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GuideStar Eldercare
Houston, Texas

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

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Job Description

As a Nurse Practitioner at GuideStar Eldercare, you will have the opportunity to address the suffering of an aging population afflicted with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and other neurocognitive disorders in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Experience the autonomy of private practice, but with an assigned caseload, the collaboration of corporate clinical leadership, and the administrative support of our in-house scheduling, coding, and billing departments.

As part of a multidisciplinary team which works to actively promote patient safety, functionality, and dignity, your contributions to our behavior health-centered patient care will include:

  • Travel daily to assigned facilities from your home.
  • Provide initial evaluations, continuing therapy services, and cognitive testing.
  • Document the need and extent of services for each patient.
  • Create and maintain positive professional relationships with client facilities, patients, and their families.

Qualifications

  • Proof of Nurse Practitioner licensure
  • Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team
  • Good time management skills
  • Able to function autonomously with regional Area Manager support
  • Pass pre-employment background check and drug screening
  • Complete credentialing process
  • Bilingual in English and Spanish a plus

Benefits

  • Industry leading salary with additional income potential through productivity bonus
  • Excellent benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401K
  • Employee's medical premiums are 100% company paid
  • Annual CME/CEU reimbursement up to $1,500
  • In-house CME-CEU credit offerings (ANCC accredited)
  • 60-day new-hire training program
  • Four (4) weeks paid time off
  • Seven (7) paid holidays
  • State licensing reimbursement
  • Company provided medical malpractice insurance

All GuideStar employees must be vaccinated against the flu. GuideStar follows all applicable laws; contact humanresources@guidestareldercare.com for more information. Testing for illegal drugs will be administered to all final candidates for whom an offer of employment has been extended.

Key Responsibilities

The Nurse Practitioner will travel to nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide evaluations, therapy services, and cognitive testing for patients with neurocognitive disorders. They will also document patient care and maintain professional relationships with facilities, patients, and their families.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical evaluationPatient documentationInterdisciplinary collaborationBehavioral healthDementia careAlzheimer's careProfessional relationship management

Psychiatry — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 66% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

Psychiatry pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Psychiatry NP by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Cost of livingTexas index 97.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Psychiatry NP listings in Texas150 active2,075 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 30% remote · 66% no call · 58% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusTexas nurse practitioner listings (all specialties): 15% state a sign-on bonus (median $10k) · 3% offer loan repayment989 active listings, Nov 2026
Psychiatry NP hiring demand#14 of 19 specialtiespostings stay open a median 34 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 884 postings, 1,094 closed
New Psychiatry NP listings840 in the last 30 days948 the 30 days before (−11%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Psychiatry NP pay trend+2.3% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Implied production pay~$250k$50/wRVU × 5,000 wRVUsCMS CPT frequencies; WeekdayDoc listing median $/wRVU
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), CMS Physician Fee Schedule, WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

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Benefits & Perks

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Sign-on bonus
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CME allowance
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Work-life snapshot

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About GuideStar Eldercare

Medical Practices
Crown Point, Indiana
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Industry Leading Salary
Productivity Bonus
Medical, Dental, Vision
401K
100% Company-Paid Medical Premiums
CME/CEU Reimbursement up to $1,500
In-House ANCC-Accredited CME
60-Day New-Hire Training

Living in Houston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$243k
Typical market rent
$1,544/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.