Home healthcare job descriptions

Home Healthcare - Chief Executive Officer

Company Name: [INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE]

Department: Leadership

Reports to: Owners or board of directors

Location: [INSERT LOCATION HERE]

1. Position Summary

We're looking for a CEO to lead our home health and home care agency. You'll set the plan for both service lines, decide where we grow, own our relationships with health systems and payers, and lead the people who run daily operations. You answer to the owners for results and for a strong compliance program.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Set the yearly plan and budget for skilled home health and personal care with the COO and CFO.
• Decide where to grow: new counties, new payer contracts, new services, or buying another agency.
• Build relationships with hospital systems, physician groups, and senior living operators that refer patients.
• Negotiate or approve contracts with Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid managed care plans, and other payers.

Home Healthcare - Licensed Practical Nurse

Company Name: [INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE]

Department: Clinical

Reports to: Director of Nursing

Location: [INSERT LOCATION HERE]

1. Position Summary

We're looking for a Licensed Practical Nurse to make skilled home health visits under the direction of our RN Case Managers. You'll follow each patient's plan of care: checking vital signs, caring for wounds, giving treatments and teaching within your scope of practice, and reporting any change to the RN right away.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Make the skilled nursing visits ordered in the plan of care, within your state's scope of practice for LPNs.
• Leave comprehensive assessments, OASIS, and plan of care changes to the RN Case Manager.
• Check vital signs and symptoms, and compare them with the parameters in the physician's orders.
• Give wound care, catheter care, injections, and other treatments the orders call for.

Home Healthcare - Bookkeeper

Company Name: [INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE]

Department: Finance

Reports to: Chief Financial Officer

Location: [INSERT LOCATION HERE]

1. Position Summary

We're hiring a Bookkeeper to keep the agency's books accurate. You'll pay vendors, record deposits from Medicare, Medicaid, insurers, and private-pay families, reconcile accounts, process mileage reimbursements, and help the CFO close each month. Claims belong to the Billing Specialist; you handle what runs through the general ledger.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Pay vendors for medical supplies, software, rent, and other costs on schedule.
• Record deposits and match them to remittances and private-pay invoices.
• Reconcile bank, credit card, and payroll accounts every month.
• Process mileage and expense reimbursements for clinicians and caregivers under [your mileage policy].

Home Healthcare - HR Manager

Company Name: [INSERT COMPANY NAME HERE]

Department: Human Resources

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Location: [INSERT LOCATION HERE]

1. Position Summary

We're looking for an HR Manager to run hiring paperwork, compliance files, pay practices, and employee relations for a large workforce of aides, caregivers, nurses, and office staff. You'll keep every employee's credentials current, run onboarding and policies, and help leaders keep good caregivers from leaving.

2. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Run onboarding checks as your state and payers require: background, registry, and federal exclusion checks, I-9 forms, health screenings, and license verification.
• Track expiring licenses, CPR cards, health screenings, competency evaluations, and in-service training, and take anyone with a lapsed credential off the schedule.
• Keep personnel files ready for state surveys and audits.
• Set pay practices with the CFO that follow federal and state wage rules, including overtime and travel time between clients.