Registered Nurse
Three to five staff. Eight beds. No code carts at 3 a.m.
If you’re an RN looking for a different relationship with your work, the Crisis Receiving Center may be the change you’ve been considering.
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A different kind of nursing role
The Crisis Receiving Center opens in Bangor in July 2026. It’s a 24/7 facility serving up to eight individuals at a time who are experiencing behavioral health crises: an alternative to the emergency department, with a maximum stay of 23 hours.
What that means for you, day to day: a manageable client load, a team of three to five staff working alongside you on every shift, and the ability to actually know the people in your care. If you’ve been carrying twelve patients on a med-surg floor or running between rooms in an ED, this is a different rhythm. The starting annual salary is $80,000, or $38.46 per hour for part-time RNs.
Part-time may be the right fit
We are open to part-time scheduling for the right candidates. If you’ve been thinking about transitioning out of full-time hospital nursing but not yet fully out of the field, this could be the chance to give a new role a try.
What we’re looking for & what the role involves
✔ Medical triage on intake.
✔ Medication management and pharmacy coordination.
✔ Basic wound care.
✔ Coordination with our medical provider and clinical consultants.
✔ Comfort working with youth 14 years of age and above as well as adults experiencing psychosis, substance use, and co-occurring conditions, not as edge cases, but as the population you’re here to serve.
✔ Nights and weekends, you’ll be the single nurse on shift. You’ll have the full crisis team alongside you, but the medical role is yours. Autonomy is part of the job.
✔ Active Maine RN licensure.
✔ Clinical experience in behavioral health, ED, or acute care preferred.
✔ Comfort with autonomous decision-making within established protocols. The kind of nurse who notices what a chart doesn’t say.
About CHCS
Community Health and Counseling Services (CHCS) has been serving Maine since 1883. As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Center, CHCS provides same-day and next-day access alongside Crisis Residential Units Sojourn and Safe Harbour, the Children’s Behaioral Health Urgent Care Clinic, and the existing mobile crisis team.
The Crisis Receiving Center is a new program, that sits inside a well-established system of care. You won’t be discharging clients into uncertainty. You’ll be handing them off to a team that’s already there and interconnected.