Field-based Pediatric Nurse Practitioner role delivering hospice and palliative care across NYC boroughs and Long Island for MJHS, a large not-for-profit health system in Greater New York. You’ll provide in-person and telehealth visits, manage hospice eligibility and urgent needs, and support interdisciplinary team training and pediatric hospice curriculum development. Standout perk: $15,000 sign-on bonus or student loan assistance.
- $15,000 sign-on or loan assistance
- Work across NYC and Long Island
- Non-profit, mission-driven health system
$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.
Our groundbreaking hospice and palliative care programs offer a significant difference when dealing with a life-limiting condition. 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
• 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
• NYS 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
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