Nurse Practitioner - Supportive Care

Nurse Practitioner

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

City of Hope - Orange County has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for a unique role that combines collaborative team-based care with autonomous weekend inpatient responsibilities.

About the Role:

* This position offers the best of both worlds-working as part of a robust, interdisciplinary supportive medicine team during the week, and leading independently in inpatient palliative care over the weekend.

Schedule:

* Full time 40 hour, Friday to Monday

* Overnight call (Friday-Sunday): Telephone-only, covering urgent/emergent issues for existing palliative care patients

Responsibilities:

* Weekend inpatient care: Provide evidence based independent care to inpatient palliative care patients over the weekend (consults and follow ups), with physician backup

Weekday collaboration: Work alongside a comprehensive interdisciplinary team that includes:

* Palliative care physicians and NPs

* Social workers, chaplains

* Physical and occupational therapists

* Psychiatry and psychology professionals

* Integrative medicine and physiatry specialists

* Interventional pain physician

* Resource and case management teams

* Additional services: Mind-body medicine, acupuncture, oncology massage therapy, music therapy

Your qualifications should include:

• Master's Degree, or Doctorate Degree as Nurse Practitioner
• Three years clinical experience

Required Certification/Licensure:

• Current California RN license
• California NP License
• California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire
• DEA within 6 months of hire
• National NP Board Certification through accrediting body
• Basic Life Support (BLS), CPR card through American Heart Association
• ACLS and PALS
  "City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location."

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.