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Easton, Maryland

Phone Counselor

CounselorIncludes weekendsPart-Time

Listed compensation

$19.50–$23.50 /hr

The week · per this posting

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Posted 6mo ago

Job Description

Who We Are

Santé Group Companies prides itself in being a leader in community-based behavioral and mental health services. Our track record of innovation and growth reflects our ability to deliver diverse and highly individualized services.

We have a passion for providing empathetic and potentially life-saving care to help individuals heal, recover, and thrive, as well as live their lives in a manner that allows them to fully integrate in the community.

The Santé Group aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusiveness. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcome, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

What We’re Looking For

Santé is seeking a Phone Counselors (in office) every other weekend floaters 8am-8pm Saturday and Sunday to join our team in Easton, Maryland. As a Phone Counselor, you will triage at-risk clients facing urgent or crisis situations requiring immediate attention via telephone or chat modalities by evaluating needs, assessing risks, providing goal-directed counseling and crisis planning, and supporting clients through the crisis response system (CRS) process until discharge.

What You’ll Do

  • Conduct lethality assessments and dispatch appropriate resources (Police, EMS and/or agency’s mobile crisis team when needed)
  • Communicate with clients through live chat, and making follow up calls to substance abuse clients.
  • Deescalate clients in crisis over the phone and complete environmental risk and safety assessments
  • Develop appropriate and realistic crisis plans, to include follow up tasks depending on nature and severity of client symptoms
  • Complete documentation in an accurate and thorough manner
  • Educate individuals about mental health, substance abuse, and available community resources, including the agency’s services
  • Abide by all federal, state, and local laws and regulations related to confidentiality and protected health information

What We Require

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Counseling, Social Work, or related field of study or at least five (5) years of crisis experience

What You’ll Get

  • Hourly Range $19.50 - 23.50
  • Opportunities for career growth, training and professional development.
  • Smart, passionate, and engaged coworkers.

We believe that diversity of background and experience makes for better problem-solving and collaboration, which is why we are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. Even more important than your resume is a positive attitude, a passion for making an impact, a personal desire to grow, and the ability to help individuals heal, recover, and thrive.

Disclaimers

The Santé Group aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusiveness. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcome, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

The Santé Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. The Santé Group participates in E-Verify. www1.eeoc.gov

Key Responsibilities

The Phone Counselor will triage clients facing urgent or crisis situations via telephone or chat, evaluating needs, assessing risks, providing goal-directed counseling, and supporting clients through the crisis response system until discharge. Key duties include conducting lethality assessments, dispatching appropriate resources, de-escalating crises, and developing realistic crisis plans.

Requirements

Candidates must possess a Bachelor's Degree in Counseling, Social Work, or a related field, or have a minimum of five years of crisis experience. The role requires performing specific duties like lethality assessments and maintaining strict adherence to all federal, state, and local laws regarding confidentiality.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Crisis InterventionRisk AssessmentLethality AssessmentResource DispatchLive Chat CommunicationDe-escalationEnvironmental Risk AssessmentClient EducationConfidentiality Adherence

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Phone Counselor at Confidential Employer a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Crisis Intervention counselor listings evaluated on our platform.

Crisis Intervention — Counselor Career Context

Of the 40 active Counselor listings this role was benchmarked against, 60% are remote, 13% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

Counselor pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Maryland is 105.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.9% of Maryland clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks26 jobs · 21 employers

401k / retirement match
81%
CME allowance
58%
Loan repayment
19%
Sign-on bonus
15%
PSLF eligible
4%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.1this job 6.1
Better work-life than 50% of Counseling listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 13,631 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Easton

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$423k
Typical market rent
$2,089/mo
Residents’ average commute
20 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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