{"code":"00317","codeVariants":["00317","317"],"title":"DIRECTOR, LICENSING, CERTIFICATION, AND STANDARDS SERVICE","variant":null,"jurisdiction":"S","class_of_service":"U","work_week":null,"state_class_code":null,"local_class_code":null,"salary_range":"M35","note":null,"salaryInferred":false,"synthetic":false,"syntheticReason":null,"full_description_html":"<b>\nDIRECTOR, LICENSING, CERTIFICATION, AND STANDARDS SERVICE\n\n </b>\n\n<b>DEFINITION</b>\n\n Under direction of the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of\n Health Facilities Evaluation and Licensing, plans, coordinates, and\n directs the functional activities of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit; develops licensure standards and enforces licensure\n requirements; directs the nurses aide certification and training\n program; directs administrative support for the Nursing Home\n Administrator's Licensing Board; does related work as required.\n\n \n<b>EXAMPLES OF WORK:</b>\n\n Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and\n maintaining an effective health facilities licensing system in\n accordance with existing state statutes, rules, regulations, and\n standards.\n\n Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and\n maintaining an effective health facilities certification program in\n accordance with federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards.\n\n Maintains and enforces state licensure standards for health care\n facilities.\n\n Establishes objectives and priorities for the unit.\n\n Develops and maintains ongoing evaluations of methodology of work\n systems used in the Licensure, Certification, and Standards Programs.\n\n Assesses inspection packages to determine if license should be\n issued, downgraded, or disciplinary action should be taken in the form\n of curtailment of admissions, fines, suspension, or revocation.\n\n Coordinates the activities of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit with Inspection Services and Health Resource Services\n Unit.\n\n Coordinates standards development in cooperation with the units in\n the Division of Health Planning and Resources Development.\n\n Directs, plans, and is responsible for developing health facility\n standards in order to promote a high level of quality care through the\n formulation, review, and continuous updating of standards.\n\n Organizes interdepartment, intradepartment, and external advisory\n committees to assist in developing new or amending existing licensure\n standards, rules, and regulations.\n\n Provides detailed data on health care facilities to enable the\n Commissioner of Health to have input in federal and state planning\n activities.\n\n Serves, as required, on intergovernment and intragovernment\n advisory committees to assist in developing new or amending existing\n health care facility standards, regulations, rules, or statutes.\n\n Maintains liaison with federal and state officials and\n professional groups on matters related to providers and suppliers of\n health care services.\n\n Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of the organizational unit\n and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective\n recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of\n subordinates.\n\n Directs the provision of education programs and assistance to\n assure that all personnel are informed of changes in existing or new\n state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards.\n\n Provides data to other programs in the Health Department, other\n state departments, mass media, and so forth.\n\n Directs the compilation of necessary data to support the state's\n position at any formal or informal health care facility licensing\n hearings.\n\n Directs the provision of consultation and technical assistance to\n operators of health care facilities to assure compliance with existing\n standards.\n\n Prepares extensive correspondence and other reports and directs\n the preparation of program plans.\n\n Directs the development and maintenance of all files required for\n the proper administration of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit.\n\n Reviews and critiques all legislative proposals addressing health\n facilities issues, standards, and changes in concepts involving\n provision of health services.\n\n Conducts informal office hearings with health care providers,\n administrators, and others including their legal counselors in an\n effort to resolve problems involving interpretation of state and\n federal regulations and attends formal legal proceedings as requested\n and/or directed.\n\n Recommends and arranges formal hearings to be held if required to\n revoke or downgrade a license or if a licensee desires a formal\n hearing.\n\n Serves at the direction of superiors as representative of the\n State Department of Health on various committees, prepares information\n reports, and recommends policy or procedure measures to be initiated.\n\n Directs, develops, and evaluates methodology for certification of\n nurses aides.\n\n Directs administrative support to the Nursing Home Administrators\n Licensing Board, and represents the Commissioner as a voting member.\n\n Responsible for presentation of proposed health care regulations\n to the Health Care Administration Board.\n\n May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic\n and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency,\n office, or related units.\n\n <b>REQUIREMENTS:</b>\n\n <b>EDUCATION:</b>\n\n Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's Degree\n supplemented with a Master's degree in Public Health, Hospital,\n Business, or Public Administration, Public Policy, or other related\n field.\n\n <b>EXPERIENCE:</b>\n\n Six (6) years of experience in the field of health care\n delivery systems, three (3) of which shall have been in a managerial\n capacity.