Inpatient NP/PA Palliative Care

US Career Partners • Toms River, NJ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

US Career Partners is recruiting a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide hospital-based palliative care at Jersey City Medical Center for patients living with serious illness. The role is part of a program delivering palliative care across New Jersey and partnering with leading health systems, including RWJBarnabas Health. Palliative care experience is required. The position offers experienced clinical support, physician and APP backup, mentorship, structured workflows, data-guided coaching, and an interdisciplinary team that includes physicians, APPs, social work, care coordination, and operational support.

The clinician will provide holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based palliative medicine across the hospital continuum, including high-acuity ED and ICU encounters and follow-up care on medical, surgical, and specialty units. The role includes complex symptom management, goals-of-care and advance-care-planning discussions, coordination with partner SNFs and hospices when appropriate, and collaboration with hospital teams to integrate and shape the palliative medicine practice. The clinician will also complete timely documentation consistent with clinical, billing, and quality standards and support discharge planning and transitions to each patient's next setting in accordance with the patient's longitudinal preferences and best interests.

This is a full-time position, with the client open to discussing part-time or per-diem schedules for the right candidate. The schedule is primarily Monday through Friday, with flexibility to swap workdays. The position is listed as inpatient in Toms River, New Jersey, and the role description specifies hospital-based care at Jersey City Medical Center.

The base salary is $130,000–$160,000 per year, with an annual performance bonus of up to 12.5% of base salary based on productivity (RVUs) and quality of care. Benefits include 28 days of paid time off in the first year, increasing to 33 days after two years; medical coverage with a $0-per-month employee-only option; dental and vision coverage; malpractice and professional liability coverage; license and DEA renewal support; CME and tuition reimbursement; disability, life and AD&D, and other voluntary coverage; retirement and savings plans; and additional assistance and discount programs.

Requirements

• Active New Jersey Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license.
• National board certification.
• DEA and CDS registration, or ability to obtain them by the start date.
• At least 2 years of palliative care experience.
• Strong communication skills, clinical judgment, and compassion.
• Comfort working on interdisciplinary teams.

Nice To Haves

• Palliative care certification, such as ACHPN or CHPN.

Responsibilities

• Provide best-practice, holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based interdisciplinary palliative medicine.
• Provide palliative care consultations and follow-up visits across the hospital continuum, including ED, ICU, medical, surgical, and specialty units.
• Manage complex symptoms for patients with advanced illness and chronic disease.
• Lead goals-of-care and advance-care-planning conversations with patients and families.
• Coordinate with partner skilled nursing facilities and/or hospices when appropriate.
• Partner with the interdisciplinary team and hospital teams, integrate into hospital workflows, and help shape the palliative medicine practice.
• Complete timely documentation aligned with clinical, billing, and quality standards.
• Manage discharge planning and transitions from inpatient care to the patient's next setting, considering the patient's longitudinal preferences and best interests.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus up to 12.5% of base salary.
• 28 days of paid time off in the first year, increasing to 33 days after two years, in one flexible bank.
• Medical coverage through Cigna PPO, including a $0-per-month employee-only option.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Health savings account (HSA).
• Malpractice and professional liability coverage ($1M/$3M).
• License and DEA renewal support.
• CME allowance up to $1,000 per year.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $2,000.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Voluntary life and AD&D coverage.
• Accident, critical-illness, and hospital coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) and dependent-care FSA.
• Commuter benefits.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program.
• Identity-theft protection.
• Legal plan.
• Pet benefits.
• Member discounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed