Quality Assurance Director for Assisted Living Community

Department: Resident Services

Reports To: Director of Nursing

Status: Exempt

Job Summary:

The Quality Assurance Director is responsible for assisting the Resident Care Director to plan, organize, direct, and monitor the Quality Assurance program and the education and training programs for the community, related to Quality Assurance (QA), for all staff members in compliance with Federal and State regulatory requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The following essential functions are the fundamental job duties of the position to be completed with or without appropriate reasonable accommodation.

• Directs and monitors the Quality Assurance program and the education and training programs, related to QA, for all staff members to meet policy and District requirements.
• Works in collaboration with other department heads on QA initiatives.
• Conducts quality assurance projects as they relate to survey readiness for the District.
• Participates in staff meetings/conferences involving the implementation and coordination of QA initiatives.
• Advise the facility Executive Director, Director of Nursing, and/or Department Heads regarding potential resident care or life problems.
• Prepares a variety of related records and reports to meet District standards.
• Evaluates service provision to assure quality standards, emergency preparedness policies, related audits, evaluations, and resident health.
• Serve as the Manager on Duty for weekend on-call rotations.
• May perform basic resident care, including the passing of medications.
• Assist Department Heads and staff in the evaluation of programs and effect changes as necessary to improve programs and assure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain tracking systems for identified state reporting.
• Develop and implement appropriate plans of action to correct identified deficiencies as needed.
• Perform administrative requirements such as completing forms, writing reports, etc., and conduct the Quality Assurance monthly meeting.
• Participate in meetings as directed.
• Develop auditing schedules for all Departments as well as audit development when identified.
• Maintain tracking logs, incidents and accidents, medication errors etc. and monitor for trends requiring corrective actions.
• Assist the Director of Nursing in the investigation of incidents, injuries, and medication errors for response.
• Develop and deliver educational programs revolving around all components of Quality Assurance for resident care and the community, including orientation for new employees and programs to address the Quality Assurance process and Regulatory guidelines.
• Assist in reeducation of staff when developing corrective action plans from completed audits or chart reviews.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information.
• Ensure resident rights are maintained at all times.
• Lead the Quality Assurance meeting monthly to report on all data collection results from monthly audits and the selected plans of correction.
• Plans of correction will be written by the Department involved in conjunction with Quality Assurance and reported to the Executive Director and Director of Nursing.
• May perform other duties as assigned.