\n\n <b>NOTE: </b>A Doctorate Degree in one of the above indicated\n disciplines may be substituted for two (2) years of the required\n experience.\n\n <b>LICENSE:</b>\n\n Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid\n in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee\n mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.\n\n <b>KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:</b>\n\n Knowledge of federal statutes, standards, rules, and\n regulations as they relate to health care facilities and services\n recommended for licensure by the New Jersey Department of Health.\n\n Knowledge of principles and practices of public administration\n and subsequent procedures regarding analysis, research data\n compilation, quantitative and qualitative measures, program evaluation,\n management information systems, and financial management.\n\n Knowledge of administrative law, its proceedings and functions\n in relationship to the program's federal and state regulations.\n\n Ability to comprehend and apply state statutes, standards,\n rules, and regulations as they relate to health care facilities and\n services recommended for licensure by the New Jersey State Department\n of Health.\n\n Ability to apply knowledge of interrelationships with other\n state health department agencies, their expertise, authorities, and\n joint responsibilities in order to effect cooperation in establishing\n and implementing significant technical and administrative procedures.\n\n Ability to apply the generally accepted principals and\n practices of public administration and public health in the direction\n of a unit, applying federal and state rules and regulations for several\n types of health care facilities and providers of services.\n\n Ability to develop methodology for establishing various types\n of worksystems, delegation of authority, and responsibility for\n implementation and continuous program evaluation measures.\n\n Ability to assure maximum utilization of professional health\n care specialists.\n\n Ability to develop and implement new procedures regarding\n management decisions and direct training for staff to facilitate\n smoothness of operations.\n\n Ability to provide technical assistance and consultation in\n the interpretation of program operational regulations within guidelines\n of HEW Region II and the New Jersey Health Department, to subordinates,\n hospital facilities, and superiors in order to ensure compliance with\n regulations.\n\n Ability to write reports clearly identifying subject,\n background, precedents, justification of reasoned opinions, using\n quantitative and other forms of evaluative measures to provide\n superiors with quality information for management decisions.\n\n Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with skills in\n grammar and language to clarify for the general public and in light of\n public disclosure laws, as well as associates in other professionals.\n\n Ability to plan and organize the unit within fiscal federal\n and state restraints, human resource availability, and environmental\n conditions.\n\n Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with lawyers,\n consultants, and providers in keeping with the legislation under which\n this unit operates.\n\n Ability to speak at meetings, workshops, seminars, as a\n representative of the unit, to create a positive public image, and to\n obtain feedback for evaluation and monitoring of standards and\n programs.\n\n Ability to write well, using proper language and grammar, to\n clarify for the general public in light of public disclosure laws, as\n well as associates in other professions.\n\n Ability to plan for use of technology in the methodology of\n program and adaptability to future geographical and environmental\n changes in the program.\n\n Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or\n manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or\n related units.\n\n Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in\n English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American\n Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of\n communication.\n\n Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as\n long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after\n reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the\n accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue\n hardship, such persons may not be eligible.\n\n CODES: M35-00317 JMR 04/16/94\n","sections":{"DEFINITION":"Under direction of the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of\n Health Facilities Evaluation and Licensing, plans, coordinates, and\n directs the functional activities of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit; develops licensure standards and enforces licensure\n requirements; directs the nurses aide certification and training\n program; directs administrative support for the Nursing Home\n Administrator's Licensing Board; does related work as required.","EXAMPLES_OF_WORK":"Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and\n maintaining an effective health facilities licensing system in\n accordance with existing state statutes, rules, regulations, and\n standards.\n\n Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and\n maintaining an effective health facilities certification program in\n accordance with federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards.\n\n Maintains and enforces state licensure standards for health care\n facilities.\n\n Establishes objectives and priorities for the unit.\n\n Develops and maintains ongoing evaluations of methodology of work\n systems used in the Licensure, Certification, and Standards Programs.