Lead with Compassion. Serve with Purpose. Transform Hospice.
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a RN Hospice Executive Director to join our leadership team. This role is ideal for a licensed Registered Nurse (RN) with strong leadership experience in hospice care, home health, or clinical operations management.
If you’re a natural leader who is passionate about patient-centered care, team development, and clinical excellence, we invite you to bring your talent to a place where you can truly make a difference.
The Executive Director RN III provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for assigned Hospice location, with a large-scale, high-capacity census. This role will oversee and lead the day-to-day operations, including managing and directing interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and patient-centered care, fostering a culture of compassion, respect and integrity to meet business and organizational goals, regulatory standards, and community needs. Responsibilities include leadership and development, financial performance, community outreach, human resources, office operations and communication and relationship building with the Governing Body, referral partners, the community. In this role, the Administrator ensures assigned Hospice location delivers outstanding service, while upholding the company’s mission, vision and values.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. (Refer to State Specific Addendum for more information)
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Education:
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Registered Nurse with minimum of associate’s degree in nursing required
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Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited school of nursing preferred.
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Master’s degree in business, nursing or related field preferred
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Experience:
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Minimum one year management/supervisory experience required.
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Two or more years’ experience in hospice/home care required (if also functioning as the Clinical Nursing Supervisor for the office location).
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Meets all state-specific requirements for the Administrator role (if functioning as the Alternate or Interim Administrator).
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Three years’ experience in direct patient care in a clinical setting preferred.
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Three to five years healthcare sales/ management experience preferred.
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Licenses, Certifications and/or Registration:
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Current license to practice nursing in the state of requested employment, if applicable
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CPR Certification
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Current automobile insurance and valid driver’s license
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Equipment/Tools/Work-Aids: Must be able to effectively operate computer, facsimile equipment, copier and cell phone. Must have and maintain transportation to be used for work.
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Personal Traits, Qualities and Aptitudes: Sensitivity to feelings of the terminally ill and their families before and after patient’s death. Must be able to demonstrate flexibility by performing a variety of tasks, often changing from one to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Communicate effectively with people of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Influence people in their opinions, attitudes or judgments about ideas or things. Make generalizations, evaluations or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Display evidence of patient advocacy. Responsible functioning in the work place, maturity, cooperation, flexibility, tact in dealing with co-workers and all members of the hospice team.
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Specialized Knowledge and Skills: Organizational and leadership abilities; knowledge of terminally ill patients and their families along with understanding of hospice concept; knowledge of roles of all disciplines providing hospice services; excellent patient assessment skills; good oral and written communication; thorough knowledge of managed care principles, regulatory guidelines (i.e., Medicare, Medicaid, ACHC, and human resource), management principles.
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Working Conditions: Office environment. Occasional travel to patient’s homes and/or institutional setting. Potential exposure to infections, communicable diseases, odors, blood, excreta and hazardous materials.
This position requires a Florida Level 2 background screening through the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. For information regarding the screening process, please visit the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse Education & Awareness website: https://info.flclearinghouse.com
