Founding Executive Director for the Institute for the Advancement of Whole Health

About the Role

We are seeking a part-time Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician Assistant (PA) with established training in women’s hormone health to join our integrative care team. This is a focused clinical role for a provider who can confidently evaluate and support women through hormonal transitions, sexual health concerns, preconception, and fertility-related needs using a blend of conventional, functional, and integrative medicine. Our care model is relationship-based, individualized, and grounded in deep listening, looking beyond isolated symptoms to understand patterns across physiology, lifestyle, stress, environment, relationships, and each patient’s goals.

This role begins part-time, with room to grow. Providers who build strong patient relationships and demonstrate consistent, high-quality care are welcomed to expand their hours and schedule as their patient panel grows.

Responsibilities

• Provide part-time outpatient care focused on women’s hormone health, including perimenopause, menopause, menstrual and hormonal symptoms, and healthy aging.
• Evaluate and support sexual health and wellness concerns, including changes in libido, arousal, comfort, and other symptoms related to hormonal, physical, emotional, or lifestyle factors.
• Provide integrative preconception and fertility support, including health optimization, cycle and symptom evaluation, appropriate laboratory testing, patient education, and coordination with OB-GYN or reproductive endocrinology specialists when indicated.
• Conduct comprehensive histories and assessments, reviewing symptoms, prior treatment, medications, supplements, lifestyle, sexual health, reproductive goals, and patient preferences.
• Order and interpret appropriate laboratory testing, integrating results with the patient’s symptoms, history, and full clinical picture.
• Develop individualized, evidence-informed treatment plans that may include lifestyle, nutrition, supplements, medications, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), when clinically appropriate and within scope.
• Educate patients about benefits, risks, alternatives, expectations, and follow-up needs to support informed decision-making.
• Monitor outcomes, adjust treatment plans, document clearly, and coordinate care or referrals as needed.
• Collaborate closely with Dr. Benton and our integrative care team in a supportive, no-ego environment.

Requirements

• Required: Formal education, certification, mentorship, or comparable structured training in women’s hormone evaluation and treatment.
• Current, unrestricted NP or PA license and board certification in good standing, with eligibility to practice in North Carolina.
• For PAs and NPs practicing without full independent authority, ability to enter into a collaborative or supervising practice agreement as required under North Carolina law.
• Demonstrated clinical experience with BHRT evaluation, prescribing, monitoring, and patient counseling.
• Experience addressing women’s libido and sexual health concerns in a professional, sensitive, and patient-centered manner.
• Knowledge of preconception health, menstrual cycle evaluation, fertility-related concerns, and appropriate referral pathways.
• Strong clinical judgment and a commitment to safe, evidence-informed, individualized care.
• A patient-centered approach that respects informed consent and balances conventional and integrative options without dogma.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional training in functional or integrative medicine, menopause care, sexual medicine, preconception care, fertility, thyroid health, metabolic health, nutrition, or related women’s health disciplines.
• Comfort discussing sensitive sexual and reproductive health concerns with warmth, professionalism, and respect.
• Comfort with longer, relationship-based visits and shared decision-making.
• Openness to hybrid or telehealth visits for appropriate follow-up care.
• Curiosity, humility, warmth, and a genuine interest in continued professional growth.

Practice Environment

Providers join a collaborative, mission-driven integrative practice with mentorship and clinical support built in. The schedule is flexible to start: approximately 2 clinic days per week with a clear, demonstrated path to expand hours as demand for the provider’s care grows.