Assistant Clinical Manager

JOB SUMMARY Are you a compassionate Registered Nurse looking to expand your leadership impact while making a meaningful difference in the lives of patients and families? As an Assistant Hospice Clinical Manager, you will partner with the Hospice Clinical Manager and Administrator to oversee the delivery of hospice services, ensuring patients receive high-quality, individualized care in the comfort of their homes.

This role combines clinical leadership, staff development, care coordination, and operational support, providing opportunities to mentor caregivers, improve patient outcomes, and strengthen team performance. You will play a vital role in guiding patient care, supporting interdisciplinary collaboration, and helping ensure compliance with regulatory and quality standards. If you are passionate about leading others, advancing quality care, and serving patients during some of life's most important moments, we invite you to join our team.

The Assistant Clinical Manager is available at all times during operating hours and participates in all activities relevant to the professional services furnished when the Clinical Manager is not available. This role will supplement on-call coverage needs for both direct patient care and administrator on call as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS
1. Must meet all qualifying standards of the Clinical Manager.
2. Must be a Registered Nurse to provide supervision of the nursing staff.
3. Acceptance of philosophy and goals of Agency.
4. Ability to exercise initiative and independent judgment.
5. Ability to work with individuals to enlist cooperation of many people to perform/achieve a common goal.

LINE OF AUTHORITY Reports to the Clinical Manager / Administrator OVERSIGHT MUST INCLUDE
1. Making patient and personnel assignments.
2. Coordinating patient care.
3. Coordinating referrals.
4. Assuring that patient needs are continually assessed.
5. Assuring the development, implementation, and updates of the individualized plan of care, which would entail communication with all physicians involved in the plan of care and integration of orders from all physicians involved inthe plan of care including those orders related to medications.

RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Understands and adheres to all applicable regulations, standards, and federal, state, and local laws and established

Agency policies and procedures.
2. Participates in the development of standards which ensure safe and therapeutically effective service to patient/family.
3. Ability to supervise, guide and develop patient care personnel skills and performances.
4. Consults with the Clinical Manager/Administrator in determining a staffing pattern which will accomplish stated objectives and promote a maximum level of utilization of patient care personnel.
5. Assists the Clinical Manager/Administrator with the recruiting, hiring, evaluating and terminating of personnel. Assists in instituting, interpreting and documenting disciplinary action.