Hospice Care

Job description

$15.000 Sign-On Bonus or Student Loan Assistance!

The position will cover the following locations: Bronx, Upper Manhattan, and Isabella Nursing Home.

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 Nurse Practitioner (NP) provider is one of a group of MDs and NPs who staff palliative care consultation services that function as programs of MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care. The NP Provider may work in a nursing home, hospital or community environment. He/she has specialist skills in symptom management, communication including goal setting discussions, and hospice eligibility review, and he/she may work independently or as part of a treatment team. Initial patient encounters are in response to consultation requests, and the initial consultation may be followed by one or more visits, as appropriate to the referral questions and status of the patient and family. The care plan advanced by the NP Provider aims to prevent or mitigate illness burden for the patient and family. Each encounter comports with best practices of specialist palliative care, including history-taking, appropriate examination, formulation and care planning, treatment recommendation or implementation, communication, and documentation. Other responsibilities include developing quality initiatives, educating staff, and supporting hospice operations through participation in the provider on call rotation and performance of face to face encounters as needed.

• Masters degree in Nursing and Graduate of an approved Nurse Practitioner Program required.

• Minimum of 1-year clinical experience as a NP provider preferred. Hospice, Palliative Care and/or Geriatric nursing or NP experience preferred.

• New York State RN licensure, Certified Adult, Family, Gerontology, or Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner required.

• CPR-BLS and valid NYS Drivers license preferred.

• 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 within the assigned geographic area to provide patient care.

• 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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