Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant - RWJ University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ

Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Or Physician Assistant - Rwj University Hospital, New Brunswick, Nj

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.

Base salary $130,000$160,000/year plus annual performance bonus up to 12.5%. Primarily a MondayFriday schedule, 28 paid time off days in year one, a $0/month employee-only medical option, malpractice coverage, license/dea support, cme, and tuition support.

Setting License: Inpatient Rwj University Hospital, New Brunswick NJ New Jersey np or pa license required

About us & the role:

Nj palliative care solutions is on a mission to deliver palliative care without walls across new jersey, partnering with leading health systems including rwjbarnabas health. We are hiring a nurse practitioner or physician assistant to provide hospital-based palliative care at rwj university hospital 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.

Compensation & total rewards:

• Competitive base salary: $130,000$160,000/year.
• Annual performance bonus up to 12.5% of base salary, rewarding both productivity (rvus) and quality of care.
• 28 days of paid time off your first year, growing to 33 days at 2 years, in one flexible bank.
• Malpractice & professional liability ($1m / $3m), license & dea renewals, up to $1,000/year cme, up to $2,000 tuition reimbursement.
• Medical via cigna ppo, including a $0/month employee-only option, plus dental, vision, and an hsa.
• Short- and long-term disability, voluntary life & add, and accident / critical-illness / hospital coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan, plus pre-tax fsa, dependent-care fsa, hsa, and commuter benefits.
• 24/7 employee assistance program, identity-theft protection, legal plan, pet benefits, and member discounts.