What are the responsibilities and job description for the Patient Care Manager - Gold Team position at KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC?
Patient Care Manager
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!
- We support a work-life balance that allows you to contribute to high quality service while maintaining a good work life balance.
- A work environment defined by openness, communication good humor, mutual support and accountability.
- A team striving for quality in all we do and continually seeking opportunities to improve.
Position Summary:
The Team Manager has responsibility for the leadership and management of their designated service area; ensuring excellence in service and quality care. The Team Manager reports to the Director of Clinical Services.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
- RN (BSN preferred) from an accredited institution or BSW (MSW or Master's Degree in a related field preferred.) Must be licensed in Kansas and Missouri.
- Two years experience in caring for terminal patients and others with life threatening illnesses.
- Motivated to work with the dying and bereaved.
- Able and willing to work as part of an interdiscipliniary team.
- Commitment to quality and excellence in service.
- Flexible
- Good Administrative skills and experience in supervision, management and coordination of the work others.
- Strong organization and communication skills and ability to handle multiple priorities.
- Licensed driver and reliable transportation and auto insurance.
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, Flexible Spending Account, 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.