Lpn Resident Care Manager

**Brightwater Senior Living of Tuxedo, a stunning 133-suite Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care community is seeking a knowledgeable Resident Care Manager with experience in senior care and assisted living**. **We are proud to offer the highest quality engagement, dining, and health support services, and a team that truly cares for our residents. We are always looking for compassionate, teamwork-oriented professionals to join our team. Every team member in a Brightwater community embodies the mission of our company: to inspire hope and enhance the lives of our residents through the creation of an unparalleled experience.**

**Position Summary**:
Each team member at Brightwater is responsible for assisting their department in striving to meet or exceed the standards of excellence that have been set. The Resident Care Manager is specifically responsible for assuring health services issues of assigned residents are addressed, as well as other services issues that have a potential impact upon the health of residents.

**Schedule**:Full-Time, Monday-Friday with an Every-Other-Weekend Rotation, On-Call

**Leadership Qualifications**:

- Demonstrated experience in developing, inspiring and leading a team by example.
- Demonstrated ability to push yourself and those around you outside of the box.

**Role Qualifications**:

- Maintain current professional license (RN or LPN/LVN).
- Maintain CPR and first aid certification.
- Maintain any certifications as required by state or provincial regulations.
- Strong Management Skills, including strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Demonstrate ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Meet state or provincial health related requirements.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Assure stable staff of Charge Nurses, Medication Techs, Resident Assistants by recruiting, hiring, supervising, evaluating, counseling, and, if necessary, terminating employees.
- Assure Charge Nurses, Medication Techs, Resident Assistants are educated and trained using available Resource Manuals, assure Resident Assistants are educated and trained in Memory Care Resource.
- Assure regular competency evaluations of Charge Nurses, Medication Techs, Resident Assistants are completed.
- Conduct continuing education and training for Charge Nurses, Medication Techs, Resident Assistants as necessary.
- Supervise Engagement Coordinators to assure optimal development and implementation of Connections activity program.
- Complete Nursing Assessments and auxiliary evaluations of residents and all other required and/or appropriate evaluations, addressing physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs.
- Assess residents, at minimum, upon initiation and completion of alert charting process.
- Monitor physician orders and assure correct implementation.
- Monitor laboratory and other test results.
- Monitor MAR
- Establish weight regimens, assure weights are entered on MAR or other appropriate location, and address all significant weight changes.
- Establish vital sign regimens and related notification parameters; assure entered on MAR and adhered to.
- Monitor alert charting, especially to assure appropriate employee response to issues.
- Monitor skin problems using Current Skin Problems form; address identified skin problems.
- Monitor inter-shift health services report.
- Monitor Communication Log.
- Monitor and address consulting pharmacy reports.
- Complete review of Resident Incident Reports.
- Advise health services employees concerning resident health issues, by telephone if not in community (carries cellular telephone).
- Effectively utilize and coordinate services with home health, hospice, and other agencies.
- Assure physician orders are reviewed, sent to physician, and returned with physician signatures quarterly.
- Perform all responsibilities related to delegation of nursing tasks to unlicensed staff (in states or provinces in which such delegation is utilized).
- Investigate controlled substance count discrepancies.
- Assure controlled substances are destroyed as necessary per policy and state or provincial regulations.
- Monitor to assure Garden Daily Assignments duties are performed.
- Monitor to assure Arbor Daily Assignments duties are performed.
- Perform quality assurance audits as directed.
- Effectively communicate with residents, their family members, and other concerned parties.
- Effectively communicate with physicians and other health care professionals involved with services to residents.
- Assure compliance with all federal and state or provincial regulations pertaining to health services.
- Maintain Daily Assignment system.
- Monitor to assure Arbor and Garden Daily Assignments duties are performed.
- Assure physician orders, laboratory reports, and other data is scanned and filed in resident chart.
- Maintain Medication Room files per policy
- Maintain Tracking Reports binder per policy.
- Maintain Pending Fax Communication