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Job Description
Job Description
Description :
Job Title : Nurse Practitioner (Family or Adult NP) or Physician Assistant, DESC Opioid Recovery and Care Access (ORCA) Center
Schedule :
- Before ORCA Center Opens (anticipated in summer-fall 2025) : Monday – Friday, 8 : 30 am – 5 : 00 pm; clinical care on DESC’s Opioid Treatment Network team.
- After ORCA Center Opens : Three (3) 12-hour shifts with at least a 30-minute lunch break, 7 : 00 am – 7 : 30 pm, per week; and one additional 12-hour shift every 4 weeks.
Supervised by : ORCA Center Senior Medical Lead Physician
Insurance Benefits : Medical, Dental, Life, Long-term Disability
Other Benefits : Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan
Job Overview :
This role will provide direct clinical care within the DESC Opioid Recovery and Care Access (ORCA) Center. The ORCA Center is estimated to start clinical services in late summer to fall 2025 and will eventually be open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, including holidays. It will offer four overlapping types of services, delivered by a team of prescribers, nurses, medical assistants and peer specialists, with operational leadership support :
We are hiring for this now. Before the ORCA Center opens, this role will focus on supporting the DESC Opioid Treatment Network team, an outpatient OUD treatment team, to provide care for clients with OUD and related health conditions. After the ORCA Center’s opening, responsibilities will transition to the Center’s clinical operations.
This is a clinical role without administrative or supervisory duties.
About DESC :
DESC is a multi-service agency that specializes in providing permanent supportive housing, emergency shelter, residential crisis services, and comprehensive behavioral health outpatient services for people with long-time experiences of homelessness and serious behavioral health disabilities. We utilize harm reduction, trauma informed care, and housing first practices, striving to deliver high-quality, outcomes-oriented, flexible services that accommodate consumers’ unique needs. The ORCA Center builds upon DESC’s successful and innovative clinic- and field-based outpatient OUD treatment team and will collaborate closely with this team.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES :
Clinical Care
Care Coordination
Professional Development
Requirements :
Minimum Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to sit, communicate with other employees and clients, is required to lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds and to operate computer hardware systems. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Considerable stress may occur.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :
DESC is committed to diversity in the workplace and promotes equal employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants. The Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, caste, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification. Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
