Location: Inpatient Facility - Medical - Saranac Lake, NY
Position: Full-time Associate Director Inpatient Medical Services (RN)
Shift/Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Pay Range: $77,931.00/year to $95,465.48/year
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Full Time/40+ hours per week. (Hours and schedules may vary depending on company need and workload. Employees will be given as much advance notice as possible when such changes occur.)
Position Summary: Under the direction of the Inpatient Services Director, the Associate Director of Inpatient Medical Services is responsible for medical services to residents and supervising all medical staff.
Qualifications and Requirements:
- NYS Registered Nurse
- Knowledge of modern principles and practices of alcohol and chemical dependency programs, knowledge of current NYS DOH nursing and medical operations regulations and medical supervisory experience.
Essential Duties:
- Supervising daily operations of nursing services.
- Supervises all medical staff.
- Ensuring nursing coverage for all shifts.
- Maintains effective and efficient working relationships with Medial Director, physicians and Inpatient Services Director.
- Maintains effective and efficient working relationships with clinical staff.
- Conducts phone screening approvals for prospective residents.
- Conducts and interprets comprehensive nursing assessments.
- Ensures medical documentation is completed by staff and physicians.
- Review and investigates all incident reports received from medical staff.
- Contributes to Aftercare Plan Development based on medical needs.
- Coordinates medical and clinical interventions for resident in support of tobacco cessation and MAT services.
- Ensures the provision of education, risk education, counseling and referral services to all residents regarding HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases, and other communicable diseases.
- Provide education of residents and staff as it pertains to medical services.
- Adhere to Pharmacy Services Policy in its entirety, inclusive of controlled substances policy, procedures and protocol.
- Actively participated in meetings, committees, and quality assurance activities.
- Works in concert with the Medical Director, Inpatient Services Director, physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
- Facilitates renewal of all licensure and certifications for medical operations.
- Process all invoices related to medical expenses, prescriptions, labs, supplies.
- Responsible for oversight of annual competencies and onboarding new staff
- Ensuring Narcotic waste/destruction with BNE is done correctly.
- Implement and monitor quality management to ensure compliance with CLIA and to meet all standards of accreditation.
- Ensure Narcan training is provided to all residents.
- Manage and operate in concert with the Medical Director the Hepatitis C treatment.
- Approve all medication changes in the EMAR.
- Responsible for additional duties as maybe assigned by the Inpatient Services Director.
