Director of Hospice Clinical Services - RN

Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Inc. • Hospice & HomeCare of Reno County, KS

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Clinical lead for Hospice Program.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• 3+ years of leadership experience
• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Kansas or compact state.
• Current BLS/CPR card from approved provider within 30 days of hire or by the end of orientation, whichever comes first.
• Kansas State Driver’s License
• Auto Insurance equal to or greater than the Kansas insurance requirements.

Nice To Haves

• BSN
• Certified as Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse.
• Managerial experience in hospice or home health.
• Previous hospice and/or home health experience.
• OASIS Certification

Responsibilities

• Manages the overall hospice clinical operations including but not limited to: maintaining policies, assessing competencies, ensuring regulatory compliance, monitoring quality, and establishing improvement plans based on current best practices.
• Improves the quality of patient care through staff education and development, physician, patient/family satisfaction promotion, performance improvement activities, staffing facilitation and scheduling.
• Aids in the agency’s goal of retaining quality staff by appropriately hiring, orienting, training, evaluating and disciplining staff within established policy.
• Ensures orientation, training and competency are based upon evidence based, best practice and industry standards, are developed, provided and documented for nursing and HHA staff.
• Ensures staff ability to perform patient care responsibilities considering needs specific to the standard of care for patient’s age.
• Assists in administrative staff availability 24 hours per day by participating in after hour call coverage.
• Collaborates with medical and professional staff to plan/coordinate joint patient and management objectives.
• Maintains a working knowledge of current Medicare, Medicaid and third-party payer requirements for hospice and home care reimbursement.
• Possesses understanding of applicable state and federal regulations as applicable to hospice and HomeCare and communicates updates to staff.
• Possesses understanding of the HOPE and OASIS data collection and reporting process.
• Maintains regulatory requirements, including all federal, state, local regulations and accrediting organization standards.
• Ensures agency compliance with organizational, program specific policies/procedures, safety and health standards, and state/federal regulations.
• Act in accordance with the established mission, vision, and values.
• Abide by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability privacy and security regulations regarding all aspects of Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Maintain effective communication and professional working relationships with patients/clients and their representatives, team members, contractors, physicians, peers, outside agencies, and the public.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Holiday premium pay
• Shift and weekend differential pay
• 401k with a 6% employer match
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Employee assistance program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree