Saturday, September 14, 2013

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 :)

4 comments:

z0tl said...

indeed, this is the update we've been hoping for. congratulations. it really sounds like you got exactly what you wanted and what you truly deserved. well, there's probably going to be less updating here as you return to the rat race, but it sounds like it will be a great environment, so maybe it won't feel at all like the rat race, maybe it will be just the run of the mill 9 to 5 without much stress involved. i'm really happy for you. superbly done!

candoor said...

thank you thank you and thank you some more :)

i appreciate all the encouragement you've sent during my long vacation... thank you for believing in me :)

i hope the transition is mostly a fun challenge as i look forward to the changes... i expect it to be challenging for a number of reasons similar to the facility i managed in new york state including a very problematic population (care needs, health needs, expensive needs) and a government that does not want to pay for the care these people need... my job is the dance through the challenges and keep the money flowing and spend the money wisely to keep the facility running at maximum efficiency and motivate the people are aren't paid enough to provide the care and treatment the people need...

sometimes the busier i get the more i want to babble and record and write about it and sometimes i get too busy to spend much time writing so we shall see how the next few months go... the last six weeks have already seen a rather steep drop in the number of entries added here, so i suppose my blogging will remain as unpredictable as ever...

maybe it's time for a new blog to mark a new chapter in life and maybe that blog already exists among the many i already have out here... we shall see...

it'll be good to have income flowing in again to replace some things (phone, car, and more) over the next year and rebuild savings and expand the kinds of fun i can afford along the way...

you are loved :)


j said...

yay!

candoor said...

thanks... sent an email ... you are loved too :)

yay yay :)

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