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Are you compassionate towards others? Are you passionate about enriching the lives of others? If so, we want you to join our team and help seniors Age Magnificently! Our End of Life Doula’s become family and impact the lives of our residents who live in a Lifespark Skilled Nursing Community. In this position, assist in providing non-medical, holistic support and comfort to the dying residents of a skilled nursing facility. Duties associated with the position will include offering spiritual, emotional, and educational offerings to residents and their loved ones prior to, and during, the death of the resident. The End of Life Doula will partner with leadership of the Full Circle Care Program to support self-determination of the dying resident. Assist in implementing the integrative therapies of essential oils, massage, energy work, and/or guided imagery. They partner with full circle care program to support the development of best practices and tools for expanding program into other levels of care.
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Picture yourself building relationships, participating in grip game challenges and forklift racing, and leaving work knowing you inspired someone to think beyond ‘normal aging,’ and instead age magnificently. It’s what our End of Life Doula’s do. And when they leave work, they look forward to coming back – just ask them!
- Must have completed an approved End of Life Doula program.
- Possess an in-depth knowledge of palliative care measures.
- Must have a background and effective communication skills in providing support for family and caregivers around grief and bereavement.
- Experience in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team as well as family and caregivers in the areas of physical, spiritual, and emotional support needs.
- Experience in documenting doula/resident/caregiver visits and considerations.
- Possess creative ability to support needs for visual imagery, legacy work, and complementary care to meet the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of the dying.
Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on changing the age-old story.
Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.
We are growing our team at Birchwood Senior Living and invite End of Life Doula’s who are wishing to spark lives and become a part of a top-notch Skilled Nursing community to apply.
Lifespark Benefits include:
- Annual reviews/raises
- Experience based wage placement
- Paid time off, extended sick time, paid holidays
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Supplemental benefits for PT+
- 401K or 403(b)
- Referral bonuses
- Tuition reimbursement and nursing loan forgiveness
- Flexible scheduling
- Career path to other positions within our growing company!
It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
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