Saint Peter’s Healthcare System
Palliative Care Physician
Provide inpatient palliative care consultation for adult patients with serious or life-limiting illness. Manage pain and non-pain symptoms, including complex symptom burden at end of life, and lead goals-of-care, advance care planning, and code status discussions with patients and families. Collaborate with hospitalists, intensivists, oncologists, and other specialists and work within an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, and care coordinators.
Key Responsibilities
- • Provide inpatient palliative care consultation for adult patients with serious or life-limiting illness
- • Manage pain and non-pain symptoms, including complex symptom burden at end of life
- • Lead goals-of-care, advance care planning, and code status discussions with patients and families
- • Collaborate with hospitalists, intensivists, oncologists, and other specialists to align care plans with patient values
- • Work within an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, and care coordinators
- • Support transitions to hospice, home-based care, and post-acute settings
- • Participate in quality improvement, education, and program development initiatives
Schedule
- • Full-Time | Monday-Friday | No Call
- • full-time, weekday role
- • predictable Monday-Friday schedule with no night, weekend, or call responsibilities
- • Inpatient Full-time opportunity, Monday-Friday schedule with no call
Required
- • MD or DO from an accredited institution
- • Board certified or board eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- • Completion of residency in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or another ABMS-recognized primary specialty
- • Eligible for New Jersey medical licensure and DEA registration
- • Strong communication skills and a compassionate, patient-centered approach
- • Commitment to culturally sensitive, whole-person care
Benefits & Perks
- • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package
- • Collaborative, mission-driven environment within a Catholic, community-based academic healthcare system
- • Opportunity to help grow and shape the palliative care program
- • CME allowance, malpractice coverage, over 44 days off, great perks
Palliative Care
Full-Time | Monday-Friday | No Call
About The Role
Saint Peter’s Healthcare System is seeking a board-certified Palliative Care Physician to join our inpatient palliative care service. In this full-time, weekday role, you will provide expert symptom management, guide complex goals-of-care conversations, and support patients and families facing serious illness. This position offers a predictable Monday-Friday schedule with no night, weekend, or call responsibilities.
Responsibilities
Full-Time | Monday-Friday | No Call
About The Role
Saint Peter’s Healthcare System is seeking a board-certified Palliative Care Physician to join our inpatient palliative care service. In this full-time, weekday role, you will provide expert symptom management, guide complex goals-of-care conversations, and support patients and families facing serious illness. This position offers a predictable Monday-Friday schedule with no night, weekend, or call responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide inpatient palliative care consultation for adult patients with serious or life-limiting illness
- Manage pain and non-pain symptoms, including complex symptom burden at end of life
- Lead goals-of-care, advance care planning, and code status discussions with patients and families
- Collaborate with hospitalists, intensivists, oncologists, and other specialists to align care plans with patient values
- Work within an interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, and care coordinators
- Support transitions to hospice, home-based care, and post-acute settings
- Participate in quality improvement, education, and program development initiatives
- Inpatient Full-time opportunity, Monday-Friday schedule with no call
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package
- Collaborative, mission-driven environment within a Catholic, community-based academic healthcare system
- Opportunity to help grow and shape the palliative care program
- CME allowance, malpractice coverage, over 44 days off, great perks
- About Saint Peter’s Healthcare System
- Saint Peter’s Healthcare System is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit healthcare system in Central New Jersey, known for compassionate, high-quality care and a commitment to serving diverse communities.
- MD or DO from an accredited institution
- Board certified or board eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- Completion of residency in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, or another ABMS-recognized primary specialty
- Eligible for New Jersey medical licensure and DEA registration
- Strong communication skills and a compassionate, patient-centered approach
- Commitment to culturally sensitive, whole-person care
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