job news

simplifying (or maybe expanding on?) the previous entry, i was offered a job yesterday after completing a three tier interview process that included six interview sessions with eleven people including the person who will be my direct supervisor, the hr/recruiting department, management and clinical teams, and some of those who will be my subordinates... i was impressed by the thoroughness of the interview process, the interviews themselves, and the sense of teamwork, knowledge, and hopefulness that the people provided... the vice president presented the organization in such a positive light that i believe it will be a vacation when compared to my previous eleven plus years at my previous place and i saw very little that disputed that nearly ideal supportive structure in the subsequent interviews... the salary is better than my last position by 20% and i can expect a 5% increase after six months if all goes well...

the work itself is similar to a position i held previously in new york state with a very big difference... an icf administrator is responsible for all operations of an icf, an intermediate care facility and in new york i had minimal assistance and that assistance was people who were also responsible for direct patient care... but here there is a nine person management team that i supervise with a designated person who does scheduling, another who does overall programming, three who manage clinical services including treatment plan meetings, goals, and chart reviews, a director of nursing, who has an assistant, a dietary manager (with dedicated dietary staff so direct care staff do not have kitchen duties), a social worker managing social services, and then others i have yet to meet who provided auxiliary services like maintenance, vehicle and equipment maintenance, and more... up north back in the day i had no actual assistants or management team under me, so this sounds like a wonderful organizational structure that developed over the years to serve the people served in an icf...

simply, it presents as a wonderful opportunity on almost every level, a position i feel comfortable stepping into, and the first job i actually wanted... and one of the best things is that after spending several hours on three different days interviewing at the facility itself and observing the people i got no sense of the high-pressure burn out level of workload, the personal vindictiveness, and depressingly paranoid environment i left behind last year at this place... yay for top management and a boss without psychiatric issues lol (ah, sweet laughter at the scars... i suppose i survived, aye?)...

now all i need to do is pass all the screenings and checks that come with such positions in the health care field (same screenings and checks i've been through every few years without issues) and i shall hopefully be starting in a few weeks... so even as i am loving the extended vacation, i am actually excited about this new chapter in this life...

thanks for all the positivity you've sent... here's the update we've been hoping for :)