\n\n Assesses inspection packages to determine if license should be\n issued, downgraded, or disciplinary action should be taken in the form\n of curtailment of admissions, fines, suspension, or revocation.\n\n Coordinates the activities of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit with Inspection Services and Health Resource Services\n Unit.\n\n Coordinates standards development in cooperation with the units in\n the Division of Health Planning and Resources Development.\n\n Directs, plans, and is responsible for developing health facility\n standards in order to promote a high level of quality care through the\n formulation, review, and continuous updating of standards.\n\n Organizes interdepartment, intradepartment, and external advisory\n committees to assist in developing new or amending existing licensure\n standards, rules, and regulations.\n\n Provides detailed data on health care facilities to enable the\n Commissioner of Health to have input in federal and state planning\n activities.\n\n Serves, as required, on intergovernment and intragovernment\n advisory committees to assist in developing new or amending existing\n health care facility standards, regulations, rules, or statutes.\n\n Maintains liaison with federal and state officials and\n professional groups on matters related to providers and suppliers of\n health care services.\n\n Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of the organizational unit\n and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective\n recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of\n subordinates.\n\n Directs the provision of education programs and assistance to\n assure that all personnel are informed of changes in existing or new\n state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards.\n\n Provides data to other programs in the Health Department, other\n state departments, mass media, and so forth.\n\n Directs the compilation of necessary data to support the state's\n position at any formal or informal health care facility licensing\n hearings.\n\n Directs the provision of consultation and technical assistance to\n operators of health care facilities to assure compliance with existing\n standards.\n\n Prepares extensive correspondence and other reports and directs\n the preparation of program plans.\n\n Directs the development and maintenance of all files required for\n the proper administration of the Licensing, Certification, and\n Standards Unit.\n\n Reviews and critiques all legislative proposals addressing health\n facilities issues, standards, and changes in concepts involving\n provision of health services.\n\n Conducts informal office hearings with health care providers,\n administrators, and others including their legal counselors in an\n effort to resolve problems involving interpretation of state and\n federal regulations and attends formal legal proceedings as requested\n and/or directed.\n\n Recommends and arranges formal hearings to be held if required to\n revoke or downgrade a license or if a licensee desires a formal\n hearing.\n\n Serves at the direction of superiors as representative of the\n State Department of Health on various committees, prepares information\n reports, and recommends policy or procedure measures to be initiated.\n\n Directs, develops, and evaluates methodology for certification of\n nurses aides.\n\n Directs administrative support to the Nursing Home Administrators\n Licensing Board, and represents the Commissioner as a voting member.\n\n Responsible for presentation of proposed health care regulations\n to the Health Care Administration Board.\n\n May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic\n and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency,\n office, or related units.","EDUCATION":"Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's Degree\n supplemented with a Master's degree in Public Health, Hospital,\n Business, or Public Administration, Public Policy, or other related\n field.","EXPERIENCE":"Six (6) years of experience in the field of health care\n delivery systems, three (3) of which shall have been in a managerial\n capacity.","NOTE":"A Doctorate Degree in one of the above indicated\n disciplines may be substituted for two (2) years of the required\n experience.","LICENSE":"Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid\n in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee\n mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.","KNOWLEDGE_AND_ABILITIES":"Knowledge of federal statutes, standards, rules, and\n regulations as they relate to health care facilities and services\n recommended for licensure by the New Jersey Department of Health.\n\n Knowledge of principles and practices of public administration\n and subsequent procedures regarding analysis, research data\n compilation, quantitative and qualitative measures, program evaluation,\n management information systems, and financial management.\n\n Knowledge of administrative law, its proceedings and functions\n in relationship to the program's federal and state regulations.\n\n Ability to comprehend and apply state statutes, standards,\n rules, and regulations as they relate to health care facilities and\n services recommended for licensure by the New Jersey State Department\n of Health.\n\n Ability to apply knowledge of interrelationships with other\n state health department agencies, their expertise, authorities, and\n joint responsibilities in order to effect cooperation in establishing\n and implementing significant technical and administrative procedures.\n\n Ability to apply the generally accepted principals and\n practices of public administration and public health in the direction\n of a unit, applying federal and state rules and regulations for several\n types of health care facilities and providers of services.