Hospice Director jobs in Fort Wayne, IN

• Great benefits!
• Local home health & hospice care
• Limited on-call due to dedicated call staff
• Flexible schedules to meet your needs!

Provide excellent in-home nursing and hospice care in your community. Enjoy a flexible schedule that enables you to balance work and life. Work one-on-one with patients in their homes. Challenge and expand your nursing and case management skills and realize the satisfaction of impacting physical, emotional, and spiritual health needs.

Benefits

We offer an attractive employee benefits package that includes competitive pay rates, paid time off, paid holidays, health, dental, and vision coverage, uniform allowance, schedule flexibility, short and long-term disability insurance, 403(b) retirement, plus quarterly and annual financial incentives.

About Our Company

Be a part of our forward-looking company with the potential for growth and opportunity. CHP is a local, nonprofit organization established to care for our communities. We seek energetic team members to provide exceptional care through compassion, care, and respect.

What You Will Do

Deliver one-on-one care for clients in the home setting, including routine nursing procedures (blood pressure, injections, and vital signs), observation, assessment, medication management, IV therapy, and wound care. Patients requiring home health nursing services can include patients who are chronically ill, disabled, or elderly, individuals recovering from an accident or injury, and the terminally ill. Home Health RNs provide education about diagnosis and the care plan and listen and respond to patient requests and concerns.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitor patient’s condition and assess their needs to provide the best possible care and advice
• Observe and interpret patient’s symptoms and communicate them to physicians
• Collaborate with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients
• Perform routine procedures (blood pressure measurements, administering injections, etc.) and fill in patients’ charts
• Adjust and administer patient’s medication and provide treatments according to physician’s orders
• Inspect the facilities and act to maintain excellent hygiene and safety (decontaminating equipment, sanitizing surfaces, preparing beds, etc.)
• Provide on-call visits in emergencies
• Foster, a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families

Skills

A successful home health and hospice RN uses a variety of skills and clinical knowledge to provide the most comprehensive care.

• Strong interpersonal skills that allow getting to know your patients, build personal rapport, and establish trust while increasing the patients' comfort
• Initiative to make independent decisions when required and accept direction and requests from patients
• Compassion for patients and their families
• Outstanding organizational and multi-tasking skills
• Patient with excellent problem-solving skills
• Flexibility to work in a variety of living environments
• Knowledge of clinical skills including changing bandages, giving tube feedings, administering shots, and setting up and monitoring IVs
• Knowledge of health and safety guidelines and procedures (sanitation, decontamination, etc.) and willingness to follow them at all times

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a registered nurse
• Driver’s license and reliable, insured, vehicle
• Valid Ohio nursing license

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From $28.86 per hour

Expected hours: 20 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Home Health
• Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Physical setting:

• Outpatient

Standard shift:

• Day shift

Supplemental schedule:

• On call

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Rotating weekends
• Weekends as needed

Experience:

• Nursing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Acute care: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• State Nursing License (Required)
• RN License (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Paulding, OH: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person