Psychiatric Clinician

and the job listing Expires on January 28, 2026

The Adult/Child Outpatient Psychiatric Clinician I is a conditionally licensed (LMSW-CC, LCPC-C) therapist who treats mental health, addiction, or co-occurring disorders. Depending on their role they may work with adult or pediatric populations. The clinician is responsible for ensuring high quality, evidence-based, recovery-oriented active treatment to an assigned caseload through assessment, evaluation, treatment, and discharge planning in accordance with regulatory policies.

They conduct individual, group, and family therapy within assigned program settings to reduce psychiatric symptoms and improve functional capacity in their patients. They assist patients during discharge planning which may include working with families and referring to community-based providers. They are adept at articulating case reviews and creating documentation that reflects both active treatment provisions and patient response to care.

This person performs duties and/or responsibilities as assigned by the Manager or Supervisor.

• Completes comprehensive, diagnostic evaluations by collecting data which enables the identification of potential therapeutic targets for active treatment.
• Develops initial master treatment plan and updates in collaboration with the patient and within established time frames that identify effective interventions to achieve outcomes, and accommodate the patient’s developmental level, motivation, health/spiritual beliefs, functional capabilities and strengths.
• Implements individual, group and family therapy interventions that are evidence-based and are consistent with service plan and developmental level and needs of patient.
• Modifies interventions based on continual assessment of the patient’s response to treatment.
• Articulates anticipated treatment outcomes that are patient oriented, therapeutically sound, realistic, attainable and measurable.
• Completes documentation that reflects evidence-based practices, active patient involvement in care, attention to objective outcomes and identification of any barriers to treatment progress.
• Demonstrates reflective/active listening, feedback, summarizing, reframing, empathy, support, problem solving, coaching, and psycho-education skills.
• Maintains and abides by ethical standards set forth by the facility and Maine State Licensing Boards.
• Maintains requirements of licensure.
• Fosters the development of teamwork within department as well as across departments and with outside providers.
• Gives and receives critical feedback on effectiveness of clinical interventions through regular peer review, scheduled staff meetings and supervisions.
• Utilizes time effectively and can critically evaluate time management relevant to the effective operation of respective department.
• Maintains a safe environment complying with Northern Light Health policies and procedures, reports and directly addresses environmental hazards and violations of patient safety policy and/or protocol when involved or observed.
• Continually seeks to develop professionally by providing didactic clinician and interdisciplinary trainings within identified specialty areas.

• Required Licensed Master Social Wrkr – Cond Clin

• Required High School Diploma/General Educational Development (GED)

Northern Light Acadia Hospital is a broad behavioral health delivery system centrally managed from its location in Bangor, Maine. Acadia Hospital is a leader in providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, tele-psychiatry, consultations to regional emergency departments, school-based and employer-based services, and integration into primary and specialty care practices. Northern Light Acadia Hospital offers innovative programming in the form of eating disorder services and a geriatric mood and memory clinic, which is involved in multiple clinical trials for promising Alzheimer’s medications.

The hospital is also the parent organization of Northern Light Acadia Healthcare which provides a substance use disorder treatment program, case management, and other outpatient mental health services serving patients from all corners of Maine.…