Home-Based Pediatric Hospice RN Case Manager

United Hospice; New City (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

United Hospice in New City, NY, seeks a compassionate Pediatric Hospice & Palliative RN Case Manager to join our pediatric home-based program. The role focuses on comprehensive nursing care, interdisciplinary planning, and symptom management for children with serious illness.

The position requires an active NY RN license, pediatric experience, and the ability to travel within the community while collaborating with physicians, social workers, and other care team members to support families

Qualifications

• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in New York State.
• Graduate of an accredited nursing program; BSN preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional pediatric nursing experience.
• Strong clinical assessment and critical-thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, organization, and care-coordination abilities.
• Valid driver's license, reliable transportation, and ability to travel throughout the community.
• Ability to work independently while functioning effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Commitment to family-centered, compassionate, and culturally responsive care.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, skilled nursing care to pediatric hospice and palliative care patients in their homes and community settings.
• Perform initial, comprehensive, and ongoing nursing assessments of the child's physical, developmental, emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual needs.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and update individualized plans of care in collaboration with the child, family, attending provider, hospice/palliative medical team, and interdisciplinary team.
• Assess and manage pain and other complex symptoms, including respiratory distress, agitation, nausea, feeding difficulties, seizures, anxiety, and other symptoms associated with serious illness.
• Recognize changes in clinical condition and respond appropriately, including coordination of urgent and emergent interventions when indicated.
• Administer medications and treatments and educate caregivers regarding medication administration, equipment, treatments, and symptom management.
• Provide skilled nursing procedures appropriate to the child's condition and plan of care.
• Assist families in understanding disease progression, goals of care, treatment options, and what to expect as the child's condition changes.
• Provide compassionate end-of-life care and support families through the dying process.
• Participate in advance care planning and goals-of-care discussions within the scope of nursing practice and organizational protocols.
• Establish trusting relationships with children and families through compassionate, culturally sensitive, trauma-informed care.
• Provide education and emotional support to parents, guardians, siblings, and caregivers.
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to ensure continuity and consistency of care.
• Participate in interdisciplinary group meetings and case conferences.
• Coordinate admissions, hospital discharges, transitions of care, and changes in level of care.
• Coordinate medical equipment, medications, supplies, therapies, and other services necessary to safely care for the child at home.
• As needed or assigned, make visits and provide care to adult hospice or palliative patients in our community program.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Critical thinking

Communication

Care coordination

Travel-ready

Teamwork

Education

BSN preferred

Graduate of accredited nursing program

Job description

United Hospice in New City, NY, seeks a compassionate Pediatric Hospice & Palliative RN Case Manager to join our pediatric home-based program. The role focuses on comprehensive nursing care, interdisciplinary planning, and symptom management for children with serious illness.

The position requires an active NY RN license, pediatric experience, and the ability to travel within the community while collaborating with physicians, social workers, and other care team members to support families