Specialty Nurse Practitioner
Listed compensation
$144.4K - $214.8K
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
Where You’ll Work
Dignity Health’s Pacific Central Coast Health Centers (PHC) is a non-profit Community clinic organization comprised of more than 40 health centers located primarily from Ventura to Templeton, spanning the coast.
Our experienced physicians and advanced practice providers offer a wide range of primary and specialty care services. PHC is a part of Dignity Health Central Coast’s award-winning network of outstanding hospitals, imaging centers, laboratories, and post-acute services.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner, you will help patients suffering from neurological or neurosurgical disorders manage their acute and chronic conditions so they can achieve better health through comprehensive, high-quality neurosurgical care.
Every day you will perform neurosurgical consultations, round on inpatients, assist in surgery, and support both surgeon-led and independent clinics. You will be expected to assess, diagnose, and treat patients, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe medications, and provide extensive patient education and counseling.
To be successful in this role, you will possess the clinical training to perform neurosurgical evaluations and the collaborative skills to work effectively with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to ensure efficient, patient-centered care.
Job Requirements
Required
- Masters Of Nursing
- Registered Nurse: CA (RN: CA)
- Advanced Practitioner Registerd Nurse: CA (APRN: CA)
Effective Communication
- Knowledge of the principles and skills of the nursing process to provide patient care and treatment.
- Critical thinking skills
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills both written and verbal
- Basic Computer skills – familiarity with Windows based software programs
Key Responsibilities
The Neurosurgery Nurse Practitioner will perform neurosurgical consultations, round on inpatients, and assist in surgery. They are also responsible for assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients while providing extensive education and counseling.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Master of Nursing degree and possess active California RN and APRN licenses. Strong clinical training in neurosurgical evaluations and excellent interpersonal and critical thinking skills are required.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Specialty Nurse Practitioner at Pacific Central Coast Health Center a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Surgery (NP) — ranked against 299 active Surgery (NP) listings on WeekdayDoc.
Surgery — Nurse Practitioner Career Context
In California, the Surgery weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$212k (16 salary observations; 31 listings), vs ~$153k nationally (94 salary observations; 298 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-02-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Surgery listings this role was benchmarked against, 20% are remote, 58% have no call, 80% require no weekends.
Surgery pay on WeekdayDoc is down 23.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$180k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $162k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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