4 Addictions Counselor & Case Manager (Opioid Treatment Program) Jobs in Towson, MD
Sheppard Pratt is Hiring an Addictions Counselor & Case Manager (Opioid Treatment Program) Near Towson, MD
General Summary:
Assist with the implementation of Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) and other addiction programs within Sheppard Pratt. Provide support and supervision to bachelors trained addiction counselors. Under general supervision, provides education and counseling on chemical dependency, co-occurring disorders, and relapse prevention to clients. Responsible for matching individuals with clinically indicated treatment deemed appropriate at the time of the initial assessment and ongoing assessments thereafter. Collaborates regarding treatment with addiction medicine specialist, community psychiatrist, therapist, or other health care providers to provide a holistic treatment approach. Assists with intake process and identifying appropriate levels of care for clients coming to the clinic. Completes case management and assists with finding community resources for clients under our care.
Principal Responsibilities and Duties:
- Customer Relations: Actively seeks to provide high quality services that meet the needs of patients, families, referral sources and third-party payers.
- Case Management, Triage and Referral:
- Work requires full-time counselor, assisting with IOP and OTP operations. Counselor completes SMART admission assessment; intervention services and post discharge follow up for patients seeking treatment in the addiction’s programs. Ensures that information, assessment, and referral needs are met prior to termination of patient contact and participates in weekly supervision and weekly staff meetings.
- Establishes and maintains regular contact with referring groups, individuals, and other community partners and other agencies both internal and external to Sheppard Pratt.
- Makes clinical referral and provides triage to appropriate program resources.
- Provision of Clinical Care:
- Participates in treatment planning with other members of the treatment team.
- Completes billable services in the opioid treatment program, intensive outpatient program and traditional outpatient program as assigned.
- Facilitates daily education, anger, stress management, negative emotion, relapse prevention, spirituality, and daily inventory groups, completes group and individual progress note on patients and manages their case file.
- Serves as primary contact for intake assessments, scheduling and completing assessments and designating others as needed to complete assessments.
- Serves as primary therapist for patients and provides case management services from the time of admission through transfer/discharge.
- Documentation/Reporting
- Completes written documentation of initial patient assessment, ongoing treatment, and progress through discharge in compliance with BSAS, ADAA, and CARF and the program standards. Reports pertinent patient observations to program coordinator/treatment team.
- Collects referral data for quality assurance, program development, referral relations and health care utilization research.
- Participation in Improving Program Effectiveness and Efficiency: Participates in the evaluation of program effectiveness and efficiency and works to ensure continuous improvements in the quality of service.
- Supervision: Provides clinical supervision as required for Addiction Counselors
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:
- 4 years’ experience working with addictions.
- CAC-AD with ability to supervise required.
- Work requires knowledge of community resources, orientation to chemically dependent/dual diagnosis patients, planning and organizational skills sufficient to resolve placement and liaison.
- Must possess interpersonal skills sufficient to communicate effectively when providing therapy and instruction and serve in liaison role with patients, families, staff and a wide variety of professionals while performing case management and triage functions (51 - 80% of work time).
- Must possess analytical skills sufficient to counsel and assist patients in resolving problems and perform intake assessments.
- Work requires the ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail when conducting assessment and therapy sessions, performing case management and triage, making treatment recommendations and providing crisis intervention services.
- Work requires standing and walking between group rooms and office location. (for approximately 10% of work time)
- Must be able to provide clinical supervision to those new in the addiction counselor profession with skill, tact, and the ability to teach new professionals
Job Summary
Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$61k-70k (estimate)
07/14/2023
05/15/2024
sheppardpratt.org
SEVERNA PARK, MD
500 - 1,000
1853
NGO/NPO/NFP/Organization/Association
BRIAN JAMIESON
$200M - $500M
Social & Legal Services
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About Sheppard Pratt
Sheppard Pratt operates as a non-profit behavioral health organization.
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