\n\n Ability to develop methodology for establishing various types\n of worksystems, delegation of authority, and responsibility for\n implementation and continuous program evaluation measures.\n\n Ability to assure maximum utilization of professional health\n care specialists.\n\n Ability to develop and implement new procedures regarding\n management decisions and direct training for staff to facilitate\n smoothness of operations.\n\n Ability to provide technical assistance and consultation in\n the interpretation of program operational regulations within guidelines\n of HEW Region II and the New Jersey Health Department, to subordinates,\n hospital facilities, and superiors in order to ensure compliance with\n regulations.\n\n Ability to write reports clearly identifying subject,\n background, precedents, justification of reasoned opinions, using\n quantitative and other forms of evaluative measures to provide\n superiors with quality information for management decisions.\n\n Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with skills in\n grammar and language to clarify for the general public and in light of\n public disclosure laws, as well as associates in other professionals.\n\n Ability to plan and organize the unit within fiscal federal\n and state restraints, human resource availability, and environmental\n conditions.\n\n Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with lawyers,\n consultants, and providers in keeping with the legislation under which\n this unit operates.\n\n Ability to speak at meetings, workshops, seminars, as a\n representative of the unit, to create a positive public image, and to\n obtain feedback for evaluation and monitoring of standards and\n programs.\n\n Ability to write well, using proper language and grammar, to\n clarify for the general public in light of public disclosure laws, as\n well as associates in other professions.\n\n Ability to plan for use of technology in the methodology of\n program and adaptability to future geographical and environmental\n changes in the program.\n\n Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or\n manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or\n related units.\n\n Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in\n English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American\n Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of\n communication.\n\n Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as\n long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after\n reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the\n accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue\n hardship, such persons may not be eligible.\n\n CODES: M35- JMR 04/16/94\n"},"searchable_text":"DIRECTOR, LICENSING, CERTIFICATION, AND STANDARDS SERVICE DEFINITION Under direction of the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Health Facilities Evaluation and Licensing, plans, coordinates, and directs the functional activities of the Licensing, Certification, and Standards Unit; develops licensure standards and enforces licensure requirements; directs the nurses aide certification and training program; directs administrative support for the Nursing Home Administrator's Licensing Board; does related work as required. EXAMPLES OF WORK: Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective health facilities licensing system in accordance with existing state statutes, rules, regulations, and standards. Directs, plans, and is responsible for establishing and maintaining an effective health facilities certification program in accordance with federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards. Maintains and enforces state licensure standards for health care facilities. Establishes objectives and priorities for the unit. Develops and maintains ongoing evaluations of methodology of work systems used in the Licensure, Certification, and Standards Programs. Assesses inspection packages to determine if license should be issued, downgraded, or disciplinary action should be taken in the form of curtailment of admissions, fines, suspension, or revocation. Coordinates the activities of the Licensing, Certification, and Standards Unit with Inspection Services and Health Resource Services Unit. Coordinates standards development in cooperation with the units in the Division of Health Planning and Resources Development. Directs, plans, and is responsible for developing health facility standards in order to promote a high level of quality care through the formulation, review, and continuous updating of standards. Organizes interdepartment, intradepartment, and external advisory committees to assist in developing new or amending existing licensure standards, rules, and regulations. Provides detailed data on health care facilities to enable the Commissioner of Health to have input in federal and state planning activities. Serves, as required, on intergovernment and intragovernment advisory committees to assist in developing new or amending existing health care facility standards, regulations, rules, or statutes. Maintains liaison with federal and state officials and professional groups on matters related to providers and suppliers of health care services. Plans, organizes, and assigns the work of the organizational unit and evaluates employee performance and conduct, enabling the effective recommendation of the hiring, firing, promoting, and disciplining of subordinates. Directs the provision of education programs and assistance to assure that all personnel are informed of changes in existing or new state and federal statutes, rules, regulations, and standards. Provides data to other programs in the Health Department, other state departments, mass media, and so forth. Directs the compilation of necessary data to support the state's