Palliative Care Physician

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Job Details

Jefferson Health is seeking a compassionate and collaborative Palliative Care Physician to join our interdisciplinary team. The physician will provide comprehensive palliative care services to patients with serious, complex, and life-limiting illnesses, working closely with patients, families, and multidisciplinary care teams to improve quality of life throughout the course of illness.

The Palliative Care Physician will provide expert symptom management, facilitate goals-of-care discussions, support complex medical decision-making, and assist patients and families in navigating serious illness. The physician will collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing, social work, chaplaincy, care management, and other healthcare professionals to develop individualized plans of care aligned with each patient’s needs, goals, and values.

Job Description

Responsibilities include providing inpatient and/or outpatient palliative care consultation, managing pain and other complex symptoms, conducting goals-of-care and advance care planning discussions, supporting patients and families during transitions of care, and collaborating with primary and specialty care teams. Opportunities may also be available to participate in education, quality improvement, program development, and teaching of medical students, residents, fellows, and other healthcare professionals.

Qualifications

• MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school
• Completion of an accredited residency program
• Fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine preferred
• Board certified or board eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Eligible for medical licensure in the applicable state
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, particularly in complex and sensitive clinical situations
• Commitment to interdisciplinary, patient- and family-centered care

The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to providing compassionate, evidence-based care while working collaboratively across disciplines to support patients and families facing serious illness.

Work Shift

• Worker Sub Type
• Regular
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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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