Position Summary:
Provides Substance Use Disorder Counseling and Substance Use Disorder Education for Detox, Residential, Partial, and/or Intensive Outpatient patients and their families; provides case management services; communicating and working with all clinical staff, utilization management, and referral resources.
Essential Job Functions:
- Facilitates treatment from the time of admission through discharge to include group counseling, individual counseling, family counseling, and treatment planning.
- Documentation of all services provided within given timeframes.
- Facilitates educational groups as assigned.
- Participates in crisis management and interventions as needed.
- Completes comprehensive assessment of clients' substance abuse history and treatment requirements and prepares individualized developmentally appropriate treatment plan.
- Develops and implements complex treatment and discharge plans for clients with substance use disorder for Detox, Residential, Partial, and /or Intensive Outpatient patients and their families.
- Provides case management services.
- Serves as a professional resource to referral sources, other Counselors in resolving case problems, and provides clinical supervision and guidance as needed.
- Develops and conducts in-service and continuing education programs for treatment staff.
Knowledge, Education, Experience:
- Minimum: Associate degree in the Mental Health or Human Service-related field
- A minimum of 2 yrs. Experience as a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor is preferred
- All Counselors must have current qualification as an alcohol, drug, or substance abuse counselor as required by the licensing board Health and Human Services.
Employment Status: Full time
Schedule: Mon-Fri 8:30am to 5pm
Work location: Houston, TX
Compensation Range: $65,000-70,000 salary