Dietary Manager/Food Service Supervisor

To provide management of the Dietary Department, ensuring quality food. Direct and assist the preparation and serving of regular meals and therapeutic diets. Order food and supplies. Maintains area and equipment in sanitary condition. Must be a graduate of an approved dietary manager's course that meets the state and long term care regulations. If not a graduate the employee must be presently enrolled in a dietary manager course or be enrolled within four months of the next approved dietary manager course.

Cooks

Prepares and serves meals according to cycles menu; monitors methods of food handling, preparation, meal service and equipment cleaning. High school graduate or equivalent education is preferred. Preference is given to persons with education in quantity cooking and therapeutic diets.

Dietary Aide

Performs designated work and cleaning routines for the Dietary Department. High school graduate preferred. Previous institutional dietary service experience is preferred.

Housekeeping Class I

The job involves working cooperatively with the Nursing and Dietary departments in promoting sanitary conditions which prevent the spread of infection.

Laundry Class I

The job involves the total responsibility of the laundry services. To handle and wash linens and clothing in a manner to avoid contamination and spreading of bacteria. To keep linens and clothing washed daily. To keep residents' clothing clean, washed in a manner which will preserve color and fabric. To keep linens dried, ironed, folded and stored in designate areas. To keep laundry area and equipment clean.

Social Services Director

The Social Services Director answers to the Coordinator of Social Services and is under the daily supervision of the Administrator. There will be one Social Services Director assigned to each convalescent home whose responsibility will be to provide for the physical, psychological, and social needs of the residents.

The Social Services Director will defer all tasks or procedures involving exposure to visible blood contamination or reasonably anticipated blood contamination to those employees designated in the Exposure Control Plan to perform such tasks or procedures.

Activities Director

Plans, organizes, and directs or carries out a program of activities, which will provide entertainment, intercommunication, exercise, relaxation, opportunity to express creative talent, and fulfill basic psychological, social, and spiritual needs for our residents. Will be available to all residents as requested by the residents' physicians, subject to their written restrictions and limitations.

Admission Coordinator

Manages the facility's inquiry and admission process and provide customers with facility-related information via facility tours, personal visits/assessments, conversations and follow-up.

Business Office Manager

Is the general supervisor in business office and reception areas, managing office clerks and receptionists. Organizes, develops and maintains business office systems in accordance with RET policy and procedures.

Certified Nurse Assistant

The Certified Nurse Assistant provides care to residents as established in Grace Living Centers policies and practices, our Statement of Commitment and Principles of respect, current standards of care and practice and applicable state/federal regulations. In addition, the C NA is responsible for handling tasks which may involve exposure to visible blood contamination or reasonably anticipated blood contamination in compliance with the OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogen Standard and Grace Living Center's Exposure Control Plan for Bloodborne Pathogens.

Certified Medication Aide

Under the supervision of the Staff Nurse, the Certified Medication Aide administers medications as prescribed by the resident's physician and documents the administration, the medication effectiveness and any noted adverse reactions or side effects of the medications in accordance with established policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, current standards of practice and applicable state/federal regulations.

Staff Nurse

Under the direction of the Director of Nursing Services, the Staff Nurse ensures that resident care objectives includes a focus on the resident's quality of life issues while ensuring optimal quality of care is delivered to each resident in accordance with the standards, policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment and current standards of care.

Restorative Care Assistant

The RCA is a licensed nurse who provides care to residents that is designed to strengthen muscles, assist with mobility, promote independence, prevent functional declines and others in accordance with Grace Living Centers policies and procedures, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment, current standards of care and all applicable state/federal regulations.

Treatment Nurse

Under the direction of the DON, the treatment nurse is a licensed nurse who ensures that objectives are met in accordance with the standards, policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principals of Respect and Statement of Commitment and current standards of practice and care.

Clinical Quality Manager

In conjunction with the Administrator and the Director of Nursing, the CQM is a licensed nurse who works to ensure that resident care objectives are met, consistent with the standards, policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment and current standards of care and practice. The CQM identifies potential/actual risk, which could cause or has caused harm to residents, staff and visitors. The CQM monitors closely certain areas of resident care, establishes training and implements programs to decrease the possibility of risk.

Case Manager

The case manager is a licensed nurse who coordinates, directs and schedules completion of the RAI, including the overall plan of care for residents currently receiving skilled services with a focus on quality of life issues and quality of care issues required by policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment, current state/federal laws, and current standards of care. The case manager is responsible for ensuring that services and documentation required by the Medicare PPS are appropriate and timely. The case manager communicates with the DON and Grace Living Centers' corporate oversight personnel as required and requested as well as operating and encoding data into a computer.

Minimum Data Set (MDS) Coordinator

Under direction of the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Coordinator if a Licensed Practical Nurse and under the direction of the DON if a Registered Nurse, coordinates, directs and schedules completion of the MDS including RAPs and Care Plans for residents receiving immediate care with a focus on quality of life issues and quality of care issues as required by the policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment, applicable state/federal laws, and current standards of care and practice. Additionally, the MDS Coordinator operates and encodes data into a computer.

Assistant Director of Nursing

The ADON is a licensed nurse who collaborates with the DON to ensure that resident care objectives are established and met. Under supervision of the DON, the ADON coordinates, directs and supervises all nursing functions of the unit to provide optimum care to residents that include a focus on quality of life issues and quality of care issues as established in the policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment and current standards of care and practice.

Director of Nursing

In conjunction with the Medical Director, the DON ensures that resident care objectives are established and met and the standards, policies and procedures of the Department of Nursing Services are consistent with the standards, policies and procedures of Grace Living Centers, our Principles of Respect and Statement of Commitment and current standards of care and practice. The DON's job is multifaceted to promote and include a focus on resident's quality of life issues while ensuring optimal quality of care is delivered to each resident.