Group Counselor, Weekends
About The Position
Avenues Recovery Center is hiring a Group Counselor for its detox and residential treatment facility in Norfolk, Virginia. This is a weekend position. The counselor conducts group therapy, psychoeducation, and process groups tailored to clients’ challenges and needs; helps clients build healthy coping skills, positive behaviors, and recovery tools; and collaborates with clinical staff to monitor client challenges and progress. The role also includes escalating significant client concerns to the Clinical Director, documenting group sessions thoroughly, and ensuring clinical assessments and individual client charting are completed. The position requires a valid Virginia CSAC license. A bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or a related field and at least one year of treatment-industry experience are preferred. Candidates should have strong interpersonal, observational, and communication skills, sound judgment, and a warm, dignified, and honest character that inspires trust and models recovery principles. Applicants in recovery must have at least one year of sustained sobriety.
Requirements
- Valid licensure necessary to practice as a clinician in Virginia: CSAC.
- Excellent interpersonal, observational, and communication skills.
- Strong presence and sound judgment.
- Warm, dignified, and honest character that inspires trust and models recovery principles.
- If in recovery, at least one year of sustained sobriety is required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or a related field preferred.
- At least one year of experience in the treatment industry preferred.
Responsibilities
- Conduct group therapy, psychoeducation, and process groups designed to meet clients’ challenges and needs.
- Assist clients in developing healthy coping skills, positive behaviors, and recovery tools.
- Collaborate consistently with clinical staff to track client challenges and progress.
- Escalate significant client concerns to the Clinical Director.
- Maintain thorough documentation of all group sessions conducted.
- Ensure all clinical assessments and individual client charting are completed.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off (PTO) and compensation.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Medical insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Accident coverage.
- Critical illness coverage.
- Hospital indemnity coverage.
- Voluntary short-term disability.
- Voluntary long-term disability.
- Employer-paid life and AD&D insurance.
- LifeTime Benefit Term Insurance with Long Term Care.
- Legal coverage.
- Pet insurance.
- Identity theft protection.
- Employer-paid Employee Assistance Program.
- Medical Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
- Dependent Care FSA (DCF).
- Eligible for HRSA STAR federal student loan repayment.
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Job Type
Part-time
