What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hospice Community Liaison - FT position at Buena Vista Palliative Care, Home Health, & Hospice?
Community Liaison
JOB SUMMARY
The Community Liaison is responsible for establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources, responding to customer requests and concerns, and negotiating service contracts with managed care organizations, government agencies, and other payers.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- The Community Liaison develops and maintains relationships with physicians, discharge planners, case managers, social workers, and other health care professionals who utilize home care services by regularly scheduling and conducting visits to those referral sources in order to assist in identifying those patients who may be appropriate for home health services thereby increasing the number of clients served by the agency / market.
- Maintain current knowledge of agency / market trends, coverage criteria, and industry changes to ensure compliance with required regulations.
- Represent the agency at health fairs, mall shows, other community service functions, and participates in civic and / or community committees as requested.
- Continuously conducts market assessments and develops a comprehensive marketing plan designed to meet budgetary volume projections.
- Works with the Director of Operations to establish marketing techniques.
- Employs marketing and promotional initiatives to achieve budgetary volume projections.
- Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral and payer sources.
- Builds and monitors community, customer, and payer and patient perceptions of Peaceful Heart Hospice as a high quality provider of services.
- Provides leadership in strategic planning including identifying opportunities for additional or improved services to address customer needs.
- Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of Peaceful Heart Hospice markets including government agencies, major payer groups, key referral sources, and competitor's market positioning.
- Maintains comprehensive working knowledge in the field of marketing and shares information with appropriate organization personnel.
- Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of community resources and assists customers in accessing community resources should services not be provided by Peaceful Heart Hospice .
- Monitors and reports cost effectiveness of marketing efforts.
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by the Community Liaison. The employee may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Compensation : $80,000-$100,000 annually
The employer for this position is stated in the job posting. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http : / / www.pennantgroup.com.
Salary : $80,000 - $100,000
