What are the responsibilities and job description for the Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee position at Triumph Treatment Services?
Make a Difference Every Day!
Join Triumph Treatment Services as a Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee and help transform lives with your expertise and compassion. Enjoy a $1,000 sign-on bonus, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to inspire hope and create lasting change. If you’re passionate about supporting individuals on their recovery journey, this is your chance to make a profound impact.
Our Ideal Co-Worker
Our ideal co-worker is compassionate, team-oriented, and committed to the people we serve. You communicate openly, support your colleagues, and bring curiosity, accountability, and respect to your work. You value collaboration over competition and believe recovery is possible for everyone.
What Sets Us Apart
As one of Washington’s longest-running providers, we offer a true continuum of care—from treatment and outpatient services to recovery housing and long-term support. Our integrated, wrap-around model allows staff to gain diverse experience while helping clients build stable, sustainable lives in
recovery.
Why Our Staff Love Working Here
Staff find deep fulfillment in witnessing real transformations: people regaining confidence, reconnecting with family, and rediscovering hope. Whether through lived experience or professional passion, our team shares a purpose-driven commitment to making a meaningful difference every day.
Benefits That Support You
We invest in our team with medical, dental, and vision coverage, a supportive and values-driven culture, paid time off that starts accruing on day one, and much more—because caring for yourself is essential to caring for others.
"Ensuring Safety Excellence: In compliance with Washington State's ESSB 5123, we prioritize safety in our workforce by conducting controlled substance testing, including marijuana, for this position, which is deemed safety-sensitive.”
Job Description:
The Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee is to counsel individuals requiring assistance in dealing with substance use disorder. This will be carried out in compliance with the agency's values, mission, and philosophy. ASAM Criteria, WAC requirements, adherence to the clinical manual.
Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee Job Responsibilities:
- Provide a quality treatment experience for clients by engaging in and modeling healthy relationship skills while assessing treatment planning, and counseling with clients in group and individual settings.
- Communicate client's needs, progress, problems, and recommendations, to treatment teams and various agencies involved in the client's life. When required, represent the client in court.
- Understand and implement the essential elements of the ASAM assessment, placement process, objectives of individualized treatment planning as directed by ASAM criteria, and the essential elements of the ASAM continuous stay criteria.
- Demonstrates effective and concise client and family education in the form of lecture, video, written, or individualized media.
- Document all individual and group sessions and perform case reviews of each client's progress in accordance with WAC requirements and timeliness.
- Understand the need for crisis intervention in case of acute emotional of physical distress.
- Be aware of the legal obligations of emergency management, i.e., CPS involvement reports to police.
- Understand how to make appropriate and effective referrals.
- Participate in team meetings and clinical trainings.
- Complete requirements and keep licensure current.
Qualifications:
Successful applicants will:
- High School Degree or GED required.
- A Bachelor's experience and education related to the specific treatment needs of the various population is preferred.
- Must possess the Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee credential as required by WAC.
- Must have a professional license and registration number from the State Department of Health.
- Trainees will receive additional support and training during their initial hours (1500 hours for Masters, 2000 for Bachelors, and 2500 for Associates) and will be expected to be competent in all areas at the completion of the Trainee process. The supervisor will sign off on all documentation made by Trainee or other assigned certified counselors.
- Have no history of alcohol or other drug misuses for a period of 2 years immediately prior to the time of employment as a Substance Use Disorder Professional Trainee, and no misuse of alcohol or other drugs while employed as a Trainee.
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and supplemental insurance
- Health savings, flex spending, and dependent care accounts
- 401k
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holiday pay
- Professional licensure, credentialing, and professional membership fees
For more detailed information on benefits click here:https://triumphtx.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EE-Benefit-Summary-3.25.25.pdf
Triumph Treatment Services complies with federal and state laws and applicable discrimination regulations based on any protected class as defined by law. Triumph Treatment Services specifically does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, age, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation including gender expression or identity, non-job related sensory, mental or physical disability, or the use of a trained guide dog or service animal by a person with a disability. This holds for all employment opportunities at Triumph Treatment Services.
Salary : $24 - $33