Palliative Care APP (NP or PA)

Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP)

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives. Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC) is looking for a full-time Advanced Practice Provider (NP or PA) to join our growing Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine team.

About the Role

You'll provide comprehensive inpatient palliative care services within our 350-bed academic medical center, including our ICU and transplant units. There may also be outpatient opportunities based on your interests. You'll be part of an interdisciplinary team (physicians, social worker, pharmacist) and help educate fellows in our ACGME-accredited fellowship program. We're affiliated with UMass Chan Medical School, so you may be eligible for a faculty appointment based on teaching activities.

What You'll Do

• Evaluate and address patient needs: pain/symptom management, goal setting, treatment options, advanced care planning, and end-of-life discussions.
• Educate patients and families to support them during illness.
• Contribute to the division's educational mission.
• Work effectively with other healthcare professionals.
• Consult with palliative care physicians as needed.
• Inform the consulting team of recommended interventions and collaborate with providers.
• Attend and participate in divisional meetings.
• Maintain accurate patient records.
• Help develop clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care.
• Participate in the division's on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of clinical experience.
• ACHPN preferred.
• Clinical experience in: geriatrics, oncology, cardiology, pulmonary, nephrology, or neurology.
• Massachusetts licensure.
• Active DEA registration.

Beth Israel Lahey Health, including all of its employing entities, are a purpose-driven, values-based organization that unites our workforce of people who provide exceptional health care to everyone we serve. All of the employing entities of Beth Israel Lahey Health maintain policies of equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination in employment.

Pay Range: $133,515.20 USD - $181,563.20 USD

The pay range listed for this position is the annual base salary range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

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