Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

NJ Palliative Care Solutions•Livingston, NJ

12d•Onsite

About The Position

NJ Palliative Care Solutions is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide hospital-based palliative care at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center for patients living with serious illness. This role offers structured mentorship, physician/APP backup, and a collaborative interdisciplinary team. The position involves performing best practice, holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based interdisciplinary palliative medicine. Responsibilities include providing consultations and follow-up visits, managing complex symptoms, leading goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations, partnering with hospital teams, completing timely documentation, and managing transitions from inpatient to the patient’s next setting.

Requirements

Active New Jersey Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license and national board certification.
DEA + CDS registration, or ability to obtain by start date.
2+ years of palliative care experience required.
Strong communication, clinical judgment, compassion, and comfort working on interdisciplinary teams.

Nice To Haves

Palliative care certification (e.g., ACHPN / CHPN) preferred.

Responsibilities

Perform best practice, holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based interdisciplinary palliative medicine.
Provide palliative care consultations and follow-up visits across the hospital continuum – from high-acuity ED and ICU encounters to ongoing management on 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, coordinating with partner SNFs and/or hospices if and when appropriate.
Partner with the interdisciplinary team and hospital teams, fully integrating into hospital workflows and shaping the palliative medicine practice.
Complete timely documentation aligned with clinical, billing, and quality standards.
Spend as much time on discharge planning as on intake, managing transitions from inpatient to the patient’s next setting, considering each patient’s longitudinal preference and best interests.