Lead Nurse Practitioner - Equity Health

Lead Nurse Practitioner - Equity Health

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top‑10 nationally ranked provider of end‑of‑life care. We are a community‑based, non‑profit hospice & palliative care provider with deep community roots and a people‑first culture.

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403(b) Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

• Oversees, directs, and supervises (with the Medical Director) the nurse practitioners of Medical Services programs with VIA
• Participates in organizational planning as it pertains to NPs for strategic planning and operational growth
• Provides policy and procedure development and oversight
• Analyzes Medical Services data to identify trends and makes recommendations for practice adjustments based on analysis
• Assists in the orientating, forecasting, planning, evaluating, and setting of objectives for programmatic services
• Oversees staffing levels and allocates resources to meet programmatic needs for hospice and palliative care
  • Assists practice manager in following up on coverage for staff turnover and PTO
• Oversees and develops orientation for nurse practitioners for primary and palliative care with leadership
  • Ensures ongoing updates to orientation as standards and best practice guidelines change
• Conducts weekly or biweekly 1:1 meetings with designated nurse practitioners to address gaps, concerns and ensure clinical expectations are met
  • PRN NP’s will need a meeting once per year to assess engagement and continue participation in employment with VIA
• Completes quarterly ride‑along with nurse practitioners to ensure updated competencies and clinical standards
• Leads, creates, and participates in nurse practitioner monthly meetings with leadership
• Collaborates with medical director around issues of patient care, supervision, and support of nurse practitioners
• Participates in regular departmental meetings for updates and best practices
• Ensures compliance with legal, regulatory clinical policies, protocols and procedures based off NC/SC nursing practice
  • Ensures NC monthly quality supervisory
• Assists with the training, onboarding, and development of nurse practitioners
• Monitors monthly productivity standards of nurse practitioners, including visits and billing expectations
• Monitors and evaluates nurse practitioner competency in documenting in the EMR (eClinical
  
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• Monitors and ensures team dynamics in supervising NP teams, i.e., Nursing, SW interactions
• Ensures supervising NPs uphold VIA conduct and standards of practice
• Serves on committees as appropriate
• Serves on regional hospice and palliative care work groups as assigned
• Provides community education on topics about primary, palliative and end‑of‑life care
• Participates in ongoing professional development
• Maintains own clinical competency by having 0.6 clinical time
• Participates in on‑call rotation of NP’s
• May perform other duties as required

• A Master’s Degree in nursing; experience in training in primary or palliative care, symptom management and/or recent hospital experience; experience with program management is desired
• Current, active, and unrestricted NC license as Registered Nurse (RN), and official recognition as Nurse Practitioner from NC Board of Nursing
• Current and unrestricted DEA and Basic Life Support required
• Minimum 5–10 years of experience with increasing management responsibilities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; experience with program development and grant preparation desired
• Computer proficiency is required

Director

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care