Health Care Facilities Field Surveyor - Entry (Multiple Vacancies)

As a surveyor, your impact reaches beyond each resident into connected lives of caregivers, friends, and families.  The lives you touch may be countless and your work will count! 

Receive instruction and on-the-job training on survey tasks and protocols applicable to long-term care (LTC) and non-long-term care (NLTC), ODH procedures, and rules/regulations pertinent to the surveyor role, through extensive reading, program briefings and supervised participation in field activities:

• Attend mandated state and federal surveyor training.
• Travel to health care facilities to participate in (and/or conduct under supervision) onsite inspections of providers to determine compliance.
• Participate, under supervision, in discussion with facility officials regarding survey findings.
• Attend (as part of survey team) exit interview meetings with facility staff.
• Learn to review plans of correction for deficiencies.
• Complete survey reports and deficiency statements in accordance with the Principles of Documentation.
• Provide consultation to newer surveyors.

Learn to research special problems and evaluate data:

• Receive training in gathering evidence, for cases which may require legal action.
• Participate (as member of survey team) in hearing preparations and hearings.
• Testify before judicial bodies as assigned.
• Analyze data collected during survey process and prepare specialized reports as assigned.
• Assist in drafting responses to problems/questions regarding survey process.
• Assist supervisor in preparing speeches to community groups, providers, or other agencies; draft and deliver speeches as assigned.

Operate laptop computer using state-provided software in order to learn documentation and reporting of survey findings, as well as review of survey reports:

• Carry laptop, portable scanner, reference materials and forms (weighing up to 25 lbs.) to/from worksite.
• Learn to use computer-assisted process in conducting and documenting surveys.
• Learn to use applicable data sets (e.g., MDS, OASIS) and quality indicator reports to monitor and evaluate quality indicators.
• Learn to develop other reports/materials required by Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Maintain administrative records and/or library of current reference literature, as needed.
• Complete and submit all travel documents (e.g., travel logs, travel authorizations), records, expense reports and all computerized survey forms.
• Notify supervisor of problems that jeopardize meeting timeframes.

Important Facts To Consider:

• Travel: Surveyors travel constantly, whether down the road or across the state.  Expect overnight stays and evening/weekend work when a situation calls for it.
• Emergencies: Routine annual surveys can be planned; complaint responses cannot.  We go where we are needed, when we are needed.
• Documentation: Effective technical writing is essential (grammar usage and basic composition).
• Work Life Balance: Vacations are approved based upon a seniority office canvass.

Unusual Working Conditions:

• Requires travel twelve (12) months per year, including some overnight travel, regardless of weather conditions.
• Possible exposure to infectious waste during observation of care.
• Must climb, bend and reach in order to inspect facilities’ service areas, attics, basements and other locations.

Minimum class qualifications for employment:

Registered Nurse, or Licensed Dietician, or Licensed Social Worker, or Registered Environmental Health Specialist, or Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, or Licensed Pharmacist, or Licensed Physical/Occupational/Speech Therapist) AND 24 mos. exp. in a health care setting (i.e., long term care, acute care, non-long term care facility, ICF/IID, hospice care, home health setting, dialysis center, ambulatory surgical center, or in community health protection) AND 12 mos. trg. or exp. in utilizing a personal computer & software to access and record data AND valid driver’s license.

Training and development required to remain in the classification after employment: Renewal of licensure/certification/registration pertinent to assigned discipline as mandated by Ohio Revised Code.

Unless required by legislation, the selected candidate will begin at Pay Grade 12, Step 1 - Step 3 of the union (1199) Pay Range Schedule ($30.37 - $33.45 per hour), with an opportunity for a pay increase after six months of satisfactory performance.  You will move to the second level (Pay Grade 13), that of an independent surveyor, once you have successfully completed the 365 day probationary period as an entry level surveyor, passed the test for all the relevant state and CMS trainings, and met the applicable minimum qualifications for independent surveyor.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:  All applicants must submit a completed Ohio Civil Service Application using the TALEO System.  Paper applications will not be considered.  Applicants must clearly indicate how they meet the minimum qualifications and/or position specific minimum qualifications.  Applicants are also encouraged to document any experience, education and/or training related to the job duties above.  An assessment of these criteria may be conducted to determine the applicants who are interviewed.

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BACKGROUND CHECK NOTICE: The final candidate selected for this position will be required to undergo a criminal background check. Criminal convictions do not necessarily preclude an applicant from consideration for a position. An individual assessment of an applicant's prior criminal convictions will be made before excluding an applicant from consideration.

All final applicants tentatively selected for this class will be required to submit to urinalysis to test for illegal drug use prior to appointments. An applicant with a positive test shall not be offered employment.