position at any formal or informal health care facility licensing hearings. Directs the provision of consultation and technical assistance to operators of health care facilities to assure compliance with existing standards. Prepares extensive correspondence and other reports and directs the preparation of program plans. Directs the development and maintenance of all files required for the proper administration of the Licensing, Certification, and Standards Unit. Reviews and critiques all legislative proposals addressing health facilities issues, standards, and changes in concepts involving provision of health services. Conducts informal office hearings with health care providers, administrators, and others including their legal counselors in an effort to resolve problems involving interpretation of state and federal regulations and attends formal legal proceedings as requested and/or directed. Recommends and arranges formal hearings to be held if required to revoke or downgrade a license or if a licensee desires a formal hearing. Serves at the direction of superiors as representative of the State Department of Health on various committees, prepares information reports, and recommends policy or procedure measures to be initiated. Directs, develops, and evaluates methodology for certification of nurses aides. Directs administrative support to the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board, and represents the Commissioner as a voting member. Responsible for presentation of proposed health care regulations to the Health Care Administration Board. May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units. REQUIREMENTS: EDUCATION: Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's Degree supplemented with a Master's degree in Public Health, Hospital, Business, or Public Administration, Public Policy, or other related field. EXPERIENCE: Six (6) years of experience in the field of health care delivery systems, three (3) of which shall have been in a managerial capacity. NOTE: A Doctorate Degree in one of the above indicated disciplines may be substituted for two (2) years of the required experience. LICENSE: Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position. KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES: Knowledge of federal statutes, standards, rules, and regulations as they relate to health care facilities and services recommended for licensure by the New Jersey Department of Health. Knowledge of principles and practices of public administration and subsequent procedures regarding analysis, research data compilation, quantitative and qualitative measures, program evaluation, management information systems, and financial management. Knowledge of administrative law, its proceedings and functions in relationship to the program's federal and state regulations. Ability to comprehend and apply state statutes, standards, rules, and regulations as they relate to health care facilities and services recommended for licensure by the New Jersey State Department of Health. Ability to apply knowledge of interrelationships with other state health department agencies, their expertise, authorities, and joint responsibilities in order to effect cooperation in establishing and implementing significant technical and administrative procedures. Ability to apply the generally accepted principals and practices of public administration and public health in the direction of a unit, applying federal and state rules and regulations for several types of health care facilities and providers of services. Ability to develop methodology for establishing various types of worksystems, delegation of authority, and responsibility for implementation and continuous program evaluation measures. Ability to assure maximum utilization of professional health care specialists. Ability to develop and implement new procedures regarding management decisions and direct training for staff to facilitate smoothness of operations. Ability to provide technical assistance and consultation in the interpretation of program operational regulations within guidelines of HEW Region II and the New Jersey Health Department, to subordinates, hospital facilities, and superiors in order to ensure compliance with regulations. Ability to write reports clearly identifying subject, background, precedents, justification of reasoned opinions, using quantitative and other forms of evaluative measures to provide superiors with quality information for management decisions. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with skills in grammar and language to clarify for the general public and in light of public disclosure laws, as well as associates in other professionals. Ability to plan and organize the unit within fiscal federal and state restraints, human resource availability, and environmental conditions. Ability to communicate verbally and in writing with lawyers, consultants, and providers in keeping with the legislation under which this unit operates. Ability to speak at meetings, workshops, seminars, as a representative of the unit, to create a positive public image, and to obtain feedback for evaluation and monitoring of standards and programs. Ability to write well, using proper language and grammar, to clarify for the general public in light of public disclosure laws, as well as associates in other professions. Ability to plan for use of technology in the methodology of program and adaptability to future geographical and environmental changes in the program. Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units. Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication. Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform the essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible. 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