RN Clinical Director

Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice; Newton (NJ); On-site; USD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical stipend

Dental

Vision

Benefit time

401(k)

Job summary

Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice seeks a Clinical Director to provide comprehensive leadership for the hospice program in Newton, NJ. The role includes supervising nursing staff, ensuring clinical competency, maintaining regulatory compliance, and managing resource use to deliver high-quality patient care.

The position reports to the COO, oversees committees, and ensures licensure standards are met. A strong focus on budgeting, policy development, and coordination of patient services is required.

Qualifications

• Experience overseeing hospice and palliative care programs.
• Strong governance and regulatory compliance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Studies, plans, revises, directs, and/or evaluates processes and systems to achieve goals in hospice.
• Maintains medical records for accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Ensures documentation and deadlines are met per policy.
• Sets and monitors budgets and monitors expenses against the budget.
• Oversees policy development and staff competency for orientation and annual appraisal.
• Coordinates patient services, plans of care reviews, and IDT meetings for compliance and staffing.

Job description

Compensation: $120,000.00 per year. This salary reflects a candidate with direct Hospice experience, HCHB experience that exceeds the qualifications listed.

Schedule: M-F 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. plus admin on call rotation.

Benefits: Medical or medical stipend, dental, vision, benefit time, 401(k).

Provides overall planning, direction, supervision, and oversight of the Hospice Program. Ensures all nursing staff and management maintain an adequate level of competency regarding nursing skills, hospice and palliative care programs and services. Assures quality care by reviewing and assessing each service and is responsible for the clinical performance of nursing in all areas to facilitate effective, efficient patient care.

The Clinical Director oversees the required committees of the organization and ensures the organization remains in compliance with all licensure requirements. The Clinical Director is responsible to the Chief Operating Officer for day-to-day management of the Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice and for the effective and efficient use of all resources in carrying out the organization’s purposes.

Responsibilities

• Studies, plans, revises, directs, and/or evaluates processes and systems to achieve long- and short-term goals in hospice, including recommendations for technological processes and upgrades/improvements.
• Ensures the maintenance of medical records, assuring accuracy, completeness and compliance with licensing regulations, certification standards, legal and ethical standards in a timely manner per written Policy & Procedures Manual.
• Ensures appeals correspondence and documentation is completed and submitted within required time frames.
• Sets and monitors benchmarks with agency and departmental teams, including productivity, quality of care, improvements and documentation.
• Actively participates in developing a departmental budget, as requested, and within the approved timeline. Routinely monitors line items, maintaining expenses at or below budget and/or maintaining a relationship between costs and service volume. Makes recommendations and/or adjustments which impact operating performance.
• Evaluates clinical costs in conjunction with managers to promote cost containment while providing the highest standard of service and comfort to patients.
• Meets deadlines and responds to requests in a timely and professional manner. Meets agency regulatory/licensure requirements that affect job responsibilities. Implements decisions and follows through on commitments. Demonstrates initiative in resolving problems and working collaboratively with others to achieve department and agency goals.
• Oversees hospice policy and procedure development in conjunction with department managers/supervisors with regard to standardizing staff performance, defining competencies for orientation and annual performance.
• Works collaboratively with Administrative Asst. to ensure personnel records for all hospice staff are compliant with all applicable regulations.
• Ensures that criteria-based performance evaluations are completed within three weeks of due date; conducts progressive discipline in a timely and appropriate manner according to policy.
• Coordinates all patient services by reviewing plans of care, ensuring IDT meetings are compliant, reviewing clinical notes, periodic patient evaluations and determining frequency and/or staffing patterns. Responsible for compliance with recertification and Face to Face requirements.
• Actively participates in and coordinates hospice professional advisory committee meetings and subcommittee meetings.
• Participates in outreach activities with physician offices, referral sources and facilities to secure consistent referral streams. Engages in studies and investigations related to improving delivery of services.
• Directs or conducts recruitment, hiring and training of clinical personnel; directs, supervises and evaluates work activities of clinical personnel.
• Serves as the compliance officer for the organization.
• Provides administrative back-up for on-call services.