Street Medicine Nurse Practitioner

Job Summary

We are excited to continue providing care to people experiencing homelessness through our growing Street Medicine team. We are recruiting for a Street Medicine Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP). You’ll work as part of an interdisciplinary outreach team that includes a nurse and a community health worker, with a physician available for consultation. This role provides the opportunity to care for people in our community who have a great need for compassionate, respectful, and coordinated medical care.

From a clinical standpoint, you will provide a broad scope of primary care services in the field, with a substantial focus on substance use care. This is a Project, Full-Time (1.0 FTE) position currently funded through 9/30/2027.

Based on our internal compensation review process, the starting hourly wage for this position is $62.58 (step
0) – $67.00 (step
2). We make decisions on higher starting salaries based on experience, education, and qualifications.

The full salary range for this position is $62.58 - $84.67 per hour. This position also includes a comprehensive benefits package that includes insurance (health, dental, vision, life), retirement plan options, generous leave accruals, annual cost of living salary increases, employee programs, and more.

This is an advanced professional classification that works in collaboration with other health care team members to deliver patient-centered, trauma-informed care for people experiencing homelessness. This position involves supervision of other nurses and clinical staff to ensure the delivery of quality health care and health education to those seeking services. In addition, the Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) provides hands‑on care, develops evidence‑based treatment plans, performs a variety of diagnostic workups, and prescribes medications.

This is a single-level classification within the nursing services field that is supported by clinic physicians and/or a Medical Director. This role works independently, under the general supervision of a physician. Employees in this classification work with sensitive and confidential information requiring a high level of discretion.

The items in this section are the key duties and responsibilities for this job and do not represent an exhaustive list. Our organization is dynamic, and duties may change based on business needs. Any new duties will remain within the scope of the job.

The Street Medicine Nurse Practitioner serves as the primary care provider within the Street Medicine team, and as the day‑to‑day clinical lead.

Our Street Medicine team provides primary and urgent care for people experiencing homelessness in Pierce County. The Street Medicine NP works as part of an interdisciplinary outreach team that includes a nurse and a certified peer navigator to provide compassionate and culturally appropriate medical care for people in our community. From a clinical standpoint, the Street Medicine NP provides a broad scope of primary care services in the field, with a substantial focus on substance use care and mental health.

• Provide respectful, culturally appropriate outreach and patient care in the field (e.g., at encampments, streetside for people living in cars).
• Services include a broad range of primary care and urgent care issues, such as wound care, chronic disease management, mental health care, and substance use care.
• Coordinate with local healthcare organizations, including opioid treatment programs, to help people transition into traditional facility-based care, if they are able to do so.
• Work with certified peer navigator and RN to coordinate patient care.
• Build collaborations with community partners and…