Hospice Supervisor

Position Title: Spr, Hospice

Department: Hospice

Purpose: Provides overall supervision of personnel and service operations for the Hospice House and Community Based Hospice program across 24 hours. Ensures compliance with agency policies and procedures, preparation for compliance with regulatory agencies, identification of program development needs and assists in implementation. Actively participates in quality monitoring performance improvement activities. Responsible for productivity management, new staff orientation, and ensuring compliance of staff with identified clinical skill. Assumes supervisory call rotation with other hospice leaders.

Report To: Manager

Supervisory Responsibility: Large Group Responsibility (Multiple Shift): The job requires direct supervision of more than 12 employees. Job duties include the full range of supervisory activities such as hiring, training, assigning, monitoring and assessing work, promoting etc. Work involves ensuring that human resource related decisions are compatible with the organization's policies, practices and direction. Incumbent has multiple shift responsibilities for staff.

Materials Responsibility: Moderate: Work requires moderate responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include operating budgets for a work unit or department, specialized equipment, costly or unusual materials or supplies, large amounts of cash or other material assets. The employee has a moderate amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors might result in moderate damage, waste or financial loss. The difficulty, variety and depth of problems associated with these material resources is moderately complex.

Key Relationship: Co-workers/Health System Employees, Outside Agencies/Other Health Care Providers, General Public/Visitors/Volunteers, Physicians/Medical Office Staff, Patients, Families, and Significant Others, Third Party Payors/Insurance Companies, Auditors/Review Agencies, Students/Interns/Residents/Outside Instructors

POSITION SPECIFICATION

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Field Of Study: Nursing, or related field

Special Training: Basic Life Support

Training Preferred:

Licensure/Registration: Registered Nurse in Iowa or Illinois required upon hire. Second license required in 12 months. Valid driver's license, auto insurance - Genesis minimum limits required.

Experience: More than 3 years experience required.

Interpersonal Skills: Interaction is with a variety of people inside or outside the organization. Communications are often difficult or stressful in nature. Contact with others involves complex, detailed and often sensitive topics. The job requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations. Interactions involve gaining the agreement of others.

Working Conditions: There is limited exposure to moderately adverse and undesirable environmental conditions. There are some health and safety risks. Position may require safety equipment and precautions. The amount of time the employee may experience these moderate conditions is limited to 10% or less of their work day.

Possible Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens: Yes

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