Patient Care Team Lead

Patient Care Team Lead

We invite you to take a bold step with us. Join the team that’s offering expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance, and hope to people affected by serious illness or grief around Kansas City.  At Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care, we work together – one team, one vision, that each person in our community is valued from life through death and each family is supported in their grief.

We Strive to be the Best Place to Work:

• We offer generous and competitive wages and benefits!
• No On Call shifts - We have a dedicated After Hours and Weekends Team! 
• A reasonable caseload that allows you to provide exceptional, high quality care while maintaining a good work life balance
• 24/7 support from our full-time Board Certified physicians and APRNs, Chaplains and Social Workers
• Interdisciplinary team work to support outstanding patient and family care

Position Description:

The Team Lead provides leadership and support ensuring excellence in service and quality of care for Palliative Home Health and Carousel patients and families.

The Ideal Candidate Will Possess the Following Requirements:

• Must be licensed for nursing in both Kansas and Missouri.
• Two years experience in caring for terminal patients and others with life threatening illnesses, preferred.
• Motivated to work with the dying and bereaved.
• Able and willing to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Commitment to quality and excellence in service.
• Flexible
• Good Administrative skills and experience in supervision, management and coordination of the work of others, preferred.
• Strong organization and communication skills and ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Licensed driver and reliable transportation and auto insurance.

Our Benefit Offerings Include: Insurance: Medical Insurance HRA, Dental, Vision, Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Voluntary Life, Short and Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness, Pre-Paid Legal and Identity Theft, Pet Insurance

Time Off: Generous PTO accrual program, Generous Bereavement Leave, Parental Leave, Personal Day

Tuition Assistance and Reimbursement Programs:

• Tuition Assistance 
• Additionally 2-Year Loan Assistance Agreement 
• Federal Student Loan (Perkins Loan) Forgiveness:  As a Benefit of working at Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care, a qualified employer non-profit organization, you may be eligible for student loan forgiveness. Contact your lender for additional information.
• Career Growth and Annual Scholarship opportunities including Certified Hospice Palliative Nurse (CHPN) reimbursement, Company paid CEU’s and ongoing training

And More!!!: Company Paid Employee Assistance Program offering 10 sessions per year, per event, Smart Shopper Healthcare Consumer Savings Program, Flexible Spending Account, Mileage Reimbursement, 403b Retirement Savings Plan and Company Match, Wellness Plan Discounts to include monthly incentives for participation and discounted gym memberships, Free Monthly Online Yoga Class, Generous Employee Referral Program

** All benefits are available to regular full-time employees hired to work 60 hours or more per pay period, benefits offered differ for PT employees

Kansas City Hospice and Palliative Care is an equal-opportunity, drug-free employer committed to diversity in the workplace.  We don’t just accept differences—we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our patients, and our community. Our diversity defines us. It binds us. It makes us great.