Nurse Practitioner - Supportive Care
City of Hope
Irvine, CA
Job posting number: #7307726 (Ref:10029939)
Posted: February 23, 2026
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Nurse Practitioner
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
City of Hope – Orange County has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Palliative Care Advanced Practice Provider (APP) for a unique role that combines collaborative team-based care with autonomous weekend inpatient responsibilities.
About the Role:
This position offers the best of both worlds—working as part of a robust, interdisciplinary supportivemedicine team during the week, and leading independently in inpatient palliative care over the weekend.
Schedule:
Full time 40 hour, Friday to Monday
Overnight call (Friday–Sunday): Telephone-only, covering urgent/emergent issues for existing palliative care patients
Responsibilities:
Weekend inpatient care: Provide evidence based independent care to inpatient palliative care patients over the weekend (consults and follow ups), with physician backup
Weekday collaboration: Work alongside a comprehensive interdisciplinary team that includes:
Palliative care physicians and NPs
Social workers, chaplains
Physical and occupational therapists
Psychiatry and psychology professionals
Integrative medicine and physiatry specialists
Interventional pain physician
Resource and case management teams
Additional services: Mind-body medicine, acupuncture, oncology massage therapy, music therapy
Additional Opportunities:
Participate in ongoing research initiatives within the department
Your qualifications should include:
- Master's Degree, or Doctorate Degree as Nurse Practitioner
- Three years clinical experience
Required Certification/Licensure:
- Current California RN license
- California NP License
- California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire
- DEA within 6 months of hire
- National NP Board Certification through accrediting body
- Basic Life Support (BLS), CPR card through American Heart Association
- ACLS and PALS
“City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.”
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
