Director of Nursing (DON) - Skilled Nursing Facility

About Us

Centrally located in Torrance, California, Sunnyside Nursing and Post-Acute Care provides sub-acute nursing care, rehabilitation services, skilled nursing, and long-term care. Our compassionate staff offers individualized care plans for each resident to ensure personalized care is provided to all our patients with a goal to return home.

Our team of qualified professionals provides compassionate care by:

• Maintaining high medical integrity
• Fostering a team spirit among staff
• Creating friendly, beautiful surroundings for our residents and their visitors

We understand the importance of creating a comfortable and nurturing atmosphere, whether residents stay for short-term treatment or long-term care.

Director of Nursing (DON)

Are you a driven leader? Do you have a passion for helping others? Do you share our mission of improving the lives of others? If so, please read on.

We are Sunnyside Nursing and Post Acute Care, a mission-driven skilled nursing facility, focused on healing and helping others. We’ve worked hard to create a facility where residents feel comfortable and our team loves to come to work.

We’re looking for someone to help us continue our mission of making lives better, in the role of Director of Nursing. This is not a role for the light-hearted, you’ll have many core responsibilities in helping our facility continue operating each day.

Specifically, we’re looking for someone who can jump in quickly and help raise our standard of service. Our number one priority is making a difference, and we don’t stop at the residents. We are committed to fostering a warm, but professional, work environment that our team members love, and we’re looking for someone to help us complete that mission.

• Have The Credentials - You have a nursing degree from an accredited college or university and you are a licensed Registered Nurse in the State of California.
• Are Experienced - You have a minimum of 7 years of experience as a Director of Nursing (DON) in either a large hospital or a skilled nursing care facility. You understand the regulations surrounding skilled nursing facilities and are ready to work within them.
• Communicate Effectively - You’re able to speak to people in a professional manner, regardless of the situation. You’re able to utilize empathy in your communication to comfort residents and families during difficult times.
• Are A Leader - You don’t lead with an iron fist. You understand that mistakes are opportunities for future learning. You lead by example, creating an atmosphere of learning and growth. You understand the value of mentoring and developing your team members.
• Can Handle Autonomy - You’ll have an understanding of your role on your first day. You’ll implement your own processes to ensure success within the role, with great autonomy.
• Understand Stressful Situations - You’ll be working in a skilled nursing facility, and there will be stressful situations. You’re prepared to work within those situations and thrive. You’re able to cope with upset residents, concerned family members and demanding regulators and utilize empathy to resolve the situation.
• Love People - You love working with people. Mentoring and developing team members and healing and comforting residents. Making all their lives better. You enjoy your job, because you know that you are helping people!

If we’re describing you, we’d love to tell you more about the role of Director of Nursing (DON). This role is unique and will require someone who is ready to handle different scenarios on a daily basis. However, the role is incredibly rewarding in seeing how we’re able to help our residents and develop our team. In this role, the day to day demands will be different, but a typical day will look something like this:

What You Will Be Doing

• Planning & Developing - You’ll create plans for the nursing service department, planning all programs and activities. You’ll ensure that we’re compliant with all state and federal requirements. You’ll create quality assurance programs to ensure efficient and proper coordination of nursing services for our residents.
• Committees - You’ll be a part of many of the strategic committees that we have the facility. You’ll evaluate recommendations within them and create plans to implement. Your main focus will be creating policies that lead to improved resident care and outcomes.
• Ensure Proper Staffing - You’ll evaluate overall patient care needs and determine corresponding direct care nursing personnel levels on every shift.
• Leading - You’ll keep tabs on our nursing staff, ensuring that we have the right mix and number of staff employed. You’ll lead our team on a day to day basis, and you’ll jump in to assist with hiring new team members as needed. You’ll confidently handle performance reviews with your team members, providing them valuable feedback for professional growth.
• Regulatory Compliance - You’ll ensure that we stay in compliance with local and state regulations. You’ll ensure that facility inspections are handled professionally, and that all proper documentation is completed. You’ll keep an eye on our QI/QM’s, Casper, and other survey reports to ensure we are constantly improving.
• Delighting Residents - You’ll ensure that a proper service plan is developed for each new resident. You’ll monitor resident care to maximize outcomes and resident satisfaction.
• Professional Development - You’ll grow professionally on a daily basis, by reading journals and documentation. You’ll also help our team members develop, by providing constant coaching, and a focused orientation plan to ensure success for new team members.
• Provide Encouragement - You’ll be the voice of encouragement to our residents, their families and your colleagues. You understand that a positive voice can be life changing for individuals, and that you’re there to make a difference.

How We Treat Our Team: We’ve created a family environment that our team loves to work within. When you speak of a family environment, you need the benefits to back it up, and we pride ourselves on providing significant benefits to our team.

Why Work for Sunnyside Nursing & Post Acute Care

• Top of the market wages: $200K+ commensurate with experience
• Paid orientation and training
• Opportunities for growth
• Paid sick leave/paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, and AFLAC
• 401K
• Loving and caring work environment
• We take great pride in meeting or exceeding CDC and CMS standards. On-site experts provide teaching, coaching, and support on infection prevention practices. In addition, we maintain an abundant supply of PPE, including N95/KN95 masks, for all who provide care and services to our patients and residents. Our multiple testing capabilities, including Point-of-Care (POC) testing, are available at every location and comply with CMS and local guidance

If you’re ready to handle the day to day role of a Director of Nursing (DON), we’d love for you to apply. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

If hired, we require that all employees be vaccinated, unless a medical or religious accommodation is needed.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

We are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity & pride ourselves on creating an inclusive environment for all employees and residents.