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GuideStar Eldercare
South Bend, Indiana

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

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Posted 1mo ago

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

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 initial evaluations, therapy services, and cognitive testing for patients with neurocognitive disorders. They will also document patient services and maintain professional relationships with facilities, patients, and their families.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical evaluationBehavioral healthInterdisciplinary collaborationDocumentationRelationship management

Geriatrics — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Geriatrics listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 64% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,000 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $250k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks32 jobs · 30 employers

401k / retirement match
94% this job
Sign-on bonus
50%
CME allowance
47% this job
Loan repayment
13%
Relocation assistance
6%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.3this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Geriatrics (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 592 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in South Bend

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$214k
Typical market rent
$1,298/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.9
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About GuideStar Eldercare

Medical Practices
Crown Point, Indiana
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

Industry leading salary
Additional income potential through productivity bonus
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