Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider

AlignMed • Pittsburgh, PA

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About The Position

AlignMed Partners is seeking a full-time Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner for a float position between its centers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Potential locations include Monroeville Post Acute, Bridgeville Rehabilitation & Care Center, and Ivy Park Post Acute. The position is 40 hours per week and provides palliative care to nursing center residents with serious illness in collaboration with the primary care team. Care focuses on pain and symptom management, psychosocial support, and advance care planning, with attention to each patient’s and family’s goals and preferences. The APP serves as a specialized consultant on an interprofessional team, making care recommendations and supporting shared decision-making through guidance and education for patients, families, and care teams. The posted base salary range is $114,000–$120,000 per year, with a no-cap incentive compensation program.

AlignMed Partners is a national medical group serving residents of skilled nursing and senior living facilities. Its clinicians work with clinical leadership and center teams to improve healthcare outcomes and provide compassionate care.

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing program and be licensed as a registered nurse.
• Be certified as a Nurse Practitioner and have graduated from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program with a Master’s Degree in Nursing and an Older Adult and/or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) concentration and specialty track; other concentrations or specialty tracks may be considered based on experience and business need.
• In states where practice allows, hold an unrestricted professional APRN license and DEA registration for each state in which the candidate practices.

Nice To Haves

• At least two years of experience working with adult or geriatric populations is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide palliative care services to nursing center residents with serious illness in collaboration with the primary care team.
• Assess health status; diagnose; interpret laboratory and diagnostic results; develop and implement treatment plans in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care-planning process; and actively develop and implement advance care planning.
• Follow up on and evaluate patient status as needed, complete required healthcare documentation in accordance with policies and applicable state and federal requirements, and follow evidence-based practice guidelines.
• Provide health education to patients and families.
• Maintain professional competence through continuing education, current knowledge, certification maintenance in compliance with state law, and use of standardized care guidelines.
• Support nursing staff development with center nursing leadership; help identify clinical education priorities and provide targeted education as a clinical expert.
• Participate in center-based quality initiatives, including efforts to avoid hospital transfers, ACO initiatives, and other quality-improvement initiatives.
• Ensure patients and families receive high-quality, compassionate service that recognizes individual needs and rights.
• Comply with coding and billing requirements, including timely submission of billable charges.
• Comply with AlignMed Partners’ time-off and on-call policies.
• Perform other duties as requested and implement and support AlignMed Partners clinical initiatives.

Benefits

• No-cap incentive compensation program; the posting states an average annual bonus of $13,000 for providers working 40 hours per week.
• Relocation bonus for eligible candidates, based on distance, experience, and priority.
• Health, dental, and vision plans.
• Employer-paid ArmadaCare supplemental plan with reimbursement for eligible out-of-pocket medical, wellness, and pharmacy expenses.
• Paid time off, six paid holidays, paid sick time, and bereavement leave.
• Continuing Medical Education time off and reimbursement allotments.
• Reimbursement for licensing renewal costs.
• Malpractice insurance paid in full.
• 401(k) plan.
• Company-paid group life insurance.
• Comprehensive 90-day training program and continued support.
• Mentorship and clinical education program for new and recent graduates.
• Career advancement opportunities, including a career ladder, clinical lead roles, and wound or palliative care specializations.
• Free subscriptions to UpToDate and the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC).
• Access to Nabla, an ambient AI assistant for clinical documentation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time