Social Work Practitioner
About The Position
THIS IS A TIME - LIMITED POSITION WITH AN ESTIMATED DURATION OF 2 YEARS . UNC Horizons seeks a Community-Based Justice & Recovery Therapist to provide gender-responsive and trauma-informed behavioral health interventions for pregnant, parenting, and single women with substance use disorders, trauma histories, and justice-system involvement in Wake County. This position serves as the primary point of contact for justice-involved agencies across Wake County and surrounding counties, ensuring timely access to substance use disorder screening, assessment, and intervention services. As a core member of an interdisciplinary team, the therapist functions as the lead clinician to initiate community-based SUD and justice-involved programming. Responsibilities include supporting clinical referral coverage, overseeing timely clinical recommendations, facilitating access to treatment and supportive services, supervising paraprofessionals embedded within the team, and ensuring coordinated and effective care pathways for justice-involved women and their families. This role requires close collaboration with legal partners, child welfare agencies, community-based organizations, and medical and psychiatric providers to promote continuity of care, pre-release SUD treatment engagement, reentry stabilization, and sustained recovery outcomes. Work Schedule Monday – Friday 9 am – 6 pm
Responsibilities
- Provide gender-responsive and trauma-informed behavioral health interventions for women with substance use disorders, trauma histories, and justice-system involvement.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for justice-involved agencies across Wake County and surrounding counties.
- Ensure timely access to substance use disorder screening, assessment, and intervention services.
- Function as the lead clinician to initiate community-based SUD and justice-involved programming.
- Support clinical referral coverage.
- Oversee timely clinical recommendations.
- Facilitate access to treatment and supportive services.
- Supervise paraprofessionals embedded within the team.
- Ensure coordinated and effective care pathways for justice-involved women and their families.
- Collaborate with legal partners, child welfare agencies, community-based organizations, and medical and psychiatric providers to promote continuity of care, pre-release SUD treatment engagement, reentry stabilization, and sustained recovery outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
