The Jewish Home's approximately 700 talented, dedicated employees are the most important element in achieving and maintaining our excellent standards as a premier healthcare facility.

We provide an enjoyable and satisfying work environment, as evinced by the significant number of persons with 20 or more years of employment at the Home.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome diversity in every way. Our multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-denominational staff reflects the cultural richness of the Bay Area.

We support our employees by offering a competitive benefits package that addresses a varied range of employee health and wellness needs.

Positions currently open to interested candidates are listed below. We offer training and placement opportunities for nursing staff.

Controller

Department: Finance
Start Date: Immediately
Schedule: Monday – Friday
Application closing date: Open until position filled

Position Overview

Reporting to the chief financial officer, the controller oversees all accounting and financial compliance operations, including the functions of revenue cycle management, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and financial reporting.

Essential Job Functions

  • Supervise accounting operations
    • G/L, A/P, A/R, payroll
    • Staff development:  Hire, train, supervise and evaluate accounting staff
    • Maintain and constantly seek to improve an effective accounting system consistent with accounting principles, Jewish Home policies, and governmental regulations
    • Prepare annual operational budgets, quarterly and annual operational forecasts
    • Prepare ad hoc management reports and analysis
    • Lead various fiscal audits
  • Revenue cycle management
    • Identify revenue opportunities in collaboration with management staff integral to revenue generation
    • Ensure cost accounting systems are in place to capture data
    • Provide detailed analysis of costs to deliver services
  • Part A Medicare management
    • Develop back-office infrastructure for Part A and acute psych billing

Requirements

  • 10-15 years in management accounting, including public accounting, with 5-7 years healthcare industry experience
  • CPA
  • Non-profit fund accounting experience
  • Knowledge of insurance regulations

Physical Therapist

Department: Physical Therapy
Start Date: Immediately
Schedule
: Full-time & per diem positions
Application closing date: Open until positions filled

Position Overview

Reporting to the director of Physical Therapy, the physical therapist is responsible for the treatment of residents so that they are able to perform at their maximum functional level. Through evaluation of each new patient by various muscle, neurological, gait, and functional tests, the physical therapist utilizes exercises and appropriate techniques and modalities to achieve established treatment goals.

Essential Job Functions

  • Provide the care necessary to enable residents to perform at their maximum functional level
  • Provide residents with techniques for maintaining their current functional level, within personal and environmental limitations
  • Maintain and develop patient records and reports of physical therapy services
  • Participate in the planning and procurement of equipment and supplies
  • Plan, participate, and assist with staff orientation, in-service education, and other duties and activities of the Jewish Home and the community, as requested
  • On physician referral, the physical therapist will evaluate each new patient, utilizing various muscle, neurological, gait, and functional tests to determine impairment
  • Determine and develop individual treatment programs to achieve the prescribed rehabilitative or maintenance goals
  • Make appropriate changes in the program to correspond to performance changes
  • Administer direct patient care using appropriate techniques and modalities
  • Instruct and supervise assistants and aides in the implementation of programs, as designated.
  • Prepare, maintain, and transmit accurate patient records, including evaluations, progress notes, discharge summaries, attendance and services, as rendered
  • Act as liaison between posthetist/orthotist in obtaining necessary equipment
  • Confer with other staff members regarding progress of patients and adapt programs to fit needs
  • Participate in establishing general and specific in-service programs for Jewish Home staff, such as classes in body mechanics, ROM, transfers, repetitive motion injuries
  • Establish in-service programs of a specific nature for physical therapy staff and staff of the Jewish Home, upon request
  • Keep current on trends and developments in physical therapy, rehabilitation, and geriatric care
  • Perform other duties, as assigned

Requirements

  • Current California licensure
  • Geriatric experience preferred
  • Personal qualifications to include emotional stability, personal and professional integrity, physical fitness, and interest in growth and learning

Café Assistant

Department: Volunteer Services
Start Date: Immediately
Schedule: On-call
Application closing date: Open until position filled

Position Overview

Reporting to the manager of the café, the on-call café assistant will assist/complement the café staff in general maintenance of the café’s program on an on-call basis, Sunday through Friday. This position substitutes for staff who have taken time off.

Essential Job Functions

  • Café duties include, but are not limited to:
    • Prepare daily requisition forms and pick up supplies from the kitchen
    • Prepare food and beverages for the day
    • Assemble food orders (mostly sandwich-making)
    • Make espresso drinks
    • Take orders at the counter
    • Cashier duties, as needed
    • Wash, dry, and put away dishes
    • Clean work station and café seating area
    • Restock supplies
    • Receive vendors’ orders, inventory and shelve supplies
    • Close out cash drawer and prepare deposit
  • Other responsibilities include overseeing the coffee bar in the Friedman Pavilion each day. Duties include:
    • Supervise and direct volunteers
    • Serve refreshments
    • Oversee residents at the coffee bar and ensure they are transported back to their floors at the end of the coffee bar service
    • Clean coffee bar area after service
    • Restock coffee bar supplies

Requirements

  • Ability and desire to work as a cooperative team-member with a wide variety of individuals
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Relevant food-handling experience
  • Dependable and self-motivated, with the ability to work under some pressure
  • Good communication and organizational skills

Other Skills/Abilities

  • Ability to stand for long periods of time
  • Fluency in Russian a plus

Assistant Plant Maintenance Director

Department: Plant Operations
Start date: Immediately
Schedule: Full-time, Monday – Friday
Application closing date: Open until position filled

Position Overview

Reporting to the director of Operations/Plant Maintenance, and under general supervision, the assistant plant maintenance director assists the director of Plant Maintenance in overseeing the work of skilled and semi-skilled maintenance staff. The assistant plant maintenance director will schedule, direct, and participate in daily and specialized maintenance and repairs to the facility. The assistant plant maintenance director will review and inspect the work of Plant Maintenance personnel to ensure safety compliance, as well as the effective and efficient performance of duties.

