Mental Health Professional for Substance Use Disorder Services
A Caring Alternative•Morganton, NC
•Onsite
About The Position
The Mental Health Professional serves as a therapeutic resource to A Caring Alternative consumers in accordance with agency standards and best practices. Substance Use Disorder (SUD) services provide structured individual and group addiction activities through an outpatient program for adults. This time-limited, multifaceted treatment is intended to help adults begin recovery and develop skills to maintain it. Services are offered during daytime and evening hours so beneficiaries can remain in their communities, continue working or attending school, and participate in family life.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Special Education, Psychology, Social Work, or a closely related Human Services area, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- CADC certification.
- For AP classification: one year of professional substance use work experience with the population served.
- For QP classification: two years of professional substance use work experience with the population served.
- Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
- High-level proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.
- Resume must include degree earned (major and minor), graduation month and year, relevant employment dates including month and year, and populations served.
Responsibilities
- Develop consumers’ Person-Centered Plans (PCPs) and crisis plans based on clinical assessment findings and consumer input.
- Ensure service authorizations are complete and accurately entered in the electronic medical record to support acceptance of service notes and billing in accordance with MCO utilization-management requirements and restrictions.
- Ensure completion of consumer intake and annual documents, including service agreements, provider-choice forms, and releases of information.
- Provide case management to help consumers access community resources and federal and state entitlements.
- Develop group materials and lesson plans.
- Monitor group sessions for best practices and lead groups.
- Complete measurement tools, including SDOH and TOPPS.
- Assess consumer risk and develop safety plans.
- Monitor biochemical assay results and work with team members to develop appropriate interventions for positive drug screens.
- Transition consumers, as appropriate, to other SUD services or mental health services, or discharge them.
Benefits
- Competitive pay rate.
- Work-related mileage paid tax-free.
- Paid company training, including free CPR, First Aid, and NPI training.
- CEUs are available, and external training is paid for by the company.
- Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees.
- Company laptop provided for most positions.
- 401(k) and Roth retirement plans with company matching.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid time off accrual begins 60 days after hire.
- Major medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 16 hours of paid sick time after 60 days.
- Company-paid life insurance policy.
- Short-term and long-term insurance available.
- Employee Assistance Program offering free financial, emotional, and legal help.
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