Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Ocean County, NJ

NJ Palliative Care Solutions•Toms River, NJ

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

NJ Palliative Care Solutions is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide outpatient and SNF-based palliative care across Ocean County for patients living with serious illness. The role involves delivering high-touch palliative care in SNF, home, and community settings, with a structured ramp-up period, physician/APP backup, and a supportive interdisciplinary team. Clinicians with strong communication and serious-illness judgment from relevant backgrounds are encouraged to apply, even if palliative care experience is not extensive.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Palliative care experience is helpful but not required.
Clinicians with strong communication and serious-illness judgment from oncology, critical care, hospital medicine, geriatrics, SNF/LTC, primary care, or home-based care should consider this role.
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 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.
Deliver palliative assessments and follow-up visits in SNFs and community settings.
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 home health and/or hospice agencies if and when appropriate.
Partner with the interdisciplinary team and facility staff, primary care, and hospice.
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.
Complete timely documentation aligned with clinical, billing, and quality standards.
Travel locally within Ocean County, with mileage reimbursement and clinical/EMR support provided.