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.
The Crisis Receiving Center is built around a team-based model. Crisis Workers and Peer Support Specialists are different roles with different qualifications and different lenses on the work, but they sit at the same table, every shift, working with the same eight people in the same building. Both roles are described below.
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 the role involves & what we’re looking for
✔ Medical triage on intake.
✔ Medication management, pharmacy coordination, and basic wound care.
✔ Active Maine RN licensure.
✔ Coordination with our medical provider and clinical consultants.
✔ Comfort with autonomous decision-making within established protocols. The kind of nurse who notices what a chart doesn’t say.
✔ 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.
✔ Clinical experience in behavioral health, ED, or acute care preferred
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.