RN - Registered Nurse

Salary

$39.60 / hr - $46.83 / hr

Overview

Registered Nurse (RN) – Skilled Nursing and Subacute Rehabilitation

Full-time, part-time, and per diem opportunities
Day, evening, and overnight shifts available

Med-Surg-Style Clinical Variety. Greater Continuity of Care.

Elderwood is seeking Registered Nurses to join our skilled nursing and rehabilitation team. This is more than a traditional long-term-care nursing position. Our RNs care for long-term residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients transitioning from hospital to home, creating an environment with meaningful clinical variety, interdisciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to strengthen your assessment and technical skills.

You will provide direct nursing care, coordinate with providers and rehabilitation professionals, guide CNAs, respond to changes in condition, and develop relationships with residents and families that often extend beyond a brief hospital encounter.

Whether you are an experienced post-acute nurse, coming from a hospital or another clinical setting, or looking to build your skilled nursing experience, Elderwood at Cheektowaga offers an opportunity to remain clinically engaged while making a visible difference in recovery, comfort, safety, and quality of life.

RN Pay and Scheduling

Maximize Your Earnings

• Experience credit reflected in your individual rate
• Shift differentials for qualifying evening, overnight, and weekend hours
• Additional 10% premium-pay opportunity for eligible employees who opt out of certain elective benefits
• Employee referral bonus opportunities of up to $2,000
• Full-time, part-time, and per diem scheduling options
• Day, evening, and overnight shifts available
• Ask our recruitment team to explain the available compensation programs and how your experience, shift, employment status, and benefit elections may affect your individual rate.

Benefit Snapshot

Tuition Assistance & Reimbursement Programs

401(k) with Employer Match

Paid Time Off & Holiday Package

Comprehensive Health Benefits — Medical, Dental & Vision

Opportunities for professional development and career advancement

Supportive, team-oriented work environment

More Than Traditional Long-Term Care

Elderwood is a skilled nursing community providing long-term care, memory care, and comprehensive subacute rehabilitation.

Our clinical teams care for individuals recovering from illness, injury, surgery, orthopedic procedures, and cardiac conditions. Facility capabilities include:

IV therapy

PICC-line management

Wound-vac therapy

Complex wound care

Ostomy care

Enteral feeding

Dialysis coordination

Depending on your assignment, resident needs, physician orders, and demonstrated competencies, you may care for patients receiving these treatments while managing medications, completing assessments, monitoring clinical progress, coordinating services, and preparing patients for a safe transition to their next level of care.

For RNs who enjoy med-surg-style clinical variety but also value continuity, teamwork, and meaningful patient relationships, this is an engaging post-acute nursing environment.

Practice With Support Around You

Registered Nurses at Elderwood have meaningful clinical responsibility - but they are not expected to practice without support. You will work with onsite nursing leaders, including Unit Managers, RN Supervisors, the Assistant Director of Nursing, and the Director of Nursing. You will also collaborate with providers, rehabilitation professionals, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

Facility clinical leadership receives additional support from Elderwood Administrative Services, including organization-wide direction from the Chief Nursing Officer and an assigned Regional Nurse Consultant. This broader structure supports clinical standards, quality, regulatory readiness, leadership development, and problem-solving throughout the facility - giving bedside nurses the benefit of working within an established clinical organization.

Build the Next Stage of Your Nursing Career

A staff RN position at Elderwood can be both meaningful clinical practice today and a foundation for future growth. Registered Nurses may have opportunities to develop as preceptors, RN Supervisors, Unit Managers, Nurse Educators, ADONs, DONs, and other clinical leaders. Tuition-reimbursement and professional-development programs are available to eligible employees pursuing continued education and career advancement.

RNs who demonstrate strong performance, leadership potential, and an interest in future Director of Nursing opportunities may also be considered for advanced development experiences, including Widener University’s Director of Nursing Leadership Academy.

Whether you want to deepen your bedside practice or begin preparing for leadership, Elderwood offers multiple ways to continue developing your nursing career.

Bring Your Clinical Skills to Elderwood

If you want an RN position that combines clinical variety, team leadership, interdisciplinary practice, and meaningful relationships, we would like to meet you. Apply today to join the nursing team at Elderwood.

Your Nursing Career Can Make a Lasting Difference.

At Elderwood, you're not simply filling a shift.
You're caring for people, supporting families, and making a difference in someone's life every day.

If you're ready to bring your nursing skills and compassion to a team that values what you do,
apply today for an RN opportunity at Elderwood at Ticonderoga.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do as a Registered Nurse (RN) at Elderwood:

Direct nursing care

• Assess, monitor, and evaluate the clinical status of assigned residents and short-stay rehabilitation patients
• Administer medications, treatments, and other ordered nursing services safely and accurately
• Identify and respond promptly to symptoms, risks, and changes in condition
• Communicate clinical changes and concerns to providers, nursing leaders, residents, and families
• Follow individualized plans of care and contribute information needed to keep those plans current
• Support admissions, care transitions, rehabilitation goals, and discharge planning as assigned
• Maintain accurate nursing notes, medication-administration records, treatment records, and other required documentation

Clinical coordination

• Collaborate with providers, rehabilitation professionals, social work, dietary, pharmacy, and other members of the interdisciplinary team
• Coordinate care and follow-through for residents with complex treatments and appointments
• Help ensure that physician orders, treatment plans, and clinical recommendations are implemented appropriately
• Support safe communication during shift report and transitions of care
• Educate residents and families regarding care needs, treatments, medications, and recovery goals within the RN’s role

Team leadership

• Direct and monitor personal-care duties and nursing procedures completed by CNAs on the assigned team
• Establish clear expectations and provide guidance throughout the shift
• Assist CNAs with direct resident care when resident or unit needs require it
• Monitor implementation of each resident’s plan of care
• Promote respectful communication, teamwork, reliability, and accountability
• Escalate staffing, clinical, safety, or performance concerns to the appropriate nursing leader

Quality and resident experience

• Protect resident rights, dignity, preferences, confidentiality, and independence
• Support infection prevention, medication safety, fall prevention, skin integrity, and other quality priorities
• Maintain readiness for regulatory surveys and clinical-quality reviews
• Respond to resident and family concerns professionally and with appropriate follow-through
• Contribute to a safe, organized, respectful, and resident-centered care environment

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Qualifications

What You’ll Need as a Registered Nurse (RN) with Elderwood:

Required

Current license and registration to practice as a Registered Pr