Hospice Liaison Nurse

Join the mission-driven Gilchrist team as a Hospital Liaison Nurse, where your clinical insight and collaboration skills make a real difference—and help patients and families live every moment with comfort, dignity, and purpose.

Join the mission-driven Gilchrist team as a Hospital Liaison Nurse, where your clinical insight and collaboration skills make a real difference—and help patients and families live every moment with comfort, dignity, and purpose.

This position focuses on University of Maryland St.Joseph Medical Center This innovative, high-visibility role allows you to work alongside hospital teams, guide patients and families through important care transitions, and focus on meaningful connections. Competitive pay, supportive leadership, and work that reminds you why you became a nurse.

Job Summary:

The Gilchrist Hospice Care (GHC) Hospice Liaison Nurse generates & facilitates patient admissions from hospital-based referral sources, promotes growth of admissions, performs, or coordinates clinical assessments of possible patients, and is responsible for meeting GHC goals for successful relationships with area hospitals.

The Hospice Liaison Nurse establishes and nurtures external professional relationships, maintains awareness of local medical markets, provides clinical or psychosocial assessments of prospective patients when necessary, and represents GHC and its spectrum of services in a competent, professional manner consistent with the organization’s goals.

Currently Hiring Multiple Liaisons to Support the Following Areas:

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center - Towson, MDHours/

Shifts:

Full time/Flexible schedules:
Monday-Friday only with no on-call or weekend responsibilities

Education

Registered Nurse, Associate degree or Nursing Diploma – registered nurse in the sate of MD Experience

Minimum of three (3) years of clinical experience required. Experience in hospice, home health, critical care, emergency department, oncology, medical-surgical, or other acute care hospital settings is preferred. Candidates with other relevant hospital experience are encouraged to apply.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

Ability to work effectively transition patients and families to hospice both in the hospital, at home or at various hospice locations and nursing homes. Works directly with various professionals including physicians, social workers, case managers, floor nurses, and others. Excellent professional communication, negotiation, presentation and public relations skills are needed.

Self-directed with the ability to work with little supervision in a rapidly changing environment.

Flexibility in scheduling and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Strong clinical or psychosocial assessment and documentation skills.

Strong computer skills including e-mail, EMR, Word and PowerPoint applications.

Licensures, Certifications Must possess current Maryland State license as a Registered Nurse.

Valid driver’s license and safe driving record and an automobile that is insured in accordance with GHC requirements

Physical Requirements Able to provide patient care or assistance that involves lifting, repositioning, moving patients and includes bending, reaching and twisting.

Ability to travel to your assigned hospital. Parking is paid by the organization. .Sufficient dexterity to utilize electronic record keeping systems, computers/keyboards and or laptops and other related equipment.

Ability to assess patient’s health status using visual inspection and observation and to read medications, charts, calibration and monitoring devices as appropriate

Speech to verbally communicate to assess and impart information concerning patient status; to effectively complete patient/family teaching and to interact…