Pediatric Palliative Care Opportunity in Downtown Orlando, Florida

Position Overview

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children seeks a dedicated full-time (1.0 FTE) Palliative Care Physician to join our well-established, interdisciplinary palliative care team. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to a robust program that serves as a consultative service for maternal-fetal medicine patients, neonates, pediatrics, and young adults with complex palliative care needs.

About Our Program - Our palliative care team is recognized as one of the more comprehensive programs among children's hospitals, offering unique services including:

• An interdisciplinary care model with a dedicated nurse, chaplain, counselors, and child life specialist to enhance the quality of life of the patients served.
• Extensive perinatal palliative care with close maternal-fetal medicine partnerships in the Fetal Care Clinic at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies
• Pediatric hospice management for patients who have a hospice plan of care
• Comprehensive bereavement support in the form of complimentary grief counseling, providing grief resources, and hosting multiple remembrance events throughout the year
• Automatic consultation for various NICU diagnoses (Periviable, CDH, Renal Replacement, ECMO, Complex Care, etc.)
• Outpatient services, including home visits for patients with a hospice plan of care

Key Responsibilities

• Providing patient palliative care services across all pediatric populations from neonates to young adults
• Collaborate with maternal-fetal medicine teams to provide excellent perinatal palliative care
• Provide expert pain and symptom management
• Facilitate goals of care and advanced care planning discussions with patients and families
• Provide outpatient palliative care services and collaborate with other pediatric subspecialists for children with medical complexities · Participate in direct management of pediatric hospice services
• Maintain professional consultation relationships across all hospital departments at both Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies

Qualifications:

• Education: M.D., D.O.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Pediatric Residency
• Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
• Board Certified or Board Eligible by the American Board of Pediatrics
• Board Certified or Board Eligible for Hospice and Palliative Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine
• Unrestricted FL medical license (or the ability to obtain one) and DEA

Benefits Package:

• Comprehensive benefits package includes health, vision, and dental insurance, malpractice coverage, disability coverage, deferred compensation, and matching retirement savings options starting from day one.
• Generous starting bonus.
• Annual CME stipend.
• Eligible employer under the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program.

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Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a nationally recognized and trusted name in children’s healthcare, serving children, teenagers and young adults for more than 30 years. Located on the Orlando Health downtown campus, the 156-bed hospital offers dedicated pediatric specialty care in a compassionate, healing environment built just for kids. A highly skilled team of providers includes pediatric subspecialty physicians, pediatric-trained nurses and certified child life specialists. The Orlando Health Arnold Palmer nursing team has held Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence and quality patient care since 2013 as well as several Beacon Awards for Excellence, awarded to units that employ evidence-based practices to improve patient and family outcomes.

The hospital’s more than 30 areas of pediatric specialty include cancer and blood disorders, cardiology, digestive health and nutrition, endocrinology and diabetes, nephrology, neuroscience, orthopedics and sports medicine, pulmonology, and numerous subspecialty clinics and programs that focus on specific diseases and disorders affecting children. The Bert Martin’s Champions for Children Emergency Department and Trauma Center at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is the first and only ER in Central Florida to provide Level I trauma care exclusively to children. The program has achieved Level I Children’s Surgical Verification and Level I Trauma Verification from the American College of Surgeons; the only facility in Florida to achieve this level of excellence.

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer is nationally recognized for a commitment to exceptional service, including earning a 15th consecutive Best Children’s Hospital ranking from U.S. News & World Report and being named a Top Children’s Hospital by the patient safety advocates at The Leapfrog Group. The hospital also has been selected among the 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker’s Healthcare and Top Workplaces USA by USA Today.