Behavioral Health Trainer

The MAS Community Health Team within MAS Medical Staffing helps provide our clients with excellent care. Our MAS Community Health Team provides services to individuals with behavioral and mental health diagnosis. We take pride in our motto:
Exceptional People Providing Exceptional Services. As a team, we support our clients and their families as they work towards independence and success within their communities.

The Behavioral Health Trainer leads the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of onboarding and clinical training programs for a community-based behavioral health agency. This role ensures that newly hired and existing staff—particularly direct care, case management, and clinical employees—are well-prepared to deliver safe, effective, and person-centered services that meet Maine regulatory, licensing, and Medicaid requirements. Provide training to promote staff competency and effective EMR documentation.

Serving as a subject matter expert in adult learning and clinical workforce development, the Behavioral Health Trainer partners closely with clinical leadership, quality, compliance, and operations teams to strengthen workforce readiness, support regulatory compliance, and promote consistent, high-quality care across programs.

• Design, facilitate, and continuously enhance a comprehensive new-hire orientation program for clinical and direct care staff.
• Ensure orientation content aligns with Maine DHHS, Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), Medicaid, and agency policies and procedures.
• Provide training on agency mission, values, ethical standards, client rights, mandated reporting, confidentiality (HIPAA), safety expectations, effective EMR usage and documentation, and trauma-informed care.
• Coordinate onboarding schedules and track training completion across multiple programs and service lines.

• Develop and deliver ongoing clinical and operational training for roles including BHPs, MHRT/Cs, case managers, clinicians, supervisors, and program leadership.
• Facilitate training on evidence-based practices, behavioral interventions, crisis response, de-escalation, documentation standards, and risk management.
• Collaborate with clinical leaders to identify training needs based on quality outcomes, audit findings, incident trends, and regulatory updates.
• Support staff in meeting credentialing, certification, supervision, and continuing education requirements.

• Ensure all training curricula, materials, and delivery methods meet Maine licensing and accreditation standards and are audit-ready.
• Maintain accurate training records, attendance logs, competency assessments, and completion documentation.
• Support retraining and corrective action initiatives following incidents, investigations, or quality reviews.
• Remain current on Maine behavioral health regulations, workforce requirements, and best practices.
• Serve as a trusted consultant and resource to supervisors and program leaders regarding onboarding, training, and staff development.
• Mentor and support trainers, preceptors, and subject matter experts involved in training delivery.
• Model professionalism, accountability, cultural humility, and trauma-informed leadership.

• Highly motivated with a strong commitment to quality, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Independent and flexible problem-solver who adapts well in a growing and evolving organization.
• Analytical thinker with a hands-on, solutions-oriented approach.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to translate ideas into practical training solutions.
• Reliable and deadline-driven, consistently following through on commitments.
• Comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively in a hybrid or remote environment.

Thrives in a fast-paced setting with changing priorities

• Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Health, Social Work, Psychology, Education, Human Services, or a related field required;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in community-based…