Registered Charge Nurse Hospice
SCL Health
Job Description:Working with the department manager, the RN Charge Nurse
provides leadership and clinical expertise on their respective shift and
department. They coordinate unit resources to ensure appropriate staffing
levels based on the unique needs of patients on the unit, both clinically
and financially. They function as clinical support for staff and are a role
model of competency and professionalism.
What does it mean to be a part of our Home Health & Hospice team?
Home is where families gather, where special occasions are celebrated, and
where memories are made. Most of all, home is where you feel comfortable,
relax, reflect, and heal. Intermountain Homecare & Hospice is privileged
to be the caring hands of Intermountain Healthcare in the home bringing
quality, compassion, skill, and excellence. Homecare allows patients to
be at home, where they want to be, through their health journey. This
exciting work allows you to develop your clinical skills while experiencing
this unique and highly rewarding care environment.
Posting Specifics:
Benefits Eligible: Yes
Shift Details: Full time, 40 hours M-F office hours (8 am – 5 pm
generally) or the option for 4-10 hour shifts.
Prefer: 3-5 years of Hospice experience
Prior leadership experience
Benefitsare one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our
generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is
more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and social
well-being. To that end, we have launched a Healthy Living program to
address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives,
digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time
off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.
Minimum Qualifications
Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid
compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days
of the start of employment.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
Unit Specific Certification as required (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.).
Experience in assigned clinical area.
Mentoring experience.
Registered Nurses (RNs) hired or promoted into this role must obtain their
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four years of their hire or
promotion date. If there is an existing education agreement, that agreement
will take precedence.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution
(degree will be verified).
One year of clinical nursing experience.
Physical Requirements:
Physical Requirements
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess
patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors
that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand
spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately,
particularly during emergency situations.
Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate
equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and
typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information,
medication preparation, etc.
Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will
also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically
includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining
and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling
gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to
navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the
floor, e
May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of
time.
For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle hich requires
sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.
Location:Hospice – Denver
Work City:Wheat Ridge
Work State:Colorado
Scheduled Weekly Hours:40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate
dependent upon experience.$39.99 – $59.18
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we
provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of
programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living
healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho,
Nevada, and Utah based caregivers, and for our Colorado, Montana, and
Kansas based caregivers; and our commitment todiversity, equity, and
inclusion.
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national
origin, disability or protected veteran status.