Nurse Practitioner - Care Partners

Care Partners is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our team, who will help provide comprehensive hospice care to patients and families in the Portland metro area. In this role you will get the opportunity to work with programs and services designed to honor choice and dignity at end-of-life, while providing or assisting our clinical staff in providing bedside care for highly symptomatic patients nearing end of life. As a Nurse Practitioner, you play an important role on our team, in our community and for our clients while collaborating with the patient, family, hospice team, and other care providers. You will help facilitate goals of care conversations, assess, and document patient prognosis, and manage symptoms. Our goal is to maximize the comfort and health of patients and families consistent with hospice philosophy and the organization’s policies and procedures.

This position offers a 25-hour-a-week schedule and includes full benefits. It is a hybrid role and includes seeing and recertifying patients in person in a home health capacity.

Responsibilities include:

• Establishing effective relationships with referring physicians to build a culture of collaboration among specialists, primary care physicians, nurses, and other staff to meet patient needs.

• Assuring patients receive quality hospice care through consultation with interdisciplinary team members, including participating in weekly and impromptu case conferences.

• Providing palliative medical services for patients including written and verbal care orders and medical consultation for symptom management and GIP care. May provide primary care services as the attending on a short-term basis.

• Reviewing medications, assuring they meet palliative care goals, are cost effective and are related to the patient’s terminal condition and prognosis. This includes participating in decision making for medications.

• Providing goals of care conversations and palliative care consultations as appropriate at the patient’s care setting.

• Providing clinical leadership in improving hospice and palliative care quality and assisting in training and onboarding clinical staff as needed.

• Sharing coverage for other hospice providers during vacation periods.

• Possibility of participating in on-call rotations with other hospice providers during the week, excluding weekends.

Qualifications / Experience

• Requires a current unencumbered Oregon licensure as an RN and national certification as a Nurse Practitioner in family practice or adult nursing prior to the first day of employment.

• Must have a master’s degree in advanced nursing or equivalent and be in good standing with Medicare such that clinical, non-administrative services provided can be billed.

• Requires current unencumbered DEA license to prescribe schedule II medications.

• Must have a minimum of one-year professional nursing experience, preferably in hospice, palliative care, home health, oncology and/or medical surgical or equivalent, that includes expert knowledge in the clinical provision of comfort/palliative care.

• Requires well-developed critical thinking, patient assessment, and problem-solving skills, including demonstrated excellent skills in discussing end of life goals/wishes and advanced directives with clients.

• Requires the ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team with strong verbal and written communication skills and to perform services for face-to-face visits and telephone consultation.

• Must have good skills in using electronic tools such as computers, electronic medical records, email, and internet.

• Requires practical experience and knowledge of medical ethics and quality improvement methodologies.

• Must have a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record and have access to a reliable automobile to travel to and from patient homes.

• Basic life support CPR card.

• Requires successful results for professional background checks and drug screen, both pre-hire and while employed as required by regulations.

*Preferred applicant will be asked to pass a background check and drug screen following a job offer.

**New employees are required to complete tuberculosis screening and provide proof of Hepatitis B vaccination or signed declination.

Schedule: Hours will be 25 hours a week with at least 3 working days a week. Office hours are 8AM-5PM.

At Care Partners, we prioritize competitive and appealing employee benefits. In fact, we offer them at the same premium levels to benefit eligible employees who have regularly scheduled hours of 20-40 each week. They include low-cost employee-only premium choices for medical, dental, vision, and 100% paid STD, LTD, AD&D and life insurance, and access to Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts. Our employees also receive mileage reimbursement, an annual professional development day stipend, 403b immediate vesting, a generous PTO program, and 7 paid holidays.

If you are employed with us and working full time, you may be eligible for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. Please follow the link provided here to find out more and see whether you might qualify?https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service

Care Partners has the reputation and community trust that comes from a local history of providing outstanding end-of-life care, education, and bereavement services to thousands of families year after year. We recognize the unique and emotional needs of each patient and family member. Our caring service delivery as a non-profit provider is a reputation we plan to keep.

Care Partners is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.