Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner | Central NJ |Direct Hire

The Provider Finder•Toms River, NJ

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a Lead Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant role in Central NJ, offering a direct hire opportunity. The position involves leading and growing a palliative care APP team while maintaining a meaningful clinical practice and protected leadership time. The organization's mission is to deliver palliative care without walls across New Jersey, partnering with skilled nursing facilities, home-based providers, and leading health systems. The Lead Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) will guide Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants delivering outpatient and SNF palliative care across Central NJ. The role encompasses direct patient care, APP mentoring, quality oversight, documentation standards, and practical program-building. The leadership model includes protected leadership time, with the direct patient load decreasing as the team grows to allow for APP onboarding, shadowing, mentorship, case and chart review, clinical escalation, referral relationship management, and performance improvement. This role is distinct from a staff APP role, as the Lead will set standards, strengthen execution, and improve the team’s quality, productivity, and consistency.

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.