Employer of Choice

San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care (SDHPC) offers a work environment that is personally satisfying and professionally stimulating, and that provides you with a diverse career path.

"My experience at San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care embodies the reasons I went into nursing. I have the opportunity to make a difference at a special time in people's lives. I have time to spend, to listen, to educate and to provide quality care. I'm honored to be part of their experience."
-Barbara Hess, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care Nurse

It is the policy of San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care to provide a positive work environment for all employees, vendors, visitors, volunteers, and customers. SDHPC is committed to maintaining an environment of equal employment opportunities for all employees. The Company fulfills this commitment through hiring, training, and promoting individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or age.

Areas of Opportunities at San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care include:

Admissions - initial compassionate contact with referral sources such as prospective patients, family members, physicians, and case managers.

  • Intake: fields referral calls, and dispatches the Admission RN, as appropriate, to evaluate prospective patients.
  • Program Representative: supports the Admission RN in home and hospital settings.
  • Admission RN: performs the initial nursing intake assessment of potential SDHPC patients throughout San Diego County – whether at home, RCFE, SNF, or hospital.
  • Hospital Liaison: Admission RN who usually performs the initial nursing assessment in an assigned hospital.

Center for Grief Care and Education: staff, as part of an interdisciplinary team, provides individual, family and group counseling to those in the community who have suffered a loss. Additionally, the grief center educates healthcare professionals and offers an extensive intern program for developing mental health clinicians.

Business Development: act as the liaison to provide information about SDHPC and our patients to physicians, hospitals, and long-term facilities throughout San Diego County.

Children’s: an umbrella for the range of specialty services and programs that support children and families impacted by a life threatening condition.

Crisis Care: formerly called Continuous Care, the SDHPC Crisis Care program is one of the four levels of care offered under Medicare hospice guidelines. It is considered to be GIP services in the home setting. The Crisis Care patient must have a skilled need that requires a minimum of eight hours of care per day on an ongoing basis. Skilled nursing must be provided for at least 51% of the total hours. There are four major reasons for starting Crisis Care with a patient: symptoms out of control, uncontrolled pain, caregiver breakdown and actively dying.

Extended Care Services (ECS): includes evening and night nurses, social workers, and chaplains who support all of our patients throughout San Diego County. ECS nurses make visits for after-hour care wherever the patient calls home, whether it is a contracted facility/RCFE, SNF or a private residence. ECS also provides 24-hour holiday and weekend coverage.

Home Care: provides interdisciplinary hospice care for patients and their families wherever they reside in San Diego County.

Inpatient Care Center: provides general inpatient care for patients with the most acute care needs.

Triage: supports the Home Care teams 24 hours a day. Triage RNs are a branch of the ECS department and are responsible for making all scheduled visits, tuck-in visits, and urgent visits, as well as for fielding calls from patients and families on a variety of matters regarding care.

Social Work: provides emotional support and community resources to patients and families receiving palliative care.

Chaplain: provides spiritual support to patients and families receiving end of life care.