Description

REPORTS TO: Director of Outpatient Services

CLASSIFICATION: Full-Time Exempt

SALARY/BENEFITS: A competitive base salary, and benefit package to include health, dental, vision, short term disability, vacation, sick and 403b retirement plan will be offered to the identified candidate

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

ABOUT HUSHABYE NURSERY:

Hushabye Nursery is an Arizona nonprofit organization with a mission to ‘embrace substance exposed babies and their caregivers with compassionate, evidence-based care that changes the course of their entire lives. The organization was founded by Tara Sundem, a neonatal nurse practitioner who witnessed firsthand the challenges of newborns exposed prenatally to opioids and those families trying to care for them. Hushabye Nursery’s innovative model offers a safe and inclusive space where mothers, family members and babies – from conception through childhood – can receive integrative care and therapeutic support that offers each child the best possible life outcomes. Programs will include prenatal and postpartum support groups, inpatient nursery services and outpatient therapies.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Acts as an advocate and provides case management, group facilitation and direct counseling for families that include addiction recovery support and mental health services with a focus on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. Utilizing a holistic, family-center approach, assesses, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates actions required to meet the family’s needs.

QUALIFICATIONS/COMPETENCIES:

QUALTICATIONS/COMPETENCIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• In accordance with the vision, mission and values of Hushabye Nursery, the Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor (LISAC) is responsible for providing quality care and services that meets the needs of persons served. 
• Provides care and services in a supportive, compassionate, and non-judgmental manner that is sensitive to the patient’s and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Conducts substance abuse psychological evaluations, assessments, treatment plan reviews, and treatment recommendations. 
• Provide training related to substance use and trauma-informed care prevention to community partners with a focus on tribal populations and offering expertise on recovery to local providers and working with providers to address challenges and barriers.
• Provide individual and small group experiential interventions, including somatic interventions for trafficking survivors, substance abuse relapse and prevention, and 1:1 supports and services as needed.
• Collaborate with additional treatment providers and placement agencies. 
• Advocate, model and support implementation of agency and community-level initiatives around trauma informed care practices.
• Conduct refresher training at intervals using nationally recognized concepts in trauma-informed mental and emotional healthcare.
• Provide trauma-informed care in an intelligible way non-professional audience including volunteers and donors.
• Provide psychoeducation work with individuals and families on development of coping and affect regulation skills. 
• Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely manner.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with a broad range of staff and community partners.
• Assess physical spaces for potentially triggering or otherwise distressing stimuli that can induce counterproductive emotional reactions in organizational space.
• Completes required orientation and continuing competencies as required by policy and procedure. 
• Other related job tasks or responsibilities as assigned. 

Requirements

EDUCATION:

• Master's degree in Substance Abuse Counseling 
• Independent Licensure with ability to supervise associates
• Preferred certifications in providing trauma-informed care

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Effective communication, organizational and time-management skills.
• Background in health care, social work, mental health, and/or substance use.
• Problem solving skills and ability to multi-task.
• Must be passionate about treating families who are struggling with substance abuse.
• Current AZ DPS Level 1 fingerprint clearance card.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Ability to build rapport with clients.
• Ability to remain calm in crisis situations. 
• Strong leadership qualities.
• Minimum 5 years experience in substance abuse treatment

PHYSICAL/MENTAL DEMANDS & ENVIRONMENT:

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

Hushabye Nursery provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to

race, color, religion, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression and sexual

orientation, genetic information, familial or marital status, veteran status or national origin. Hushabye

Nursery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT:

Applicants as well as employees who have or gain a disability must be able to perform the essential

duties & responsibilities either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall

determine reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.