Nocturnist
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Job Description
Number of Positions In Requisition
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Job Details
Join Jefferson Health New Jersey’s nocturnist team, providing dedicated overnight inpatient care in our South Jersey acute care hospitals. This role involves 11–12 twelve-hour shifts per month (7 p m–7 a m), offering a supportive and sustainable work schedule.
Job Description
Overnight Admissions & Inpatient Care: Evaluate and admit patients from the ED, conduct night rounds, and manage care for previously admitted patients.
Cross-Coverage Support: Provide backup to APPs, assist with ICU needs including rapid responses and Code Blue events.
Clinical Supervision (Optional Academic Track): Supervise residents and support triage and admissions for teaching teams—three nocturnists typically cover each night.
Team Collaboration: Coordinate effectively with interdisciplinary teams (nursing, specialists, social work) and ensure comprehensive transitions at shift change.
Documentation & Compliance: Maintain thorough charting of histories, physicals, daily notes, and plans of care, ensuring compliance and accurate comorbidity coding.
Work Shift
- Workday Night (United States of America)
- Worker Sub Type
- Regular
- Employee Entity
- Kennedy University Hospitals, Inc
- Primary Location Address
- 435 Hurffville-Cross Keys Rd, Turnersville, New Jersey, United States of America
Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.
Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.
Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.
Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.
Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.
Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.
All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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Key Responsibilities
The nocturnist will provide overnight inpatient care, including evaluating and admitting patients from the emergency department and managing cross-coverage support. They will also coordinate with interdisciplinary teams and maintain accurate clinical documentation and compliance.
Requirements
The role requires a qualified medical professional capable of managing overnight hospital admissions and providing clinical supervision for residents. Candidates must be proficient in inpatient care, rapid response protocols, and thorough medical charting.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Hospital Medicine — Physician Career Context
Of the 45 active Hospital Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 80% have no call, 40% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for New Jersey is 108.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.8% of New Jersey clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 6.1 / 10 · top 25% in hospital medicine | ranked against 1,167 Hospital Medicine listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Listed pay | not listed | Hospital Medicine median $295k (middle half $259k–$350k)18 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost of living | New Jersey index 108.8 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Hospital Medicine listings in New Jersey | 21 active | 1,189 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 2% remote · 80% no call · 40% no weekends45 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | New Jersey Physician listings: 21% state a sign-on bonus (median $100k) · 12% offer loan repayment533 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Hospital Medicine hiring demand | #18 of 28 specialties | postings stay open a median 49 days · 28% state a sign-on bonusWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 402 postings, 440 closed |
| New Hospital Medicine listings | 454 in the last 30 days | 379 the 30 days before (+20%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Hospital Medicine pay trend | −11.4% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Nocturnist at Jefferson Health Plans a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Hospital Medicine — ranked against 1,167 active Hospital Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
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