Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner

Imagine practicing psychiatry where it matters most, right alongside primary care, pharmacy, and substance use treatment, all under one roof. At Central City Concern’s Blackburn Center, our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner is a full member of a multi-disciplinary team delivering trauma-informed, client-centered care to people affected by homelessness. You will evaluate, prescribe, and consult, with colleagues down the hall to collaborate with every day.

After five years of recruiting for CCC, I can tell you this role is for clinicians who want their expertise to open doors for people who have too often been left out. If that sounds like you, we would love to talk.

• Perform psychiatric evaluations and use psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions, with full prescriptive authority in Oregon.
• Prescribe and manage medications that support substance use recovery, including buprenorphine, naltrexone, and acamprosate.
• Provide brief psychotherapy, motivational interviewing, suicide assessment, and crisis intervention, and practice independently while seeking consultation when it helps your patients.

• Work side by side with primary care, integrated mental health, substance use disorder treatment, and an on-site pharmacy.
• Offer clinical consultation to behavioral health and primary care colleagues, including other CCC practitioners.
• Join staff meetings and case conferences where interdisciplinary expertise shapes individual treatment plans.

• Deliver nonjudgmental, compassionate, and culturally responsive care to vulnerable, complex populations, with Spanish-language skills a plus.
• Help shape how the clinic runs by identifying workflow improvements and contributing to review of Key Performance Indicators.
• Keep growing through training opportunities in both behavioral and primary care.

Blackburn Center (BC) is a primary care clinic that delivers comprehensive services, including treatment for acute and chronic medical conditions, integrated mental health support, substance use disorder treatment and an on-site pharmacy. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) works collaboratively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to provide integrated psychiatric and behavioral health care in the primary care setting.

Schedule: Tuesday-Friday 8:30am-5:00pm (.8 FTE 4 days a week)

Location: Blackburn Center

$134,000-$174,000/annually Range varies based on professional experience and licensure/certifications, and our internal equity.

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing and Master’s degree in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing from State Board of Nursing approved schools of nursing.
• Current license to practice nursing in Oregon and certified as a PMHNP by the Oregon State Board of Nursing and National certification.
• Must meet CCC privileging requirements as required by FTCA.
• Current BLS certification required prior to start.
• Must have full prescriptive powers in Oregon with a DEA number.
• Must generally have the ability to walk, bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, reach, pull and lift heavy objects, and climb stairs with reasonable or no accommodation.
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen, TB test, and background check. This includes clearance by the DHS Background Check Unit.
• The OAR prohibits SUDS program staff from having within the previous 3 years a DUI conviction or diversion, a felony conviction, or a conviction under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act.
• Must be able to work within an integrated, multidisciplinary setting.
• Must adhere to agency’s non-discrimination policies.
• Ability to adhere to Central City Concern’s drug-free…