BT Director of Nursing

Who We Are:
Brazos Towers at Bayou Manor has been a trusted name in senior living for over 50 years, offering a dynamic and vibrant community just minutes from Houston’s renowned Museum District and Texas Medical Center. As a faith-based, not-for-profit Life Plan Community, we are committed to enhancing the lives of older adults by providing a continuum of care that includes independent living, assisted living, memory support, and skilled nursing. We are proud to have been recognized as Best of the Best in Texas for the past six years—an honor that reflects our unwavering commitment to excellence in service and resident care. If you're passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a supportive and mission-driven team, we invite you to explore a future with Brazos Towers.

Who You Are:
We are seeking a candidate with a strong positive attitude toward customer service to act as a Director of Nursing. This person will have a genuine interest in working with older adults and be able to engage, motivate, and support both residents and fellow team members. The ideal candidate is dependable, compassionate, and aligned with our values of respect, excellence, and community. Creativity, teamwork, and a drive to exceed expectations are key traits we’re looking for as we work together to fulfill our mission of uplifting the lives of those we serve.

Directs the nursing services department, programs and activities ensuring the highest degree of quality patient care.

Responsibilities include:

Interviews, hires, orients, schedules, assigns work to, evaluates, and when necessary disciplines assigned staff members.

Interacts with residents, families, or visitors to solve problems, maintains goodwill and promotes positive customer relations.

Assist physicians in planning for the individual resident’s nursing care.

Assures proper nursing documentation by regular audits.

Participates on special projects or studies as required.

Attends and participates in workshops, seminars and other programs to keep abreast of changes in the healthcare field.

Monitors for continuous Quality Improvement, the nursing department procedures and operation on a regular basis to assure compliance with Federal and State rules and regulations, as well as, facility policies.

Maintains an excellent working relationship with the medical profession and other health related organizations.  Represent the facility in dealings with outside agencies, including governmental agencies or provide and authorize representation when unable to attend such meetings.

Ensure that resident’s rights to fair and equitable treatment, self determination, individuality, privacy, property, and civil rights, including the right to file complaints are well established and maintained at all times.

Will be on call as department policy.

Departmental functions to include:

Demonstrates ability to evaluate performance and competency of staff, direct staff, empower staff, and coach problem solving skills.

Communication:  to be able to communicate clearly with staff, management and peers, especially in relation to business environment issues.

Staff and Customer Satisfaction:  to promote staff and customer satisfaction.

Performs miscellaneous duties as needed.

Assures appropriateness of resident admission to the facility.

Assures resident rights are protected.

Identifies and promotes correction of problems in service provision or poor quality of resident care.

Oversees efforts to assess, plan, and evaluate staff development needs.

Shares and communicates new knowledge.

Promotes a positive image of long term care nursing. Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest, and positive emphasis as well as a calm, safe environment throughout the facility.

Meets with prospective and current residents and their families

Promotes positive guest relations

Protects the privacy of residents and associates.

Assures that the equipment and supply needs of the department are maintained and any change of needs is recommended to the administrator.  Assure that the facility as well as nursing areas is maintained in a clean and safe manner.

Maintain work area and keep the department in compliance with OSHA safety standards.

Effectively communicates both verbally and in writing.

Demonstrates the community hospitality promises towards residents, families, associates and vendors.

Is "on-call" status during time away from work, such as after working hours or during days off.  Also during critical operating issues and during disaster emergencies such as: snow, ice storms, fire, tornados, floods or as needed by the CEO.

Develop, Implement and Act in accordance with department and community policies.

Qualifications

- Registered nurse with a current State of Texas license.

- Must be able to read regulations and write clearly.

- Must be able to communicate in courteous, friendly manner.

- Ability to effectively manage and direct subordinates.

- Possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.

- Possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, governmental agencies/personnel and the general public.

- Ability to plan, organize, develop, implement, and interpret the programs, goals, objectives, policies and procedures, etc, that are necessary for providing quality resident care.

- Physical requirements attached.

- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.