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About the position
Substance Abuse Counselors perform professional duties in areas of screening, assessment, case management, education, and treatment of clients and perform related administrative duties and recordkeeping in accordance with the standards and requirements of the Nevada Board of Examiners for Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Counselors. Incumbents possess a degree of knowledge and proficiency sufficient to perform work independently with little or no additional training. The Department of Public is seeking to fill a Substance Abuse Counselor 2 located in Las Vegas.
Responsibilities
- Perform clinical assessment and screening of offenders.
- Conduct substance abuse assessments of offenders in accordance with Nevada guidelines.
- Develop treatment plans for offenders that include individual and group therapy sessions.
- Prepare discharge plans.
- Educate and coordinate educational opportunities with providers.
- Maintain schedules and chronological entries for offenders being treated.
- Update all records in OTIS.
- Document progress of counseling sessions with offenders.
- Maintain clinical files.
- Provide information to supervising officers of inmate's treatment status.
