Sign-On Bonus Opportunity
If you are an organized, analytical and flexible Home Health Director of Nursing with a passion for quality healthcare and a desire for career satisfaction, join LHC Group today! LHC Group helps patients of all ages make the transition to post-acute care at home in communities across the country. We combine a high quality hometown medical staff with a dynamic, clinically driven operational model and an efficient management team to offer a comprehensive health care package that puts the patient’s needs first. While we are a growing healthcare provider, we function more like a supportive family to our employees. Our goal is to provide our employees with the environment, tools and encouragement to achieve their professional and personal goals.
As a Home Health Director of Nursing with LHC Group, you will plan, organize, initiate, implement and evaluate the patient care delivery system and meet specific physician orders for patients. You will ensure patients are appropriate and continue to be appropriate for home health care. You will orient, educate, supervise, coordinate and evaluate patient care staff about patient care and efficiency, and serve as a liaison between staff and management. You will also monitor all the financial, operational and patient data needed to keep your branch operating at peak efficiency, such as staffing levels, patient supply needs and insurance claim/reimbursement processes.
Home Health Director of Nursing - Home Health Care RN Management
Job Requirements
As a Home Health Director of Nursing with LHC Group, you must understand the financial and operational data of your home health agency. You must have excellent communication and multitasking skills, be able to advocate for both patients and employees and have the skills to balance the interests of the company and the people we serve. You must be an independent decision maker and be able to manage people in a motivational and constructive way, as well solve financial and quality control related problems. Also, you must have an excellent work ethic, good people management skills and the ability to perform well in stressful situations.Additional responsibilities of the Home Health Director of Nursing also include:
- Managing RN Team Leaders and your agency’s Branch Manager as needed
- Increasing or decreasing staffing levels as needed
- Reviewing pre-billing for accuracy, performing other billing duties
- Organizing and reviewing budget/financial data
- Meeting with therapists to discuss patient cases
- Conducting meetings and reviewing patient care reports with Medical Directors and physicians
- Meeting once a week with State Operations Director to touch base on overall home health agency data
- Holding weekly staff conferences to go over work performance and specific patient cases
Home Health Director of Nursing - Home Health Care RN Management