Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner | Old Town Clinic | Central City Concern

Practice psychiatry where it matters most. Join an integrated healthcare team serving individuals experiencing homelessness, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, trauma, and complex medical needs. This is an opportunity to provide life-changing care while working alongside primary care, behavioral health, addiction medicine, pharmacy, and case management professionals.

What You'll Do

• Provide psychiatric evaluations and medication management
• Treat co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders
• Prescribe and manage medications for opioid use disorder and recovery support
• Deliver crisis intervention and risk assessments
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary, integrated care team
• Utilize trauma-informed and harm reduction approaches to care

Why Central City Concern?

• Mission-driven work with meaningful community impact
• Integrated care model recognized for innovation
• Collaborative and supportive clinical teams
• Opportunity to work with complex, rewarding patient populations
• Help people build healthy, housed, resilient, and engaged lives

If you're looking for a PMHNP role where you can make a measurable difference every day, we'd love to connect with you.

Schedule:

Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

Location:

Old Town Clinic (727 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR 97209)

Compensation: $164,000-$213,000/annually
* Range varies based on professional experience and licensure/certifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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 have full prescriptive powers in Oregon with a DEA number.
• Practicing as a PMHNP for 3 or more years HIGHLY preferred.
• Must meet CCC privileging requirements as required by FTCA.
• Current BLS certification required prior to start.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Must meet applicable training requirements for Buprenorphine prescribing.
• 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 workplace which encourages a safe, healthy and productive work environment and strictly complies with the Drug-Free Work Place Act of 1988. An employee shall not, in the workplace, unlawfully manufacture, distribute, dispense, possess or use a controlled substance or alcohol.
• Ability to effectively interact with co-workers and clients with diverse ethnic backgrounds, religious views, political affiliation, cultural backgrounds, life-styles, and sexual orientations, and treat each individual with respect and dignity.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Work as a member of the Old Town Clinic multi-disciplinary team to deliver comprehensive, client-centered and trauma-informed integrated services.
• Actively participate in the integration of services at Old Town Clinic and identify new opportunities to improve collaboration between and within service and care teams while carefully following information-sharing guidelines.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement within Old Town Clinic workflows and logistics. Participate in review of Old Town Clinic Key Performance Indicators; review and contribute to continuous improvement opportunities and plans.
• Build understanding of and appreciation for diversity among Old Town Clinic clients and support their connection to culturally responsive and culturally specific services as requested.
• Provide direct patient care including but not limited to: psychiatric evaluation, consultation, psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic interventions, and monitoring and addressing adverse effects.
• Prescribe and manage the opioid agonist medication, buprenorphine, as well as other medication supported recovery medications such as Vivitrol, Naltrexone, and Acamprosate.
• Document plan for medical and psychiatric treatment and on-going treatment in the outpatient setting.
• Provide crisis intervention, suicide assessment and intervention.
• Conduct care of psychiatric/mental health emergencies and initiate arrangements for continuing care or referral to appropriate facility.
• Provide brief psychotherapy interventions including motivational interviewing.
• Provide patient and family education.
• Provide clinical consultation to staff in behavioral and primary care disciplines,…