Therapist

LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES GROUP•Lumberton, NJ

1d•$31 - $36•Remote

About The Position

Legacy Treatment Services’ Rural Health Transformation Program is a mobile outreach initiative designed to improve access to behavioral health, substance use disorder, telehealth, and coordinated primary care services for underserved rural communities in New Jersey. The program deploys interdisciplinary mobile outreach vans into rural and rural coastal areas to provide screening, intake initiation, social determinants of health assessment, medication support, prevention services, and rapid linkage to ongoing outpatient and primary care treatment. The initiative is anchored within Legacy’s licensed outpatient infrastructure, allowing mobile services to function as an extension of established clinical programs rather than as standalone care. The project aims to reduce wait times, improve continuity of care, address barriers such as transportation and poverty, and prevent escalation to crisis or emergency department utilization through early intervention and coordinated community-based care.

Requirements

Master’s Degree from an accredited school of social work or counseling or Doctorate in counseling with at least one year of experience preferred.
Required licensure as an LSW/LAC/LMFT in the state of New Jersey in good standing.
Must possess a valid driver's license and competency driving mobile van and/or other agency vehicle for community outreach and engagement activities.

Nice To Haves

License as LCADC or actively working towards another health professional license that includes work of an alcohol and drug counseling nature within its scope of practice preferred.

Responsibilities

Conducts trauma informed integrated health outreach, screenings, assessment/evaluations, orders, care management, linkages for individuals eligible for rural preventive health initiatives including mobile clinic services.
Works with multidisciplinary team and community partners to outreach and engage individuals into care and treatment.
Provides preventive chronic disease screenings, brief intervention/health education services and referrals/linkages to primary care, behavioral health including substance use disorder treatment.
Aids in formulating diagnostic impressions based on DSM-V criteria in collaboration with other treatment members.
Develops care plans for individuals requiring ongoing care management including health coaching, specialty care, and clinical support.
Plans, organizes, and implements clinical social work/counseling services to consumers and families under the clinical supervision of a qualified supervisor.
Plans for discharge and aftercare.
Maintains contact with referring agencies and related people, and with community resources used for referral.
Maintains treatment records.
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development appropriate to the consumer population served.
Assesses and interprets data about the consumer’s status in order to identify each consumer’s needs and provide the appropriate care, including age-related care, needed by the consumer group.
Demonstrates knowledge of the stages of change, a wellness and recovery model, and placement criteria as outlined in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) patient placement guide.