Are you passionate about making a difference while enjoying flexibility, variety, and purpose in your career? Join our dynamic and supportive team at Crisis & Counseling Centers, where you’ll work in a crisis agency that addresses both urgent and longer-term clinical needs.
At Crisis & Counseling Centers, you’ll be part of a dedicated team providing best practices integrated treatment for substance use disorders at a facility recognized as a Center of Excellence for substance use treatment. As a clinician here, you’ll receive ample clinical supervision and support to specialize your practice in alignment with your preferences and professional goals.
Why Choose Us?
- Comprehensive Care Approach: Our agency promotes a “no wrong door” and harm reduction approach to substance use treatment. We offer medication-assisted recovery, case management, parenting education, and other supports to ensure clients receive comprehensive care.
- Professional Growth: We support your professional development through agency-sponsored licensures and certifications (e.g., CCS, MHRT-CSP).
- Team-Oriented Environment: Work in a supportive, collaborative atmosphere with a team dedicated to making a positive impact. To apply, please submit a cover letter detailing your interest and qualifications along with a current resume.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing Assessments, Evaluations, Treatment Plans, and/or Other Services
- Providing One on One Sessions
- Running Groups
- Documentation
- Collaborating with inter-program, inter-agency, and other providers
- Protecting Clients Confidentiality and Rights
The ideal candidate would possess:
- Empathy and Compassion: A genuine desire to help others and the ability to empathize with the challenges faced by clients.
- Organizational Skills: Strong organizational abilities to manage multiple clients and tasks effectively.
- Communication Skills: Clear and effective communication skills to interact with clients, their families, and other professionals.
- Knowledge of Community Resources: Familiarity with local resources available to support clients in their recovery journey.
- Flexibility and Adaptability: The ability to adapt to changing situations and client needs.
- Professional Growth: A growth mindset and an interest in acquiring additional agency-sponsored licensures and certifications (e.g. CCS, MHRT-CSP).
- Education: Must possess an active LADC.
Crisis and Counseling Offers:
- eligibility for loan forgiveness (see below for details)
- a generous benefit package (see below for details)
- competitive salary for full-time employees
- supportive and team oriented work environment
- agency issued laptops
- continuing education and professional development opportunities
Full Time Benefits include:
- Earned Time starting at 4+ weeks per year!
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Flexible spending account
- 10 paid holidays
- 401K plan, with employer match available
- Additional life and long-term disability
- Dental insurance available
Loan Forgiveness Options:
- C&C is an HRSA STAR LRP-approved site, where qualified applicants may be eligible for up to $250,000 in loan forgiveness.
- C&C is also an eligible employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) that provides workers with qualifying employment and loan payments federal student debt forgiveness after 10 years or 120 monthly payments.
Education/Experience requirements:
- Minimum of CADC, but LADC preferred
- DEEP certification, preferred
- 2-3 years of experience working with clients co-occurring disorders preferred.
- Experience in providing various modalities of treatment such as 1:1, group, or as part of an Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) service preferred.
- Flexibility in order to meet client needs.
- Experience working within a multi-disciplinary team.
Hours:
This is a full time (40 hours/week) non-exempt position. There is flexibility for either 8- or 10- hour days.
Location:
This position will be a combination of remote and office work, based mainly out of our Augusta office.
Pay rate:
Pay for this position ranges from $23-$25/hour, this is an hourly, non-exempt position.
Crisis & Counseling Centers is a collaborative and comprehensive behavioral health agency operating in Central Maine. Since its founding in 1970, Crisis & Counseling Centers has become one of the most trusted behavioral health agencies in Maine, with approximately 100 employees located across three facilities and numerous community-based settings statewide.
Crisis and Counseling Centers is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.