Columbia Community Mental Health·Saint Helens, Oregon
Provides comprehensive, community-based behavioral health services to individuals with serious mental illness as part of a multidisciplinary ACT team. Responsibilities include clinical care, crisis intervention, and administrative support to facilitate daily team operations.
Columbia Community Mental Health is a nonprofit agency and Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic that provides services to individuals with mental, addiction and developmental disabilities. We are looking for qualified individuals to join our new program and team!
We have an open Counselor I position on our ACT Team. The ACT team is a part of our Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) Department.
Position: Counselor I – ACT Team (Intensive Behavioral Health Services)
$28.97 - $37.46 (hourly). We use a bona fide factor system to determine starting wage (years of experience, education, credentials, and specialty skills that relate to the job requirements)
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The Counselor I is a member of the multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team and provides comprehensive, community-based behavioral health services to individuals living with serious mental illness (SMI). Working collaboratively with Case Management, Medical Services, Peer Support, family members, and community partners, the Counselor I assists participants in achieving recovery goals, increasing independence, and reducing the need for hospitalization and institutional care. This Counselor I position also provides administrative support to the ACT team.
Clinical responsibilities include providing skills training, crisis intervention, assessment, care coordination, and ongoing support in community settings where participants live, work, and socialize. The Counselor I actively engages participants in treatment, supports medication adherence as appropriate, assists with resource linkage, and helps individuals develop coping, daily living, and community integration skills. The position participates in treatment planning, multidisciplinary team meetings, and outreach efforts to ensure services remain person-centered and recovery focused.
CCMH strives to address, explore, educate, learn about, and respond to the diversity of the human experience. We create an inclusive, equitable, culturally competent, and supportive environment where employees model behavior that enriches our community. We call our colleagues forward to take conscious and deliberate action to dismantle all systems of oppression by fostering an anti-racist, gender affirming, class conscious, disability aware environment where the innate humanity of others is recognized and celebrated.
CCMH is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. CCMH does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran/reserve/national guard, disability, or any other similarly protected status.
CCMH is Drugfree workplace.
Come join a team that makes a difference every day! Come join an agency in which your personal values can align easily to the mission, vision and values!
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Market context
In Oregon, behavioral-health peer support roles often see steady demand in community mental health, recovery, and crisis support settings. These positions are competitive because employers look for lived recovery experience, certification eligibility, and practical requirements like a valid Oregon driver’s license and background clearance. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save time, then confirm your certification path and gather documentation before applying.