Nurse Practitioner Specialist
Salem, OR, US
Advanced Practice Provider – PA / NP
Full Time
Job ID: #16861
Location: Salem Health Sleep Center, 875 Oak Street SE, Salem, Oregon 97301
Department: Pulmonary & Sleep Clinic
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week, Exempt
Schedule: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday
Your role with us
As an Advanced Practitioner Provider in Sleep Medicine at Salem Health, you will deliver comprehensive, evidence-based care that drives strong clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Working collaboratively with internal and external medical and business partners, you will play a key role in improving the health and overall well-being of patients across sleep populations.
In this role, you’ll diagnose and manage a wide range of acute and chronic sleep conditions while also guiding patients through evaluation and treatment for complex sleep disorders. You’ll practice in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment that values independent clinical judgment and partnership across care teams. From optimizing respiratory function to helping patients reclaim restorative sleep, your work directly enhances safety, cognitive function, chronic disease management, and overall quality of life. Sleep medicine offer deeply rewarding practice where thoughtful, personalized care leads to measurable, often transformative outcomes.
Clinic Information
At the Salem Health Pulmonary and Sleep Clinic, you’ll find a warm, collaborative environment where providers, specialists, and support staff work together seamlessly to deliver exceptional sleep care. Team members value open communication, shared problem‑solving, and celebrating wins together, creating a workplace where new ideas are welcomed and relationships truly matter. With advanced diagnostic resources and a team that genuinely enjoys working together, the clinic offers a setting where you can practice at a high level while feeling supported every step of the way.
What you'll do
- Evaluate, diagnose, treat, and actively manage patients 18 years and older with sleep disorders in the outpatient setting.
- Evaluate patients with complex sleep concerns by taking detailed sleep histories, performing focused exams, and identifying patterns that point to sleep‑related breathing issues, insomnia, circadian disturbances, and other sleep disorders.
- Order sleep studies, including polysomnograms and home sleep apnea tests, to understand exactly what is happening during a patient’s sleep and guide evidence‑based treatment.
- Outpatient responsibilities include clinical new patient consultations, plan of care development, follow-up visits, handling urgent patient requests and coordinating/conducting and evaluating diagnostic testing.
- Develop personalized treatment plans that address both symptoms and underlying causes, helping patients improve their energy, safety, and long‑term health.
- Follow patients over time, monitoring progress, adjusting treatments, and celebrating milestones as sleep quality and over all well‑being improve.
- Work closely with a collegial, multidisciplinary team, collaborating with sleep physicians, respiratory therapists, sleep technologists, primary care providers, and behavioral health specialists.
- Educate patients and families about sleep health, empowering them with the knowledge and tools to manage symptoms and prevent long‑term complications.
Required qualifications
- Possess a Master’s Degree or higher in Nursing, or in a field deemed to be equivalent by the Oregon Board of Nursing.
- Have satisfactorily completed a Nurse Practitioner Program recognized by the Oregon Board of Nursing.
- Hold a current, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in the State of Oregon.
- Hold valid, unencumbered Nurse Practitioner national certification issued American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or National Certification Corporation (NCC), or an equivalent Medicare/Medicaid approved certifying body or be actively seeking certification and obtain the same in the specialty area requested within 24 months of privileges being granted at Salem Hospital.
- Hold DEA certification.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in relevant setting.
You may be a qualified Physician Associate candidate if you:
- Have graduated from a Physician Associate program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Associate (ARC-PA) or its predecessors.
- Have passed the Physician Associate National Certifying Examination and are certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Associate.
- Current Physician Associate license in good standing issued by the Oregon Medical Board.
- Hold DEA certification.
- Successful completion of the Physician Associate National Certifying Examination.
- Current certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Associates.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in relevant setting.
Additional Information
- Knowledge of Lean methodology preferred.
Total rewards package
Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations, and professional growth. Click here for details.
Additional offerings
- Up to $15,000 start bonus.
- Up to $30,000 student loan repayment.
- Relocation Assistance.
- $4,000 annual Continuing Medical Education (CME) allowance.
- 40 hours for CME.
- 200 hours PTO
Why Salem Health?
Salem Health is a Top Workplace in Oregon, known for fostering a supportive culture where your contributions truly matter. As an award-winning, independent health care system, we serve our region through Salem Hospital, multiple community clinics and West Valley Hospital, ensuring broad access to high-quality care.
We believe in empowering our teams. Through Lean principles, staff help drive innovation and solve real problems. We also invest in your growth with professional development, tuition assistance, and clear career pathways. At Salem Health, you’ll find more than a job, you’ll find purpose, connection, and room to thrive.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact physician.recruitment@salemhealth.org.
