Hospice Team Physician

BJC HealthCare

  • Saint Louis, MO
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 days ago
Additional Information About the RoleBJC Hospice is seeking a compassionate Hospice Team Physician to provide medical leadership and support for our growing home hospice team. This physician will lead the interdisciplinary team, deliver expert symptom management, and serve as a vital collaborator, educator, and mentor across our field-based care model. This role is ideal for a physician with a primary passion for hospice, a heart for teaching, and the ability to adapt and multitask in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.Key Responsibilities
  • Lead Interdisciplinary Group (IDG) meetings and sign off on care plans for approximatly 60–100 patients depending on census.
  • Collaborate with hospice referral coordinators on complex patients discharging to home hospice.
  • Serve as the collaborating physician for home hospice nurse practitioners.
  • Be a resource for symptom management guidance to home hospice nurse practitioners.
  • Provide education and support to home hospice staff, including NPs, nurses, and interdisciplinary team members.
  • Assist in training and developing a high-functioning hospice team focused on excellence in care and communication.
  • Demonstrate a passion for teaching, kindness, and collaborative team-building.
Specific Duties Include
  • Sign and prescribe scheduled medication orders for home hospice patients.
  • Review and sign Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders and other forms for home hospice patients.
  • Provide education to home hospice staff as needed on clinical best practices, policies, and symptom management.
  • Assist with emergency face-to-face visits when necessary to meet regulatory requirements or urgent patient needs.
  • Be available to answer symptom management questions from nurse practitioners and nurses.
  • Participate in weekday evening call (Monday–Thursday), approximately 2–3 times per month.
  • Provide weekend call coverage approximately 6–8 weekends per year.
  • Participate in holiday coverage, typically one holiday per year.
BJC Hospice is a leader in compassionate end-of-life care across the Midwest. Our mission is to ensure every patient is treated with dignity and comfort, surrounded by a team that truly cares. As a Hospice Physician with BJC, you’ll find a supportive environment, committed colleagues, and the opportunity to teach, lead, and make a difference.OverviewBJC Home Care offers patients and their families a complete range of home care services, including skilled nursing services, adult and pediatric hospice and supportive care, rehabilitation therapy, home infusion therapy, infusion treatment rooms, home medical equipment and high-tech respiratory care. Specialty home care programs also are available, including adult and pediatric asthma, cardiac, diabetes, orthopedic and wound care programs.BJC Home Care provides care to thousands of patients in both Missouri and Illinois. Serving more than 25 counties, it has become the largest home care network in the region and one of the largest in the country.Hospice, the final stage of BJC's continuum of care, is a special kind of caring for patients with a life-limiting illness. Services are provided in the comfort of the patient's home or skilled nursing facility. The Hospice staff are sensitive to the physical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual needs of terminally ill adult and pediatric patients and their families. We provide a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals and volunteers, specially trained in symptom management, pain control, counseling and bereavement services for the dying. Our Hospice services include alternative therapies such as music, art and massage therapy. Our Hospice programs provide palliative care by helping patients manage their pain and symptoms while living their lives with daily peace and dignity.
Preferred QualificationsRole PurposeThe physician will provide professional medical services within the practicing Specialty to the best of physician’s ability through direct patient care and spend additional time as necessary to perform other related duties such as completing medical records, providing MyChart consultations and in-basket management, conducting patient-specific education and collaborating with advanced practice providers and care team members.Responsibilities
  • Manages the medical care of patient panel by providing or otherwise arranging for inpatient hospital care of physician’s patients, either through regular hospital rounds, making arrangements with one or more hospitalist(s) or other qualified physician to provide coverage for physician’s hospitalized patients consistent with Medical Staff requirements.
  • Collaborates with patients, families, and members of the care team to ensure excellent patient care outcomes at the clinic location(s) designated by BJC and any other BJC clinical outreach location to which physician may be assigned as patient care demands.
  • Performs and documents medical histories and physicals in the patient’s medical record as required by hospital medical staff bylaws.
  • Provides or arranges for call coverage for clinic patients and inpatient call coverage in a manner acceptable to BJC and in accordance with Medical Staff bylaws, while observing and following all BJC policies and procedures and all applicable legal, ethical and professional standards.
  • Collaborates and teaches advanced practice providers, support staff or any care team member assigned in the care of physician’s patient panel.
  • BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.
Minimum RequirementsEducation
  • Doctorate-Medicine
Experience
  • <2 years
Supervisor Experience
  • No Experience
Licenses & Certifications
  • BOARD ELIGIBLE OR BOARD CERTIFIED
  • Licensed Physician
Preferred RequirementsExperience
  • 2-5 years
Benefits and Legal StatementBJC Total RewardsAt BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
  • Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
  • Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
  • 401(k) plan with BJC match
  • Tuition Assistance available on first day
  • BJC Institute for Learning and Development
  • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
  • Adoption assistance
To learn more, go to our*Not all benefits apply to all jobsThe above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer

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