Hospice: Clinical Support Nurse (RN)

The Clinical Support Nurse is primarily responsible for the day-to-day coordination of care for Hospice clients, supporting the Clinical Manager(s). Completes workflow and tasks within the EMR and outside of the EMR, assuring quality and compliance standards are met.  Manages incoming phone calls for triage support.  Responsible for analyzing data integrity and consistency of documentation and assessment processes.

• Position: Clinical Support Nurse (RN) for Hospice
• RN Salary: $85,000 - $90,000 annually, depending on experience
• Service Area: Twin Cities Metro area. Plus, mileage reimbursement of .70 cents per mile.

Schedule: Full -Time, 1.0 FTE, weekend rotation: every other, 2 holiday rotations per year and on-call as needed

Option 1: Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm OR

Option 2: Four (4) weekdays, 10-hour days

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Supports the clinical team with care coordination by identifying and responding to patient needs via triage calls.  Assists to monitor care delivery of clients and with care planning, visit scheduling, and phone call visits as needed.
• Ensures proper maintenance of clinical records in compliance with local, state, and federal laws.
• Completes continuing education programs to meet education and training needs of organization.
• Completes assessments and audits ensuring completeness and compliance with federal and state regulations and organization policy
• Reviews discharge and start of care documentation and coordinates with clinicians to make timely corrections as needed.  Utilizes back office for reviewing data and notifies clinical leadership of any problematic trends. 
• Participates in quality improvement activities as assigned
• Assists with chart audits as assigned
• Ensures all orders and services received via an outside source are included in the client’s plan of care
• Obtain verbal orders for clients and documents as applicable.
• Acts as a clinical resource to personnel
• Runs all applicable reports and completes workflow taking appropriate actions with high level of focus and accuracy. 
• Acts as field RN when assigned by a clinical leader and assumes responsibility to coordinate client care for assigned caseload.
• Promote self-growth and collegial relationships with others in the hospice and healthcare industry
• Ability to come into the corporate office upon adequate notice from the manager.  There may be times when physical presence in the office are deemed necessary and will be responsible for being physically in the office when clinical managers are on PTO to cover as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Ability to work every other weekend

Qualifications:

Experience

• Minimum 2 years of hospice experience required.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with people in the second half of life.
• Experience in customer service/direct client care
• Working knowledge of HCHB and ICD-10 coding

Education

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Minnesota Nursing License.
• Contact Lifespark Now! 
• Donna Vang, Talent Acquisition Specialist
• Email: dvang@lifespark.com
• Phone: 952-955-7862
• Book a time to Chat: Lifespark - Donna (office365.com)  

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.