Certified Nursing Assistant - Hospice

Job Overview

As a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in hospice care, you’ll provide compassionate, hands-on support to patients and their families. You’ll help patients maintain comfort, dignity, and daily routines while working closely with nurses and other care team members. Your impact: By noticing and communicating changes in a patient’s condition, you help the care team respond thoughtfully and support patients and families through each stage of care.

Responsibilities

• Assist with personal care, mobility, repositioning, and activities of daily living; use safe lifting practices and patient transfer methods, including a Hoyer lift when trained and appropriate.
• Measure and report vital signs, observe changes in comfort or behavior, and communicate clearly with caregivers and the care team.
• Provide catheter care and other assigned support within your scope of practice; follow infection prevention practices and aseptic technique as required.
• Document care accurately in medical records or electronic health record (EHR) systems, protect patient confidentiality, and follow Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.
• Offer respectful support to patients and families, including people receiving dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory, or senior care.

Experience

• Required: Current CNA certification and ability to provide compassionate patient care; follow applicable care plans, safety procedures, and privacy requirements.
• Preferred: Hospice, home care, senior care, geriatrics, nursing home, long-term or post-acute care, assisted living, or memory care experience.
• Helpful experience includes caregiving, patient service, manual handling, medical documentation, and working with geriatric patients or individuals with disabilities.
• Familiarity with vital signs, medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, CPR or basic life support, and EMR/EHR systems is valued. Epic, Cerner, and eClinicalWorks are examples of such systems.
• Other healthcare settings or skills—including acute, critical, inpatient, outpatient, emergency, intensive care, pediatrics, phlebotomy, and medication administration—may be relevant but are not required.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person