Site Manager - Registered Nurse - Full Time

SUMMARY: Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - Reports directly to and meets with the Regional Nurse Manager or Director Medical Operations, and prepares reports as requested - Always maintains a professional attitude - Maintains a good working relationship with correctional personnel, nursing staff, contracted providers, outside provider agencies and corporate office staff - Is always tactful and diplomatic and functions as a role model for staff - Utilizes established corporate and correctional policies and procedures in making decisions but uses sound independent judgment in meeting responsibilities and performing duties of the position - Develops, revises, interprets, and ensures compliance with policies, procedures, aims, and philosophy of ACH and the assigned correctional facility - Recruits, orients, supervises, and evaluates performance of nursing and clerical personnel - Assigns, directs, and promotes associates as a supervisory function - Hires, transfers, lays-off and recalls associates as staffing needs require - Counsels, disciplines, suspends, and/or terminates associates who violate policies established by ACH or the facility - Completes a yearly written evaluation on all directly supervised staff, a 30 day and a three (3) month evaluation on nursing associates who are under direct supervision - Ensures adequate staffing at facility - Fills in as needed during periods of short staffing - Ensures appropriate licensure on nursing and certified medical personnel, i.e., nurses, CMAs dental assistants, etc. - Audits payroll, professional time sheets of nursing personnel, reports hours and reviews use of overtime - Oversees services rendered by contractors and professional staff and reports to the contractors’ supervisor as indicated - Supplies written job descriptions to nursing staff - Ensures the proper flow of relevant information (policies, procedures, in-service, problems, etc.) to supervisors and supervised personnel - Completes and submits monthly statistical, narrative, summary and/or operation reports as requested by facility administration - Conducts peer reviews for nursing personnel of equal or lesser educational level - Maintaining a current copy of the facility’s medical policies and procedures and ensures they are readily accessible to nursing staff - Participates in CQI meetings conducted by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations - Audits weekly logs and received billing statements/invoices, and forwards them to corporate office - Maintains absolute security of all medical records - Audits medical files to ensure that all provided services are documented using the SOAP format - Screens requests for records and seeks approval/disapproval from jail administration; then responds appropriately - Reviews, processes, and responds to records requests as directed by ACH attorneys - Reviews status of inmates with serious health problems ensuring necessary intervention and treatment is completed - Monitors inpatient hospitalizations and works with jail administration for early release whenever appropriate. - Reviews referrals to outside consultants for necessity of referral and communicates with jail administration for security restrictions or concerns - Monitors the provision of contractual medical services, i.e., radiology, lab, etc. - Regularly evaluates the provision of medical services to prevent the inappropriate use/duplication of those services - Assists jail administration and ACH billing department to identify financial responsibility (inmate, correctional, ACH, insurance company, etc.) for all incurred expenses - Closely monitors potential catastrophic illnesses; explores…