Certified Addiction Counselor

Clarvida•Augusta, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Clarvida is seeking a Certified Addiction Counselor to join their Georgia ACT Substance Abuse Counselor team. In this role, you will work with a multidisciplinary team of counselors, nurses, therapists, and case managers to provide services to adult clients in the community. Your focus will be on substance abuse and other mental health issues. You will be responsible for conducting initial and ongoing assessments of client strengths, substance abuse, mental health treatment needs, and biopsychosocial histories. You will also meet with clients regularly to provide individual and group SA counseling, intervention techniques, and crisis assessments, and connect clients to community resources such as AA as needed. ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) is an Evidence Based Practice that is person-centered, recovery-oriented, and a highly intensive community-based service for individuals who have serious and persistent mental illness. The ACT Team works as one organizational unit providing community-based interventions that are rehabilitative, intensive, integrated, and stage specific. Services emphasize social inclusiveness though relationship building and the active involvement in assisting individuals to achieve a stable and structured lifestyle. ACT services are individually tailored with each individual to address his/her preferences and identified goals, which are the basis of the Individualized Recovery Plan.

Requirements

CAC-I, CAC-II, GCADC-I, CADC, CADC-T or CCIT
Communicate effectively in writing and orally
Have an understanding of and sensitivity to serving the culturally diverse and dual diagnosed mental health population
Valid Georgia Driver’s License, clean Motor Vehicle Record (MVR)
Clean Criminal Back Ground Check (no conviction or credible evidence of abuse, neglect, or sexual exploitation)

Responsibilities

Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of client strengths, substance abuse, mental health treatment needs, and biopsychosocial histories.
Meet with clients regularly to provide individual and group SA counseling, intervention techniques, and crisis assessments.
Link clients to community resources such as AA as needed.