Inpatient Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner - North Seattle, WA

Optum WA, (formerly The Everett Clinic) is seeking a Nurse Practitioner to join our Inpatient Palliative Care Consult service in Everett, WA. Optum is a clinician-led care organization that is changing the way clinicians work and live.

Position Highlights:

The Inpatient Palliative Consult service supports patients, and their families, dealing with serious illness to create patient-centered, value-concordant, and medically-optimized care plans. Our clinicians help patients understand their most likely future, and how to navigate that future in a way that aligns care with their goals given their medical reality. We also ensure that pain and other symptoms associated with serious illness are well-managed.

We are a collaborative team focused on whole-person care and transdisciplinary work. We are passionate about providing our hospital’s most seriously ill patients with compassionate, clinically excellent care.

At Optum Care Washington you will work as an Inpatient provider at Providence Regional Medical Center and experience:

• Flexible work week schedule (4 or 5 day, 40 hour work week as 1.0 FTE). Partial FTE can be considered.
• Daily interdisciplinary huddles/rounds
• Inpatient family care conferences at the bedside with the interdisciplinary team
• Follow-up visits with patients
• Epic EMR
• Integration and coordination of care with the inpatient hospital teams including hospitalist, critical care, surgical, and emergency medicine teams

Optum Care Washington is looking for a Nurse Practitioner, ideally with direct experience in Palliative care to join our Inpatient Palliative Care Consult service. Preferred applicants should have demonstrated practice in palliative care and familiarity with medically complex patients, and comfort with prognostication and the ability to help patients and families understand their future. Applicants should be comfortable receiving and providing feedback to others on the team and learning from all teammates.

This role will work collaboratively with the Palliative Consult nurse, physician, social worker and chaplain. A typical day will include seeing new patients, follow-up visits, and interdisciplinary discussions. The team’s goal is to reduce suffering and non-beneficial medical care for patients near end of life; increasing appropriate hospice referrals (and number of days on hospice); and help other disciplines in the hospital understand and appreciate the value of a big picture approach to care. We also act as a support for healthcare providers who are experiencing distress in caring for patients with severe illness and suffering.

We are a very collaborative team. We value our dynamic and inclusive team environment where we can lean on our teammates, offer candid feedback, bring our “true selves” to work each day, and deliver meaningful care while having fun along the way.

Required Qualifications:

• Current WA state license as a Nurse Practitioner (or ability to obtain by start date)
• Certification as a Nurse Practitioner
• Eligible for State Controlled Substance License II through V
• Eligible for Federal DEA Certificate II through V
• BLS for Healthcare Providers
• Two or more years’ experience in palliative care, acute medicine, geriatrics or similar

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience practicing palliative care as a Nurse Practitioner

About Optum

Optum is the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.