Health Care facilities and educational facilities.

Aware of role and responsibilities under the Occupational Health and Safety Act
- **Responsibilities**:_
- Provide professional nursing care to all residents and supervise care given in the nursing unit.
- Assess all resident needs and planning, implementing and ensuring that their plans of care are accurate and up to date
- Work closely with multidisciplinary care team to ensure the highest level of quality care and services are provided to the residents.
- Lead and engage the Wellness team, to include ongoing training, support, and performance review

Provide directions and supervision of all Wellness Team Members
- Assess residents' conditions by recognizing signs and symptoms and where necessary initiates remedial health measures.
- Contacting resident's attending physician when there is a change in resident's physical or mental condition.
- Responsible to ensure safekeeping of drug and narcotic keys.
- Oversee the medication administration program.
- Monitors staff performance and completes performance appraisals during probation period and annually thereafter.
- Responsible for leadership, coaching, and mentoring to all regulated and Unregulated Care Providers.
- Teaches good health habits.
- Deals courteously with staff, residents, residents' families and visitors.
- Responsible for admission and discharge of residents.
- Maintain liaison with families of residents.
- Takes prospective residents and other interested persons on tours of the retirement residence.
- Ensures medical records are maintained.
- Ensures all personal health information is maintained as per PHIPA.
- Ensures daily/wee