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Lead Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant | Central NJ |Direct Hire
Lead and grow a palliative care APP team — while maintaining meaningful clinical practice and protected leadership time as the team grows.
Setting · License: Outpatient – SNF & community, Central NJ · New Jersey NP or PA license required
About us & the role:
Mission to deliver palliative care without walls across New Jersey, partnering with skilled nursing facilities, home-based providers, and leading health systems. We are hiring a Lead Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) to guide Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants delivering outpatient and SNF palliative care across Central. The role combines direct patient care, APP mentoring, quality oversight, documentation standards, and practical program-building.
Leadership model:
● A clinical leadership role with protected leadership time.
● May be mostly clinical at launch; as the team grows, direct patient load decreases to create capacity for APP onboarding, shadowing, 1:1 mentorship, case and chart review, clinical escalation, referral relationship management, and performance improvement.
● Visibly different from a staff APP role: the Lead helps set standards, strengthen execution, and improve the team’s quality, productivity, and consistency.
Why you’ll want this role:
● Real ownership: shape clinical standards, mentor APPs, and help build the program.
● Protected leadership time, with the operational and clinical support to use it well.
● Data-guided mentorship and a collaborative interdisciplinary team behind you.
● Academic pathways, CME, and a clear path to grow your leadership.
● Primarily a Monday–Friday schedule with flexibility to swap workdays.
What you’ll do:
● 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.
What you bring:
● 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.
● Palliative care certification (e.g., ACHPN / CHPN) preferred.
● Strong communication, clinical judgment, operational follow-through, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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