Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner; APNP- Palliative Care & Hospice

Supportive Care Management (palliative care) & Hospice Nurse Practitioner - All Unity Service Area

The Supportive Care Management (palliative care) and Hospice Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner (APNP) provides advanced clinical expertise and leadership to enhance care planning, treatment, and outcomes for individuals with palliative care and/or hospice needs. The APNP supports an interdisciplinary approach that aligns with the vision and values of palliative and hospice care. The APNP offers clinical direction and guidance to the Unity staff to ensure high-quality care for patients and their families, consistent with Unity’s mission and values.

The NP supports Unity’s programs and operates within the regulatory framework. The APNP functions both independently and collaboratively under the guidance of the Medical Director or designee, delivering services related to hospice and palliative care.

32 hours per week, generally 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., 4 days per week. Weekend and on‑call responsibilities as needed.

This role will cover all Unity territories.

Working in partnership with individuals, families, and healthcare partners across a range of settings, the APNP complements and enhances existing services (primary community, home‑based, and facilities) using a consultative and advisory model in collaboration with other healthcare providers.

The APNP assists in overseeing the clinical care and treatment of Unity patients in collaboration with the patients’ attending providers and with the Unity Medical Director and medical team members.

• Demonstrates nursing leadership that positively influences the health outcomes of people with palliative care and/or hospice needs.
• Advances the profession of nursing.
• Identifies practice areas of concern, risk, and learning opportunities.
• Demonstrates skilled mentoring, coaching, and teaching of health care colleagues.
• Contributes to a culturally safe environment.
• The APNP will contribute to a culture of excellence, collaboration, integrity, compassion, and accountability.
• Role models excellence in clinical professional practice and works alongside staff to reinforce learning and provide specialist assistance when required.
• Utilizes evidence‑based theory and best practice in clinical care.
• Contributes to clinical leadership across the Unity interdisciplinary teams and broader Hospice and Supportive Care Management (SCM) program.
• Influences organizational change as appropriate.
• Demonstrates professional nursing leadership by participating in pertinent evidence‑based literature searches and policy development.
• Creatively generates new approaches to the extension of nursing knowledge and delivery of expert care.
• Facilitates collaboration between primary, facility‑based aged‑care, in‑patient, and community services.
• Works collaboratively with other APNPs in the region and state and participates in peer support and mentorship.
• Communicates effectively, timely, and appropriately at all times.

• Demonstrates the competencies for the APNP Scope of Practice.
• Applies advanced nursing practice in the provision of health care services to patients with a hospice and/or palliative care need.
• Delivers patient‑centered care operating within a nursing model of holistic practice.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients and families that recognizes the patient in context and respects cultural identity and lifestyle choices.
• Demonstrates complex decision‑making skills to support advanced practice identifying patients and patient/families at risk.
• Demonstrates advanced comprehensive patient health assessment skills and diagnostic decision‑making relative to the specialty of hospice and palliative care.
• Orders, conducts, and interprets diagnostic and laboratory tests, and administers therapies for the management of potential or actual health needs.
• Consistently uses appropriate tests and investigations based upon the patient’s clinical status to support clinical reasoning and evaluates measurable outcomes.
• Provides patients and families with appropriate clinical…