Health Serv Administrator - Registered Nurse

BENEFITS:

• Referral program
• 401(k) w/employer match
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Professional Development
• Paid Time Off
• Disability Insurance

SUMMARY:

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Reports directly to and meets with the Assistant Regional Nurse Mangers, Regional Nurse Manager or Director Medical Operations, and prepares reports as requested 

• Always maintains a professional attitude 

• Maintains a good working relationship with correctional personnel, nursing staff, contracted providers, outside provider agencies and corporate office staff 

• Is always tactful and diplomatic and functions as a role model for staff 

• Utilizes established corporate and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions but uses sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties of the position 

• Develops, revises, interprets, and ensures compliance with policies, procedures, aims, and philosophy of ACH and the assigned correctional facility 

• Recruits, orients, supervises, and evaluates performance of nursing and clerical personnel 

• Assigns, directs, and promotes associates as a supervisory function 

• Hires, transfers, lays-off and recalls associates as staffing needs require 

• Counsels, disciplines, suspends, and/or terminates associates who violate policies established by ACH or the facility 

• Completes a yearly written evaluation on all directly supervised staff, a 30 day and a three (3) month evaluation on nursing associates who are under direct supervision 

• Ensures adequate staffing at facility 

• Fills in as needed during periods of short staffing 

• Ensures appropriate licensure on nursing and certified medical personnel, i.e., nurses, CMAs dental assistants, etc. 

• Audits payroll, professional time sheets of nursing personnel, reports hours and reviews use of overtime 

• Review adherence to staffing contract. 

• Oversees services rendered by contractors and professional staff and reports to the contractors’ supervisor as indicated 

• Supplies written job descriptions to nursing staff 

• Ensures the proper flow of relevant information (policies, procedures, in-service, problems, etc.) to supervisors and supervised personnel 

• Completes and submits monthly statistical, narrative, summary and/or operation reports as requested by facility administration 

• Conducts peer reviews for nursing personnel of equal or lesser educational level 

• Maintaining a current copy of the facility’s medical policies and procedures and ensures they are readily accessible to nursing staff 

• Participates in CQI meetings conducted by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations 

• Audits weekly logs and received billing statements/invoices, and forwards them to corporate office 

• Maintains absolute security of all medical records 

• Audits medical files to ensure that all provided services are documented using the SOAP format 

• Screens requests for records and seeks approval/disapproval from jail administration; then responds appropriately 

• Reviews, processes, and responds to records requests as directed by ACH attorneys 

• Reviews status of inmates with serious health problems ensuring necessary intervention and treatment is completed 

• Monitors inpatient hospitalizations and works with jail administration for early release when