Lead Nurse Practitioner (NP) - Equity Health

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care.  More importantly we are proud to be a community based, not for profit hospice & palliative care provider.  We have deep community roots, with decades of experience serving ALL patients’ and families’ needs regardless of their ability to pay or their medical complexity. We are a people first organization whose funds go to serve our mission.

Due to our significant growth, we are looking for amazing new staff who share these same values. Apply now and be a part of our success story.

We provide excellent benefits including:

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate 
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

Essential Functions

• Essential Duties
  • Oversees, directs, and supervises (with the Medical Director) the nurse practitioners of Medical Services programs with VIA
  • Participates in organizational planning as it pertains to NPs for strategic planning and operational growth.
  • Provides policy and procedure development and oversight.
  • Analyzes Medical Services data to identify trends and makes recommendations for modifications of practice based on analysis.
  • Assists in the orientating, forecasting, planning, evaluating, and setting of objectives for programmatic services.
  • Oversees staffing levels and allocates resources as appropriate to meet programmatic needs for hospice and palliative needs.
    • Assists practice manager in following up on coverage for staff turnover and PTO.
  • Oversees and develops orientation for nurse practitioners for primary and palliative care with leadership.
    • Ensures ongoing updates to orientation as standards and best practice guidelines change.
  • Conducts weekly or biweekly 1:1 meeting with designated nurse practitioners to address gaps, concerns and ensure clinical expectations are met.
    • PRN NP’s will need a meeting once per year to assess engagement to continue participating in employment with VIA.
  • Completes quarterly ride-along with nurse practitioners to ensure updates competencies and clinical standards.
  • Leads, creates, and participates in nurse practitioner monthly meetings with leadership.
  • Collaborates with medical director around issues of patient care, supervision, and support of nurse practitioners.
  • Participates in regular departmental meetings for updates and best practices.
  • Ensures compliance with legal, regulatory clinical policies, protocols and procedure based off NC/SC nursing practice.
    • Ensures NC monthly quality supervisory.
  • Assists with the training, onboarding, and development of nurse practitioners.
  • Monitors monthly productivity standards of nurse practitioners, including visits and billing expectations.
  • Monitors and evaluates nurse practitioner competency in documenting in the EMR (eClinicalWorks)
  • Monitors and ensures team dynamics in supervising NP teams, i.e., Nursing, SW interactions
  • Ensures supervising NPs uphold VIA conduct and standards of practice
  • Serves on committees as appropriate.
  • Serves on regional hospice and palliative care work groups as assigned.
  • Provides community education on topics about primary, palliative and end of life care.
  • Participates in ongoing professional development.
  • Maintains own clinical competency by having 0.6 clinical time.
  • Participates in on-call rotation of NP’s.
• May perform other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Master’s Degree in nursing.  Experience in training in primary or palliative care, symptom management and/or recent hospital experience.  Experience with program management is desired. 
• Current, active, and unrestricted license NC license as Registered Nurse (RN), and official recognition as Nurse Practitioner from NC Board of Nursing.
• Current and unrestricted DEA and Basic Life Support required.
• Minimum 5 - 10 years of experience with increasing management responsibilities.  Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required; experience of program development and grant preparation desired.

Computer proficiency is required.