Behavioral Health Counselor - Crisis Center 2nd or 3rd shift

Compensation: $20 to $30 Hourly (based on licensure status)

Employment Type: Full-Time - 36 hours a week

Choose from 4p to 12a or 12a to 8a

Join our team and grow with us!  Are you looking for a career with meaning?  Do you want to be part of a team who strives to improve the quality of a person’s life?

Avita Community Partners gives you the opportunity to live out your passion, in an organization known for high quality care.  We value, reward & recognize hard working committed staff and want you to be surrounded by a healthy team and strong leadership.

Avita offers FREE supervision toward licensure & monthly Evidence Based Trainings with CEUs to enhance your skills/maintain your license.  Regular Clinical Care Team Meetings assist in wrapping the appropriate level of services around each individual you serve. 

We recognize our staff when they go above and beyond and provide support when needed.  Avita offers a great benefit package including options for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability, and many more!  We understand that it’s difficult to save for retirement, so we contribute the equivalent of 3.5% of your salary into a 401k plan that will grow for you.

• 18 days Paid Time Off (PTO) per year with a full “cash out” for unused PTO
• 9 Paid Holidays, 1 Floating Holiday, plus Your Birthday as a Holiday just for you!
• Flexible schedule

Avita is also an approved organization for the Federal Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.

We pay you based on your level of licensure and experience.

Recent graduate? We will provide the supervision and training you need.

Avita Community Partners is looking for clinicians to work in our Behavioral Health Crisis Center (BHCC), located in Gainesville, Ga. We are seeking fully licensed staff to serve in our BHCC assisting adults experiencing mental health crises and/or in need of detoxification from substances and includes the following: Crisis Walk-In Center: Temporary Observation Unit: A 15 bed facility-based program that provides a physically secure and medically safe environment to further assess, stabilize, and refer clients to the next appropriate level of care. Crisis Stabilization Unit: A 30-bed, short-term crisis residential unit providing treatment to adults experiencing mental health crisis or who are in need of withdrawal management from substances. All departments listed are 24/7.

Job Summary:

Crisis Walk-In Center/Temporary Observation Unit: Clinical staff complete assessments on individuals walking into the center in crisis and based on those assessments arrange for follow-up care or admission to Temporary Observation, Crisis Stabilization and hospitals. Clinicians may also assist with assessment, treatment planning, and safety planning of adults on the Temporary Observation Unit.

Minimum Qualifications:

Master's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, Clinical Vocational Rehabilitation or the like, with pathway to associate level licensure in Georgia with six months of hire. (20.00 per hour)

Associate Licensure as an LAPC, LAMFT or LMSW (25.00 per hour) OR Full Licensure as LPC, LMFT or LCSW *Salary is dependent on length of licensure (30.00 per hour)

AVITA Community Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in its service practices or employment practices with regard to race color, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, age, or national origin.