Job Description:

Kendal at Lexington is a not-for-profit Life Plan Community—also known as a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)—located just one mile from historic Main Street in Lexington, Virginia.

The campus sits on 85 acres of rolling farmland with panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and changing colors throughout the four seasons.

As the Director of Nursing you’ll work in a community that provides professional support, vibrant engagement, and encourages staff resiliency and autonomy.  As a Kendal community, our Quaker heritage emphasizes respect for the individual, excellence in service, social responsibility and fiscal integrity.

Join our team and discover a dynamic environment that nurtures curiosity, embraces knowledge, and encourages personal growth.  You’ll have access to the fitness center and can take part in our excellent dining services programs.  With excellent health benefits, Kendal at Lexington is a nurturing and compassionate place to hone your skills and commit to a service for older adults in the Lexington community and beyond. 

We are committed to the philosophy that Kendal at Lexington must be as good a place to work as it is a good place to live. Underlying these efforts is a desire to preserve a sense of community and to nurture an atmosphere in which employees of all backgrounds feel their contributions are important in fulfilling our mission

Kendal strives to create and support an environment for community members, board, staff and volunteers that are welcoming to all cultures, backgrounds and differences — an environment that promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and teamwork.

 As the Director of Nursing (DON) you’ll provide clinical leadership and participative management to Kendal at Lexington ensuring the mission, vision and values are supported through the delivery of care and services to residents. You will participate in assessing, planning, organizing, directing and facilitating the clinical operations to ensure regulatory compliance to all standards of care.

As the Director of Nursing, you’ll collaborate with the Core Leadership Team, and work with the Kendal System Health Services Team which includes the corporate Health Services, all the Directors of Nursing and Health Services Administrators and their staff.   You’ll also participate actively with staff, residents and colleagues of Kendal at Lexington and other affiliates to maintain productive, cooperative relationships.  

In your role as the Director of Nursing, you’ll put the residents first, makes informed decisions, achieve results, act with vision and purpose and foster teamwork.  Kendal at Lexington would like you as the DON to communicate openly and effectively, learn continuously, create, innovate and adapt, and promote diversity.   You should also comply with work rules and maintain a safe working environment.

You’ll be responsible for directing the care services in the Borden Healthcare Center.  Recently remodeled to the Household Model, you’ll be the coach, mentor, and main clinical resource for the healthcare staff.  In this model you promote autonomous decision making from the staff, promote critical thinking practices, and determine best approaches that enhance resident independence.

Bachelor's Degree for Nursing and a current licensure by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Registered Nurse or come from an NLC member state.  Nursing management experience in a long-term care facility required in order to be considered for this position.  

 

 

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