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Crescent Cove
The mission of Crescent Cove is to offer care and support to children and young adults with a shortened
life expectancy, and their families who love them. Crescent Cove is Minnesota’s first residential
children’s respite and hospice home, which opened in May 2018 in Brooklyn Center. The Home provides
short, 1-7 day respite breaks for children with life-threatening conditions, as well as sacred space
beyond the hospital or home environment for compassionate care at the end-of-life. Crescent Cove
provides support services such as massage, music, and art therapy, spiritual care and healing touch, and
support groups for families caring for a child with a life-threatening condition.
Position Summary
Crescent Cove is looking for passionate certified nursing assistants with clinical experience to care for
children, young adults, and families at Minnesota’s first children’s residential respite and hospice home.
Nursing assistants will embrace the child and their family, celebrate the child’s life and assure the family
as their child stays for respite and/or receiving end-of-life care at our Home. Nursing assistants will
facilitate and administer care daily care, as needed, to Crescent Cove children and their families on a
comprehensive level including medical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs. Nursing assistants, along with
their team of supervising nurses and the interdisciplinary team, will manage all patient care needs.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Certified Nursing Assistants will perform the following duties:
● Commitment to Crescent Cove’s mission and vision
● Work closely with the nurses and take direction to provide daily cares
● Ensure goals of care for each child continue seamlessly from home or hospital
● Be an active and effective champion around needs of the child and family – clinical,
pharmacological, spiritual and social
● Help maintain staff resiliency and morale
● Develop meaningful relationships with families to increase their comfort and access to support
services for their family
● Ability to provide a wide range of daily cares to infants, children and adolescents
● Coordinate with child’s primary care team, nursing manager and office manager to ensure all
necessary cares are provided during a child’s stay at Crescent Cove
● Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications
● Certified Nursing Assistant -
● Experience as a clinical nursing assistant in a pediatric healthcare setting, preferred
● PICU, NICU, hospice or palliative care experience preferred
● Has experienced Integrative Therapies, i.e. massage, energy work, etc.
● Understands child development and unique diagnosis within pediatric healthcare
● Has current CPR certification for Adult and Pediatrics and BLS for Healthcare workers
Knowledge, skills and abilities
● Demonstrates self-awareness of personal, ethical, spiritual, cultural beliefs
● Highly developed professional & interpersonal skills
● Attention to detail and follow-through
● Knowledge of pediatric palliative, hospice and bereavement care
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to work effectively on a one-to-one
basis and within groups
● Knowledge of, and ability to use, software to capture family support
● Self-motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic, energetic, creative and highly organized
● Active listening skills
● Fluency in English
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Karla Vaughan at Karla.Vaughan@CrescentCove.org.
References and background check following successful interview.