Nurse Practitioner, Complex Chronic Illness

About the role

At Vindara Health, we're building a new kind of clinic for people with complex chronic illness, including Long COVID, ME/CFS, dysautonomia, and mast cell activation syndrome. Our co-founder and Chief Medical Officer is Dr. David Kaufman, one of the world's leading clinicians in this field — from day one, you'll work directly with Dr. Kaufman and our clinical team. We're building an intelligent clinical platform that takes care of much of the non-clinical work, including assembling medical records, synthesizing patient data, documentation, and care coordination — so our clinicians spend more time with patients and less time on paperwork. We're beginning to see our first patients and expanding our clinical team. As one of our earliest clinicians, you'll help shape how we deliver care, influence the evolution of our platform, and work closely with the founding team as we grow the clinic together.

What you'll do

• Carry a panel of patients with complex chronic illness (Long COVID, ME/CFS, POTS, MCAS, dysautonomia)
• Deliver care via telehealth, with time to actually listen and investigate
• Help shape clinical protocols and training as we scale the team
• Give feedback on our clinical platform

Role details

• Full-time, W-2, fully remote position
• WA, UT, AZ, and CO licenses are preferred, but we're happy to license you in the states needed
• No on-call responsibilities
• Extensive training, ongoing mentorship from our clinical leadership, and case rounds and continual education with the team

Required qualifications

• DNP graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Current AANP or ANCC board certification (FNP or AGPCNP/AGACNP)
• Active, unrestricted state APRN license (2+ states preferred)
• Active, unrestricted DEA license
• 3+ years of post-certification clinical experience in primary care or internal medicine
• Clinical experience with MCAS, POTS, ME/CFS, Long COVID, EDS, dysautonomia, or tick-borne infections
• Telehealth experience
• A warm, unhurried encounter style — these patients have often been dismissed elsewhere, and they need someone who listens
• Reliable internet connection and a secure, private workspace

Preferred qualifications

• IFMCP certification or functional/integrative medicine training
• Compact RN license
• Background in immunology, allergy, rheumatology, cardiology, or neurology
• Personal lived experience with one of the conditions we treat

You'll thrive here if you

What matters as much as your CV: you're warm and compassionate, you love solving problems and delivering longitudinal care with patients, and you're self-directed. Things will change as we figure out what works, and you're comfortable with that.

• Are passionate about complex chronic illness and frustrated by how these patients are treated in conventional care
• Want to practice medicine with more time and the right tools, not fight insurance companies and charting systems
• Are curious, open to feedback, and want to keep learning
• Enjoy building things: protocols, processes, a clinical team
• Are comfortable in a small, early-stage environment with evolving workflows

This might not be for you if you

• Prefer a structured environment with established processes — you'll be helping build ours
• Want a lot of guidance and management in your role — we'll learn from each other, but we need someone who can work autonomously
• Don't like ambiguity — we're early-stage, and projects and priorities shift
• Are looking for a large clinical team around you from day one — it's a small team that's growing
• Aren't comfortable giving direct feedback — we want you to flag when something should be done differently

Benefits & compensation

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Monthly health insurance stipend
• Eligibility to contribute to 401(k)
• 3 weeks paid time off, plus 9 paid federal holidays
• No on-call
• White-glove licensing, credentialing, and DEA registration service
• Malpractice insurance, including tail coverage
• UpToDate and Epocrates subscriptions
• Annual CE stipend, with paid days for conferences
• Laptop, monitor, and peripherals provided
• Monthly work-from-home internet stipend