Hospice Liaison

About Us

Founded in 1979, Northern Illinois Hospice was created by the community to serve the community. As the region’s first hospice provider, we remain dedicated to delivering extraordinary care that brings comfort, dignity, and peace of mind to patients and families. Our team is made up of your neighbors—caring professionals who live here too—always ready to honor your needs and wishes with compassion and heart.

About the Role

Are you a driven healthcare professional who loves building connections and making a meaningful impact? Northern Illinois Hospice is looking for an exceptional Hospice Liaison to join our award-winning team and help patients and families access the compassionate hospice care they deserve. Since 1979, Northern Illinois Hospice has been the region's trusted leader in hospice care. Our mission is simple: provide comfort, dignity, and peace to every patient and family we serve. When you become a Hospice Liaison, you join a collaborative, mission-driven team that values compassion, excellence, and community relationships.

A Day in the Life of a Hospice Liaison: As a Hospice Liaison, you'll spend your day building relationships with hospitals, physician practices, skilled nursing facilities, and healthcare providers throughout our service area. You'll educate professionals about hospice eligibility, benefits, and timely referrals while serving as a trusted resource for end-of-life care. Every conversation you have helps connect patients to the right hospice services at the right time.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain referral relationships with hospitals, facilities, physicians, and community providers.
• Promote Northern Illinois Hospice and increase awareness of hospice services.
• Educate healthcare professionals on hospice benefits, eligibility, and referral processes.
• Coordinate with admissions and clinical teams to support seamless patient transitions into hospice care.
• Conduct presentations, outreach visits, networking events, and in-service education programs.
• Identify referral opportunities and implement business development strategies.
• Represent Northern Illinois Hospice throughout the community.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Minimum two years of healthcare sales or marketing experience.
• Hospice or palliative care experience preferred.
• Nursing or social work background a plus.
• Strong presentation, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to confidently discuss hospice services with healthcare professionals.
• Excellent organization, time management, and customer service skills.

Pay

The expected base salary range for this role is $79,000 – $114,000. Final base pay will be carefully determined based on education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and alignment with market data. This role may also be eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits.

Schedule

This is a full-time position, Monday – Friday.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• HSA wellness account
• Generous PTO
• 401(k) with company match
• Company-paid life, disability, and AD&D insurance