🌟 Join the Award-Winning Team at Anchor Post Acute! 🌟

📍 Anchor Post Acute is a beautiful 120-bed skilled nursing & rehab facility conveniently located behind Aiken Mall in Aiken, SC. We're proud to have been recognized as Aiken's Choice Award Winner for Top Skilled Nursing Facility! 🏆💙

Do you have a passion for caring for others? ❤️ Are you looking for a workplace where you can truly make a difference every day? At Anchor Post Acute, we cherish the relationships we build with our residents, families, coworkers, and community. We believe in creating a warm, supportive environment where everyone feels at home. 🏡✨

💙🩺 NOW HIRING: DIRECTOR OF NURSING (DON)! 🩺💙

Are you a passionate nursing leader who believes great care starts with a great team? Do you love inspiring others, building strong relationships, and making a meaningful difference in the lives of residents? ❤️

We're looking for an AMAZING Director of Nursing (DON) to lead our nursing team! 🙌

This is your opportunity to bring your leadership skills, clinical expertise, and passion for resident care to a team that makes a difference every single day! If you're ready to take the next step in your nursing leadership career, we'd love to meet you! 💙

🌟 WHY YOU'LL LOVE JOINING OUR TEAM! 🌟

💵 Competitive Salary: Earn $110,000 annually!

🏥 Full-Time Position: Enjoy the opportunity to make a lasting impact while leading our clinical team.

🎁 Excellent Benefits Package: We value our team members and offer benefits designed to support you both personally and professionally.

🤝 Supportive Team Environment: Work alongside dedicated professionals who share your commitment to quality care.

💙 Make a Difference: Build meaningful relationships with residents, families, and staff while helping create a positive, caring environment.

🚀 Leadership & Growth: Bring your ideas, lead with confidence, and help our nursing team reach its full potential!

🩺 WHAT YOU'LL DO AS OUR DIRECTOR OF NURSING

As our DON, you'll play a vital role in leading clinical operations, supporting nursing staff, and ensuring our residents receive the highest quality of care.

Your responsibilities will include:

✨ Providing leadership, direction, and support to the nursing department.

✨ Promoting excellent resident care, safety, dignity, and quality of life.

✨ Supervising, mentoring, and developing nursing staff to build a strong, compassionate team.

✨ Ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state regulations and facility policies.

✨ Monitoring clinical outcomes, quality assurance initiatives, and infection prevention practices.

✨ Collaborating with facility leadership, physicians, residents, and families to support positive outcomes.

✨ Overseeing nursing department staffing, scheduling, and clinical operations.

✨ Promoting teamwork, accountability, communication, and a culture of continuous improvement.

✨ Responding to resident and family concerns with professionalism, compassion, and a commitment to resolution.

💙 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're searching for a confident, compassionate nursing leader who is ready to inspire others and help our team thrive!

✅ Current, active RN license in good standing.

✅ Previous nursing leadership experience, preferably in a skilled nursing or long-term care setting.

✅ Strong clinical knowledge and understanding of long-term care regulations and standards.

✅ Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

✅ Ability to lead, motivate, and develop a nursing team.

✅ Commitment to resident-centered care, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance.

✅ A positive attitude, strong work ethic, and passion for helping others succeed!

🌈 READY TO LEAD WITH HEART? 🌈

We know that exceptional resident care begins with exceptional leadership. We're looking for a DON who can inspire a team, champion quality care, and create an environment where residents and staff feel valued. ❤️

If you're ready to take the lead, make an impact, and bring your nursing leadership career to the next level, we want to hear from YOU! 🎉

General Purpose

Define the roles and responsibilities of the Director of Nursing (DON). The DON is a registered nurse who oversees and supervises the care of all the residents. The DON also provides direct resident/patient care.

Essential Duties

• Overall management of the entire nursing department and staffing levels.
• Develop and implement nursing policies and procedures and ensure compliance.
• Responsible for ensuring resident safety and that all residents are treated with utmost respect.
• Develop and conduct in-services for the clinical staff.
• Responsible for the recruiting, hiring and training of nursing staff.
• Coordinates pharmacy services and destruction of expired/discontinued medication.
• Liaison between the facility, physicians and family members.
• Being a witness at a trial in the event of litigation.
• Work closely with all other departments to ensure excellent overall resident care.
• Responsible for department budgeting and reporting.
• Responsible for keeping current on any regulation changes and disseminating this information appropriately.
• Participate in QA, Utilization Review and Patient Care conferences.
• Actively participate in and assist with all state surveys and required follow-up activity.
• Coordinate MDS and care planning.
• Conduct employee appraisals and resolve problems including disciplinary actions and terminations.
• Must maintain employee and resident/patient confidentiality at all times.
• Provide direct/hands-on resident/patient care as needed.

Supervisory Requirements

The Director of Nursing is responsible for supervising and managing the ADON, and entire nursing staff either directly or indirectly.

Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

• Graduation from an Accredited School of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing, preferred (BSN).
• Must be in good standing with the State Board of Nursing and maintain all required continuing education/licensing requirements at all times.
• Minimum of 7 years nurse management experience preferred.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.

Mathematical Skills

• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products and Point Click Care (PCC).

Physical Demands

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
• Prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, read or hear.
• Frequent use of all office-related equipment including copier/scanner/fax, telephone, calculator.
• Travel by auto or airline may be required.

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Additional Information

Note: Nothing in this job specification restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.