SUD Counselor; Substance Use Disorders **NEW PREMIUM**

ACT SUD Counselor; Substance Use Disorders
$1200 Sign-on bonus!
**New Premium**
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Will provide confidential counseling, education, and support to individuals and families experiencing substance use disorders, and for promoting health lifestyles and healthy choices to individuals, families, and the community.

JOB SUMMARY

The Centers seeks one Substance Use Counselor for our ACT Team.

This Substance Use Disorder Counselor will work closely with our multidisciplinary team to provide substance use services to persons in the community. The counselor will be the lead SUD service provider on the team and will provide ACT clients with integrated dual diagnosis disorder treatment. The SUD Counselor is responsible for providing confidential counseling, education, and support to individuals and families experiencing substance use disorders, and for promoting health lifestyles and healthy choices to individuals, families, and the community. Provide a range of prevention, assessment, and intervention services. Provide training and consultation to team members on problems, assessments, and recommendations for clients. Use IDDT treatment and Motivational Interviewing techniques.

Job Qualifications

• Requires at least one of the following licenses through Ohio board of Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist (CSWMFT) or Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board:
• LCDC-II, LSW, LCDC-III, LPC, LICDC, LISW, LPCC
• Must possess a high degree of initiative, orientation toward process improvement, and demonstrated leadership qualities.
• Must have
• Must possess computer proficiency and proficiency working in an EMR.
• Must understand and embrace a systems approach to service delivery, as well as, organizational mission, program philosophy, goals, and organizational values.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide individual, group counseling, crisis intervention and case management services.
• Provide counseling to pregnant women about the effects of drugs and alcohol on the fetus, as requested.
• Will utilize evidence based approaches to care, including motivational interviewing, trauma informed care and strength based therapy.
• Work collaboratively with behavioral health, physical health and pharmacy staff to ensure integrated care is available to all clients.
• Develop treatment plans with client and team that are complete, individualized and based on needs from assessment and those identified in the course of treatment.
• Document accurately and completely all care provided using appropriate records and within allotted time frame.
• Actively monitor outcomes and make real time adjustment to ensure program meets targets.
• Develop and facilitate communication and education plan to help increase addictions awareness among BH staff.

Core Competencies

• Interpersonal Skills & Communication: demonstrated emotional intelligence with an ability to balance an empathy forward response with families and throughout the organization. Enjoys working closely with other people to understand their concerns and seeks out the ways our workplace might address them. Able to use storytelling to advance a concept or idea.
• Professionalism: Confidence, articulation, ability to receive criticism and feedback well, ability to resolve conflicts.
• Organization & Time Management: Organizes work, effectively prioritizes, and sets short- or long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Aligns communication, people, processes and resources to drive success. Organizes information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.
• Teamwork & Collaboration: Contributes to common goal, maintains open communication with team members, asks for help when necessary, encourages involvement.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Self-aware, attentive listener, people-oriented, cognizant of bias, cultural intelligence; demonstrating a respect for divergent viewpoints; an awareness of and sensitivity to the cultural diversity of the population served, thereby contributing to an environment that is equitable, inclusive, and cooperative.
• Flexibility: Adapts effectively to change by accepting changes in processes readily and with an optimistic perspective of the resulting benefits; readily accepts new technology as part of his/her job and uses it to continually improve efficiency or the quality of his/her work products.

The Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.