Job Description:
The RN Charge Nurse provides clinical leadership and operational oversight for the hospice team, ensuring safe, compassionate, and patient-centered care. In partnership with the Hospice Manager, this role coordinates staffing and resources, supports clinical decision-making, mentors team members, and serves as a role model for professionalism, collaboration, and exceptional end-of-life care.
What does it mean to be a part of our Hospice team?
Home is where families gather, memories are cherished, and comfort is found. It’s where we reflect, heal, and experience moments of connection and peace. At Intermountain Health, we have the profound honor of bringing skilled, compassionate care to patients in the home—offering comfort, dignity, and quality of life during their end-of-life journey.
As a Hospice Nurse, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring patients receive exceptional care in the setting they cherish most—their home. This meaningful work allows you to combine your clinical expertise with a deeply rewarding care environment, helping individuals and their families navigate this tender stage with compassion, skill, and excellence.
The Hospice RN Charge Nurse provides clinical and operational leadership to ensure safe, compassionate, and high-quality hospice care. This role coordinates patient care, supports and mentors clinical staff, manages daily staffing and resource allocation, and serves as a key liaison among patients, families, providers, and the interdisciplinary care team. The Charge Nurse promotes clinical excellence, patient-centered care, and accountability while fostering a supportive and collaborative team environment.
Why Work With Us- Meaningful Work: Make a meaningful difference every day by providing compassionate end-of-life care that honors the dignity, comfort, and wishes of patients and their families. As part of our hospice team, you'll work alongside dedicated interdisciplinary professionals who are committed to delivering exceptional care and supporting one another.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible shifts, allowing you to balance work with your personal life. Monday through Friday, 8AM-4:30PM.
- Unit/Location: Denver Metro
- are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind, and social well-being. To that end, we have launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling, and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning. To learn about additional Intermountain benefits Click here
Minimum Qualifications
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers.
- Unit Specific Certification as required (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.).
- Experience in assigned clinical area.
- Mentoring experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution (degree will be verified). Registered Nurses (RNs) hired or promoted into this role must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four years of their hire or promotion date. If there is an existing education agreement, that agreement will take precedence.
Preferred Qualifications
- One year of clinical nursing experience.
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
Location:
Hospice - Denver
Work City:
Wheat Ridge
Work State:
Colorado
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$42.00 - $62.17
We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
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