Primary Care Provider - Residential Recovery Center

Primary Care Provider | 16th & Burnside Recovery Center | Central City Concern

Why this role matters

• Deliver low-barrier, trauma‑informed primary care in a residential recovery setting
• Serve individuals experiencing substance use disorders, mental health challenges, and homelessness
• Practice medicine rooted in harm reduction, dignity, and access

• Complete admission orders, including buprenorphine initiation and management
• Conduct comprehensive health assessments, physical exams, and ongoing clinical management
• Provide urgent and primary care services for a high‑risk, underserved population
• Prescribe medications, interpret diagnostics, and develop stabilization and care plans
• Support wound care, chronic disease management, and acute medical needs

If you're looking for meaningful part‑time work where your clinical skills, values, and impact align, this is a chance to practice medicine with purpose while being supported by a mission‑driven, interdisciplinary team.

The practitioner works with the Medical Director to provide medical care to patients admitted to 16th & Burnside Recovery Center. The person taking on this role should have a strong background in mental health and addiction medicine is preferred, as well as experience working with homeless and underserved populations. Demonstrated skills in addiction and/or primary care medicine, graduation from an accredited medical school, unrestricted licensure to practice medicine in Oregon, and proper training prescribing Buprenorphine are required of all applicants.

A strong background in mental health and addiction medicine and the ability to meet the training requirements for buprenorphine prescribing are strongly preferred. Experience working with homeless and underserved populations is strongly preferred. Successful applicants will understand the value of harm reduction and low‑barrier buprenorphine prescribing and will be flexible and responsive to highly vulnerable patients. Demonstrated skills in primary care medicine and licensure to practice medicine in Oregon are required of all applicants.

Join our team as a Primary Care Provider at our Residential Recovery Center 16th & Burnside!

Part‑time benefitted position .6 FTE working 3 days a week (Fridays Required)

Salary Ranges (Full‑Time) starting at:

Physician (MD/DO) $138,940 - $180,600

Location: 16th & Burnside

• Board eligibility or certification in Internal Medicine or Family Practice
• Must have completed a CNME‑certified primary care residency program
• Licensed naturopathic physician in the State of Oregon
• Maintain an Active DEA Certification

• A strong background in mental health and addiction medicine is preferred, as well as experience working with homeless and underserved populations
• Demonstrated skills in primary care medicine with a minimum of 2 years’ experience preferred
• Appropriate training to prescribe Buprenorphine
• Must have current BLS certification
• Must meet CCC privileging requirements as required by FTCA
• Available to work during standard Hooper Detox Center and 16XBurnside Recovery Center hours
• Central City Concern is committed to a drug‑free workplace that encourages a safe, healthy, and productive work environment and strictly complies with the Drug‑Free Workplace Act of 1988. An employee shall not, in the workplace, unlawfully manufacture, distribute, dispense, possess or use a controlled substance or alcohol
• Must pass a pre‑employment drug screen, TB test, and criminal background check. This includes clearance by the DHS Background Check Unit
• The OAR prohibits A&D 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
• Physical ability to bend, stoop, kneel, squat, twist, reach, pull and lift moderately heavy objects
• Able to climb stairs several times a day
• Must adhere to agency non‑discrimination policies
• Ability to effectively interact with co‑workers and clients with diverse ethnic backgrounds, religious views, political affiliation, cultural backgrounds, lifestyles, and sexual orientation and treat…