Clinical Resource RN - Pennant Services
Farmington, CT
About the Job
We are building a World Class Service Center and invite you to join a team of people who are committed to a core objective of supporting life changing service and providing professional expertise to the operations and leaders we support.
About the Company
Pennant Services is one of the most dynamic and progressive companies in the rapidly expanding senior living, home health, hospice, and home care industries. Affiliates of Pennant Services now operate 111 senior living, home health, hospice and home care operations across 14 states and we are growing! These operations have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the "Service Center," a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual agencies.
Something else that sets us apart from other companies is the quality of our most valuable resources - our people! We are dedicated to living out our culture as defined by our core values, "CAPLICO":
Customer Second
Accountability
Passion for Learning
Love One Another
Intelligent Risk Taking
Celebrate
Ownership
By incorporating these principles at all levels of our organization, our employees feel valued and excited about their impact on our service center team members and operational partners. Our culture fosters excellence both personally and professionally and promotes development that leads to continued success.
About the Opportunity
Under the direct supervision of a Portfolio Clinical Leader (PCL), the Clinical Resource position will support local clinical leaders at agencies located throughout the northeast. In association with those local clinical leaders, the Clinical Resource will be responsible for designing, monitoring, implementing, and evaluating process and programs to meet regulatory and accreditation requirements and to achieve the highest standard of care.
Duties and Responsibilities
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
About the Company
Pennant Services is one of the most dynamic and progressive companies in the rapidly expanding senior living, home health, hospice, and home care industries. Affiliates of Pennant Services now operate 111 senior living, home health, hospice and home care operations across 14 states and we are growing! These operations have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the "Service Center," a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual agencies.
Something else that sets us apart from other companies is the quality of our most valuable resources - our people! We are dedicated to living out our culture as defined by our core values, "CAPLICO":
Customer Second
Accountability
Passion for Learning
Love One Another
Intelligent Risk Taking
Celebrate
Ownership
By incorporating these principles at all levels of our organization, our employees feel valued and excited about their impact on our service center team members and operational partners. Our culture fosters excellence both personally and professionally and promotes development that leads to continued success.
About the Opportunity
Under the direct supervision of a Portfolio Clinical Leader (PCL), the Clinical Resource position will support local clinical leaders at agencies located throughout the northeast. In association with those local clinical leaders, the Clinical Resource will be responsible for designing, monitoring, implementing, and evaluating process and programs to meet regulatory and accreditation requirements and to achieve the highest standard of care.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assists with the transition to and implementation of HCHB.
- Responsible for providing a high level of leadership and guidance in the establishment of programs, policies and practices that ensure that all Cornerstone Home Health and Hospice agencies provide exceptional clinical care in compliance with State and Federal Regulatory requirements.
- Educates and assists Cornerstone's local clinical leaders to always be survey ready. Works closely with Cornerstone's compliance resources to ensure appropriate and effective survey preparedness.
- Assists local leadership in developing and implementing processes to monitor and measure all activities related to clinical, education, and performance improvement.
- Provides support regarding the direction and coordination of educational programs, orientation, new hire competency systems, annual skills competency and on-going in-service educational program development.
- Monitors the organization's Outcome Based Quality Initiative (OBQI) outcomes. Provides feedback and best practice education to staff to improve outcomes.
- Coordinates activities related to clinical record review for home health and hospice data collection. Compiles, trends and reports quality data in the following areas: patient care, safety, risk management, infection control, outcomes, and customer satisfaction. Data is analyzed and compared internally and externally with other sources when available.
- Educates and trains nursing supervisors to ensure documentation is complete and consistent with legal requirements. Additionally, a clinical resource may be asked to step into patient homes for observations, evaluations, and mock surveys.
- Helps develop initiatives and monitor agency process and progress in areas including, patient safety, risk management, infection control programs.
- This is an office-based position.
- Resource will be expected to travel to agencies across Connecticut on a weekly basis and to other parts of the United States as needed.
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Current Licensed Registered Nurse
- CPR Certified
- A minimum of five years
Source : Pennant Services