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Careers at Blue Ridge Hospice

Blue Ridge Hospice has been the exclusive provider of licensed hospice care to people in a five-county area since 1981. A private, non-profit, community-based organization, Blue Ridge Hospice is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified by Medicare/Medicaid to provide hospice and home heath services. We are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Included in our services is a free-standing, 8-bed residential center.

Our location near the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia offers a wide range of living choices, easy access to Washington, D.C., and all the amenities of the Northern Virginia Area including first-rate schools, cultural activities, and the pleasures of country and/or suburban environments.

We offer an excellent benefits package (PDF/37k)

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Join Our Team!

For confidential consideration, please send completed employment application Employment application 2008 (PDF/134k) and/or resume with cover letter to:

Blue Ridge Hospice
Attn: Ellen Hicks
333 West Cork Street, Suite 405
Winchester, Virginia 22601

Email: ehicks@blueridgehospice.org
Voice:  (800) 238-5678 or (540) 536-5210
Fax:     (540) 450-2774

Blue Ridge Hospice is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background investigation and pre-employment drug screen.

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The following employment opportunities are available:

Clinical Positions

Case Managers, Home Care – Full Time Positions

•    Position involves travel, within a specified local territory, to patient homes to provide direct patient care and education to Hospice patients and their caregivers
•    (1) Shenandoah & surrounding areas
•    (1) Front Royal/Page/Luray & surrounding areas
•    Current RN state license required
•    Position requires minimum of 2 yrs current acute care experience
•    Previous hospice experienced and home health care experience preferred
•    Must have excellent assessment and critical thinking skills
•    Ability to work within an interdisciplinary team setting
•    Must be familiar with general use and functions of the computer

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician – Full Time

Blue Ridge Hospice, well respected, well established not-for-profit hospice serving the Shenandoah Valley for 30 years, and its affiliate, Palliative Medicine Consultants, is seeking to recruit a Hospice/Palliative Care Physician. This individual will practice in collaboration with Hospice home care interdisciplinary teams and perform hospital-based palliative care consultations. The physician will assist in future development of the palliative care program and demonstrate the desire to champion palliative care.

Job Responsibilities:

•  Provide inpatient and outpatient palliative consults.
•  Provide hospice homecare patient visits.
•  Participate in interdisciplinary hospice home care team meetings.
•  Manage Palliative patients’ pain and non-pain symptoms with medication and other   treatment.
•  Evaluation for hospice certification of terminal prognosis of patients, quality of initial plans of   care and comprehensive plans of care, revocations, re-certification of terminal prognosis,   quality of pain an symptom management.
•  Ensure accurate documentation of patient care to support reimbursement for services   provided.
•  Adhere to the practice of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff and the   organization.
•  Participate in on-call rotation as needed.

Qualifications:

•  Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy licensed to practice medicine in the state of Virginia.
Board certification in a primary care specialty, Board certified in Hospice and Palliative care   preferred.
•  Current DEA license.
•  Proven track record with interdisciplinary teams, effectively establishing goals of care and   building collaborative physician/patient/family relationships in addition to a comprehensive   knowledge of hospice and palliative care, pain management and medical ethics preferred.
• Previous hospice and/or palliative care experience preferred.

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