Health & Wellness Director-Spr

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Job Summary: The administrative team leader for the Health and Wellness Program. The Health and Wellness Program is in place to assist students in attaining and maintaining optimal health.

The Health and Wellness Director oversees provision of health and wellness services including:

• Basic health services

• Chronic care management

• Oral Health services

• Mental Health services

• Medication management

• Family Planning Program

• Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyle (HEALS) Program

• Trainee Employee Assistance and Tobacco Use Prevention Programs

• Emergency care

• Communicable Disease and Infection Control

Duties/Responsibilities:

• This is a supervisory management position.

• Supervises center health and wellness services.

• Facilitates student introduction to health services.

• Adheres to the departmental budget.

• Active in Center/Company Leadership program.

• Conducts center needs health/wellness assessments; plans and coordinates services and programs that respond to identified student needs.

• Provides health and wellness assessments and screening, nursing interventions, emergency care, education, and referral services in conjunction with health and wellness staff and health subcontractors.

• Performs duties as the H&W Co-Disability Coordinator to ensure services are provided to students with disabilities.

• Serves as member of center's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response team.

• Serves as the center File Review Coordinator.

• Orders and maintains records on dispensing, inventory, and disposal of medical and dental supplies and pharmaceuticals.

• Initiates worker's compensation documentation and maintains secondary OSHA logs. Performs follow-up surveillance of worker's compensation cases.

• Performs physical and emotional wellness assessments. Establishes individualized student health and wellness plans according to protocol outlined in the center's Health Standing Orders

• Works closely with counselors, residential staff, and medical trade instructors in providing wellness education to students.

• Responsible for updating center Health & Wellness Standard Operating Procedures.

• Works with center management staff to develop and implement center plans as needed.

• Works with center management to employ or subcontract qualified health care providers.

• Prepares and conducts health and wellness staff performance evaluations.

• Responsible for continuous quality improvement by seeking feedback from students, employing mechanisms to document quality care provided and quality improvement activities.

• On-call support required.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Qualifications:

Minimum: Minimum of Associates Degree in Nursing. Must have active, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the state where the center is located.

Preferred: Three years' experience as a practicing nurse, one of which was in a lead or supervisory capacity.

Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of nursing techniques/procedures and time management. Excellent communication and skills, both oral and written. Familiarity with medical needs of disadvantaged youth. Must obtain and maintain CPR. Sound management techniques. Ability to handle multiple priorities.

Physical Requirements:

Frequently

Sitting

Seeing

Hearing

Speaking

Occasionally

Standing

Walking

Bending

Stooping

Squatting

Flexibility

Seldom

Climbing

Lifting 50 pounds

Carrying

Kneeling

Pushing/Pulling

Running

Driving

Environmental Demands:

Equipment: Ability to operate office equipment

Work Alone: Occasionally works alone

Work With Others: 85% of time spent working and interacting with team and other departments

Reading: Ability to read at a college level

Writing: Ability to write at a college level