CenterPoint DAAC
Recovery Starts Here.
Center Point DAAC is seeking passionate and experienced Certified Substance Abuse Counselors to join our) team. As a Substance Abuse Counselor, you will provide counseling and education to chemically dependent individuals, promoting recovery and well-being.
Job Description
DUTIES:
Direct Treatment:
Direct Treatment:
- Serves as primary counselor to assigned clients.
- Coordinates the patient’s treatment within the program. Discharges patients as appropriate in a timely fashion.
- Provide weekly individual counseling sessions to assigned patients. Provide individual counseling to the general program population as needed.
- Conduct urine sample collections.
- Monitor urinalysis testing to ensure a minimum of one test per patient per month.
- Treats clients and prospective clients with professionalism and courtesy always.
Documentation & Reporting:
- Conducts treatment evaluations and develops appropriate treatment plans.
- Maintains thorough and efficient patient files in accordance with Title IX and Federal Regulations.
- Positional appropriate knowledge of electronic health systems, and other applications as required.
- Ensure that treatment plans are written every 3 months. Ensure that justifications are written every year.
- Maintains weekly attendee tracking reports.
- Ensures that all documentation is complete and thorough.
- Conduct intake interviews, pre-admission assessments (ASAM), and patient background checks.
- Meet report and treatment plan deadlines and completes other paperwork in a timely fashion.
- Accurately record all urinalysis test results in patient files.
Teamwork, Training & Support:
- Attend and participate in weekly staff meetings. Presents patients at weekly staff meetings as required.
- Notifies internal and external stakeholders of treatment progress as necessary. Participates as a treatment team member.
- Maintains close communication with the medical staff.
- Provides support in the orientation and training of counseling interns.
- Works effectively with front office staff, communicating schedule changes and other vital information. Assists in training and mentoring interns and “counselors in training” personnel in administrative and clinical aspects.
- Performs special assignments as directed by the Program Manager. Participate in Utilization Committee Reviews (UCR).
Time & Accountability:
- Maintains good attendance and punctuality.
- Follows through on activities and responsibilities in a timely manner in accordance with regulatory standards. Ensures all license and certification requirements are current.
- Maintain good attendance and be prepared to start work duties at the beginning of each shift.
- Customer Service.
- Responds to crisis and information calls from the community on an as-needed basis.
- Treats clients and prospective clients with professionalism always.
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor or Center Point DAAC leadership.
SKILLS & POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
- High School Diploma or equivalent (College education is a plus).
- Able to read, write, and speak English fluently (Spanish is a plus).
- Possesses good written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to establish rapport with clients and staff alike.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work.
- Strong organizational and planning skills to complete tasks in a high-quality, accurate, and timely manner.
- Demonstrated counseling skills and knowledge of addiction and treatment.
- Maintain AOD certification and CEUs as required.
- Maintain productive work relationships with patients, employees, management, external agencies, and the public.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries as defined in DAAC’s Professional Code of Conduct.
- Ability to use effective judgment in therapeutic and crisis situations.
- Ability to recognize and manage personal bias.
- Ability to solve problems and resolve conflicts effectively.
- Ability to maintain your own psychological well-being.
- Felony convictions within the past five years, misdemeanor convictions within the past two years, and any current charges should be discussed with the hiring manager and organizational leadership.
- Maintains license and supporting CEUs as required.
- Maintains current CPR and First Aid certification.
- Strong knowledge and understanding of HIPAA and client privacy.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a person to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, and keyboard.
- Occasionally move about inside the office to access filing cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Occasionally moving oneself in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office machinery such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Constantly remaining in a stationary position, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
- Occasionally moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another.
- Occasionally adjusting or moving objects up to 25 pounds in all directions.
- Constantly communicating with others to exchange information.
- Constantly repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Occasionally noisy environments.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time.
- Constantly sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing.
- Occasional light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.
- Infrequent and medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work.
- Ability to maintain a clear, understandable speaking voice, capable of communicating vital business information to internal and external contacts.
- Ability to effectively communicate with management and co-workers by telephone and/or in person.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines while responding to crisis situations.
- Availability for working evenings and/or weekends.
- Regular, predictable attendance is required.
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