Responsibilities

• Maintain a current listing of all resident care employee phone numbers.
• Plan, develop, organize, implement, evaluate, and direct the facility’s public relations and marketing programs and activities in order to maintain and increase our census and to provide the community with information relative to our facility, its programs, services, and practices.
• Develop and maintain written policies and procedures that govern the release of information concerning the residents, employees, and/or the facility in accordance with current Privacy Rules and Regulations.
• Assist department directors in the development and use of marketing and public relations policies and procedures, and establish a rapport in and between departments so that each staff member can realize the importance of his/her role in our marketing and public relations programs.
• Review the facility’s marketing and public relations policies and procedures at least annually and make changes as necessary
• Assist in the development, implementation, and tracking of customer satisfaction surveys.
• Interpret the facility’s policies and procedures governing the release of information to employees, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies, etc., as necessary.
• Ensure that public information (policy manuals, brochures, information packets, etc.,) describing the services provided in the facility is accurate and fully descriptive.
• Ensure that all employees follow established policies and procedures governing the release of information.
• Organize and implement continuing internal communications through the use of bulletin boards, house organs, committee meetings, newsletters, brochures, public announces, etc.

Requirements

• Must possess, as a minimum, A Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college/university, or equivalent. (Five (5) years experience in marketing/public relations in a health care setting may be recognized in lieu of a Bachelor’s Degree.)
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations To perform this job successfully, an individual must be proficient in the Microsoft Suite products.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
• Regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.