Behavioral Health Clinical Team Lead

Behavioral Health Clinical Team Lead

Central Maine Healthcare is seeking a Behavioral Health Clinical Team Lead to oversee the day-to-day management of the Integrated Behavioral Health Department at the Family Medicine Residency program.

This is a full‑time, 40‑hour per week, benefit‑eligible position.

Compensation is based on experience and dedication to providing top‑quality patient care and reflects competitive, experience‑based pay rates.

• Clinical supervision of full‑time clinicians and trainees when appropriate.
• Support and direction to clinical and clerical staff regarding behavioral health workflows and scheduling needs.
• Managing the referral queue and serving as the primary point of contact for other system departments.
• Coordinating care management activities across the Opioid Health Home, ensuring every member has an up‑to‑date Plan of Care/ITP and supervising the Recovery Coach.
• Spending 50% of time providing clinical services—individual and group psychotherapy and substance use treatment—to the Family Medicine Residency patient population.
• Evaluating referrals for appropriateness, using a brief intervention model, conducting holistic assessments, and maintaining patient safety.
• Maintaining knowledge of community resources, communicating with outpatient physicians, managing resource supplies, and coordinating family communications.
• Providing counseling related to opioid dependency and contributing to care planning for Opioid Health Home members.
• Partnering with Clinic and System Leadership on operations, workflow support, grant‑program oversight, and KPI monitoring.
• Communicating with physicians, staff, and the administrative team, maintaining relationships with outpatient clinic staff and the community.
• Contributing to a positive learning environment for students and residents by participating in formal educational activities and providing feedback.
• Managing equipment safely, maintaining regulatory requirements, complying with policies, keeping confidential information secure, and ensuring a safe workplace.

• LCSW, LMSW‑CC, LCPC, LCPC‑C, LMFT, or LMFT‑C. Minimum of sixty (60) hours of alcohol and drug education within the last five (5) years, or within five years of initiating service delivery for Opioid Health Home services.
• Additional licensure as an LADC is preferred.

• Additional languages preferred.
• Ability to engage patients and team members utilizing CMH Experience Standards.
• Active listening, seeking information, honesty, truthfulness, consistency, respect, dignity, and empathy.
• Role modeling, initiative, and ownership.
• Collaboration, teamwork, and resilience.
• Demonstrated ability to direct and triage in a fluid operational environment.
• Ability to collaborate with all layers of management and administration.

Full Time

Days

Central Maine Healthcare is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving 400,000 people in central, western, and Midcoast Maine. CMH’s hospital facilities include Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Bridgton Hospital, and Rumford Hospital. CMH also supports Central Maine Medical Group, a primary and specialty care practice organization. Other system services include the Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute, a regional trauma program, Life Flight of Maine’s southern Maine base, the Central Maine Comprehensive Cancer Center, and other high‑quality clinical services.

CMH actively promotes diversity in its workforce at all levels of the organization. We strive to create and maintain a setting where we celebrate cultural and other differences and consider them strengths. CMH is an equal‑opportunity workforce and no one shall discriminate against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or veteran status with respect to any offer, or term or condition of employment.

We make reasonable accommodations to the known physical and mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities.