Certified Hospice Aide Job at Legacy Hospice, Inc.
PRN Certified Hospice Aide
Location: Starkville, MS Department: Clinical
Are you looking for a job and company that you can be proud to call home? Do you want to have a team-based environment where you can create the best care plan for your patients? How would you feel if your employer designed a path to grow your career while investing in your success? Legacy Hospice may have the job for you!
Hospice affirms life and focuses on quality of care, along with quality of life. Hospice exists to provide support and care for persons in the last phases of incurable illnesses so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. Hospice recognizes dying as a normal process whether or not resulting from disease. Hospice neither hastens nor postpones death. Hospice exists in the hope and belief that through appropriate care and the support of a caring community, patients and families may be free to attain a degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to them.
We are adding a PRN Certified Nurse’s Aide to our Starkville team!
Here at Legacy Hospice, we hire highly talented and uniquely qualified Certified Nurse’s Aides to provide exceptional care to their patients. Our CNAs collaborate with patients, their families, and other healthcare professionals to provide essential and quality care during the final stages of patients’ lives. It is the expectation of Legacy Hospice that our employees communicate with compassion and empathy with their patients, families, and to the communities we serve.
Qualifications:
- Meets the training requirements of the State.
- Completed a minimum of 75 hours of classroom and supervised practical training. Sixteen hours of class room must be completed prior to a mandatory 16 hours of practical training.
- At least 18 years of age.
- Ability to read and follow written instructions and document care given.
- Understands hospice philosophy, comfortable providing specialized care to the terminally ill.
- Satisfactory references from previous employers.
- Is self-directing with the ability to work with little direct supervision. Secure with issues of death/dying. Provides a calm manner when in a patient’s home.
- Has empathy for the needs of the ill, injured, frail and the impaired.
- Possess and maintains current CPR certification.
- Demonstrates tact, patience and good personal hygiene.
- Licensed driver with automobile that is insured in accordance with organization requirements and is in good working order.
- Successfully completes a probationary period. This probationary period is to ensure the aide is competent in the above qualifications, and is documented by the supervisor and the employee.
- Effective social interaction, communication and organizational skills and the ability to perform a variety of tasks efficiently.
Once you join the Legacy family, you will proceed with our training program along with support and resources from our leadership team.
Within the first month, you will:
- Get to know your team and become acclimated to the hospice philosophy.
- Complete online training with your team.
- Shadow your team members to learn more about hands on hospice care.
- Your team member will then ride with you while you visit patients to allow opportunity to ask questions while you work.
- After a month of New Hire training, you will be ready to case manage your own patients!
We allow a flexible onboarding schedule to allow you to move at a pace that you are comfortable with. At any time during training, you have any questions, always feel free to ask your Branch Administrator or team members.
About Legacy
The mission of Legacy Hospice is to provide the highest quality end of life care to patients and families through the use of our interdisciplinary team. Through ongoing programs within our company, we promote new innovative ways in caring for our most vulnerable patients.
Legacy Hospice services are provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We work with patients and caregivers with care that is specialized to their needs. Our staff focuses on providing compassionate care, education, and support for all our patients and their loved ones, so they are as comfortable as possible.
We recognize and develop our treatment goals around the concept that hospice is about quality of life, not quantity of days.
Legacy strives not only to provide care to our patients but strives to be a company that our employees can be proud to work for. We work together with one mission, to provide top of the line care at the end of life. We believe we should take care of our patients like our own family and strive to treat each other in the same way. With this goal, Legacy provides a culture of caring for each other.
Benefits of working for Legacy Hospice includes:
- Competitive compensation.
- Insurance and benefit options for your families’ specific needs including a generous company contribution.
- Legacy provides short term disability plans for all employees, along with a life insurance plan.
- Competitive PTO polices and multiple paid holidays off.
- Programs designed to provide opportunity for career advancement.
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