Job Description

CarDon is a family-owned senior-living company with more than 20 communities in the Midwest. We offer independent and assisted living, rehabilitation, skilled nursing and memory support. We’re rapidly growing, offer a wide variety of career paths, and reward bright ideas and hard work . Work for the best and join the Heart of the CarDon family of care.

The Clinical Specialist is responsible to assigned communities for evaluating Nursing Services, promoting a high quality of nursing care, developing systems and procedures designed to make services efficient, and assure compliance with accepted clinical practices, state and federal regulations, and company policies.

• Evaluates the quality of clinical services in assigned communities.
• Evaluates systems governing Nursing Services to identify compliance and opportunities for improvement within assigned communities and makes recommendations to the Nursing Management and Administrator as needed.
• Helps in recruitment and training of Directors of Nursing and other nursing leadership as requested.
• Reviews and augments as needed the Quality Assurance activities of nursing services conducted by facility committees within assigned communities.
• Visits assigned communities as needed.
• Confers with the Administrator and Director of Nursing upon each visit and provides reports and updates as needed to the Director of Clinical Services.
• Attends any administrative training meetings as scheduled.
• Makes presentations at administrative training meetings when requested.
• Helps Clinical Navigation Specialist train nurses in case-mix and RUGS for maximum facility reimbursement.
• Reviews facility consultant reports as part of routine QA for assigned communities.
• Complies with customer services principles and reports any concerns identified during a visit to the Administrator.
• Reviews and assists with the reporting of all assigned communities’ State Reportables.
• Reports to assigned communities during an inspection survey to provide support; and collaborates with the Administrator and DON to develop and write corrective responses and the related QA activities required for nursing allegations cited during surveys.
• Participates in scheduled CQR process to identify any clinical areas of concern related to survey readiness.

• Current Indiana license as a Registered Nurse.
• Associate degree in nursing.
• Must have a minimum of three (3) years of prior experience in long-term care and management.
• Must have a valid Indiana Operator’s license.

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