Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant| Jersey City, New Jersey |Direct Hire

Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant

Provide high-touch palliative care for people facing serious illness with structured mentorship, physician/APP backup, and a team that does not leave you to figure it out alone.

Setting: Inpatient Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City NJ. New Jersey NP or PA license required.

About Us and the Role:

Mission to deliver palliative care without walls across New Jersey, partnering with leading health systems. We are hiring a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide hospital-based palliative care at Jersey City Medical Center for patients living with serious illness. Palliative care experience is required for this inpatient role.

Why You'll Want This Role:

A strong palliative program behind you: experienced specialists, clinical backup, and data-guided coaching.

A real interdisciplinary team: physicians, APPs, social work, care coordination, and operational support.

Clear workflows and quality expectations not a sink-or-swim field role.

Primarily a MondayFriday schedule with flexibility to swap workdays.

28 PTO days in year one and a $0/month employee-only medical option.

Academic pathways, CME up to $1,000/year, and tuition reimbursement up to $2,000.

What You'll Do:

Perform at the top of your license, performing best practice, holistic, patient-centered, evidence-based interdisciplinary palliative medicine.

Provide palliative care consultations and follow-up visits across the hospital continuum from high-acuity ED and ICU encounters to ongoing management on medical, surgical, and specialty units.

Manage complex symptoms for patients with advanced illness and chronic disease.

Lead goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations with patients and families, coordinating with partner SNFs and/or hospices if and when appropriate.

Partner with the interdisciplinary team and hospital teams, fully integrating into hospital workflows and shaping the palliative medicine practice.

Complete timely documentation aligned with clinical, billing, and quality standards.

Spend as much time on discharge planning as on intake, managing transitions from inpatient to the patient's next setting, considering each patient's longitudinal preference and best interests.

What You Bring:

Active New Jersey Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant license and national board certification.

DEA + CDS registration, or ability to obtain by start date.

2+ years of palliative care experience required.

Palliative care certification (e.g., ACHPN / CHPN) preferred.

Strong communication, clinical judgment, compassion, and comfort working on interdisciplinary teams.