Position Summary:

Qualifications:

Education

Years of Related Experience

Preferred

Minimum

Preferred

High School Graduate / Equivalent

0-1

Professional Certification

X

1-3

X

Technical School / 1 Year College

3-5

5-8

Bachelor’s Degree

X

8-10

Master’s Degree

X

10

Advanced Licensure

Required Knowledge, Skills, Licensure, Training & Travel Requirements (if applicable):

Essential Job Duties

% of Time

1.

Provide individual, family, or group counseling to persons with co-occurring substance use and mental health problems in community settings. Continuously develop and implement specialized recovery care services which emphasize community reintegration. Directly assist clients in their daily efforts to build personal recovery skills and habits for self-determination and self-reliance, including use of harm reduction model interventions. Provide ongoing assessment of clients’ symptoms and response to treatment. Make appropriate changes in treatment plans to ensure immediate and appropriate interventions are provided in response to changes in mental status or behavior which put member or others at risk.

30%

2.

Conduct a comprehensive assessment of use of drugs or alcohol and the effects of the addiction on the individual physical, social, and emotional health. Provide service coordination for an assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team (ITT); assume responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating, and revising overall treatment goals in collaboration with the client and team.

20%

3.

Organize and facilitate “recovery readiness” and “relapse prevention” groups offering clients new, healthier ways to overcome recovery roadblock and develop self-esteem. Facilitate client referral to self-help groups (AA, NA, etc.) and sponsors who are accepting individuals with a co-occurring mental health diagnosis. Plan, structure, and prompt social and leisure-time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays to improve social skills of clients. Provide crisis response after hours on a rotating schedule. Conducts comprehensive substance abuse assessments considering the relationship between substance use and mental health. Assesses, tracks and documents individual’s stages of change readiness and stages of treatment. Uses outreach and motivational interviewing techniques to work with individuals in earlier stages of change readiness. Facilitates access to 12-step groups and other community support.

20%

4.

Provide symptom education to enable clients to identify their mental illness or relapse symptoms.
Provide ongoing assessment, problem-solving, side-by-side skill training, supervision (e.g., prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist clients with activities of daily living, securing housing, and having adequate financial support.

15%

5.

10%

6.

Miscellaneous Responsibilities (performs other duties as assigned/required)

5%

Direct supervision given. Specific / Detailed instructions provided.

Procedures well established. Few decisions made. Supervisor readily available as needed.

Independent judgment necessary. Supervisor is usually available.

X

Little to no guidance provided by supervisor on daily basis.

Physical Effort Requirement: (Check One)

Little/no physical effort

Physical Effort found in normal office environment

Occasional physical effort (e.g., continuous typing, prolonged standing/bending, etc.)

X

Frequent/strenuous physical effort (e.g., lifting, moving heavy objects, etc.)