Experienced Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - Somerset/Somerville, NJ

NJ Palliative Care Solutions•Somerset County, NJ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

NJ Palliative Care Solutions is hiring an experienced Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide outpatient and skilled-nursing-facility palliative care across Somerset County and Central New Jersey. The role serves people living with serious illness in SNF, home, and community settings, including short-stay subacute and rehabilitation patients with recent hospitalizations, high symptom burden, or complex goals-of-care needs, as well as long-term-care residents. The position offers a structured ramp into palliative care, mentorship, clinical backup, data-guided coaching, clear workflows, and interdisciplinary support. The clinician provides holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based palliative medicine; manages complex symptoms; leads goals-of-care and advance-care-planning conversations; collaborates with patients, families, facility staff, primary care, hospice, and partner home-health agencies; and supports care transitions throughout SNF stays. Timely documentation must meet clinical, billing, and quality standards. Local travel within Central New Jersey is required, with mileage reimbursement and clinical/EMR support provided. This is a full-time position, primarily Monday through Friday, with flexibility to swap workdays. The employer is open to discussing part-time or per-diem schedules for the right candidate. Base salary is $130,000–$160,000 per year, with an annual performance bonus of up to 12.5% of base salary.

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 or closely related serious-illness experience; relevant areas include hospice, palliative care, SNF/LTC, oncology, or geriatrics.
Strong communication skills, clinical judgment, compassion, and 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 at the top of the clinician’s license.
Provide palliative care consultations and follow-up visits in skilled nursing facilities, including short-stay subacute and rehabilitation patients and long-term-care residents.
Conduct 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.
Coordinate with partner home-health and hospice agencies when appropriate.
Partner with the interdisciplinary team, facility staff, primary care, and hospice.
Support transition planning from SNF admission through discharge, return to long-term care, rehospitalization decisions, hospice transition, or other next-site-of-care planning.
Complete timely documentation in alignment with clinical, billing, and quality standards.
Travel locally within Central New Jersey.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus up to 12.5% of base salary.
28 paid time-off days in the first year, increasing to 33 days at 2 years, in a flexible bank.
Medical coverage through Cigna PPO, including a $0/month employee-only option.
Dental and vision coverage.
Malpractice and professional liability coverage ($1 million/$3 million).
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 FSA, dependent-care FSA, and HSA.
Commuter benefits.
24/7 Employee Assistance Program.
Identity-theft protection.
Legal plan.
Pet benefits.
Member discounts.
Mileage reimbursement for local travel.