Careers

The finest people in palliative care come to work at San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine because they want to work at the highest professional level and because they want to focus on one patient at a time.

If you'd like to make a difference in the lives of adults, children and infants affected by life-limiting illness, consider a career with SDHIPM team today.

To Apply Online for a job opening Click Here

Career Opportunities

Admissions - initial compassionate contact with referral sources such as prospective patients, family members, physicians, and case managers.

• Intake: fields referral calls, and dispatches the Admission RN, as appropriate, to evaluate prospective patients.
• Program Representative: supports the Admission RN in home and hospital settings.
• Admission RN: performs the initial nursing intake assessment of potential SDHIPM patients throughout San Diego County – whether at home, RCFE, SNF, or hospital.
• Hospital Liaison: Admission RN who usually performs the initial nursing assessment in an assigned hospital.
  

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The Center for Grief Care and Education: staff, as part of an interdisciplinary team, provides individual, family and group counseling to those in the community who have been impacked by a death. Additionally, the grief center educates healthcare professionals and offers an extensive intern counseling program for developing mental health clinicians.

Business Development: act as the liaison to provide information about SDHIPM and our patients to physicians, hospitals, and long-term facilities throughout San Diego County.

Children’s: an umbrella for the range of specialty services and programs that support children and families impacted by a life-limiting illness.

Crisis Care in the home: Also known as continuous care, this level of service is provided when an acute medical crisis develops and patients’ symptoms require intense monitoring or treatment. Clinicians have the opportunity to provide a level of care that combines time for one-on-one patient interaction, as well as and education for the patient and caregivers, with the goal of stabilizing the patient’s symptoms. Care is provided wherever the patient resides – whether in a private home or long-term care facility..

Extended Care Services (ECS): includes evening and night nurses, social workers, and chaplains who support all of our patients throughout San Diego County. ECS nurses make visits for after-hour care wherever the patient calls home, whether it is a contracted facility/RCFE, SNF or a private residence. ECS also provides 24-hour holiday and weekend coverage.

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Home Care: provides interdisciplinary hospice care for patients and their families wherever they reside in San Diego County.

Inpatient Care Center: provides general inpatient care for patients with the most acute care needs.

Pharmacy: Includes pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The pharmacists play an active role on the interdisciplinary team consulting regarding therapeutic choices for the treatment of pain and other symptoms and educating team members and patients.  The pharmacy technicians, under pharmacist supervision, maintain an inpatient automated dispensing system, home care prescription service and infusion therapy for all SDHIPM patients.

Triage: supports the Home Care teams 24 hours a day. Triage RNs are a branch of the ECS department and are responsible for making all scheduled visits, tuck-in visits, and urgent visits, as well as for fielding calls from patients and families on a variety of matters regarding care.

Social Work: provides emotional support and community resources to patients and families receiving palliative care.

Spiritual Counseling: chaplains provide religious and/or spiritual support to patients and families receiving end-of-life care.

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Employee Benefits

San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine (SDHIPM) offers a highly competitive salary and total compensation package including:

• Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Tax-Sheltered Annuity
• Flexible Spending Account for Health and Dependant Care
• Paid Time Off Program (PTO)
• Educational Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Staff Education
• Shift Differentials
• Jury Duty / Bereavement Pay

As an independent, not-for-profit healthcare organization, SDHIPM is continually exploring the insurance and benefits market to deliver quality products and services to our employees.

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Contact Human Resources

To Apply Online Click Here

To Apply in person:

SDHIPM Human Resources Department
404 Camino Del Rio South, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92108

• Nurse Recruiter 619-278-6124
• All Other Positions: 619-278-6256
• Job Line: 1-866-448-3901

San Diego Hospice and The Institute for Palliative Medicine is an equal employment opportunity employer committed to non-discriminatory employment practices and patient services.

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What it’s like to work here:

“It’s work that really matters to someone.”

“It’s work that really matters to me.”

“People respect me and are grateful for my efforts.”

“We share a common belief in what we’re doing.”

“It feels like we’re fulfilling a mission. But at the same time, I can have my own life.”

“I’m more than an employee, I’m a valued member of a team. We all listen to each other. And my opinion matters.”

“Great schedule. Great benefits.”

If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to feel that way about a job, you owe it to yourself to come work at San Diego Hospice. Why?

Because you matter.

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