Inpatient Care Manager (RN)- Per-Diem, Days, Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center
Job Description
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The Palliative Care Manager is responsible for facilitating goals of care discussions, patient, family and interdisciplinary meetings and services for patients at the end-of-life. This role ensures effective utilization and monitoring of healthcare resources while managing interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal clinical and resource outcomes. The Palliative Care Manager works closely with the Palliative Care team and the Manager of Palliative Care to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate services and outcomes to maximize patient outcomes and ensure safe, high-quality care.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Manage, coordinate, and facilitate Palliative patient care through comprehensive patient and family assessments and multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Formulate, coordinate, and implement individualized plans of care and discharge plans to ensure safe, timely, and effective transitions.
- High focus upon Goals of Care discussions with patients, their families, designated health care decision-makers or guardians.
- Perform daily chart reviews of Palliative care patients, coordinate discharge planning activities, ensuring thorough and accurate clinical documentation in the electronic medical record.
- Participate in interdisciplinary Palliative Care patient care rounds, identifying and resolving quality of care issues, barriers to care, and delays to discharge home or continued stay on Hospice status.
- Serve as a representative of the department and participate in hospital meetings as needed.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Required
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
- Current, valid New Jersey Registered Nurse license
Preferred
3 – 5 years of RN Case Manager palliative care experience in an acute care, interdisciplinary team environment
At Atlantic Health, our promise to our communities is; Anyone who enters one of our facilities will receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. This commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 22,000 team members. Headquarters in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the nation. Our facilities and sites of care include:
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center, Summit, NJ
- Atlantic Health Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
- Atlantic Health Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
- Atlantic Health Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
- Atlantic Health Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morristown, NJ
- Atlantic Health CentraState Healthcare System, Freehold, NJ
- Atlantic Medical Group
- Atlantic Visiting Nurse
- Atlantic Mobile Health
- Atlantic Rehabilitation
We have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.
We have received awards and recognition for the services we have provided to our patients, team members and communities. Below are just a few of our accolades:
- Chosen for 17 years by Fortune as one of the magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For."
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook Named by Newsweek as two of the “World’s Best Hospitals” in 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook ranked within the top three hospitals in New Jersey by U.S. News & World Report’s 2025-2026 Best Hospital rankings.
- Atlantic Health scored four “A” grades by The Leapfrog Group in its Fall 2025 Hospital Safety Grades, performance measures reflecting errors, accidents, injuries and injections, as well as systems hospitals have in place to prevent harm.
- Atlantic Health Morristown and Atlantic Health Overlook are New Jersey's only hospitals to be named among America's 50 Best hospitals by Healthgrades in 2026.
- Named by Becker's Healthcare as one of the "165 Top Places to Work in Healthcare – 2026.
- Atlantic Health Morristown, Atlantic Health Overlook, Atlantic Health Chilton and Atlantic Health Newton all Forbes Top Hospitals for 2026.
- Named by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity 2025.
- Atlantic Health rated LEVEL 9 - 2025 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Coverage (22.5 hours per week or above for full-time and part-time team members)
- Life & AD&D Insurance.
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability (with options to supplement)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan: Employer match, additional non-elective contribution
- PTO & Paid Sick Leave
- Tuition Assistance, Advancement & Academic Advising
- Parental, Adoption, Surrogacy Leave
- Backup and On-Site Childcare
- Well-Being Rewards
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Fertility Benefits, Healthy Pregnancy Program
- Flexible Spending & Commuter Accounts
- Pet, Home & Auto, Identity Theft and Legal Insurance
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