The primary purpose of the position is to provide oversight and organizational management of the Environment of Care to ensure a safe, functional, supportive, and effective environment for residents, staff members, and other individuals in the facility. The position is crucial to the mission of Longleaf in ensuring that quality care is provided, good outcomes are achieved in an environment of care that is safe, and compliance with regulatory agencies such as CMS, Division of Public Health, SSOHF, DHHS are maintained.

Collaborate with regulatory agencies to ensure compliance such as: CMS, Division of Public Health, SSOHF, DHHS are maintained.

This position is the Coordinator of the Facility’s Environment of Care Program. This program comprises seven functional plans. These plans and their respective function leaders as outlined:

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  Safety Management, Safety Director
• Security Management, Police Chief
• Hazardous Materials and Waste Management, Joint leadership by Plant Operations Director and Infection Control Nurse
• Emergency Preparedness (Disaster) Management, EOC Coordinator
• Fire Safety Management, Joint leadership between Safety Director & Plant Operations Director
• Medical Equipment Management, Plant Operations Director
• Utility Systems Management, Plant Operations Director
• Legionella Remediation and Water management, EOC Coordinator

ABOUT NC DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (DHHS):
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) serves the needs of the most vulnerable of North Carolinians and, in order to accomplish this, we hire only the most dedicated and caring individuals. Finding qualified clinical professionals to treat and care for our clients is a continual challenge as demand for services grows and the availability of providers struggles to keep pace. We are seeking a motivated individual who is up for this challenge and is dedicated to our mission of providing North Carolinians with the very best in clinical care.

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Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies

To receive credit for all of your work history and credentials, you must list the information on the application form. Any information listed under the text resume section or on an attachment will not be considered for qualifying credit. Qualified applicants must document on the application that they possess all of the following:

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  Ensures regulatory compliance of CMS standards and other regularity agencies as it pertains to orientation and training, coordination of facility inspections; and the coordination of facility-wide, departmental, and some job and task-specific policy and procedures.
• Oversees the development and implementation of plans to meet these standards.
• Monitor, evaluate and develop aggregate data and information streams that are necessary to measure safe (and unsafe) performance in the facility’s environment of care, and to identify opportunities to improve.
• Identify, collect, and aggregate data about problems, failures, staff errors and behaviors. Identify trends, patterns, and underlying causes of injury, occupational illness, and system failures (per shift, supervisor, etc.).
• Identify key issues for the EOC Committee focus based on the potential severity and frequency, as well as the potential to improve. Prioritizing and setting timetables to correct deficiencies.
• Set goals and develop strategies, analyzing data, addressing problems, and coordinating plans.
• Apply Performance Improvement principles to identified key problems. For example, if safety has a deficiency in evacuation plan or plant maintenance needs to address a lighting problem in a resident area, this position will help prepare action plans to address problem as it relates to regulations. (The actual responsibility for carrying out the plan rests with the function leader.)

Please refer to the link below for additional information
https://oshr.nc.gov/work-for-nc/how-do-i-get-job

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements

Master's degree in psychology, social work, education, health, business administration or related human services field and one year of experience in professional level treatment programming for the applicable client population
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A bachelor' s degree in one of the fields listed above and two years of experience as indicated above
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An equivalent combination of education and experience. .