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Job description
The Inova Palliative team is seeking a full-time Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP- NP/PA) to join our growing team. This APP will care for adult patients at the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus as part of an interdisciplinary team of 5 physicians, 3 advance practice providers, two clinical therapists, a nurse, a chaplain, and hospice coordinators. Our comprehensive, expert team carries out specialty consultation throughout the 923-bed hospital campus, with a strong focus on both advanced symptom management and serious illness communication.
The Fairfax Palliative Care team is also part of a larger Inova wide palliative care team including 9 physicians, 9 APPs, 7 clinical therapists, 4 hospice coordinators, nurses, and a palliative chaplain addressing acute care and outpatient palliative needs.
This is a particularly exciting time for Palliative Care at Inova as we have launched Inova Serious Illness Care to promote primary palliative skills across the organization and increase electronic tools and capabilities to guide and document advance care planning and goals of care discussions. Inova is also launching a joint venture in hospice care, Gilchrist Inova Hospice.
Featured Benefits:
Physician Led Organization: Potential for Physician leadership opportunities
Committed to Team Member Health: Offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
Competitive Compensation Package: Includes a market-competitive base salary, comprehensive performance incentive plan, compensation structure designed to reward quality, patient access, and clinical productivity. Additionally, opportunities for Sign-On, Retention, and Relocation bonuses
Retirement: Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day. 457B retirement plan is also available for physicians in a 0.5 FTE and greater
CME Support: Up to $2,500 a year for CME support and up to 5 days of CME
Tuition and Student Loan Assistance: Offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans. Not-for-profit status is eligible for public service loan forgiveness.
Work/Life Balance: offering paid time off and paid parental leave
Job Responsibilities
Participation in interdisciplinary and other team meetings to optimize clinical integration, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery
Inpatient consultation and rotating weekend call schedule (day coverage)
Supervision of learners such as rotating APP fellows
Collaboration in systemwide quality initiatives
Collaboration with Hospice partners to ensure appropriate transitions
Commitment to obtaining license-specific palliative certification within 3 years of employment
Minimum Qualifications
Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner program; Board Certified Physician Assistant or Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Preferably at least 1 year of experience in Palliative Care
BLS/ACLS Certification through American Heart Association (AHA)
Valid, or ability to obtain, VA license and VA DEA
Credentialed by the INOVA Health System as an associate or courtesy member of the medical staff with clinical privileges in internal medicine, to include the care of inpatients
Payer Credentialing: Ability to successfully complete the credentialing process by third-party payors and Ability to enrolled as a CMS Medicare/Medicaid payor
Medical Staff Credentialing: Successful completion of credentialing for Medical Staff membership and appropriate clinical privileges sufficient to perform all required services
Preferred Qualifications
Preferably at least 1 year of experience in Palliative Care.
Currently hold an NP/PA certification in palliative care or the ability to obtain it within 3 years
Who can apply
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