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Job Details

Job Location

Santa Cruz County Sheriff - AZ - Nogales, AZ

Position Type

Full Time

Education Level

2 Year Degree

Salary Range

$100000.00 - $108000.00 Salary/year

Travel Percentage

None

Job Shift

Any

Job Category

Nursing/Nursing Support

Description

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 Assistant Regional Nurse Mangers, 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

+ Review adherence to staffing contract.

+ 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 and utilizes all appropriate means of limiting both ACH and corrections’ liabilities, if appropriate

+ Evaluates and recommends methods of improving operation efficiency and effectiveness

+ Monitors and promotes staff compliance with applicable pharmacy regulations, including those covering controlled substances

+ Reviews/approves medical supply and pharmacy orders

+ Seeks ACH approval for necessary supplies not on the routine supply list

+ Monitors and evaluates physical safety requirements to ensure safe working environment

+ Monitors and/or provides an in-service program suitable to the facility health care program when able to do so on-site

+ Meets with designated jail administration on a monthly or as needed basis

+ Meets with contracted agencies and jail administration as directed by the Regional Nurse Manager or Director of Medical Operations

+ Functions as liaison between ACH and other professional organizations

+ Monitors to confirm the provision of commitments and services made to or by ACH

+ Accepts on-call status

+ Must be able to perform CPR when needed

+ Attends seminars, workshops, conference, etc. as required by (and at the expense of) Advanced Correctional Healthcare

+ May be asked to travel

+ May be asked to train new hires and coworkers

+ Adheres to established policies of ACH and the facility

+ Any and all other duties as assigned

Qualifications

+ Active nursing license in the state in which services are to be provided, in good standing

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training

+ Excellent documentation skills

+ Must be able to drive a motor vehicle

+ Knowledge of the nursing scope of practice