Hospice Aide

Compassus•Paducah, KY

21h•Onsite

About The Position

At Compassus, caring for teammates is the first step in caring for patients. They are committed to providing Care for Who You Are and What You Need, including flexible scheduling, a supportive family-focused culture, and first-class compensation and benefits. As a Hospice Aide, you will provide comfort care to patients, enabling them to remain at home with their loved ones. You will work as a member of the hospice team to meet each patient’s unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, helping them approach their final days with joy, peace, and dignity, and enhancing their quality of life every day. Compassus provides a continuum of integrated home-based services including home health, home infusion, palliative and hospice care, with thousands of teammates and hundreds of access points nationwide. The company's 'Care for who I am' culture reflects its unique care delivery model, focusing on each person as an individual to improve their quality of life.

Requirements

In states where licensure is not required (AL, CT, GA, IA, IL, KS, LA, MA, ME, MI, MS, MT, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, WV), applicants must meet one of the following: They are already a licensed/certified aide; or They have completed a state-approved nurse aide training program AND have been continuously employed in that capacity for the previous 24 months
Current CPR certification required
Arizona: Must be Licensed/certified as a Nurses’ Aide
California: State certification as a home health aide
Colorado: Completed state training program AND certified via DORA
Indiana: Aides required to be registered on the Indiana Nurse Aide Registry, licensure is not required
Missouri: Licensed/certified as a Nurses’ Aide; or Have completed a nurses’ aide training program AND employed as a nurses’ aide for the past 24 months if not licensed/certified; or Enrolled in a professional or practical nursing program for at least four (4) months, that included a clinical rotation within the past five (5) years and has successfully passed a Fundamentals of Nursing course (must provide transcript and letter from the program director on school letterhead verifying BOTH clinical rotation and successfully completion of Fundamentals of Nursing course)
New Hampshire: Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) required for hospice employment
New Jersey: Certification as a Homemaker – Home Health Aide; or is a long-term care CNA
Virginia: Aide certified required to practice in the state
Wisconsin: Aides required to be certified and listed on the Wisconsin Nurse Aide Registry

Nice To Haves

Certified Nursing Assistant highly preferred

Responsibilities

Provide comfort care to patients enabling them to remain at home with their loved ones
Work as a member of the hospice team to meet each patient’s unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs
Help patients approach their final days with joy, peace, and dignity
Enhance the quality of someone’s life every day