Advanced Practice Clinician; NP​/PA; Senior Community Care - Lane

Optum | Lane County, OR | Full-Time | Field-Based

ooking for a role that offers both meaningful patient care and schedule flexibility? Optum's Senior Community Care team is seeking a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to provide longitudinal care to medically complex patients in skilled nursing facilities throughout Lane County.

As the primary Advanced Practice Clinician for your patient panel, you'll have the flexibility to manage your own daily schedule while delivering high-quality, value-based care. With no productivity quotas, RVU requirements, call responsibilities, weekends, or holidays, you can focus on your patients while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• $40,000 Student Loan Repayment Program or $30,000 Sign-On Bonus for eligible individuals
• Competitive base salary plus performance bonus incentives
• $2,500 Relocation Assistance
• No call, weekends, or holidays
• 23 days of PTO plus 9 paid holidays
• No RVU requirements or productivity quotas
• Manage your own patient panel and daily schedule
• Flexibility to structure your day across assigned facilities
• Strong interdisciplinary team support
• Opportunity to build lasting relationships with patients, caregivers, and facility partners

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments
• Manage acute and chronic conditions, diagnostics, and treatment plans
• Provide care during short-term sub-acute rehabilitation episodes
• Lead goals-of-care, advance care planning, and advanced illness discussions
• Collaborate with PCPs, caregivers, facility teams, and interdisciplinary partners
• Educate patients and families on treatment plans and disease management
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation

Optum's value-based care model is designed to support clinicians, not volume metrics. Providers have the flexibility to manage their schedules, prioritize patient needs, and focus on delivering thoughtful, longitudinal care rather than meeting productivity targets.

This role is ideal for clinicians who value independence, flexibility, and the ability to build meaningful patient relationships while maintaining predictable work hours and time outside of work.

• Graduate of an accredited Master of Science in Nursing or Doctor of Nursing Practice program
• Active and unrestricted Nurse Practitioner license in the state of residence, or ability to obtain by start date
• Board certification through AANP or ANCC in an approved NP specialty

• Graduate of an accredited Physician Assistant program
• Active and unrestricted Physician Assistant license in the state of residence, or ability to obtain by start date
• Board certification through the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)

• Current, active DEA licensure/prescriptive authority, or ability to obtain post-hire in accordance with state regulations
• Ability to gain a collaborative practice agreement if required by state law
• Valid driver's license and reliable transportation
• Ability to meet the physical requirements of a field-based position

• 1+ years of clinical experience, preferably in a long-term care setting
• Experience caring for patients with complex behavioral, social, and functional needs
• Understanding of Geriatrics and Chronic Illness
• Understanding of Advanced Illness and end-of-life discussions
• Proficiency with electronic medical records and clinical documentation

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