Dialysis Nurse Manager, RN - Rendevor Dialysis

Who is Rendevor (formerly CharDonnay) Dialysis?

We are a family-owned and operated company founded over 25 years ago by a Dialysis RN who believes everyone is entitled to excellent medical treatment from talented clinicians.

Our Mission

To bring thriving on-site dialysis partnerships to any under-serviced healthcare institutions in need.

What’s In It For You?

Our company offers competitive compensation above industry standards, and we pride ourselves in providing a caring, positive culture for our employees.

We offer an extremely generous package including:

Annual Rate: $120,000.00 (Based on Documented Experience)

• Fantastic employee benefit package
• Employer contribution to H.S.A
• F.S.A tax savings benefits
• A 4% dollar-for-dollar company match to the 401k plan with immediate vesting
• A very generous PTO accrual program
• A PTO cash-out provision
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Employee referral bonus program
• Robust employee recognition and appreciation program
• Quality employee training and development programs
• Several holidays paid at time and a half
• Annual holiday gift bags for all employees
• Comprehensive Medical Benefits
• Vision
• Dental
• STD/LTD/Voluntary Life
• Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Plans
• Pet Insurance
• Discounted auto and home insurance
• Discounted legal services program
• Employer-paid life insurance for 1x employee salary
• Employer-paid assistance program with complimentary counseling, wellness, and legal sessions for employees and household members
• Complimentary year-long weight loss program
• ...and much more

What You’ll Do:

• The Correctional Dialysis Nurse Manager (NM) directs and maintains the daily clinical activities of the dialysis unit through effective leadership, professionalism, and management of all aspects of customer service, quality patient care, and financial management.
• Responsible for all dialysis patient care, the quality of clinical outcomes (as dictated by facility guidelines/restrictions), and standard of care provided within the unit.
• Maintains strong relationships, regular communication, and visibility with all teammates and clients (site Managed Healthcare, DOC/BOP, Post Acute Facility, Hospital, etc.) as well as physicians.
• Hires, develops coaches, and trains unit clinical staff.
• Practices cost containment strategies for all major cost inputs including payroll, agency usage, inventory/supplies, and hiring while ensuring compliance with applicable company and state regulatory requirements.

This dialysis unit is located in:

• Avenel, NJ within Adult Diagnostic Treatment Center

You will also cover the following facilities:

• Woodbridge Township, NJ within Special Treatment Unit
• Trenton, NJ within New Jersey State Prison
• Clinton, NJ within Edna Mahan Correctional Facility
• Newark, NJ within Essex County Correctional Facility

As in any setting, this involves teamwork and coordinating care with the healthcare team. In addition to the healthcare team, you are also required to maintain strong relationships, regular communication, and visibility with clients (site Managed Healthcare, DOC/BOP, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Graduation from an accredited Nursing School.
• Current RN License for New Jersey & current CPR certification (or within three months of hire).
• Two years of recent Hemodialysis RN experience is required (three years of experience preferred). Experience must be within the last two years.
• Management experience preferred

Required Skills and Competencies

• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and satisfactorily communicate in English.
• Strong technical/computer proficiency with laptops, tablets, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, etc.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Leadership

• Maintains oversight of the dialysis unit(s) for patient outcomes, operational efficiency, clinical excellence, customer service/relationship, supply inventory oversight, and team leadership.
• Provides leadership guidance, and coaching for all direct reports and clinical staff to maintain an engaged and productive workforce – we expect our Nurse Managers to LEAD not just MANAGE.
• Ensures all employees in the unit receive the required onboarding, training, and education in a timely way and according to company policy and in-line with industry standards. Must be present in unit to train and orient all new hires on the new hire’s first day in the unit.
• Implements and leads daily unit staff “huddles” where unit goals and objectives are discussed, and any pertinent corporate communication is delivered.
• Implements operational efficiency improvements which may include, but are not limited to, the standardization of systems, quality control, safety, and employee and patient satisfaction.
• Implements company policies and procedures to maintain unit consistency across the company.
• Delegate tasks as necessary/appropriately to maximize time and efficiency.

Staffing and People Management

• Facilitates staff development, training, and continued education.
• Oversees all competencies and skills for all staff to ensure high level of skill proficiency and patient safety.
• Manages staff scheduling (including PTO and vacation planning), maintains staffing ratios established for unit, and proactively anticipates staffing needs.
• Is present on the start date of all new hires to orient them to the unit and provide training on the facility equipment and processes.
• Achieves high level of staff retention and coordinates employee appreciation events, based on budget approval from Regional Director.
• Provides strong coaching and training to all staff. Documents in email and performance issues and initiates Disciplinary Action if needed to correct/improve employee performance:
  • Initial incident reporting
  • Creation of first draft of action plan (with assistance of the Regional Director)
• Ensures 100% compliance with staff licensure and certification reviews and maintenance.
• Ensures all staff are always current on all required certifications and licenses (including PRN staff).
• Reduces/minimizes overtime and agency utilization.
• Continuous PRN staff follow-up with the development and updating of PRN bench.
• Performs annual staff evaluations.

Recruiting

• Works with RD to proactively identify staffing needs and works with Talent team to communicate needs and timing.
• Interviews top candidates provided by RD/recruiting team. Interviews should be prioritized and scheduled promptly. Ensures availability for candidate interviews, which may include nights, weekends, and days outside of normal clinical hours.
• If applicable, will negotiate compensation based upon range provided by the Talent Team and RD; compensation offered outside of the pre-determined range must be approved in advance by HR and the Regional Director.
• Encourages employee referrals and personally contacts all referrals provided by unit staff.

