Counselor (CADC) - Chemical Dependency - BroMenn

Carle Health•Normal, IL

5h•$23 - $39•Onsite

About The Position

The counselor may provide care to persons with substance use disorders in the outpatient and inpatient settings. Responsibilities include clinical excellence and patient care, providing evaluation, counseling, and therapeutic services to chemically dependent patients/families. This involves assessing social, psychological, emotional, financial, and cultural problems, as well as chemical abuse history. The role includes making treatment recommendations, acting as a liaison and patient/family advocate, and maintaining open communication with referral sources, families, and others involved in patient treatment regarding progress, discharge, and aftercare plans. The counselor supports patients and families throughout treatment, assists in working towards positive outcomes, and coordinates care with the interdisciplinary treatment team. Developing individual treatment plans, facilitating programming for court-ordered referrals, and assisting patients and families with adjustment to illness, motivation for treatment, and realistic post-treatment planning are key aspects. The role also involves coordinating the completion of Aftercare Plans, recommending post-treatment referrals, and documenting per department guidelines. Maintaining current knowledge of behavioral managed care and precertification/utilization review activities, participating in covering weekend inpatient evaluations on a rotating basis, and providing statistical data or special reports as required are also part of the responsibilities. Additionally, the role involves development and patient education, continuing professional development, participating in community education, assessing and choosing appropriate teaching strategies and therapy modalities based on age-specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn, and comprehension level. Consulting appropriate resources within the Behavioral Health Division for specialized education, demonstrating knowledge of patient and workplace safety, providing educational in-services, participating in conjoint conferences, and developing/promoting relationships with self-help programs are also expected. The counselor will also participate in mandatory education and department staff meetings, and perform other duties as assigned. This includes providing assessments with diagnostic impressions and treatment recommendations, supporting patients seeking abstinence, teaching about addiction disease, its signs and symptoms, helping patients identify community resources for abstinence, and educating family members about addiction disease and their role in the recovery process.

Requirements

Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC)
Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of hire
Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree: Psychology
Master's Degree: Related Field
Master's Degree: Social Work

Responsibilities

Provides evaluation, counseling and therapeutic services to chemically dependent patients/families assessing patient’s social, psychological, emotional, financial, cultural problems and chemical abuse history.
Makes recommendations for treatment and acts as a liaison and patient/family advocate with the treatment network.
Maintains open communication with referral sources, families, or others involved in the patient’s treatment regarding the patient’s progress, discharge plans and aftercare plans.
Supports the patient and family throughout treatment by maintaining open communication with referral resources, patient and family. Assists the patient and family in working towards positive outcomes.
Coordinates the patient’s care with the interdisciplinary treatment team.
Develops individual treatment plans based upon information gathered.
Facilitates programming for court ordered referrals.
Assists patient and family with adjustment to illness, motivation for treatment and realistic planning for post treatment care. Coordinates the completion of the Aftercare Plan with patient and recommends post-treatment referrals for patients.
Documents per department guidelines.
Maintains current knowledge of behavioral managed care and the precertification and utilization review activities necessary to obtain treatment approval.
Participates in covering weekend inpatient evaluations on a rotating basis.
Provides statistical data or special reports as required
Continues professional development and involvement in professional activities that enhance clinical practice by sharing knowledge through networking and research.
Participates in community education as assigned.
Serves on professional organization committees or boards as appropriate.
Assess and chooses teaching strategies and therapy modalities appropriate to the patient’s and their families’ age specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn and level of comprehension.
Consults appropriate resources within Behavioral Health Division to provide specialized education.
Demonstrates knowledge that patient and workplace safety is a priority by preventing errors, accidents and infections and reporting potential or actual concerns immediately.
Provides educational in-services as assigned.
Participates in conjoint conferences with patients, concerned persons and referral sources as appropriate.
Develops, promotes and maintains a good relationship with self-help programs such as AA, NA and Al-Anon.
Participates in mandatory education and department staff meetings, per established guidelines.
Other duties as assigned.
Provides assessments for patients with diagnostic impression and treatment recommendations. Supports patients who are seeking help to become abstinent from substances. Teaches patients what the disease of addiction is, and it's signs and symptoms. Helps patients identify resources in their community which support ongoing abstinence. Teaches family members and loved ones about addiction disease and what their part is in the recovery process.