Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Full-time

Transitions LifeCare is hiring immediately. As one of the community’s industry leaders, we provide exceptional home health, hospice, and palliative care services throughout our 8-county territory. Transitions LifeCare’s goal is to care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life changing illness.   The schedule for this position is Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Why you should join Transitions:

• **CME days**
• **We pay for license and credentialing**
• **6 weeks of paid time off (PTO) for 40 hour per week employees**
• **Mileage reimbursed**

 
A Successful Advanced Practice Provider has the following:

• Caring and compassionate attitude with true concern for people
• Excellent interpersonal skills: ability to connect with patients, families, and internal/external partners
• Strong ability to problem-solve and communicate complex issues; ability to work collaboratively with all co-workers
• Exhibit ability to make responsible choice and decisions that are in patients’ best interest

Responsibilities:

• Provide Palliative Care Consultation to patients in the hospital
• Provide direct patient care on an ongoing basis as directed by and under the clinical supervision of the Chief Medical Officer, the Associate Medical Director and the referring physician, patient, family, and plan of care; utilizing pain and symptom management interventions that are based on established hospice and/or palliative care guidelines and standards.
• Educate hospital staff and consult with the community physicians about palliative care pain, and symptom management, communication around end-of-life decision making and other Transitions LifeCare Programs.
• Maintain comfort, privacy, and dignity of our patients
• Develop working knowledge of all federal, state and company regulations, policies, and procedures; ensure compliance

Requirements:

• Nurse Practitioner with current NC license
• Preferred 3 years clinical experience
• Must have reliable transportation
• Must submit and pass all applicable pre-employment and annual tests and meet all training and other applicable state and federal guidelines

What you can expect from us:

• Hiring Manager or Human Resources will contact you within 1-3 business days of your application submission
• Complete 1-2 interview(s) with the hiring manager via virtual video, or in-person
• Upon receiving the job offer, review job description, and complete new-hire tasks and paperwork (via UKG)
• Complete New-Hire Orientation and clinical skills training
• Receive continuous training from our team as you continue to provide exceptional care to our patients

Essential Functions: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.