Substance Addiction Counselor
About The Position
VitalCore Health Strategies is hiring a full-time Substance Addiction Counselor to work at MCI-Framingham and MCI-Norfolk, with travel required between Framingham, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Massachusetts. The role provides face-to-face treatment to justice-involved individuals with varying levels of substance use and abuse involving a variety of addictive substances. The counselor works collaboratively with a multidisciplinary Behavioral Health Unit team and other medical, psychiatric, ancillary, security, legal, community-provider, and hospital professionals to provide effective care. The counselor delivers quality treatment, assesses patient needs and functioning, provides crisis stabilization and therapeutic interventions, and supports treatment, discharge, and aftercare planning. The position calls for sound clinical judgment, effective communication, timely documentation, and collaboration with colleagues and community services.
Requirements
- Graduation from a bachelor’s-level program or higher.
- Substance use certification, such as CADC, CAADC, or LADC.
- Satisfactory background investigation report.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Excellent and timely documentation skills.
- Ability to make independent clinical decisions while using assistance and supervisory intervention as needed.
Nice To Haves
- A minimum of two years of employment in a clinician, counselor, or social work capacity in a public or private agency, or equivalent experience, is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide crisis stabilization, complete intakes and ongoing evaluations, and consult with in-house and community services.
- Assess individuals’ level of functioning, strengths, and weaknesses related to their primary substance use diagnosis.
- Orient individuals to the treatment process and program goals.
- Deliver and reinforce evidence-based treatment and curricula.
- Develop treatment and discharge plans in conjunction with Qualified Behavioral Health Professionals.
- Provide individual and group therapeutic interventions as appropriate.
- Deliver, score, and interpret pre- and post-tests, including post-program surveys, as indicated.
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Prepare timely documentation, records, and reports.
- Educate individuals about the effects of substance use on their physical, social, and emotional lives.
- Participate in monthly behavioral health calls and collaborate with the medical team to determine treatment.
- Coordinate with professionals on patient treatment or management, including discharge to aftercare programs or the community.
- Perform client risk assessments, coordinate care with the interdisciplinary team, and conduct discharge planning.
- Assist in planning and implementing program and project goals and objectives.
- Use clinical skills including treatment prioritization, crisis management, CBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
- Make independent clinical decisions while seeking assistance and supervisory intervention as needed.
Benefits
- Holiday pay for New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Identity theft protection.
- Animal/pet insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program and Discount Center.
- 401K.
- PTO.
- Annual incentive bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
