Hospice Care Consultant

About the role

The Hospice Care Consultant provides education and brings awareness to the hospice benefit with a primary focus on developing and maintaining relationships that give access to eligible patients to receive hospice services.

Please Note: This posting is for a future opportunity. We are proactively building a pipeline of qualified candidates for upcoming roles. While there may not be an immediate opening, we encourage you to apply if you're interested in being considered when a position becomes available.

Job Responsibilities

• Assists the Executive Director/Administrator in establishing organization volume projections in the annual budget.
• Initiates marketing and promotional initiatives to achieve budgetary volume projections.
• Conducts market assessments and develops a comprehensive marketing plan designed to meet budgetary projections.
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral sources.
• Educates facilities, families, and the community at large on the hospice benefit.
• Provides leadership in strategic planning including identifying opportunities for additional or improved services to address customer needs.
• Supports the care team in field by gathering referral information, helping to obtain orders, following up on pending referrals.
• Ensures annual education is completed and documented.
• Accountable to goals set by agency leadership including development of unique referral sources, territory growth, achieving admission/census goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
• At least two (2) years experience in health care marketing, preferably in hospice care preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office applications and ability to learn department and job-specific software systems.
• Demonstrate organizational skills.
• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrate analytical skills when problem-solving.
• Demonstrate high attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Communication: Demonstrate knowledge to reply and receive information to and from others.
• Customer Service: Works with customers to assess their needs in an effort to meet/exceed requirements and expectations.
• Emotional Intelligence: Demonstrates knowledge on how to manage oneself and how to interact successfully with others.
• Time Management: Demonstrate ability to manage your time productively and efficiently.