Clinical Director, Nurse Practitioner
Listed compensation
$200k-$240k
The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed
Ask the employer about weekend coverage, nights and shift pattern and time off.
Job Description
The Opportunity
Are you an experienced Nurse Practitioner who still loves patient care — and is ready for broader impact through leadership?
Pine Park Health is hiring a Clinical Director, Nurse Practitioner to lead and develop our Bay Area clinical team while staying connected to practice. You’ll coach a small team of NPs and PAs, drive provider performance and clinical quality, help hire and grow the team, and continue caring for older adults in senior living communities.
How This Role Works
This is a Bay Area clinical leadership role that balances people leadership and patient care. You’ll spend time on-site with your team and community partners as needed, with flexibility to plan that time around what your providers and patients need — plus mileage reimbursement and Friday WFH learning days so it stays sustainable.
You do not need a Director title today. Lead NPs, APP Leads, NP/APP Managers, Clinical Managers, Clinical Supervisors, and similar leaders are strongly encouraged to apply.
Compensation & Benefits
- Total target cash: $200,000-$240,000 (base + bonus included)
- Sign-on: Eligible for a sign-on bonus of up to $15,000 based on experience and overall offer package
- Equity and comprehensive benefits
- PTO: Up to 6+ weeks annually (vacation, sick, and paid holidays)
- Friday work-from-home
- Professional development funding
- Medical, dental, and vision
- 401(k)
- Company-issued cell phone
- Mileage reimbursement
Paid UpToDate Subscription
Final compensation reflects clinical experience and depth of clinical and people-leadership experience.
- What You’ll Do
- Lead a clinical team
- Lead, coach, and develop a small team of NPs and PAs across the Bay Area
- Spend regular time in the field alongside providers — observe care, coach in real time, and stay close to day-to-day work
- Hold 1:1s; give ongoing feedback and professional development
Coach providers toward strong clinical and operational performance, using meaningful measures such as quality, documentation, access, and care-gap closure.
Help shape provider schedules, patient panels, and coverage models to support both excellent care and a sustainable clinician experience.
- Hire, onboard, train, and develop new clinicians
- Lead quality improvement and strengthen clinical workflows
- Partner with clinical, operations, growth, and other cross-functional leaders
- Build community partnerships
- Build relationships with senior living community leaders and staff
- Serve as a clinical leadership point of contact for partners
- Support new community launches and growth of existing partnerships
- Partner with community teams to address clinical and operational challenges while keeping relationships strong
- Stay connected to patient care
- Provide primary care to older adults in senior living communities
- Deliver Welcome Visits, Care Plans, AWVs, assessments, medication management, and follow-up care
- Support post-discharge transitions from acute or SNF settings
- Respond to urgent medical and behavioral health needs
- Provide coverage when teammates are out
- Help prevent avoidable ED visits and hospitalizations
Build Your Leadership Career
This role is designed for an experienced NP who is ready for the next step in clinical leadership. You'll gain hands-on experience in provider development, hiring, performance management, quality improvement, and market-level clinical operations while remaining connected to patient care.
As Pine Park Health grows, you'll have the opportunity to expand your leadership scope and influence how we deliver care across the market.
- What We’re Looking For
- Required
- Active California Nurse Practitioner / APRN license
- Active unrestricted DEA
- Master’s degree in Nursing
Meaningful Independent NP Practice Experience
- Hands-on people leadership (training, coaching, performance management, and regular 1:1s) with clinical or non-clinical staff — RNs, MAs, admin, or clinicians. Lead NP / APP Manager / Clinical or practice lead preferred; Director title not required
- Strong clinical judgment; able to assess, care-plan, and manage chronic conditions independently
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills — coaching teammates, partnering with community teams, and navigating hard conversations
- Comfort working autonomously in a fast-paced, multi-site environment
Preferred
- Primary care, geriatrics, internal medicine, complex/chronic care, home-based or senior care, population health, or value-based care experience preferred.
- Family or Adult-Gerontology NP specialization
- California 103 NP designation
Key Responsibilities
Lead, coach, and develop a clinical team of NPs and PAs while driving operational performance and clinical quality. Provide direct primary care to older adults in senior living communities and build strong partnerships with community stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires an active California Nurse Practitioner license, DEA registration, and a Master's degree in Nursing. Candidates must have significant independent NP practice experience and proven hands-on people leadership skills.
Qualifications
- Education
- Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Primary Care — Nurse Practitioner Career Context
Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 24% are remote, 58% have no call, 68% require no weekends — this position is remote.
Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | $200k–$240k | Primary Care median $160k (middle half $138k–$183k)31 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$199k in purchasing power | California index 110.7 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Primary Care listings in California | 96 active | 1,089 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | remote | peers: 24% remote · 58% no call · 68% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | $15k sign-on | California Nurse Practitioner listings: 18% state a sign-on bonus (median $20k) · 12% offer loan repayment1,111 active listings, Oct 2026 |
| Primary Care pay trend | −3.1% vs prior quarter | —through Sep 2026 |
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