Palliative Care Coordinator

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds 48 licensed critical care beds 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center the Lauren Small Childrens Center including the areas only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Family Care Center a Level II NICU the Sarvanand Heart and Brain Center with Kern Countys first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

• The Palliative Care Coordinator is responsible for planning developing implementing coordinating and evaluating palliative care services. Included in this responsibility is developing and maintaining strong relationships with physicians and hospital staff to deliver palliative and comfort care to seriously ill and dying patients. This position is accountable for those functions which enhance the delivery of palliative care through such activities as education standards and program development quality improvement activities consultation and case management. The coordinator is responsible for promoting high quality cost effective care for palliative care patients. Also providing care education and emotional support to patients with chronic and terminal illnesses and their families.  

Education and Experience:

• Minimum 1 year acute care experience
• ELNEC training preferred required within one year of employment
• Hospice experience preferred

Licensure:

• Registered Nursing License (RN) in state of practice Basic Life Support (BLS) other credentials or credential modules may be required.

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire.  This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.