Nurse Practitioner - Supportive Care

Overview

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.

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.

• Full time 40 hours, Friday to Monday
• Overnight call (Friday–Sunday):
  Telephone-only, covering urgent/emergent issues for existing palliative care patients

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

• 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

• Participate in ongoing research initiatives within the department

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

• Current California RN license
• California NP License
• California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire
• DEA registration 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 is an equal opportunity employer.