NP Provider Hospice & Palliative Care (Pediatric)

MJHS; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-On Bonus

Student Loan Assistance

Job summary

MJHS is seeking a Pediatric NP provider for hospice/palliative care across Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. The role emphasizes in-person and telehealth visits, coordination with the interdisciplinary team, and leadership in teaching and quality improvement.

Strong communication and flexible hours are important for success in this field-based position. Qualified candidates hold a Master’s in Nursing, NY NP licensure (Pediatric/Family/Palliative), CPR-BLS, and a willingness to

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing is required.
• Graduate of an approved Nurse Practitioner Program is required.
• NP licensure in NY and CPR-BLS is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide pediatric hospice NP services in hospice and possible pediatric palliative care staffing.
• Provide in-person or telehealth visits as appropriate.
• Deliver comfort care, history-taking, examination, care planning, and documentation.

Skills

Excellent communication

Listening skills

Organizational skills

Teaching skills

Teamwork

Critical thinking

Problem solving

Flexibility

Education

Master’s degree in nursing

Nurse Practitioner Program graduate

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

Job description

$15,000 Sign-On Bonus or Student Loan Assistance!

This field-based position will cover the following locations: Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island.

MJHS is a large not-for-profit health system in the Greater New York area. Our range of health services include home care, hospice and palliative care for adults and children, rehabilitation and nursing care at Menorah, and the research based MJHS Institute for Innovation and Palliative Care. We also offer Elderplan/HomeFirst: health plans for Medicare and dual-eligible individuals. As a not-for-profit organization, many of our programs and services are made possible through the generosity of grateful families, corporate donors and grants, as well as our own employees.

We offer a broad range of services in the community or facility-based to help patients and their families ease the burden of managing a life-limiting illness or end of life care.

The Pediatric NP Provider Hospice/Palliative Care has two primary responsibilities.

• Provide NP-appropriate service to patients enrolled in hospice and may also assist in staffing pediatric palliative care consultation services that function as a program of MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care work in the community environment, and may, on occasion, provide consultation in the long-term care environment or hospital.
• In all settings, provide in-person visits or telehealth visits, as appropriate.
• Providing comfort care consistent with best practices, including history-taking, appropriate examination, formulation and care planning, treatment recommendation or implementation, communication, and documentation.
• In the role as hospice NP, you will coordinate with the team physician and manager and will be responsible for face-to-face evaluations for hospice eligibility, and the assessment and management of hospice patients in need of exigent medical care.
• Contribute to the training of the hospice team, providing support for the interdisciplinary team, as needed.
• Help build a teaching curriculum on pediatric aspects of hospice care that will be of use to our hospice workers who are engaged in pediatric care through cross coverage for when young adolescents are incorporated into adult hospice teams.
• In providing both direct care and support to other clinicians, the NP will use an evidence-based approach to management and to the use of materials and policies/procedures.
• Other activities related to quality improvement projects may also be required, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in nursing and graduate of an approved Nurse Practitioner Program required.
• Minimum of 1-year clinical experience as a NP provider preferred.
• Prior experience working as a member of a specialist-level palliative care team or working in a hospice environment preferred.
• Prior pediatric nursing or pediatric NP experience strongly preferred.
• NYS NP License (Certified Pediatric, Family, or Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner).
• CPR-BLS.
• Driver's license and car.
• Hospice & Palliative Care certification strongly encouraged by year 2 of hire.
• Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Ability to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the position.
• Ability to coordinate the resources and personnel involved in a comprehensive interdisciplinary team environment.
• Ability to travel across the agency’s geographic territory to provide patient care as needed.
• Possess teaching, communication, and listening skills.
• Ability to work non-judgmentally with patient / family members of any culture, religion, socio-economic background, or lifestyle.
• A high degree of accountability.
• Excellent communication, listening, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work within an integrated health care team.
• Ability to demonstrate effective critical thinking skills.
• Ability to problem solve independently.