ABOUT INOVA

Inova is Northern Virginia’s leading nonprofit healthcare provider. Our mission is to provide world-class healthcare – every time, every touch – to each person in every community we have the privilege to serve. Inova’s 18,000 team members serve more than 2 million individuals annually through an integrated network of hospitals, primary and specialty care practices, emergency and urgent care centers, outpatient services and destination institutes. 

Inova’s five hospitals are consistently recognized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals and Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades for excellence in healthcare.

Inova is home to Northern Virginia’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and Level 4 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Its hospitals have a total of 1,936 licensed beds. More information and statistics about Inova can be found at www.inova.org/careers.

What We Have to Offer YOU!

Benefits and Perks!

• Tuition Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to a maximum assistance of $5,250
• Student Loan Assistance: Monthly payment toward team member’s outstanding student loan debt
• Paid Parental Leave: Provide up to four weeks 100% pay for team members to care for and bond with a newborn or newly adopted child
• Competitive salary
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Savings and Spending Accounts (HAS/FSA)
• Life Insurance, Short/Long Term Disability
• Retirement Savings Plan: Inova makes a matching contribution on the first 5% of pay you contribute
• Time Away Programs: You earn or “accrue” PTO on an hourly basis during the calendar year, beginning with your first hour of work.
• Supplemental Benefits: Auto/Home Insurance discounts, Pet Insurance & Pet Care Discount Program, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Services
• Additional Benefits, Perks, & Discounts: Commuter Benefits, Back-up Child and Elder Care, Adoption Assistance Plan, Credit Union, Team Member Purchasing Program

Inova Health System has an exciting opportunity as a Hospice Coordinator. This position is full time Monday-Friday with no on-call, holidays, or weekends. This position will remotely cover four of our hospitals, Alexandria, Mount Vernon, Fair Oaks, and Loudoun. Travel and In-person presence will rotate weekly between the sites. Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of the organization and Hospital, recognized for excellence and innovation. Apply today to Job ID 616690!

What You Will Do: As a Hospice Care Coordinator, you will ensure that physicians, nursing staff, case management staff, and patients/families understand Hospice Care and the resources available to patients in and out of the hospital. To help achieve our mission, you will identify and coordinate Hospice referrals for all hospice services. Monitoring and reporting outcomes of referrals to Hospice is of vital importance.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies patients, collaboratively with Case Management, who are appropriate for Hospice referrals.
• Explains Hospice philosophy, levels of care, goals and services to patients/families, nursing staff and physicians to ensure understanding of principles of care.
• Assesses care options based on referrals and rounding with Case Management staff, nursing staff and physicians when appropriate. Obtains written referrals from the attending physician.
• Assists in the coordination of transfer of care to home or other facilities.
• Demonstrates knowledge of community resources to meet patient needs.
• Utilizes standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery
• Maintains knowledge of evidence-based practice and maintains professional competence through personal educational advancement.
• Provides in-services to physicians, nursing staff and Case Management as appropriate. Assesses knowledge of staff and provides information on an individual basis when indicated.
• Identifies trends and develops/implements processes and plans for addressing these trends appropriately.
• Assists with compliance aspects related to hospice
• Collect appropriate outcome and referral data and report to leaders on a regular basis

Requirements:

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing - BSN RN

Master’s in social work – MSW

Experience:

Two years of public health/ community health, medical/ surgical, palliative or hospice nursing/ SW experience. Hospital based nursing/ SW experience.

License:

RN license in VA

LCSW

Certification:

BLS through the American Heart Association

Professional Certification preferred in Hospice or Palliative

Location: This position will remotely cover four of our hospitals, Alexandria, Mount Vernon, Fair Oaks, and Loudoun. Travel and In-person presence will rotate weekly between the sites.

Our commitment to keeping patient’s safe means there’s no safer place for you to work.  We safeguard our patients, by safeguarding our team members.

Inova is well stocked with the best and latest PPE

• Masks are provided to patients entering our buildings, and offered free to visitors
• Covid-19 patients are isolated in dedicated areas
• Inova operates curbside Covid-19 testing sites that are far removed from the main facilities
• All team members are trained in the latest screening guidelines

Inova is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.