What are the responsibilities and job description for the APRN -CBPC position at KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC?
Advance Practice Nurse- CBPC
We invite you to take a bold step with us. Join the team that’s offering expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people affected by serious illness or grief around Kansas City. At Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, we work together – one team, one vision, that each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.
We Strive to be the Best Place to Work:
- We offer generous and competitive wages and benefits!
- A reasonable caseload that allows you to provide exceptional, high quality care while maintaining a good work life balance
- Hours: 8:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m. Monday- Friday
- Weekend on call every six (6) weeks
- Part of an interdisciplinary team that emphasizes expert palliative care to our patients
Position Description:
The Community Based Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner functions as an integral member of the CBPC team, and works in collaboration with Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care (KCH&PC) staff to provide comprehensive, quality hospice and palliative care services to patients. The Nurse Practitioner acts as the Palliative Care Case Manager, and is responsible for providing patient visits and coordinating their plan of care, for both new and established palliative care patients, in patient homes and facilities. The Nurse Practitioner engages in independent decision making regarding a patient’s healthcare concerns and works with autonomy, within their scope of service, under the medical oversight of patients’ Community Based Physicians and KCH&PC’s Medical Director.
The Ideal Candidate Will Possess the Following Requirements:
- Appropriate Masters Degree leading to designation as Advanced Practice Nurse
- Current Kansas and Missouri nursing license.
- One year acute care experience preferred.
- Home Health or Hospice experience preferred.
- Licensed driver with reliable transportation and auto insurance.
- CPR certification required.
Our Benefit Offerings Include:
Insurance: Medical Insurance HRA, Dental, Vision, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Voluntary Life, Short and Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness, Pre-Paid Legal and Identity Theft, Pet Insurance
Time Off: Generous PTO accrual program, Generous Bereavement Leave, Parental Leave, Personal Day
Tuition Assistance and Reimbursement Programs:
- Tuition Assistance
- Additionally 2-Year Loan Assistance Agreement
- Federal Student Loan (Perkins Loan) Forgiveness: As a Benefit of working at Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, a qualified employer non-profit organization, you may be eligible for student loan forgiveness. Contact your lender for additional information.
- Career Growth and Annual Scholarship opportunities including Certified Hospice Palliative Nurse (CHPN) reimbursement, Company paid CEU’s and ongoing training
And More!!!: Company Paid Employee Assistance Program offering 10 sessions per year, per event, Mileage Reimbursement, 403b Retirement Savings Plan and Company Match, Generous Employee Referral Program
** All benefits are available to regular full-time employees hired to work 60 hours or more per pay period, benefits offered differ for PT employees
Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We don’t just accept differences—we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our patients, and our community. Our diversity defines us. It binds us. It makes us great.