Palliative Care APP: Day Shift, No Nights, Team-Based

IN Compass Health; Anderson (SC); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IN Compass Health is building our hospital-based palliative care service at AnMed Medical Center in Anderson, South Carolina. This role supports goals-of-care conversations, complex symptom management, and family meetings within an interdisciplinary team.

Shifts are Monday–Friday, 8 hours each, with no nights, no weekends, and no on-call. The team includes physicians, chaplains, social workers, and nurses to ensure comprehensive patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Complex symptom management
• Goals-of-care conversations with patients and families
• Code status discussions, advance care planning, and POLST/MOLST completion
• Family meetings, including those involving complex dynamics or surrogate decision-making
• Coordination of transitions to home hospice, inpatient hospice, or palliative-supported discharge
• Prognostic support and education for primary teams

Job description

IN Compass Health is building our hospital-based palliative care service at AnMed Medical Center in Anderson, South Carolina. AnMed is a 461-bed, not-for-profit Hospital serving the Upstate South Carolina area since 1908.

With our Palliative care team we want our providers to never leave a shift wondering whether you gave that family the conversation they needed, or felt rushed through a goals-of-care meeting that deserved more. IN Compass understands the importance of palliative care and its impact on the lives of those involved.

AnMed Medical Center

Anderson, SC

What Makes This Role Different

What Makes This Role Different

• Monday through Friday, 8-hour days. No nights, no weekends, no call.
• An average of 5 encounters per day.We’ve built the caseload around the reality of palliative work — family meetings that run long, symptom management that requires nuance, and the emotional bandwidth this specialty demands.
• A true interdisciplinary team.You’ll work alongside palliative physicians, chaplaincy, social work, and nursing — not in parallel, but together.
• Protected time for what matters— documentation, debriefing, and the conversations that don’t fit neatly into an encounter.

What You’ll Do

• Complex symptom management
• Goals-of-care conversations with patients and families
• Code status discussions, advance care planning, and POLST/MOLST completion
• Family meetings, including those involving complex dynamics or surrogate decision-making
• Coordination of transitions to home hospice, inpatient hospice, or palliative-supported discharge
• Prognostic support and education for primary teams

Facility Description

AnMed Health is a not-for-profit health system serving the upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia areas. The four-hospital system is anchored by AnMed Health Medical Center, a 461-bed acute care hospital and includes AnMed Health Women’s and Children’s Hospital, AnMed Health Rehabilitation Hospital, and AnMed Health Cannon in Pickens, S.C. With more than 400 physicians and 3,700 employees, AnMed Health is one of Anderson County’s largest employers. AnMed Health is one of only about 400 health care organizations nationwide recognized as part of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program®, which recognizes superior quality in nursing care. AnMed Health also received an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade for 2021 recognizing their achievements in protecting patients from harm and error in the hospital.