Essential Job Functions

  • Assess job tasks and oversee the work of Plant Maintenance staff
  • Schedule work orders and set priorities
  • Act as lead to the Plant Maintenance staff
  • Perform electrical work, such as repairing and replacing switches, receptacles, lights, breakers, magnet starters and relays; replace belts, motors, and filters
  • Perform plumbing installations and/or repairs, soldering, and welding
  • Monitor fire alarm system
  • Utilize a wide array of tools, such as carpentry, electrical, mechanical, masonry, and plumbing tools
  • Conduct work tasks safely and in compliance with the facility’s safety program
  • Is knowledgeable of NFPA, OSHPD, and Title 22 requirements
  • Provide effective and courteous service to all residents, guests, and co-workers
  • Perform other related essential duties, as required

Requirements

  • Able to operate, maintain, and repair:
    • Pneumatic and electronic HVAC systems, VFD, and related components
    • Domestic water, heating, steam, and medical gas plumbing systems
    • Boilers, burners, heat pumps, and chillers
    • Electrical generators, ATS, motor control centers, fire system interlocks, and distribution system

Security Guard

Department: Plant Operations
Start date
: Immediately
Schedule: On-call
Application closing date: Open until position filled

Position Overview

Reporting to the director of Plant Operations, the security guard works as part of the security team to ensure that the Jewish Home’s residents, visitors, staff, and property are protected against fire, theft, vandalism, trespassing, or any other potential safety concern. 

Essential Job Functions

  • Monitor and authorize the entrance of employees, visitors, and other persons to maintain security of the premises
  • Patrol the Jewish Home’s grounds, watching for unusual activity or safety hazards. Also ensure security of doors and windows
  • Control motor traffic on the Jewish Home’s grounds
  • Monitor staff parking lots to ensure compliance with the Jewish Home’s parking policy
  • Respond to door, Wanderguard and fire alarms, and investigate the causes
  • Respond and assist in emergency situations. Call police or fire departments, as appropriate
  • Receive courier and stock deliveries
  • Control access to the Jewish Home’s grounds and facility after visiting hours
  • Complete report documentation of daily activities and irregularities, such as equipment or property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons, or other unusual incidences
  • Answer telephone calls made to the Jewish Home’s main line, taking messages, answering questions, and providing information as necessary, or when the switchboard is closed
  • Other duties, as assigned

Requirements

  • One year’s experience working as a security guard preferred
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Good communication skills
  • Physical ability to continually patrol grounds
  • Flexible schedule required
  • Guard card

Other Skills/Abilities

  • Capable of working outdoors in a variety of weather conditions

RN – Acute Psychiatric Unit

DEPARTMENT: Nursing

Position Overview

This position is responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of comprehensive, individualized patient care.

Responsibilities

  • Initiate a plan of care at time of admission. Review and update care plan based on ongoing assessment
  • Review the plan of care with assigned staff
  • Initiate appropriate nursing interventions, including discharge planning
  • Communicate changes in patient condition, status, and needs to acute psych team
  • Provide administration for treatments and medications
  • Make rounds for assessment of resident needs and supervision of care
  • Direct and supervise the care delivered
  • Participate in staff meetings and staff development programs
  • Assume delegated responsibilities for the day-to-day management and supervision of the unit in the absence of the head nurse
  • Participate in the orientation of new employees
  • Compliance with Title 22 regulations

Qualifications

  • Graduate of an accredited nursing program
  • BSN degree preferred
  • Two years of acute care or long-term care nursing experience, one or more years of psychiatric care experience
  • Current RN license in the State of California
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Registered Nurses

Department of Nursing

Full-time, part-time (per diem, every other weekend); Days, Evenings, Nights.

Description:
We offer an eight-week Preceptor Program for new RN graduates. New grad will be assigned to an experienced nurse during the program.

LVNs, RNs, Psych RNs

Department of Nursing

Description:
Full-time, part-time and on-call positions available evenings, weekend day and p.m. shifts.

Qualifications:
Current LVN or RN license.


Number of staff Employed at the Jewish Home for 20 years or more: 30

RN Refresher and New Grad Program

Department of Nursing

Description:
Program available to recent RN graduates or RNs wishing to return to the workforce. RN will work closely with RN preceptor for 6-8 weeks. Program is designed and tailored to meet specific needs of the new graduate or returnee to nursing, and to prepare the nurse for functioning in the RN role.

Qualifications:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing, current RN license.


For more information about the RN Refresher and New Grad Program:

James Watt, Director of Staff Education

415-469-0155

For more information about the Nursing Assistant Training Program:

James Watt, Director of Staff Education

415-469-0155

How to Apply

You may mail, fax or e-mail your resumé, with a cover letter stating the specific position in which you are interested.


Mail:
Human Resources
Jewish Home
302 Silver Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94112

Fax:
415-406-1453

E-mail:



For more information about employment opportunities:

HR Director


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