Lead Outpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant

About the role

This is a clinical leadership role with protected leadership time, not a full staff caseload with management layered on top. Direct patient load is calibrated to team size, creating real capacity to lead.

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 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.
• 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.
• Build referral relationships and represent NJPCS with SNFs and community organizations.
• Support local and regional coverage planning across Middlesex & Monmouth, with mileage reimbursement and clinical/EMR support.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Strong communication skills.
• Clinical judgment.
• Operational follow-through.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary: $160,000–$190,000/year.
• Anual 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.
• 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.