Hospice RN Executive Director II

Gentiva Hospice; Southaven (MS); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Gentiva Hospice in Mississippi is seeking a RN Hospice Executive Director to lead a mid-sized hospice location, overseeing clinical quality, operations and interdisciplinary teams.

You will drive patient-centered care, ensure regulatory compliance, financial performance, community outreach and staff development. This role partners with the Governing Body and referral partners to deliver outstanding service and align with the organization's mission.

Qualifications

• Experience with leadership in hospice care, home health, or clinical operations management.
• Ability to lead interdisciplinary teams and foster patient-centered care.
• Strong focus on clinical excellence, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance.
• Proven ability to develop staff, manage programs and drive performance.
• Strategic and financial oversight aligned with mission and values.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for a mid-sized hospice program, overseeing clinical quality and operational performance.
• Lead and develop interdisciplinary teams, ensuring delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care.
• Ensure compliance with accrediting/licensing standards and regulatory requirements.
• Direct human resources, office operations, and communications with Governing Body and partners.
• Drive census growth, financial performance, community outreach and service excellence.

Job description

Overview

Lead with Compassion. Serve with Purpose. Transform Hospice.

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a RN Hospice Executive Director to join our leadership team. This role is ideal for a licensed Registered Nurse (RN) with strong leadership experience in hospice care, home health, or clinical operations management.

If you're a natural leader who is passionate about patient-centered care, team development, and clinical excellence, we invite you to bring your talent to a place where you can truly make a difference.

The Executive Director RN II provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for assigned Hospice location with a mid-sized census. This role will oversee and lead the day-to-day operations, including managing and directing interdisciplinary teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality and patient-centered care, fostering a culture of compassion, respect and integrity to meet business and organizational goals, regulatory standards, and community needs. Responsibilities include leadership and development, financial performance, community outreach, human resources, office operations and communication and relationship building with the Governing Body, referral partners, the community. In this role, the Administrator ensures assigned Hospice location delivers outstanding service, while upholding the company's mission, vision and values.

Essential Functions

• Provides leadership for a mid-sized hospice program, accountable for clinical quality, operational performance, and balanced, sustainable census growth.
• Demonstrates a commitment to excellence through focusing on quality care and/or service.
• Incorporates continuous quality improvement principles in day-to-day activities.
• Uses statistical and qualitative information to manage quality.
• Requires employees to exhibit technical knowledge and effective skill education related to their job.
• Promotes and monitors compliance with requirements and standards established by accrediting or licensing agencies, regulatory agencies and state or federal law relevant to areas of responsibility.
• Ensures that policies and procedures are followed.
• Accepts responsibility for remaining current in the latest trends, developments and technologies relative to area of work by: Actively pursuing self-development, attending in- services, and circulating relevant information to appropriate employees.
• Recommends and implements policies and procedures, which have been developed by the Administrator and Governing Body that guide and support the provision of services.
• Manages Human Resources effectively.
• Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Promotes positive communications and keeps employees informed of changes by ensuring meetings with appropriate staff are conducted and documented. Is available to employees when issues arise.
• Promotes/provides for core orientation, at the direction of the Administrator, plus location and job specific orientation, in service training and continuing education for employees, volunteers and contract personnel.
• Conducts educational programs for outside agencies as deemed necessary.
• Recommends a sufficient number of qualified and competent persons to provide services. Responsible for the selection, supervision, and evaluation of interdisciplinary team members in collaboration with the Administrator.
• Collaborates with the Administrator, Corporate leadership and employees to establish goals and standards for performance; reviews and monitors progress regularly and redirects efforts where goals are not being met.
• Determines qualifications and competence of employees, in collaboration with the Administrator.
• Completes all performance evaluations in collaboration with the Administrator prior to due date.
• Takes appropriate and timely action in disciplinary situations in collaboration with the Administrator; documents actions taken in accordance with policy.
• Makes appropriate assignments among employees in accordance with their personal abilities and limitations; ensures fair and consistent workload distribution.
• Manages Office Operations effectively.
• Directs the multiple teams of the assigned location, if applicable.
• Plans and organizes tasks and resources to achieve strategic goals and objectives.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to recognize, establish and deal with priorities.
• Measures progress towards set goals; takes corrective action on projects, as appropriate. Considers the impact of department/location decisions on the overall functioning of the provider, the company and its hospice affiliates.
• Reviews and analyzes facts of a situation when developing a plan of action; considers all relevant information to make the most informed decision possible.
• Achieves predetermined objectives and goals.
• Participates in selecting outside sources for needed services in collaboration with the Administrator.
• Ensures contract management is maintained for services from outside vendors/providers.