Home Health And Hospice Director

Home Health and Hospice Director
Full-Time
FLSA: Exempt

The Director is responsible for functioning as administrator for the Home Health and In-Home Services programs, and other duties as assigned. Responsibilities include assisting with the daily operations of the agency, ensuring the delivery of safe and quality oriented patient care, and assisting in maintaining the fiscal viability of the home care programs. As assigned, the Director provides direct supervision to the management and support staff.

The Hospice Director is responsible for ensuring the delivery of safe and quality oriented patient care for terminally ill hospice patients/families by the interdisciplinary hospice team, and other duties as assigned. (The Hospice team consists of the medical director, staff nurses, hospice aides, medical social worker, chaplain, therapists, nutritionist, and hospice volunteers.) Manages patient services with facilities and vendors who provide durable medical equipment and medical supplies, medications, inpatient care, and nutritional counseling. Directly supervises staff RNs, LPNs, Aides, BSW/MSW, volunteers and chaplains.

Education: Graduate of an accredited registered nurse program, BSN preferred.

Experience: Five (5) years as a registered nurse with three (3) years administrative/supervisory experience in home care or community health.

Licensure, Registration, Certification: Current RN licensure in the state of Missouri and CPR certification. Current driver’s license and declaration of automobile liability insurance.

Mental/Physical Requirements: (May be met with or without appropriate accommodations): Ability to meet multiple deadlines and to prioritize. Ability to receive and express detailed information through oral communications, visual acuity, and the ability to read and understand written directions. Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. Ability to safely operate an automobile. Standing, walking, sitting, lifting, turning carrying, pushing, pulling, stooping, crouching, twisting, and reaching are required. Must be able to lift 20 lbs. from floor and from overhead, 40 lbs. from waist height and be able to handle, move or transfer articles of 100 lbs. regularly and over 100 lbs. periodically; in concert with other employee(s)/person(s) and/or lifting device; exercise good body mechanics in execution of essential duties, including appropriate back and neck posture.

Working Conditions: Ability to work in a fast paced, multidisciplinary office, meeting multiple deadlines, and the ability to set priorities. Interaction with various individuals of the department and hospital. Environment of changing regulatory requirements for agency operations. Exposure to various community environments.

Age-Specific Competencies: Persons generally grow and develop in stages that are related to their age. Age specific competence means that the employee is aware of physical, psychosocial and/or learning needs of patients of different ages. Employees consider these needs when planning and providing care for the patient or when interacting with the patient or family.
Human development can be divided into eight stages. In each stage the individual has a primary task to accomplish or master. Each task is important throughout the life span but is most critical at a particular stage.

• Infant (0-1 year): The infant must learn to trust that his/her needs will be met.
• Toddler (1-3 years): The toddler must learn to develop a sense of himself as an independent person and gain self-confidence and self-control.
• Pre-school child (3-6 years): The pre-school child must develop a sense if initiating (being able to explore the world and start projects).
• School age child (6-12 years): The school age child must develop a sense to his/her own self-worth through accomplishments and interaction with others.
• Adolescent (13-20 years): the adolescent must develop his/her own identity.
• Young adult (21-43 years): The young adult must develop close relationships.
• Middle adult (44-65 years): The middle adult must develop a sense of community and assume responsibility for others.
• Older adult (65 years and older): The older adult must come to understand the meaning of his/her life in terms of what has been accomplished.

Texas County Memorial Hospital is a tobacco-free smoke-free facility.