Remote Kern Public Health Jobs in Indiana (NOW HIRING)

The essential functions of this role are as follows: 

• Ensure that all surveys are scheduled, completed, and submitted timely in accordance with federal certification regulations and state licensure requirements. 
• Explain and interpret regulations, policies, and protocols for staff. 
• Review and evaluate surveyed service providers corrective action plans.  
• Coordinate with Training Director in assessing training needs, developing programs, and conducting orientation and refresher training programs for surveyor staff. 
• Respond timely to health service provider inquiries regarding survey issues, questions, and problems.  
• Monitor quality of all survey reports ensuring compliance with the Federal Principles of Documentation. 
• Provide both on-site and remote oversight supervision and guidance to field surveyors during surveys to ensure consistency of survey protocol application and practices. 
• Responsible for discussing certification questions and problems with facility administrators and for making final recommendations regarding licensure and/or certification. 
• Responsible to assist surveyors in identifying significant adverse findings and communicating those findings immediately to appropriate Directors.  
• Provide expert testimony in administrative hearings and court regarding survey results and recommendations. 
• Participate in the selection, onboarding, and training of surveyors to ensure role responsibilities and expectations are clearly understood while providing opportunities to continue professional development. 
• Set expectations, measure progress, provide ongoing feedback, and evaluate the performance of employees.  Ensure work performance adheres to quality standards, deadlines, and proper procedures.
• Essential functions of this position require travel on most workdays to inspect, audit, examine, survey, or investigate clients, customers, or other regulated entities and write reports at those sites or employee’s home. Employee reports to the agency’s office for occasional meetings or events. Number and timing of work hours may vary daily or weekly to accommodate operational needs and staffing concerns at the client’s or customer’s worksite, minimize expenditures for repeated visits to complete the work, and allocate resources to complete assigned work effectively.

This position is exempt from overtime compensation for additional work hours which may be required to complete essential functions or other assigned work. Exempt employees may work more than 75 hours in a pay period without additional compensation and must report a minimum of 75 hours per pay period of work hours and/or paid leave taken to receive their base biweekly salary.

The job profile is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.  

Individuals in this role should minimally be able to articulate or demonstrate the following:

• Must hold a valid Registered Nurse License issued by the State of Indiana. 
• Thorough knowledge of federal certification standards and state licensure requirements for the provider types surveyed. 
• Thorough knowledge of operational and administrative components of provider types surveyed. 
• Thorough knowledge and ability to assess effectiveness of individual care plans and delivery in provider types surveyed. 
• Ability to monitor the effectiveness and adequacy of survey inspection and investigation teams. 
• Ability to observe and recognize adverse health and safety conditions and non-compliance situations and take appropriate actions. 
• Ability to prepare and review initial certification surveys, recertification surveys, follow-up surveys and complaint investigation surveys. 
• Ability to delegate work, set clear direction, and manage workflow. 
• Ability to effectively give feedback, provide guidance or corrective action, coach, and develop employee skillsets.
• Experience as a Registered Nurse in an Acute or Long-Term Care setting is preferred.

An Associate or Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from an accredited institution is required.

Individuals should have the ability to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

You must satisfy the following requirements to continue employment:

•    Ability to successfully complete all federally mandated training and testing within the first 12 months of employment.