Community Liaison - PRN

JOB SUMMARY

The Marketing Associate is responsible for maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources and responding to customer requests and concerns.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• The Marketing Assistant assists in maintaining relationships with physicians, discharge planners, case managers, social workers, and other health care professionals who utilize home health and hospice services by regularly scheduling and conducting visits to those referral sources in order to assist in identifying those patients who may be appropriate for our services thereby increasing the number of clients served by the agency/market.
• Maintain current knowledge of agency/market trends, coverage criteria, and industry changes to ensure compliance with required regulations.
• Represent the agency at health fairs, mall shows, other community service functions, and participates in civic and/or community committees as requested.
• Works with the Community Liaison to establish marketing techniques.
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral and payer sources.
• Builds and monitors community, customer, and payer and patient perceptions of the agency as a high-quality provider of services.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by the employee of this job.  The employee may be requested to perform job-related tasks other than those stated in this description.

JOB REQUIREMENTS (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field preferred, but not required.
• At least 1 year of experience in health care marketing or administrative preferably in home health or hospice care operations.
• Demonstrates good communications skills, negotiation skills, and public relations skills.
• Demonstrates autonomy, organization, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.

Salary: $50.00 - $55.00 an hour

The employer for this position is stated in the job posting.  The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.  Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets.  More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com.