Lead Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

About the role

NJ Palliative Care Solutions is hiring a Lead Advanced Practice Provider (NP/PA) to guide Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants delivering hospital-based palliative care at RWJ Somerset Hospital. The role combines direct patient care, APP mentoring, quality oversight, documentation standards, and practical program-building.

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 the hospital continuum – from high-acuity ED and ICU encounters to ongoing management on medical, surgical, and specialty units.
• Lead goals-of-care and advance care planning conversations with patients and families, coordinating with partner SNFs and/or hospices if and when appropriate.
• Promote evidence-based standards, quality, and consistent documentation across the team — fully integrating into hospital workflows and shaping the palliative medicine practice.
• Give discharge planning as much attention as intake, managing transitions from inpatient to each patient’s next setting based on their longitudinal preferences and best interests.
• Support onboarding, shadowing, case review, quality review, and escalation workflows.
• Build referral relationships and represent NJPCS with hospital partners.

Requirements

• Active New Jersey NP or PA license and national board certification.
• DEA + CDS registration, or ability to obtain by start date.
• Minimum 5 years of palliative care experience.
• 1–2+ years of leadership, mentoring, precepting, team lead, or supervisory experience.
• Palliative care certification (e.g., ACHPN / CHPN) preferred.

Qualifications

• Strong communication, clinical judgment, operational follow-through, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

• Excellent clinical skills and interpersonal abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.

Benefits

Competitive base salary: $160,000–$190,000/year. Annual performance bonus up to $25,000, 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 & AD&D, 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.

Pay

$160,000–$190,000/year

Schedule

Primarily a Monday–Friday schedule with flexibility to swap workdays.