CNA/Hospice

Job Description

Job Description

Shift: Days

Status: Part Time 48-64 hours per pay period

Hospice CNAs provide comprehensive, individualized care, education and support to Hospice clients and their care providers. Must work well autonomously and partner closely with the Hospice team. Must have excellent critical thinking and assessment skills.

Bonner General Health Community Hospice is the only Not for Profit Community Hospice serving Bonner and Boundary Counties. We are the ONLY 5 STAR rated Hospice in all of North Idaho, rated by families who have received our services.

Our Hospice provides care for community members in their homes. Our Hospice team is very close knit, providing highly personalized, compassionate care in all they do. Our team are highly dedicated, skilled, and compassionate coming from many different back grounds offering a wide range of skills and work experience.

Our interdisciplinary team includes a Physician Medical Director, a Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Case Managers, Certified Nurses Aides, Social workers, Chaplains, Volunteers, Bereavement Coordinator, Hospital pharmacists, Therapists, our amazing office support team, as well as support from ancillary departments through our organization who all strive to provide excellence in quality compassionate care with a high degree of professionalism, knowledge and skill. Our nurses provide availability to our patients and their families 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Our department is looking for an individual who can work autonomously while functioning as an integral part of our team-centered patient care. Someone with a passion for end of life care, who can critically think through variety of situations and who provide the highest compassion and caring support for our patients and their families, our volunteers and our community.

If you are compassionate, have strong interpersonal skills, a great sense of teamwork and collaboration, demonstrated leadership and program development skills, this position may be for you!

Consider joining North Idaho's premier Hospice team.

Education:

Graduate from an accredited CNA program

Hospice training as provided by BGH

Experience:

Documented evidence of a minimum one year professional experience in direct patient care

Hospice and Med/Surg experience preferred

Licenses needed:

Current Idaho CNA license

Current BLS (AHA) certification

Valid driver’s license

Requirements of Employment:

Personal vehicle for on-the-job transportation in all road and weather conditions, climate

Provide proof of liability insurance on personal vehicle

Must be able to successfully pass a driver’s license record background check

Employment is contingent upon successfully passing a criminal history background check (per 42 CFR 418.114-L95)