Job Description

The Staffing Manager (for CNA Clinical Services)/(CNA Team Lead serves as a clinical peer leader and mentor within the Lifespark Hospice field team. This role bridges direct patient care and team coordination — supporting CNA colleagues in delivering compassionate, dignity-centered care consistent with each patient's individualized plan of care. The CNA Team Lead models Lifespark's Spark of Life philosophy in every patient interaction and serves as a go-to resource for the CNA team on clinical questions, scheduling concerns, and professional development.

Position: Staffing Manager (for CNA Clinical Services)for Hospice

Salary: $50,000 - $60,000 annually, depending on experience

Service Area: Lifespark Corporate Office, St. Louis Park 55416

Schedule: 1.0 FTE, Full - Time / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (hybrid schedule available)

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable}
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurances
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
• Referral bonuses
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

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 helping people age magnificently.

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

Peer Leadership & Mentorship

• Serve as a primary point of contact for CNA team members with day-to-day clinical or operational questions.
• Mentor new CNAs during onboarding, including field orientation and skills validation.
• Model professional, compassionate, and person-centered care in all patient and family interactions.
• Support a culture of psychological safety, continuous learning, and mutual accountability within the CNA team.
• Audit and review care delivery in HCHB in accordance with Lifespark standards

Care Coordination Support

• Collaborate with the IDG team to ensure CNA schedules align with patient care needs.
• Flag care concerns, visit barriers, or supply needs to the care team in a timely manner.
• Attend interdisciplinary team (IDT) meetings and contribute the CNA care perspective.
• Manage and support CNA scheduling

Quality & Compliance

• Support adherence to CNA aide plan of care and visit frequency requirements.
• Assist the Clinical Manager in identifying patterns or opportunities for CNA team improvement.
• Maintain up-to-date TB, CPR, competencies, and any state-required CNA continuing education.
• Uphold HIPAA, patient rights, and Lifespark Hospice policies in all activities.

Qualifications:

• Active MN CNA certification in good standing
• Minimum 5 years of CNA experience in hospice
• Demonstrated reliability, strong communication and team oriented work style
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation for field travel within service area
• Preferred: prior experience as a lead, preceptor or supervisor
• Preferred: experience working within value based care models

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 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.

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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