Clinical

• Patient documentation oversight: Model thoroughness and accuracy in accordance with industry/client requirements and regulations and holds team to high standards.
• Responsible for actively lobbying with client administration to eliminate any restrictions that may negatively impact patient outcomes, such as:
  • Infection Rate
  • Catheter Utilization
  • AMA Rate
  • Refusal Rate
• Ownership of staff clinical in-servicing and skills checks.
• Facilities staff clinical training and education according to Rendevor Dialysis P&P.
• Ownership of Lab collections and documentation.
• Daily staff assignments and task schedules throughout treatment day (may assign to Charge Nurse if applicable).
• Ownership of patient education practices, and development of monthly education topics.
• Ownership of unit safety, cleanliness, and infection control.
• Coordinates patient scheduling, to maximize efficiencies for patient run times and staff payroll.
• Completion of monthly facility audits (using an audit template provided by the RD):
  • Development of action plans to address any deficiencies
• Ownership of Peritoneal Dialysis Program:
  • Reviewing patient status weekly
    • Understanding PD supply management:
• Ownership of Biomedical needs:
  • Responsible for first line of preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, disinfections, and equipment life
  • On-site liaison to the corporate biomedical team
• Acts as daily subject matter expert (practice constant learning and research).

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement

• QAPI/CQI oversight and reporting – schedules and delivers monthly QAPI/CQI reporting to client (Managed Healthcare, DOC/BOP, etc.).
• Assists with the overall development and implementation of the QAPI plan:
  • Makes recommendations for revisions to QAPI activities or need for new initiatives.
• Ensures adequate resources for supporting the QAPI process.
• Assists in the identification of goals and related patient outcomes.
• Coordinates, participates in, and reports activities and outcomes as required.
• Trains personnel regarding QAPI/CQI.
• Responsible for ensuring a formal QAPI program is implemented in the facility/clinic.
• Responsible for assuring that all QAPI activities and required documentation is provided to the Clinical Quality team, designee or other appointed official, as scheduled and required.

Communications (internal and external)

• Ensures high level of team communication with all teammates in the unit.
• Ensures high level of client communications (facility level) – minimum weekly or more frequently as needed:
  • HAS/DON/Client Medical Director (or applicable on-site client manager)
  • Custody – As needed
  • Nephrologist – Communication weekly (or more frequently if necessary)
  • Regional Director – Communication weekly or more frequently as needed
  • Biomedical team – as needed
  • Consistent delivery of messaging from corporate team to unit staff
  • On-site facility meeting attendance – CQI, safety, etc.

Payroll

• Consistently records both arrival and departure time via ADP’s time and attendance system. Although a Nurse Manager is an exempt position, recording time worked does not violate the exempt status. Recording time is required for benefits eligibility purposes and required for safety and security when a facility. Also, using ADP’s time and attendance system, the Nurse Manager must record time work outside of the unit when preparing schedules, interviewing, training, ordering supplies, attending meetings, etc.
• Timely and accurate approval and submission of employee timecards, which will then be submitted for final approval from the RD.
• Timely and accurate approval and submission of time variance forms (should be minimized), to be submitted to the Regional Director for final approval.
• Timely and accurate review and submission of treatment rosters within two days of month’s end.

Accounting

• Timely and accurate review and submission of treatment rosters withing two days of month’s end.

Inventory/Supplies

• Accurate and timely submission of unit supply inventory every Friday.
• Maintains responsibility for ensuring that the unit has adequate supply inventories on-hand, that no supplies are expired, and that emergency supply levels are understood/on-hand.
• Oversight of off-schedule/atypical supply ordering while maintaining fiscal prudence.

Business Development

• Works diligently to be a great on-site partner to our client and be a company advocate to all outside parties.
• Actively listens for new opportunities within dialysis industry and sends any potential leads to supervisor.

General

• Promotes and implements the Company’s mission, vision and core values.
• Displays excellent and professional written/verbal communication skills.
• Operates with a high level of responsiveness in providing information and deliverables to supervisors. Reports any incident to Regional Director.
• As an exempt position, work weeks may vary. May need to work more than 40 hours per week on occasion.
• Is available Monday through Friday (and Saturdays for six day per week operations) for calls, meetings, interviews, and in-clinic presence as needed and/or required.
• Demonstrates a high degree of self-motivation and willingness to improve.
• Openly receives a promptly acts upon any feedback from supervisors, peers, clients.
• Volunteers to assist colleagues when necessary and assist with various projects as assigned.
• Reports work-related injuries to Workers Comp carrier via web portal. Follows up with HR and RD. Collects statement from claimant as well as witness statements.
• Must maintain RN license, CPR and a clean background.
• Checks email daily and responds appropriately and timely; uses company-provided email for all work-related email communications.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance and punctuality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervision:

• This position will report to the Regional Director.
• This position will supervise clinical team members.

Work Environment:
This job exists in the medical unit of a post-acute or correctional facility. This role may include exposure to chemicals and blood-borne pathogens. This role routinely involves the use of both medical and standard office equipment.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to push, pull, or lift up to 50 pounds. Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

The employee is required to work a full schedule which may range from five to fifteen hours per day, based on the unit requirements (i.e. patient census, staffing needs, etc.). The role also requires availability to work Monday – Friday or Monday through Saturday based on unit needs.

Rendevor (formerly CharDonnay) Dialysis is an Equal-Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.