Lead Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Central, NJ

NJ Palliative Care Solutions • Somerville, NJ

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

NJ Palliative Care Solutions is seeking a Lead Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) to guide Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants delivering outpatient and SNF palliative care across Central New Jersey. This role combines direct patient care, APP mentoring, quality oversight, documentation standards, and practical program-building. The position offers protected leadership time, not a full staff caseload with management layered on top. The direct patient load is calibrated to team size, creating capacity to lead. The role is primarily Monday-Friday with flexibility to swap workdays.

Requirements

• Active New Jersey NP or PA license and national board certification.
• DEA + CDS registration, or ability to obtain by start date.
• 5+ years across palliative care, hospice, geriatrics, oncology, internal/family/hospital medicine, SNF/LTC, or complex chronic care; palliative experience preferred.
• 1–2+ years of leadership, mentoring, precepting, team lead, or supervisory experience.
• Strong communication, clinical judgment, operational follow-through, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership, mentoring, and clinical support to NPs and PAs.
• Carry a focused clinical caseload calibrated to team size — performing at the top of your license with best-practice, holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based interdisciplinary palliative medicine.
• Provide palliative care consultations and follow-up visits across skilled nursing settings, including short-stay subacute/rehab patients with recent hospitalizations, high symptom burden, or complex goals-of-care needs, as well as ongoing management of long-term care residents.
• Lead goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations with patients and families, coordinating with partner home health and/or hospice agencies if and when appropriate.
• Promote evidence-based standards, quality, and consistent documentation across the team, shaping the palliative medicine practice across the region’s facilities.
• Support transition planning across the SNF stay – from admission after hospitalization through discharge home, return to long-term care, rehospitalization decisions, hospice transition, or other next-site-of-care planning.
• Support onboarding, shadowing, case review, quality review, and escalation workflows.
• Build referral relationships and represent NJPCS with SNFs and community organizations.
• Support local and regional coverage planning across Central, with mileage reimbursement and clinical/EMR support.

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus up to $25,000
• 28 days of paid time off your first year, growing to 33 days at 2 years
• Malpractice & professional liability ($1M / $3M)
• License & DEA renewals
• Up to $1,000/year CME
• Up to $2,000 tuition reimbursement
• Medical via Cigna PPO, including a $0/month employee-only option
• Dental
• Vision
• HSA
• Short- and long-term disability
• Voluntary life & AD&D
• Accident / critical-illness / hospital coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Pre-tax FSA
• Dependent-care FSA
• HSA
• Commuter benefits
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Identity-theft protection
• Legal plan
• Pet benefits
• Member discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level