What are the responsibilities and job description for the Executive Director of Hospice Inpatient Units position at Mountain Valley Hospice?
Job Description
Job Description
Executive Director of Hospice Inpatient Units
About Mountain Valley Hospice and Palliative Care
At Mountain Valley, what we do is personal. Personal for those we serve and personal for us. Every day we stand shoulder to shoulder with individuals facing the most daunting challenge they will ever face – a serious, or even a terminal, illness. We help those with advanced illness cope with their day-to-day struggles, whether physical, emotional, social or spiritual. We also aspire to help our communities better understand end-of-life care. For those of us at Mountain Valley, there could never be a more important or rewarding job.
An Excellent Opportunity
We are looking for an individual with experience as an executive director of a skilled nursing facility, assisted living facility or hospice inpatient unit. The person in this position will be responsible for the day-to-day management and coordination of Mountain Valley’s two Inpatient Units and ensures continuity, cost effectiveness, quality of operations and regulatory compliant care to hospice-eligible patients. The Woltz Hospice Home is a 20 bed unit, and the SECU Hospice Home is a 6 bed unit.
Duties :
- Provide leadership to all staff to assure that care standards are met, and the highest degree of quality care is provided at all times.
- Work in collaboration with the Assistant IPU Nursing Director in the planning, directing, and evaluation of clinical nursing practice delivered on the units.
- Responsible for financial performance and management of all business operations of the facility.
- Manage and provide service recovery for all patient / family issues and / or concerns.
- The Director will have 24-hour accountability for IPU services and will share on-call responsibility with designee(s).
Requirements :
Benefits
Mountain Valley Hospice & Palliative Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived, race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), sexual orientation, parental status, national origin, age, disability, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, any other non-merit based factor or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
