Director Hospice Administration - Hospice - Day Shift - Full-time

Sharp HealthCare; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp HealthCare in San Diego seeks a Director Hospice Administration to lead hospice services across multiple sites. You will drive strategic growth, ensure regulatory compliance, and oversee quality, financial performance, and workforce effectiveness to deliver patient-centered end-of-life care.

The role requires 5+ years in hospice/palliative care, 4+ years of management, and advanced healthcare education. Strong collaboration with physicians and hospital leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years clinical/administrative hospice experience.
• Minimum 4 years management experience.
• Master's degree in healthcare or equivalent required.
• CA RN or PHN preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for multi-site hospice operations.
• Lead growth, stabilization, and turnaround initiatives.
• Oversee IDG processes, care planning, and documentation.
• Ensure CMS CoPs compliance and survey readiness.
• Develop long- and short-term plans aligned with strategy.
• Manage multi-site operating budgets and financial performance.
• Lead quality, auditing, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Foster physician and stakeholder relationships.
• Provide accountable leadership and ensure plan execution.

Skills

Hospice management

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Strategic planning

Financial oversight

Education

Master's degree in healthcare

Bachelor's degree + 2 years healthcare experience

Job description

Hours

Shift Start Time: 8 AM

Shift End Time: 4:30 PM

AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Weekend Requirements: As Needed

On-Call Required: Yes

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $82.000 - $105.810 - $129.620

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant’s years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do

The Director Hospice Administration (Hospice Administrator) is accountable for strategic alignment, multi-site operational leadership, regulatory compliance, and growth performance of hospice services across assigned locations. This position leads hospice operations through growth, transformation, or turnaround while ensuring continuous compliance with CMS Conditions of Participation, state regulations, and accrediting body standards. This role translates organizational and service-line strategy into standardized, survey-ready hospice operations that ensure high-quality, patient-centered end-of-life care. Responsible for overseeing clinical operations, quality outcomes, financial performance, and workforce effectiveness while maintaining a state of constant survey readiness across all hospice sites.

Required Qualifications

• 5 Years clinical and/or administrative experience in hospice and/or palliative care.
• 4 Years management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• California Public Health Nurse (PHN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -PREFERRED
• California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing -PREFERRED

Other Qualification Requirements

• Master's degree in a healthcare related field; or Bachelor's degree and 2 years of relative experience in healthcare may substitute for the Master's degree. - REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• Key Responsibilities
  Provides leadership for multi-site hospice operations.
  Leads growth, stabilization, and turnaround initiatives.
  Oversees IDG processes, care planning, and documentation.
  Ensures compliance with CMS CoPs, QAPI, and patient rights.
• Growth and Strategic Planning
  Develops and implements long term and short term business plans which supports financial objectives.
  Identifies, evaluates, and recommends new services consistent with the strategic business plans to achieve the growth and objectives of Sharp HealthCare.
  Aligns operations with organizational strategy.
• Financial Management
  Manages multi-site operating budgets.
  Monitors productivity, census, and financial performance.
  Responsible for improving operational effectiveness.
  Develops and recommends department operating budget and ensures that departments operate within allocated funds.
• Quality, Compliance, and Audits
  Complies with organizational practices, policies, and procedures.
  Ensures policies align with CMS hospice Conditions of Participation.
  Oversees hospice QAPI program.
  Leads audits, tracers, and survey readiness activities.
  Maintains licensure, Medicare certification, and accreditation.
  Leads CMS and state survey readiness and corrective action.
  Ensures delivery of compassionate, interdisciplinary hospice care.
  Monitors CAHPS and satisfaction measures.
  Develops and implements quality initiatives including services and programs that result in continuous quality improvement and are in compliance with standards established regulatory bodies or organizations.
  Achieves quality objectives established through the strategic plan, organizational, direction, or regulatory mandates/requirements.
  Develops and recommends overall organizational policies and objectives within functional area and ensures implementation.
• Physician and Stakeholder Relationships
  Partners with medical directors and physicians. Develops and maintains effective relationships with hospital and medical group physicians to ensure program quality and outcomes.
  Develops and sustains successful relationships with hospitalists, medical group leadership and referring physicians to support the strategic plan and business objectives.
• Leadership
  Provides visible and accountable leadership.
  Exemplifies, supports and advocates the principles, standards, goals and strategies of the Sharp Experience.
  Determines direction, goals, and objectives of assigned areas and ensures implementation of strategic and operating plans.
  Responsible for department staff; develops standards of performance and resolves staff grievances in partnership with Human Resources.
  Uses effective communication and in accordance with Sharp standards. Ensures dissemination of information in a timely manner to areas of responsibility.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• This position requires the ability to build and negotiate collaborative relationships.
• Must have comprehensive understanding of hospice functions, standards, policies, and applicable state, federal, and auditing agency regulations.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing new systems, programs, techniques, and/or procedures.
• Have a successful track record in achieving financial goals and objectives.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

California Registered Nurse (RN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing; California Public Health Nurse (PHN) - CA Board of Registered Nursing