Substance Use Disorder Counselor (Flexible Pay Scale)

Horizon Healthcare, Inc., sister company of Genesis Behavioral and Matt Talbot Recovery Services, is seeking regular, Full-Time, licensed Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) Counselors to provide individual and group counseling, case management, and supervision to inmates at the specified Department of Corrections (DOC) location(s) listed below.

Drug Abuse Correctional Center (DACC). Located at 4280 N Sherman Road, Winnebago, WI 54985.

The DOC AODA program's mission is to provide offenders incarcerated at DAI or DCC with the opportunity to gain the personal resources needed to return to the community, to successfully complete parole/extended supervision, and to remain crime and chemical free. The manner of this program is designed so that participants may successfully complete all components in a minimum of 16 weeks. Program components are structured around discipline and rehabilitative programming using a cognitive-based approach.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Screen and assess the need for and type of programming that would most effectively address individual substance abuse treatment needs
• Provide group and/or other individual treatment for offenders that focuses on promoting abstinence from mood-altering chemicals and recovery from addiction, and positive lifestyle changes to avoid further legal difficulties
• Understand their role and fully participate as an integral part of the professional treatment team
• Be mindful of the ethics, boundary, power and control issues unique to correctional substance abuse programs
• Establish rapport with inmates
• Provide information as to the purpose of substance abuse and mental health recovery models
• Provide assessment of core treatment needs and develop an individualized treatment plan
• Set mutually acceptable boundaries with inmates
• Be well-informed about trauma, and explore with service recipients their experience and support these individuals in getting appropriate resources to help
• Assist each resident in the development of their own relapse/recidivism prevention plan

Benefits

Horizon Healthcare, Inc. offers two (2) weeks Paid Time Off (PTO) to Full-Time employees.