Location: Salem Health Sleep Center, 875 Oak Street SE, Salem, Oregon 97301
Department: Pulmonary & Sleep Clinic
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week, Exempt
Schedule: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday
Your role with us
As an Advanced Practitioner Provider in Sleep Medicine at Salem Health, you will deliver comprehensive, evidence-based care that drives strong clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and operational efficiency. Working collaboratively with internal and external medical and business partners, you will play a key role in improving the health and overall well-being of patients across sleep populations.
In this role, you’ll diagnose and manage a wide range of acute and chronic sleep conditions while also guiding patients through evaluation and treatment for complex sleep disorders. You’ll practice in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment that values independent clinical judgment and partnership across care teams. From optimizing respiratory function to helping patients reclaim restorative sleep, your work directly enhances safety, cognitive function, chronic disease management, and overall quality of life. Sleep medicine offer deeply rewarding practice where thoughtful, personalized care leads to measurable, often transformative outcomes.
Clinic Information
At the Salem Health Pulmonary and Sleep Clinic, you’ll find a warm, collaborative environment where providers, specialists, and support staff work together seamlessly to deliver exceptional sleep care. Team members value open communication, shared problem‑solving, and celebrating wins together, creating a workplace where new ideas are welcomed and relationships truly matter. With advanced diagnostic resources and a team that genuinely enjoys working together, the clinic offers a setting where you can practice at a high level while feeling supported every step of the way.
What you'll do
- Evaluate, diagnose, treat, and actively manage patients 18 years and older with sleep disorders in the outpatient setting.
- Evaluate patients with complex sleep concerns by taking detailed sleep histories, performing focused exams, and identifying patterns that point to sleep‑related breathing issues, insomnia, circadian disturbances, and other sleep disorders.
- Order sleep studies, including polysomnograms and home sleep apnea tests, to understand exactly what is happening during a patient’s sleep and guide evidence‑based treatment.
- Outpatient responsibilities include clinical new patient consultations, plan of care development, follow-up visits, handling urgent patient requests and coordinating/conducting and evaluating diagnostic testing.
- Develop personalized treatment plans that address both symptoms and underlying causes, helping patients improve their energy, safety, and long‑term health.
- Follow patients over time, monitoring progress, adjusting treatments, and celebrating milestones as sleep quality and over all well‑being improve.
- Work closely with a collegial, multidisciplinary team, collaborating with sleep physicians, respiratory therapists, sleep technologists, primary care providers, and behavioral health specialists.
- Educate patients and families about sleep health, empowering them with the knowledge and tools to manage symptoms and prevent long‑term complications.
Required qualifications
- Possess a Master’s Degree or higher in Nursing, or in a field deemed to be equivalent by the Oregon Board of Nursing.
- Have satisfactorily completed a Nurse Practitioner Program recognized by the Oregon Board of Nursing.
- Hold a current, unencumbered Registered Nurse license in the State of Oregon.
- Hold valid, unencumbered Nurse Practitioner national certification issued American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or National Certification Corporation (NCC), or an equivalent Medicare/Medicaid approved certifying body or be actively seeking certification and obtain the same in the specialty area requested within 24 months of privileges being granted at Salem Hospital.
- Hold DEA certification.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in relevant setting.
You may be a qualified Physician Associate candidate if you:
- Have graduated from a Physician Associate program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Associate (ARC-PA) or its predecessors.
- Have passed the Physician Associate National Certifying Examination and are certified by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Associate.
- Current Physician Associate license in good standing issued by the Oregon Medical Board.
- Hold DEA certification.
- Successful completion of the Physician Associate National Certifying Examination.
- Current certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Associates.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in relevant setting.
Additional Information
- Knowledge of Lean methodology preferred.
Total rewards package
Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations, and professional growth. Click here for details.
Additional offerings
- Up to $15,000 start bonus.
- Up to $30,000 student loan repayment.
- Relocation Assistance.
- $4,000 annual Continuing Medical Education (CME) allowance.
- 40 hours for CME.
- 200 hours PTO
Why Salem Health?
Salem Health is a Top Workplace in Oregon, known for fostering a supportive culture where your contributions truly matter. As an award-winning, independent health care system, we serve our region through Salem Hospital, multiple community clinics and West Valley Hospital, ensuring broad access to high-quality care.
We believe in empowering our teams. Through Lean principles, staff help drive innovation and solve real problems. We also invest in your growth with professional development, tuition assistance, and clear career pathways. At Salem Health, you’ll find more than a job, you’ll find purpose, connection, and room to thrive.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact physician.recruitment@salemhealth.org.
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