Scheduler - Lakeside

Job description

Must be a certified nursing assistant
Title: Scheduler
Reports to: Director of Nursing - Facility
Effective Date: 10/1/2018 Review Date: NA
Position Summary
Under the direct supervision of the Director of Nursing, the scheduler is responsible for developing and maintaining the nursing department schedule.
Core Responsibilities
• Generates, manages and updates schedule templates.
• Adjusts schedule templates according to census, PTO, and pre-planned leaves of absence to create the current schedule.
• Posts the current schedule for each scheduling period.
• Reviews staff schedule change requests and grants even trades resulting in no overtime.
• Updates current schedule to reflect actual hours worked, and unscheduled absences.
• Finds coverage for unscheduled absences and scheduling deficits.
• Reviews staff timecards and resolves discrepancies on a daily basis.
• Keeping meticulous attendance records and makes Director of Nursing aware when threshhold for progressive discipline has been reached.
• Communicating with unit managers and the director of nursing regarding floor orientation scheduling for newly hired employees in the nursing department.