Full Time - Palliative Home Care - Nurse Practitioner
About The Position
Virtua Medical Group is seeking an experienced, compassionate, and dedicated Nurse Practitioner to join our Home-Based Palliative Care Team. This is an exceptional opportunity for a clinician who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in the comfort of patients' homes and has experience caring for individuals with serious, chronic, or life-limiting illnesses. Palliative care is centered on improving quality of life for patients and their families facing chronic, complex, or serious illness. Our goal is to provide comprehensive medical, emotional, and supportive care that relieves symptoms, enhances comfort, and helps patients remain safely and comfortably at home whenever possible. This position focuses on providing palliative care through home visits across the community, allowing clinicians to build meaningful relationships with patients and families in their own environment. The Nurse Practitioner will work collaboratively with physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice partners, and other interdisciplinary team members to develop individualized care plans that align with each patient's goals and values.
Requirements
- Experienced, compassionate, and dedicated Nurse Practitioner.
- Experience caring for individuals with serious, chronic, or life-limiting illnesses.
- Comfortable working independently in the field.
- Skilled in supporting patients and families through complex medical decisions and transitions of care.
Nice To Haves
- Palliative Care experience
- Hospice Care experience
- Home-Based Primary Care or House Calls experience
- Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) or Long-Term Care settings experience
- Experience in management of patients with advanced chronic illnesses and complex symptom needs
- Experience with goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations
Responsibilities
- Providing palliative care through home visits across the community.
- Building meaningful relationships with patients and families in their own environment.
- Working collaboratively with physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice partners, and other interdisciplinary team members to develop individualized care plans that align with each patient's goals and values.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Paid malpractice insurance
- Paid vacation time
- CME stipend
- Loan forgiveness opportunities
- Supportive, respectful culture focused on continual learning
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact through home-based patient care
- medical/prescription insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- health flexible spending accounts
- dependent care flexible spending accounts
- 403(b)
- paid time off
- paid sick leave
- short-term disability
- optional long-term disability
- colleague and dependent life insurance
- supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- tuition assistance
- employee assistance program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
