Faith Based Community Liaison na Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care

Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care has an immediate opening for a Faith Based Community Liaison to help build and maintain customer relationships with faith based organizations.

Location: El Paso and Teller Counties

Status: Full-Time

Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 5:00PM. Plus afterhours & weekend events

Annual Pay Range: $67,787 - $79,643 (annually)

Mileage and Expense Reimbursement: Sixty-two and a half cents per mile – one of the highest in the industry!

CULTURE, BENEFITS AND PERKS: 

• We value engagement, community, and outreach initiatives and know it matters for our team members and our patients. We provide welcoming and supportive care to our patients and a work environment where all team members feel respected and valued.
• We support a culture of work-life balance and provide team members with two, free, confidential and robust benefit programs designed to provide solutions to the logistical and financial problems that arise in life. 
• Low healthcare premiums: we have not increased our team member medical rates 4 out of the last 5 years
• Employer pays over 90% of employee medical premium in some plans
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with significant Employer Funding: Single $1,000, Family $2,000 
• Healthcare Benefits are effective on the 1st of the month following date of hire
• Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation Pay): 18 days in the first year for FT team members
• Seven Paid Holidays with an additional Floating Holiday
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match: 50% match up to 8% of total compensation
• Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance
• Career & Logo wear 
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Clinical Career Ladders
• Certification Pay
• Generous Discover-a-Star Team Member Referral Program
• Team Member Service Awards
• Early Wage Access
• Legal and Identity Protection
• Robust Leadership Development Training Programs

REWARDING WORK YOU WILL DO:

Builds and maintains customer relationships and leverages those relationships to increase referral volume, extend length of stay, and expand market share in the community we serve. Provides information and promotes hospice programs and services through campaigns to grow referral sources including but not limited to faith-based communities, healthcare-related agencies, skilled nursing and assisted living, physicians, facilities, and hospitals.

The Faith Based Liaison will focus on the faith-based community calling on congregations and faith-based organizations of various backgrounds and denominations. The Faith Based Liaison will outreach to congregation members who often seek advice from those within their congregation including faith-based leaders. The Faith-Based Liaison will expand outreach to our faith-based communities, increase education on end-of-life issues as they relate to the specific needs of congregations. The Faith-Based Liaison is responsible for program development, organization, and leadership of hospice outreach efforts in the community to expand hospice and palliative care access to our faith-based population. Employee and volunteer training and volunteer engagement is an integral component and will focus on providing compassionate physical, emotional, and spiritual support to patients and their families at end-of-life.

• Builds effective relationships within assigned accounts i.e., Long-Term Care/Assisted Living facilities, physician offices, home health, and other partners to promote communication, problem-solving, and opportunities to position the affiliate as the preferred hospice, palliative and home health care provider.
• Utilizes and provides input with regards to marketing campaigns and associated tools to build brand awareness.
• Provides effective outreach and education to achieve strategic goals and maximize market potential.  Maintains detailed records of outreach activities and create a schedule of future actions.
• Cultivates new contacts and referral sources. 
• Collaborates with Marketing and Communications and clinical teams to create branding/marketing strategies to increase appropriate and timely referrals.
• Partners with all key stakeholders to understand and address identified barriers to hospice, palliative and home health referrals.
• Creates project plans and generates reports to track status towards project completion. 
• Educates medical community and general public on the benefits of hospice, palliative and home health care for patients, families and caregivers through community events, trade shows and other public venues as well as attendance at Company meetings and functions.
• Assists with assessing our service delivery with referral sources through periodic surveys, utilizing report information and conveying recommended changes to processes and programs as appropriate.
• Assists with obtaining Election of Benefits, as requested, to Hospice, Palliative care and Home Health.

WHAT WE ARE GOING TO LOVE ABOUT YOU:

• Minimum Education:  High School Diploma. Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Public Relations or healthcare-related field preferred.  Experience in lieu of education may be considered.
• Minimum Experience: Two to three (2-3) years’ experience in marketing, sales, or healthcare relationship management focused on the faith-based population, preferred.
• Required License:  Valid Colorado state driver’s license and current auto insurance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to lift/carry a minimum of 30 lbs

Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care is affiliated with Care Synergy, a nonprofit network of community-based hospice and palliative care organizations serving Colorado’s Front Range and the Region’s Largest Home Health, Hospice, and Palliative Care Network. Care Synergy provides mission support services to better equip Pikes Peak Hospice and Palliative Care  to operate as a distinct and independent organization while working together to share best practices and serve more Coloradans along the Front Range.

If you need assistance completing the electronic application please contact our Talent Acquisition team via email at [email protected]. You may also call the Human Resources Department at (303) 228-5647. Applications can be completed in-person at any one of our affiliate office locations.

The Organization does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, creed, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation/identity, transgender status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. This prohibition includes unlawful harassment based on any of these protected classifications.